HOMEWORK 04/08/25 ~ CAUSE & EFFECTS

Homework

Producer’s Note: Team Randi’s off today – again, can’t be helped. But we’ve got a fresh edition of your Homework, a great “Best Of” show for you this afternoon, plus multiple new “Randi In A Minute” YouTube videos later today. Randi will be back live tomorrow, Wednesday, April 9. See you then!

– Producer Shawn


Temporary Calm Amid Trump’s Tariff Storm

A Level Of Calm Returns To Markets Even As Trump Continues To Escalate Trade Tensions

Live Updates: China Vows Countermeasures Over Trump Tariffs As Trade War Threatens To Intensify Again

How A False Post On Twitter/X About Pausing Tariffs Led To Multitrillion-Dollar Market Swings On Monday

Treasury Sec. Bessent Says Trump Will Be Ready To Negotiate Tariffs “At Some Point”

Jessica Calarco: Those Who Credit Manufacturing Jobs For A Glorious Past America Mistake Correlation For Causation

 

Buyer’s Remorse

Market Turmoil Beginning To Cause Trump Backlash From Inside The Republican Party

Right-Wing Group Backed By Charles Koch And Leonard Leo Sues To Stop Trump Tariffs, Saying His Use Of Emergency Powers To Impose Tariffs Is Unlawful

Elon Musk Reportedly Has Made Direct Appeals To Trump To Reverse Sweeping New Tariffs

Michelle Goldberg: Why Did So Many People – Especially On Wall Street – Delude Themselves About Trump On Tariffs?

 

Trump’s Deportation Nation

Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin To Continue To Deport Venezuelans Under Alien Enemies Act, But Only After Judges’ Review & Due Process

Chief Justice Roberts Temporarily Pauses Deadline For Return Of Maryland Man Mistakenly Deported To El Salvador

Trump’s DHS Revokes Legal Status For Migrants Who Legally Entered The U.S. Using Biden-Era CBP One App

Trump Administration Now Looking To Spend $45 Billion To Expand Immigrant Detention

 

Democrats Are Fighting Back

Democrats Detail Trump Admin. Attacks On The Rule Of Law In Congressional Shadow Hearing

Whistleblower, Former Pardon Atty. Reports Trump Admin. Sent U.S. Marshals To Her Home To Intimidate Her, Prior To Testifying At Dems’ Shadow Hearing

 

Winning Against The Trump Regime

In New Ruling, Federal Judge Slams Trump Admin. For Covertly Withholding FEMA Funds From 19 Blue States

Federal Judge Permanently Bars Trump Admin. From Limiting NIH Medical Research Funding

Trump’s National Park Service Restores Accurate Historical Text To Underground Railroad Webpage After Public Outcry Of Racist Actions

Mother And Three Children Arrested By ICE, In Border Czar Tom Homan’s Upstate NY Home Town, Released From Detention

 

Making America Sick Again

HHS Sec. RFK Jr. Says He Plans To Tell CDC To Stop Recommending Fluoride In Drinking Water

Paul Krugman: Attack Of The Quack-Industrial Complex

 

War Against The DOGE Bags

Federal Appeals Court Restores DOGE Access To Sensitive Information At Three U.S. Agencies

DOGE Now Using A.I. To Spy On Federal Workers For Anti-Trump & Anti-Musk Messages

 

Republicans’ War On Democracy

Republicans Are Stealing A North Carolina Judicial Race. They Won’t Stop There.

Republicans In Congress Are Set To Vote On The “SAVE Act,” A Bill That Would Make Voting More Difficult For Millions Of Eligible U.S. Voters

Kristin Connelly: Republican’s SAVE Bill Claims To Solve An Election Problem That Doesn’t Exist

 

Foreign Relations

The Lie: Trump Says U.S. To Begin Having Direct Talks With Iran Over Nuclear Deal

The Truth: Iran’s Foreign Minister Says He Will Have Indirect Talks With U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff Over Tehran’s Nuclear Program

Pentagon Now Considering Proposal To Cut Thousands Of Troops From Europe

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