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IHIP News: Iran's Leader THREATENS to LEAK EPSTEIN Evidence on TRUMP As War Looms!
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I've Had It Podcast • 4 weeks ago

IHIP News: Iran's Leader THREATENS to LEAK EPSTEIN Evidence on TRUMP As War Looms!

Trump’s Epic Loss on Tariffs Is Even Worse for Him Than You Think
New Republic • 4 weeks ago

Trump’s Epic Loss on Tariffs Is Even Worse for Him Than You Think

The Supreme Court’s stunning decision invalidating Donald Trump’s tariffs isn’t just a major legal setback, though it certainly is that. The loss before the high court is also another sign that the pillars of Trump’s right-wing nationalist agenda are crumbling in a much broader and deeper sense—so much so that it’s posing a serious threat to the long-term durability of the ideology known as Trumpism.If you had to name the two most essential pillars of Trumpian populist nationalism, you’d probably single out his sweeping tariffs and his campaign to deport all undocumented immigrants. The tariffs are supposed to unleash a domestic manufacturing renaissance, and the mass expulsions are designed to ethnically and culturally purify the nation. Together they make up much of the foundation of Trumpism’s fantasy version of nationalist renewal.Both of those are now in crisis. The tariffs have been broadly invalidated. And in the aftermath of ICE’s invasion of Minneapolis, the deportations of noncriminal undocumented immigrants—while still proceeding—have been widely discredited in the minds of all but the molten MAGA core, and face determined resistance all across American culture and society.The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision is sweeping. Trump claimed extraordinarily broad tariff authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, citing its grant of authority to “regulate … importation.” But as the majority notes, that simply does not constitute an authority to tax—the statute doesn’t even include the word “tariffs.” The ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts is scathing on this point. It declares that Trump read “regulate” and “importation” to somehow grant him “the independent power to impose tariffs on imports from any country, of any product, at any rate, for any amount of time.” It concludes that “regulate” and “importation” are words that “cannot bear such weight.”In invalidating the tariffs that Trump imposed under IEEPA, the court just knocked down around 60 percent to 70 percent of Trump’s tariffs, says trade expert Scott Lincicome, including a chunk of levies on China, Mexico, and Canada, all global reciprocal tariffs, and a number of others. Though Trump will probably be able to use other authorities to reimpose some of these tariffs, Lincicome says, those will face statutory limits, and Trump now must refund $175 billion in revenues plus interest. “Trump’s still going to be able to do tariffs,” Lincicome tells me. “But he’s going to have to follow a lot more rules, and it will curtail his ability to impose tariffs on a whim. The need to refund will be a bureaucratic mess and a significant fiscal hit to his agenda.”It’s notable that some of Trump’s worst abuses of power have been employed toward those twin pillars of economic nationalism—tariffs and deportations. The tariffs constituted a virtually unconstrained usurpation of authority that the Constitution grants to Congress. The expulsions have involved all sorts of authoritarian abuses, from extralegal expulsions to foreign gulags to efforts to suspend due process on a mass scale to the building out of a massive archipelago of prison camps to the illegal deployment of the military in American cities to the murder of pro-immigrant U.S. citizens on the streets of Minneapolis.In this sense, the key features of Trump’s right-wing nationalism are also among the aspects of his agenda that are most deeply entangled with his authoritarianism. There’s a reason for this: Many other institutional elements of the system—and most of the American public—simply are not on board with either.Trump could never get Congress to authorize his tariffs, which are also widely opposed by American businesses of all sizes. Meanwhile, Trump immigration adviser Stephen Miller has tacitly prodded Trump to end due process, ignore the courts, and assume quasi-dictatorial powers precisely because the law and the courts do pose a genuine obstacle to realizing the vast numbers of mass removals he craves.It’s also no accident that the tariffs and the deportations are the locus points of Trump’s most spectacular governing failures. The tariffs have utterly failed to restore manufacturing jobs, which are falling in part due to the misguided application of the tariffs themselves. Meanwhile, the deportations have unleashed extraordinary suffering among countless undocumented Americans and their families (though Miller might view this as a positive), while inadvertently driving many Americans to show more solidarity with immigrants than in the past. Achieving Miller’s desired scale of ethnic reengineering has unleashed searing, violent social tensions and diverted massive law enforcement resources into removals and away from serious crimes. It’s sinking tens of billions in taxpayers dollars into the creation of a hypermilitarized domestic secret police force and supercharged immigrant carceral state. Only the most fanatical anti-immigrant ideologues will view these as reasonable national priorities.Indeed, the tariffs and deportations are also among the most important causes of Trump’s deep unpopularity. Large majorities disapprove of the tariffs, of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and even of the deportation of longtime residents with jobs and no criminal records. The result: Trump’s approval is deeply underwater on the economy and on immigration. Which has created an unusual situation: The economy and immigration are traditional GOP strengths, but Trump has managed the distinction of being a Republican president who is profoundly unpopular on both. After Trump’s 2024 win, many commentators discerned in the results a deep, durable national shift toward Trumpist populist nationalism. But as it turns out, two of that ideology’s most critical elements are driving his biggest policy fiascos and his cratering standing with the public alike—in short, they constitute perhaps the most important reasons that his entire presidency is sinking deeper and deeper into utter, monumental failure.

