April 9, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Variety reports: “The Last of Us” has been renewed by HBO for a third season, in advance of the premiere of Season 2 on April 13. While the first season adapted the acclaimed 2013 Sony Playstation game of the same title, the game’s sequel, 2020’s “The Last of Us Part II,” is so massive that creators Craig Mazin and Neil …
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April 9, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Guardian reports: Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday punishing the law firm that helped Dominion Voting Systems obtain a $787.5 million settlement from Fox for lies about the 2020 election. The order against the firm, Susman Godfrey, marks the latest effort by the president to punish attorneys and firms who have opposed his interests. The order seeks …
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April 9, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Mother Jones reports: Leading Democrats are raising questions about whether insiders profited from the market swing that followed Trump’s sudden reversal on sweeping tariffs he recently announced on imports from foreign countries. “Who in the administration knew about Trump’s latest tariff flip flop ahead of time?” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) asked in a Bluesky post. “Did anyone buy or sell …
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April 9, 2025 Fake News, Trump cultists
The Los Angeles Times reports: Right-wing cable channel Newsmax defamed Dominion Voting Systems by falsely reporting that the company was involved in rigging the 2020 presidential election, a Delaware judge ruled Wednesday. Damages will be decided by a jury in a trial that will begin April 28 unless a settlement is reached. Dominion is seeking $1.6 billion. The ruling from …
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April 9, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
CNN reports: As Tulsi Gabbard completed her transformation from a Hawaii Democratic politician to a MAGA surrogate last year, she put down stakes in a far redder state. Gabbard and her husband bought a home outside of Austin and declared under oath last June that they were “resident(s) of the State of Texas.” But a few months later, Gabbard voted …
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April 9, 2025 Business, Trump Administration
Axios reports: The Trump administration’s massive tariffs on China have Apple flying planes full of iPhones to the U.S. and consumers rushing to buy them before the prices potentially skyrocket. U.S. consumers are rushing to stores to buy iPhones in anticipation that the new tariffs will prompt Apple to raise prices. Some customers told the WSJ that they aren’t waiting …
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April 9, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
“It was somebody that went out and wrote a book and said all sorts of terrible things or all lies. And it was like he was this gentleman or that gentleman, like I dealt with him all the time. I had no idea who this guy was. I said, ‘Who the hell is Miles Taylor?’ “And he made a living …
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April 9, 2025 Christianists, Trump cultists
“The order of the present world is being shaken by a man called Donald Trump, the breaker himself. He is changing the world as we know it. Very few times in history does one man change the world—Alexander of Greece, Caesar of Rome, Charlemagne—on and on and on, there’s few men that change the world—Napoleon—but when they do, the world …
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April 9, 2025 Business, Fox News
“What happened in the bond market overnight, the spike in yields on the 30-year and the 10-year bonds, showed that people were dumping our bonds. And who are those people dumping our bonds? Japan, the biggest holder of bonds, was selling bonds. That’s what I’m getting from some very big money managers. “If you have a mass sale of bonds, …
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April 9, 2025 Trump Corruption
CNBC reports: Stocks surged Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced a pause in some of the ‘reciprocal’ tariffs, causing a market that’s been under extreme pressure for the last week to explode higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced nearly 3000 points, or 8%, also its biggest advance since 2020. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 12.4%, its largest one-day jump in decades. …
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