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Normal range. Baseline political energy.
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🌪️ “Third term.” $6 trillion. War-fighting bases. Molotovs.
Authoritarians don’t pause. They escalate. Trump’s team leaked strike plans over Signal, dangled third-term fantasies, and proposed tariffs the size of a quarter of the U.S. economy—all while attacking lawyers, lying to the public, and cozying up to a dictator who just tried to erase Ukraine’s leader.
Read today’s post. Then light it up.
Top partners at major law firm call Trump’s attacks on lawyers “lawless” and urge the profession to fight back.
March 30, 2025
Hegseth says U.S. is turning its military bases in Japan into a “war-fighting” headquarters to deter China.
March 30, 2025
GOP Sen. Lankford calls for inspector general probe into Signal leak that exposed U.S. airstrike plans.
March 30, 2025
Trump says he’s “pissed off” at Putin and threatens tariffs over Putin questioning Zelensky’s legitimacy.
March 30, 2025
Feds investigate arson after Molotov cocktail sets fire to GOP headquarters in New Mexico.
March 30, 2025
Trump aide says tariffs beginning Wednesday will raise $6 trillion—about a quarter of the entire U.S. economy.
March 30, 2025
Musk gives $1 million checks to Wisconsin voters after state Supreme Court refuses to block him.
March 30, 2025
Iran rules out direct nuclear talks with U.S. after Trump threatens unprecedented bombing.
March 30, 2025
France and Belgium reject U.S. pressure on government contractors in Europe to drop diversity programs.
March 30, 2025
Greenland’s new prime minister rejects Trump’s claim that the U.S. will get the territory “one way or the other.”
March 30, 2025