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And the El Salvador President wants to keep him apparently: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/14/trump-presidency-news-tariffs-deportations/ Guess we'll see now if the Judges can send someone to retrieve him as my Dad has said(based on his time dealing with courts and in the military)

https://www.404media.co/i-tested-the-ai-that-calls-your-elderly-parents-if-you-cant-bothered/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-admin-walks-back-tariff-exemption-on-electronics_n_67fbf396e4b06646ea60b482

Just FYI, he backpedaled on the electronics exemptions yesterday, per HuffPost.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/trump-military-control-us-mexico-border

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-just-shut-down-u-122737662.html Only new bit here is China has said they're done playing the tariff game and appear to be writing off US trade entirely on their side. What I'm waiting for now is to see how much of the US Bonds they hold they decide to dump...

https://www.ems1.com/public-health/hhs-cuts-eliminate-niosh-respirator-certification-staff IIRC the N in N-95 masks comes from this subagency's standards.

From Financial Times, Musk firing the people who were regularing his self-driving missles cars

Stuff about the EO the past couple days targeting the former head of CISA who refused to back Trump lies in 2020, and their employer: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cybersecurity-industry-falls-silent-trump-turns-ire-sentinelone-2025-04-10/ A interesting bit of info regarding the tariffs and...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/modifying-reciprocal-tariff-rates-to-reflect-trading-partner-retaliation-and-alignment/ So 120% minimum on lower value goods(below $800), as of May 2nd, there'll be a $100 charge on -every- -individual- package from China, and that goes...

Well the SAVE Act passed the House... https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5242559-house-republicans-pass-bill-requiring-proof-of-citizenship-to-vote/

Looks like the tariff pause high wore off, and the markets remembered how much still comes from China:

Oh! So the movie is just the first three episodes, it looks like? And we won't miss anything having not seen it?

https://www.404media.co/facebook-pushes-its-llama-4-ai-model-to-the-right-wants-to-present-both-sides/

Executive orders can't override state laws, but that won't start Trump from trying to override state laws that include the word "climate": https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-energy-from-state-overreach/

Looks like Trump's trying to make himself feel better after having to give up the tariff scheme with a little petty revenge:

On the plus side, books are still locked in at 7% by congressional law, which can't be overridden by these orders, so TTRPG books will be unchanged(unless Hasbro thinks they can throw some cost there to offset other lines). Boxsets with books though count as games, so those will still get hit.

I'm just waiting for him to drop outright sanctions on China (and while everyone's distracted, lift them on Russia)

90 day "pause" on everyone but China, who goes up to 125%. We'll see if it stays a pause, but there's going to be a lot of warehouses getting crammed to the brim in the next three months. Also frankly surprised he hasn't just called for a halt entirely on all shipping to/from China - it seems...