TRADE WAR !!: China announced today that it’s putting a 34 percent tariff on American-made goods in retaliation for President Trump’s own drastic tariffs. The Chinese also added 11 US companies to its list of “unreliable entities,” effectively barring them from …

TRADE WAR !!: President Trump waited yesterday until after the financial markets closed to announce a baseline 10 percent tariff on all goods imported to the US from every country in the world plus more punitive tariffs of two or three …

TIPPING THE BALANCE: Liberal candidate Susan Crawford won a seat on the Wisconsin supreme court, tipping the court to a 4-3 liberal majority and trouncing her opponent backed by Donald Trump and $20 million in support from Tesla billionaire Elon Musk.   Crawford …

MOOD SWINGS: Elections today in Florida and Wisconsin are being watched as a referendum on the first two months of the Trump administration.   Florida is electing two replacement members of Congress and Wisconsin is voting on a new supreme court justice. …

AFTERMATH: Hope is fading for anyone trapped and still alive in the rubble left by Myanmar’s massive earthquake on Friday. Already nearly 1700 people are confirmed dead, mostly in Myanmar but some also in neighboring Thailand where a 30-story building under …

YOU’LL FEEL A LITTLE PINCH: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he’s shedding an additional 10,000 employees from Health and Human Services in addition to the 10,000 who have already retired and accepted buyouts at the urging of the Trump …

THE WORST WING: Following denials by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth that he shared secret military information about attacks in Yemen on an unsecured chat line, The Atlantic published the text chain that was accidentally shared with their editor.   Editor Jeffrey …

THE WORST WING: Caught in the egregious error of discussing classified information on an unsecured chat line, Donald Trump’s national security team followed the tactics of their leader; they lied, denied, and blamed other people.   Prior to the March 15th US …

THE CLOWN CAR: In act of amateurism and incompetence in the Trump administration, 18 top officials that included Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted about the recent plans attacking Houthi rebels in Yemen and accidentally included the editor of …

STANDOFF: The Trump administration continues on its collision course with a federal judge without actually crashing.   Federal Judge James Boasberg in Washington is still pushing for answers from the Trump administration about its deportation of hundreds of suspected Venezuelan gang members to El …