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Former Vice President Kamala Harris praised the hundreds of thousands of protesters who gathered at 1,300 “Arms Off” demonstrations throughout the nation Saturday for “standing up” to the Trump administration.
“Thanks for utilizing your voices and the facility of protest to face for Social Safety, Medicare, and Medicaid; for the Division of Training and applications like Head Begin; for clear air and water; for the best to make selections about your individual physique with out authorities interference,” Harris wrote on X. “The voices of working folks will at all times be louder than the unelected billionaires.”
Protesters staged demonstrations on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and in additional than 1,000 different locations nationwide, asking for President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to get their “fingers off” well being care, public lands, immigrants, LGBTQ+ rights, most cancers analysis, and extra.
Talking to a crowd in D.C., Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin described Trump as “an economy-crushing dictator who is aware of the value of all the pieces and the worth of nothing.”
“There isn’t a prosperity with silly commerce wars in opposition to the entire world,” he continued. “There’s no prosperity with inventory market collapse and mass unemployment. There’s no future with presidents who’ve the politics of Mussolini and the economics of Herbert Hoover.”
Kamala Harris praises ‘Arms Off’ protesters for ‘standing up’ to Trump administration
Kelly Rissman6 April 2025 14:54
SNL chilly open mocks Trump tariffs with ‘Make America Nice Melancholy Once more’ line
Saturday Night time Reside’s James Austin Johnson took to the stage as President Donald Trump, promising to “Make America Nice Melancholy Once more” in a spoof of the president’s “Liberation Day” announcement during which he detailed his widespread tariffs.
“Thanks all for popping out to listen to about tariffs. My favourite phrase, tariff, which, after all, is brief for a-terrific-idea,” stated Trump, calling the tax on People the “spine of my unbelievable plan for our economic system.”
“It is truly even higher than a plan, as a result of it is a collection of random numbers, just like the numbers on the pc display in Severance,” he added. “You haven’t any thought what the hell they imply, however I do know what the numbers imply … They imply we’re gonna make America rich once more. You already know you are gonna examine your inventory portfolio in a pair days and suppose ‘I am nearly too rich.’”
However earlier than all that, the president stated, “We’re going to do MAGDA — Make America Nice Melancholy Once more … It’s going to be higher than nice. It’s going to be a incredible, unbelievable despair, the likes of which have by no means been seen earlier than.”
Canada ‘will win’ commerce warfare with Trump, says PM Carney
Kelly Rissman6 April 2025 14:00
Democrats in Pennsylvania are offended. John Fetterman’s outdated rival is listening
Glenn Thompson’s cardboard cutout took some actual abuse on Saturday, as a room filled with Pennsylvania Democrats set free their frustrations.
A number of different members of the state’s congressional delegation is perhaps grateful that his likeness was the one one on show.
Thompson, on his fourth time period within the Home of Representatives, is only one of dozens of Republican lawmakers who’ve scaled again public occasions or averted them fully amid nationwide outrage from People set to see steep cuts to funding for applications of their communities and their very own private security nets underneath a Trump 2.0 agenda. City corridor occasions have develop into raucous gatherings the place Republicans like Victoria Spartz, Chuck Edwards and others have been compelled to confront offended voters demanding Congress take motion to cease Elon Musk’s DOGE firing spree affecting the Social Safety Administration, USAID and different businesses.
John Bowden has the story.
Kelly Rissman6 April 2025 13:00
Justice Division seeks 87-month sentence for former GOP Rep. George Santos
The Division of Justice is looking for an 87-month sentence for former New York Republican Rep. George Santos after he pleaded responsible to wire fraud and aggravated identification theft final August.
“Santos’ historical past and traits are troubling within the excessive. Santos is a pathological liar and fraudster,” states the 26-page sentencing memo from the division. “For years, Santos manufactured and promoted a fictionalized biography, one which depicted himself as a extremely educated, independently rich, profitable businessman, all premised on a heap of lies.”
Santos was elected within the 2022 midterms when he flipped a Democratic district protecting components of Lengthy Island and Queens.
His life story, nonetheless, was rapidly discovered to be largely fabricated. His claims that he labored at prime companies on Wall Road and had attended a selected faculty have been debunked, and the financing of his marketing campaign raised questions.
