Why Economists Hate Trump’s Tariff Plan | WSJ
Tariffs are usually harmful to most people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-eHOSq3oqI
Author: Lone Candle
Sam Harris on the LA Fires, Government Incompetency, and Wealth Inequality with Rick Caruso
The left needs to be focused on competence in government not identity-based social causes, and the right needs to recognize that competent government requires funding and taxes and leaders who care about the organization’s mission and whose main qualification isn’t loyalty to a politician.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MB7hx1vc_I
Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security
“But less than 1 percent of Social Security’s payments in recent years were determined to be improper – often the result of an accidental oversight or change in benefit status, according to a report last year by the agency’s inspector general. That works out to about $9 billion a year, and more than two-thirds of the mistaken payments were eventually clawed back. Another agency audit, which looked only at payments to retired workers, survivors and people with disabilities, found fraud was listed as the cause behind just 3 percent of improper benefit payments.”
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“The degree of scrutiny by Social Security’s IG can be intense. One report issued by the office earlier this month found that a partner agency in Mississippi had incorrectly made a $14 payment because of a data-entry error.
Social Security’s inspector general was fired in the first days of the Trump administration, along with top internal investigators at 16 other government agencies. Although the office has continued to operate, it is expected to lose up to 20 percent of its staff because of budget cuts, Rose said.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-doge-struggling-fraud-social-132603335.html
How Ukraine Became Part of the USSR – The Soviet–Ukrainian War (Documentary)
How Ukraine Became Part of the USSR – The Soviet–Ukrainian War (Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gwuu7TXPwI
Gone in 15 Days: How the Connecticut DMV Allows Tow Companies to Sell People’s Cars
“Connecticut allows towing companies to sell some people’s cars in just 15 days, one of the shortest windows in the country.”
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“Many cars are towed not for violating the law but instead for breaking a rule like parking the wrong way or failing to display a parking pass at their apartment complex.”
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“The sales have particularly affected low-income people, who have lost jobs after they were unable to get their cars back.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-dmv-tow-companies-car-sales
French academic denied entry to US for ‘personal opinion’ on Trump
“a French academic was refused entry onto U.S. soil over comments he had expressed against policies enacted by U.S. President Donald Trump.
France’s Higher Education Minister Philippe Baptiste said that “he had learned with concern that a French academic who was going to a conference in Houston was denied entry before being deported” back to Europe, according to a ministry statement seen by POLITICO.
“This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained conversations with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy,” he said.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-academic-denied-entry-united-states-donald-trump-personal-opinion-messages/
White House strikes deal with major law firm to lift sanctions
“President Donald Trump has reached a peace deal with a prominent law firm, agreeing to lift a punitive executive order in exchange for concessions that include an agreement to do pro bono work on behalf of conservative causes.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/20/white-house-law-firm-sanctions-026866
USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks
“The Agriculture Department has halted millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks without explanation, according to food bank leaders in six states.
USDA had previously allocated $500 million in deliveries to food banks for fiscal year 2025 through The Emergency Food Assistance Program. Now, the food bank leaders say many of those orders have been canceled.
The halting of these deliveries, first reported by POLITICO, comes after the Agriculture Department separately axed two other food programs, ending more than $1 billion in planned federal spending for schools and food banks to purchase from local farmers.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453
“All Our Future Money Is Gone”: The Impossible Task of Providing Child Care in Rural Illinois
“About 70% of rural Illinoisans live in a child care desert, forcing tough choices on parents: Some drive 100 miles a day or more to find care, others leave the workforce.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/childcare-rural-illinois-challenges
A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-blinken-state-department-israel-gaza-human-rights-horrors