SCOTUS Torpedoes Tariffs; Epstein’s Billionaire Rolodex w/ Ryan Grim, Wren Woodson, Mabel Kabani
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The Majority Report • 4 weeks ago

SCOTUS Torpedoes Tariffs; Epstein’s Billionaire Rolodex w/ Ryan Grim, Wren Woodson, Mabel Kabani

Trump’s Response to Supreme Court Rejecting His Tariffs Is New Tariffs
New Republic • 4 weeks ago

Trump’s Response to Supreme Court Rejecting His Tariffs Is New Tariffs

The president’s hotly anticipated backup plan to replace his unacceptable global tariffs is, basically, to just keep doing the tariffs regardless.The Supreme Court deemed Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs illegal Friday morning, throwing not only the White House’s economic plan into wack, but also the primary driver behind the administration’s foreign policy agenda.But the judicial conclusion was of no matter to Trump. In a White House press conference that afternoon, Trump revealed that he would impose an additional 10 percent global levy while keeping the remaining ones in place, blatantly flouting the judicial order.“Going forward, we’re going to take in more money,” Trump said.The new tariffs will begin in three days, according to the president.Trump was clearly irate over the decision, huffing between his sentences as he slumped over the lectern, slandering many of his Republican allies in a loose, slapdash speech to the nation.“I don’t think the court meant it, because the court doesn’t show great spirit toward our country, in my opinion,” Trump continued, suggesting that members of the nation’s highest judiciary had been compromised by foreign interests. “Lots of very bad decisions.”In the court’s 6–3 majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act as the foundation for his tariff plan was an erroneous overreach of his office’s power.“Slimeballs,” Trump said, referring to the justices who voted against his tariffs—two of whom, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, he appointed, in 2017 and 2020 respectively.Responding to a reporter’s question, Trump rejected previous comments that he had made claiming the country would be “financially defenseless” without his tariffs.“They write this terrible, defective decision,” Trump said. “It’s almost like it’s written by not smart people.”When asked whether his administration would abide by the order and issue refunds to countries that had been affected by his tariffs, Trump barked that attempting to do so would result in the topic being relitigated in courts for the “next five years.”Roberts noted in his opinion that the country’s founders “gave ‘Congress alone’ the power to impose tariffs during peacetime,” broadly upending any possibility for the White House to create a tariff proposal all on its own. But the president appeared nonetheless unwilling to work with his legislative peers as of Friday.“Why didn’t you work with Congress to enact a tariff plan?” pressed a reporter.“I didn’t have to,” Trump insisted.This story has been updated.

McConnell Stalls Trump’s Election Overhaul Bill as Republicans Fume
New Republic • 4 weeks ago

McConnell Stalls Trump’s Election Overhaul Bill as Republicans Fume

Senator Mitch McConnell appears to be stalling the voting bill backed by President Trump, and fellow Republicans are not happy. McConnell, who leads the Senate Rules Committee, is refusing to schedule a vote on the legislation, thus preventing it from moving forward. The bill would create barriers for voting, requiring specific forms of ID in order for Americans to exercise their constitutional right.In blocking it, the retiring senator and former majority leader has drawn the ire of his colleagues. Representative Tim Burchett posted a video on X Friday saying McConnell’s actions are partially coming from a place of “meanness” because he doesn’t like Trump, and called his mental acuity into question. “He’s blocking the SAVE Act, or is he? Is it him or a staff member, because as you know, he’s a lot like Joe Biden was in his last few days in office, or last years in office,” Burchett said. “His cognizant level is diminishing daily.” What is happening with Mitch McConnell and why is he stopping the SAVE AMERICA ACT? pic.twitter.com/76R6DSCVFw— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) February 20, 2026Burchett went on a tangent about how much of Congress is run by staffers because certain aging members of Congress have diminishing mental capacity, citing the case of Representative Kay Granger, the former House Appropriations Committee chair who disappeared for months in 2024 and was later found to be living in an independent living facility. Representative Anna Paulina Luna also attacked McConnell, claiming on X without evidence that “over 84% of Americans and 95% of Republicans want voter ID. Why do you completely disregard the will of the people who voted for you?”McConnell’s stance has similarly drawn the attention of right-wing personalities on social media who have been calling out his mental acuity for days over the bill, which doesn’t have the 60 votes necessary to overcome a Senate filibuster. Representative Andy Barr, who is running to fill McConnell’s seat in November, wrote a letter to the senator last week asking for his help to pass the bill, to which McConnell hasn’t responded.Last year, McConnell wrote in The Wall Street Journal that such a bill would give a future Democratic president and Congress the ability to “use more sweeping mandates to carry out a complete federal takeover of American elections.” “The current administration has better ways to spend its time than laying the groundwork for a leftwing election takeover,” McConnell wrote. Burchett’s attempt to call out McConnell’s age and fitness is not without merit, as the senior Kentucky senator has had health issues and noticeable mental lapses. But not only is Burchett ignoring the long-term implications of the bill, he is also selectively ignoring the very clear cognitive decline experienced by the president of the United States.  

Nevada Brothel Workers Are Unionizing to Protect Their Digital Rights
Mother Jones • 4 weeks ago

Nevada Brothel Workers Are Unionizing to Protect Their Digital Rights

Under normal circumstances, the sex workers arriving to their jobs at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, have a predictable routine. Most people’s shifts at the ranch last for at least a week, and the process involves picking out a room that they’ll stay in and work out of for the duration, visiting […]

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