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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...

https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/

Amazon's taking action too now: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-09/amazon-cancels-some-inventory-orders-from-china-after-tariffs Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/76zid

https://www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-ai-health-care-medicare-cms-town-hall/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp8vyy35g3mt?post=asset%3A88198ce0-2ff6-4aef-b68a-221046550789#post Want to highlight this part: Related: https://social.glitched.systems/notes/a6dbv9hgwzl501hp Another country you may not be aware that the tariffs will hurt in a major way: Related article...

And I'm sure the oil barons that are being excluded from the tariffs are making out great! Oh wait...

Tesla stockholders are gonna be loving this: https://electrek.co/2025/04/07/elon-musk-sets-stage-tesla-bail-out-twitter-xai-insane-valuation/ And Musk having a broken clock moment...

https://autos.yahoo.com/tesla-sitting-thousands-unsold-cybertrucks-212500038.html

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-courts-nyc-5c97cba3f3757d9ab3c2e5840127f765