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Trump Doubles Down on Using Tariffs as Tool of Power

July 10, 2025 at 10:53 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump’s threat for a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports expanded his use of punitive duties over matters that have nothing to do with trade, breaking with more than a half-century of global economic precedent,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Trump cited the trial of the president’s close political ally, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, as the rationale for new tariffs set to take effect Aug. 1 on imports from the largest economy in Latin America.”

“It is one of the latest—and perhaps most brazen—examples of Trump using tariffs as a cudgel for political priorities outside of trade.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Trump Plans ‘Major’ Russia Statement Monday

July 10, 2025 at 10:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump said he plans to make a “major statement” on Russia, as the U.S. prepares to send more American weapons to Ukraine via purchases from NATO allies, Bloomberg reports.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Bannon Calls for Special Prosecutor for Epstein Files

July 10, 2025 at 10:40 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Steve Bannon has called for a special prosecutor to investigate the Epstein files as MAGA world’s noisiest voices cause trouble for Donald Trump with political wrangling over the issue,” The Telegraph reports.

Said Rob Finnerty on Newsmax: “It’s almost like the Justice Department doesn’t want us talking about Jeffrey Epstein anymore.”

Filed Under: White House


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Trump Plans 15% to 20% Blanket Tariffs on Most Countries

July 10, 2025 at 8:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Donald Trump said Thursday he plans to impose blanket tariffs of 15% or 20% on most trade partners, dismissing concerns that further tariffs could negatively affect the stock market or drive inflation,” NBC News reports.

Said Trump: “We’re just going to say all of the remaining countries are going to pay, whether it’s 20% or 15%. We’ll work that out now.”

“Blanket tariffs are currently set at 10%.”

However, Bloomberg reports Trump will levy a 35% tariff on goods coming into the US from Canada.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Ketanji Brown Jackson Worried About Our Democracy

July 10, 2025 at 8:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said Thursday that the ‘state of our democracy’ keeps her up at night, echoing a theme that has animated some of her recent public appearances and fiery dissents from recent decisions,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Jackson: “I’m really very interested to get people to focus, and to invest and to pay attention to what is happening in our country and in our government.”

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Filed Under: Democracy, Judiciary

Justice Department Demands Trans Patient Details

July 10, 2025 at 8:34 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Justice Department has issued subpoenas demanding confidential patient information from more than 20 doctors and hospitals that provide gender-related treatments to minors,” the New York Times reports.

“The action marks a new turn in the Trump administration’s efforts to limit transgender medical care. Most of the subpoenas, issued through a unit that typically investigates health care fraud, attempt to pierce powerful federal confidentiality protections for patients and their medical providers.”

Filed Under: Health Care

Trump Boxes Out Battleground Republicans

July 10, 2025 at 8:32 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The White House is pushing swing-seat lawmakers away from running for higher office, warning members in Iowa, New York and Michigan that they need to save the party’s razor-thin majority,” Axios reports.

“President Trump is trying to solidify the field early, using endorsements to keep lawmakers boxed out from statewide runs.”

Filed Under: 2026 Campaign

The FBI Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials’ Loyalty

July 10, 2025 at 8:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Typically, the FBI has turned to polygraph tests to sniff out employees who might have betrayed their country or shown they cannot be trusted with secrets,” the New York Times reports.

“Since Kash Patel took office as the director of the FBI, the bureau has significantly stepped up the use of the lie-detector test, at times subjecting personnel to a question as specific as whether they have cast aspersions on Mr. Patel himself.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Trump Warns Republicans Against Rejecting Cuts

July 10, 2025 at 8:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump on Thursday threatened to withhold his support for any Republican who opposes a rescissions package of roughly $9 billion in cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting,” The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “Any Republican that votes to allow this monstrosity to continue broadcasting will not have my support or Endorsement.”

Filed Under: Budget & Taxes

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July 10, 2025 at 6:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

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Filed Under: Administrative

Joni Ernst on Retirement Watch

July 10, 2025 at 5:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Senate Republicans are bracing for another one of their colleagues to possibly call it quits: Joni Ernst,” Politico reports.

“The two-term Iowa senator hasn’t officially announced her plans for 2026, and she’s gone through some of the motions of launching another campaign, including recently hiring someone to manage it and announcing her annual fall fundraiser.”

Filed Under: Senate

Trump to Use His Authority to Send Weapons to Ukraine

July 10, 2025 at 5:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Donald Trump for the first time since returning to office will send weapons to Kyiv under a presidential power frequently used by his predecessor, a move suggesting new interest by the president in defending Ukraine,” Reuters reports.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard

July 10, 2025 at 5:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote just five majority opinions in the Supreme Court term that ended last month, the fewest of any member of the court. But her voice resonated nonetheless, in an unusually large number of concurring and dissenting opinions, more than 20 in all,” the New York Times reports.

“Several of them warned that the court was taking lawless shortcuts, placing a judicial thumb on the scale in favor of President Trump and putting American democracy in peril. She called the majority’s opinion in the blockbuster case involving birthright citizenship, issued on the final day of the term, ‘an existential threat to the rule of law.'”

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Filed Under: Judiciary

Dimon Rips ‘Idiot’ Democrats Focused on Ideology

July 10, 2025 at 4:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said the Democratic Party went too far in its focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, prioritizing ideology over practical solutions, Bloomberg reports.

Said Dimon: “I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots. I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out failed.”

Dimon also said that former President Joe Biden “didn’t have one business person” advising him and that he was “speechless about the lack of knowledge” in the administration.

Filed Under: Democrats

Bankers Rush to Build Anti-Mamdani War Chest

July 10, 2025 at 4:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Some of New York’s wealthiest financiers are uniting against Democratic nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani, with a plan to raise $20 million to fight the surging progressive candidate,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Filed Under: 2025 Campaign

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

July 10, 2025 at 4:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“We just lecture people too much.”

— James Carville, quoted by the New York Post, on the Democratic party alienating men.

Filed Under: Democrats

So You Want to Own Greenland?

July 10, 2025 at 4:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Juts published: So You Want to Own Greenland? by Elizabeth Buchanan.

 Why do despots over the centuries keep wanting to own Greenland? The fascinating, calamitous story of the many who’ve tried… and uniformly failed.

So You Want to Own Greenland?: Lessons from the Vikings to Trump
So You Want to Own Greenland?: Lessons from the Vikings to Trump
  • Buchanan, Elizabeth (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 208 Pages - 09/16/2025 (Publication Date) - Melville House (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Political Books

State Department Braces for Mass Layoffs

July 10, 2025 at 3:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“State Department employees are bracing for mass layoffs as soon as Friday after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to proceed with reorganization and downsizing,” Semafor reports.

“The high court on Tuesday lifted a lower-court judge’s decision that had blocked the planned layoffs, which could number in the thousands.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs

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