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The State of California tariff suit was filed IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA The above referenced suit filed by THE STATE OF OREGON, THE STATE OF ARIZONA, THE STATE OF COLORADO, THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, THE STATE OF DELAWARE, THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE STATE OF MAINE, THE STATE OF MINNESOTA, THE STATE OF NEVADA, THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO, THE STATE OF NEW YORK, and THE STATE OF VERMONT, was filed IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE

“At present there are absolutely no negotiations on the economy and trade between China and the U.S.,” said Ministry of Commerce Spokesperson He Yadong. said on Thursday. “Any claims about progress in China-U.S. economic and trade negotiations are baseless rumors without factual evidence.”

NYTimes headline April 24, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET -- Markets Fade as China Calls Reports of U.S. Tariff Talks ‘Baseless’ -- Stocks pulled back from recent gains fueled by comments from President Trump and others suggesting that they might ease steep tariffs.

The above unlawful use of IEEPA suit in Pensacola, FL is being funded by Leonard Leo and the arch conservative Koch interests so I'll just wait & see.

AI Overview Sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, is primarily manufactured in Ringaskiddy, Ireland, by Pfizer. This village in County Cork is home to a Pfizer plant that produces a large portion of the world's supply. While sildenafil is also produced in other locations, including India, the Ringaskiddy plant is a major producer, according to Pfizer. But if I really should aim higher then this: 1.Plaintiff challenges President Trump’s unlawful use of emergency power to impose a tariff on all imports from China.

Sildenafil ingredients for the blue pill come from Pfizer in Ireland: Companies in Northern Ireland sell goods valued at around £1.5bn to the US every year, with a concentration in pharmaceuticals and industrial machinery. Goods from the Republic of Ireland will be hit with a 20% tariff as part of measures Trump has imposed on the EU.

Trump Administration’s Immigration Crackdown Hits New Legal Roadblocks Three federal judges sharply question the legality of Trump’s tactics https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-administrations-immigration-crackdown-hits-new-legal-roadblocks-5110418e text from MSN: A trio of federal judges excoriated the Trump administration Tuesday over its immigration crackdown and threw up new legal roadblocks to the White House’s no-holds-barred approach. A Maryland judge overseeing the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, accused the administration of bad faith, falsehoods and willfully misreading a Supreme Court ruling in trying to avoid providing additional information under oath about its actions. Judges in Colorado and New York sharply questioned the legality of the administration’s use of wartime measures to speed deportations of alleged gang members and criticized the lack of legal protections for individuals who have been detained and are slated for removal. At issue in the New York and Colorado cases is the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, bypassing normal immigration procedures. Trump in mid-March signed a proclamation declaring the gang equivalent to a hostile foreign government in wartime and ordering government agencies to immediately remove its alleged members. Hours after the proclamation was made public, immigration officials launched planes moving more than 200 migrants, most of them Venezuelans, to a notorious prison in El Salvador. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-s-immigration-crackdown-hits-new-legal-roadblocks/ar-AA1Dq094

"We are confident in the lawfulness of the Administration's actions and in ultimately prevailing against an onslaught of meritless litigation brought by radical activists who care more about the rights of terrorist aliens than those of the American people," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-temporarily-blocks-deportations-venezuelan-migrants-under-2025-04-19/ ______________________ So I rest easy that everything behind the Executive orders is A-OK because Ms. Karoline has said so.

Trump on debt: ‘There’s nothing like doing things with other people’s money’ “It’s called OPM. I do that all the time in business. It’s called other people’s money. There’s nothing like doing things with other people’s money,” Trump said. “Because it takes, the risk, you get a good chunk of it and it takes the risk. SEP 2016 https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-other-peoples-money-228434

Washington Post via https://archive.ph/205DE 23 APR 2025 EDT 100 days in, Hegseth touts record, dismisses critics in fiery address With expletive-laden remarks, Trump’s embattled defense chief attempts to mount a counterattack and rebuffs Democrats’ calls to resign. While many Democrats are calling for Hegseth to go, others predicted that a dismissal would be unlikely. Rep. Adam Smith (Washington), the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said recent events had proven that Hegseth lacked the experience to effectively lead the Pentagon but that Trump prized loyalty over other characteristics. “So, no, I don’t expect Trump to fire Pete Hegseth. Pete Hegseth’s doing a great job for Donald Trump,” Smith told MSNBC. “He’s just jeopardizing the national security of the American people, which we all ought to be concerned about.”

