If you're wondering where the regime got these crazy high tariff rates from...it wasn't in fact tariffs.

Sen. Cory Booker has the floor.

Nintendo Switch 2 Details
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/02/nintendo-switch-2-details

Once you realize every GOP argument is in bad faith and intended to perpetuate their power, you stop being surprised by the apparent hypocrisy.

Nintendo goes in-depth on Switch 2 backward compatibility https://www.theverge.com/news/641578/nintendo-switch-2-backwards-compatibility-games-faq

Paralyzed man stands again after pioneering stem cell spinal treatment. In a world-first trial, two of four paralyzed men regained significant mobility after receiving injections of neural stem cells. The most dramatic recovery enabled its recipient to stand independently: “that person is now training to walk.” Another man regained motion in his arms and legs. Larger trials are in the works, but researchers thus far report no serious side effects. Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00863-0?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Ah, Spring—When woodpeckers return to announce themselves via an old dish antenna on the roof next door. 😹
#SignsOfSpring #Spring #Bird #Birds #Funny #Humor #Noise #Loud #DishAntenna

lichen eating up a car repair workshop’s sign
#lichensubscribe

We doused both fore and main t'gallants until the squall passed to leeward.

@popcornreel Also this…
https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/114268123418122126

@popcornreel FYA: This post was right before yours in my timeline. 🤦‍♂️ #FunnyNotFunny
https://mastodon.social/@oldbookillustrations/114268160021582386

Nothing could scare the quacks, however.
Cecil Aldin, from "Cecil Aldin's Merry Party" by May Clarissa Gillington Byron, London: 1913 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/scare-quacks/

The U.S. exports much less to these countries—particularly China (with whom its trade deficit was almost $400 billion in 2024)—than it imports from these countries. Tariffs today or any day, when administered across the board, will hurt the U.S. consumer much more than anyone else. #tariffs

Morten Morland @mortenmorland on Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ #Trump #LiberationDay #TrumpTariffs @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

American readers: please take a minute or two to go to https://ssa.gov to download the statement of your lifetime contributions and anticipated monthly payments upon retirement. You know, just in case it’s needed later on.

(Defeatist cynicism will be met with an eyeroll and silence, if not a mute/block.)

After 25 hours & 5 minutes, Senator #CoryBooker has yielded the floor. Here are the last ~3½ mins.

#resist #Trump #money #power #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup 
#democracy #USpol #Senate #Constitution #CivilRights #MoralMoment #GoodTrouble #RedeemTheDream

It’s appropriate that the record for longest speech in Senate history by Strom Thurmond which was protesting against the Civil Rights Act has been broken by Cory Booker protesting to preserve the gains of the Civil Rights movement from a rapacious government.

There are two systems . . .

https://apnews.com/article/el-paso-walmart-shooting-texas-death-penalty-d47db8f41f498942747a36907cb23269

#FreeLuigi #Injusticesystem #luigimangione #UHC #Texas #ElPaso #Texas

And now it's 11:50 am and Booker is still going after 19 hours. 58,633 watching on YouTube, and apparently many more on TikTok.

"I confess I have been inadequate to the moment."