Santos was expelled from Congress in December 2023, after solely 11 months as a consultant. He was solely the sixth member to be expelled; the opposite 5 have been members of the confederacy.
Gustaf Kilander6 April 2025 12:00
DHS claims these tattoos present Venezuelan gang membership. The tattoo artists who did them say the reality is much more harmless
In its sweeping deportation marketing campaign in opposition to Venezuelan immigrants, the Trump administration has repeatedly relied on tattoos to find out whether or not somebody is a member of the dreaded felony syndicate Tren de Aragua.
However The Impartial has discovered that the U.S. authorities’s examples of TDA tattoos, created underneath the Biden administration, embrace artwork by artists within the UK and India, who say the tattoos they etched had innocent meanings. One honored the beginning of a kid, whereas one other seems to commemorate the Aussie rock band AC/DC.
“It’s mind-blowing that that is getting used for example of gang tattoos. It is mindless in any respect,” the British artist whose clock tattoo seems in a 2024 Division of Homeland Safety briefing on “detecting and figuring out” TDA members advised The Impartial. “I’ve no relationship to Venezuelan gangs, and my artwork has nothing to do with them.”
Io Dodds has the main points.
Kelly Rissman6 April 2025 10:00
Thousands and thousands flocked to the streets throughout the nation in protest of President Donald Trump’s administration’s cuts to well being program funding, mass firings of federal employees and steps towards shuttering whole businesses.
Demonstrators collect exterior the Minnesota State Capitol through the nationwide “Arms Off!” protest in opposition to US President Donald Trump and his advisor, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in St. Paul, Minnesota, on April 5, 2025 (AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
“Arms Off” protests, organized by almost 200 advocacy teams, cropped up in additional than 1,000 places throughout the U.S. and across the globe Saturday in what grew to become the biggest day of collective motion since Trump was inaugurated for a second time.
Demonstrators collect through the nationwide “Arms Off!” protest in opposition to US President Donald Trump and his advisor, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in West Palm Seaside, Florida, on April 5, 2025 (AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
The protests aimed to place a cease to the “most brazen energy seize in trendy historical past,” organizers stated. Thousands and thousands — from Los Angeles to London — marched to advocate for civil rights, healthcare, democracy, employees’ rights and LGBTQ+ rights which were underneath “assault” by the Trump administration and GOP Congress members, they added.
Kelly Rissman6 April 2025 08:00
Ukrainian refugees by accident advised to go away in mistaken electronic mail
Gustaf Kilander6 April 2025 07:00
DOJ legal professionals file emergency enchantment on order requiring return of Maryland man mistakenly despatched to El Salvador
The Trump administration is arguing {that a} federal choose didn’t have the authority to order the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, a Saturday submitting reveals.
On Friday. U.S. District Decide Paula Xinis ordered the administration to “facilitate and effectuate” Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. by late Monday evening. On Saturday, authorities legal professionals filed an emergency enchantment, requesting the court docket pause the choose’s order.
“A judicial order that forces the Govt to have interaction with a international energy in a sure means, not to mention compel a sure motion by a international sovereign, is constitutionally insupportable,” the attorneys wrote in a submitting within the 4th U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals.
The appeals court docket requested Abrego Garcia’s legal professionals to answer the federal government’s submitting by Sunday afternoon, in line with the Related Press.
The arrest and wrongful removing of a Salvadoran immigrant from america was unconstitutional “from the second he was seized,” a federal choose advised legal professionals for Donald Trump’s administration on Friday.
“He was apprehended with out authorized foundation … and with out due course of,” Decide Xinis stated.
Alex Woodward has extra on the story.
Kelly Rissman6 April 2025 06:00
Trump vows to ‘Make America Nice Melancholy Once more’ in SNL chilly open spoof on tariffs announcement
“It is truly even higher than a plan, as a result of it is a collection of random numbers, just like the numbers on the pc display in Severance,” he added. “You haven’t any thought what the hell they imply, however I do know what the numbers imply … They imply we’re gonna make America rich once more. You already know you are gonna examine your inventory portfolio in a pair days and suppose ‘I am nearly too rich.’”