Washington Post headline yesterday: Pete Hegseth, isolated and defiant, has Trump’s backing for now Officials say the unraveling of the defense secretary’s inner circle is cause for alarm, leaving some to wonder how the Pentagon would function in a national security crisis.

OOPS wrong topic

From the (mocked on here) 23 Nobel Prize winning economists pre-election: Among the most important determinants of economic success are the rule of law and economic and political certainty, and Trump threatens all of these. Reuters headline today: Majority of Americans believe presidents should obey the courts, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

from NYTimes via https://archive.ph/7UYDJ April 10, 2025, 2:22 p.m. ET For Restaurants That Rely on Imports, the Tariff News Is Scant Relief Confusion and uncertainty hang over an industry with thin profit margins and few domestic sources for foreign ingredients.

At least per CNN: "The thief got away with Noem’s driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash." No mention of phone but maybe the thief was hoping. ... but he DID get some blank checks -- meaning 'paper' checks if you can remember.

6 month S&P 500:

Stocks whipsaw based on someone in the White House saying something stupid and then saying that what I meant to say wasn't really stupid just that the media thinks it was stupid but nevertheless I will withdraw what I said that some people think was stupid even though I and Ms. Leavitt do not think it was (incredibly) stupid.

Embellishment to the post in World news: While the White House has not officially confirmed the details of Bessent's remarks, press secretary Karoline Leavitt offered a cautiously optimistic tone during a briefing later in the day. “The president and the administration are setting the stage for an incredible deal with China,” Leavitt said. “So we feel everyone involved wants to see an incredible trade deal happen, and the ball is incredibly moving in the right direction.” She declined to elaborate directly on Bessent’s comments but confirmed that the administration believes it is “doing incredibly well in respect to an incredibly potential trade deal with China.”

Maybe the thief just wanted to get her SIGNAl account on the phone so he can listen to the next chat.

“Her entire family was in town including her children and grandchildren – she was using the ($3000) withdrawal to treat her family to dinner, activities, and Easter gifts,” a DHS spokesperson said. Law enforcement experts have raised concerns about whether the incident, which involved a thief getting so close to a Cabinet official and then absconding with her belongings, may have been a lapse in security. “This is a security breach that actually has high consequences, and it needs immediate and further review by the Secret Service and DHS, and other law enforcement partners,” said Jonathan Wackrow, a CNN law enforcement analyst and former Secret Service agent. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/21/politics/homeland-security-kristi-noem-purse-stolen/index.html

My Thai wife likes to speak English. Sometimes, when I say something that she says she doesn't understand, I explain it to her in Thai.

At least in the Travel & Leisure article linked above, the European travel advisories are primarily concerned their citizens who travel with neither M or F as gender in their passport: "The shift comes after President Donald Trump issued a January 2025 executive order that says a person is either male or female and rejects the idea that a person can transition from the sex assigned at birth to another gender. The order comes with the banning of the “X” marker to denote gender on U.S. passport and visa applications."

The White House April 2, 2025 President Trump is invoking his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) to address the national emergency posed by the large and persistent trade deficit that is driven by the absence of reciprocity in our trade relationships and other harmful policies like currency manipulation and exorbitant value-added taxes (VAT) perpetuated by other countries. https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-declares-national-emergency-to-increase-our-competitive-edge-protect-our-sovereignty-and-strengthen-our-national-and-economic-security/ ___________________ Trump invoked the IEEPA -- if he already had the authority, why bother.

From the linked Politico article: (Second), the relevant provision of the IEEPA contains a bunch of words, but none of those words is “tariffs” or “taxes.”