Thursday News: “Trump’s Tariffs Whiplash Is Open Corruption. He Admitted It Himself.”; “Trump Blinked. Danger Remains.”; “Trump’s Madman Act Isn’t Just for Foreign Policy Anymore”; Trump “in State of Delusion About Tariff Fiasco”; “The Supreme Court Doesn’t Need Facts”

by Lowell

Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, April 10.

• White House ends funding for key US climate body: ‘No coming back from this’ (Insane.)
• ‘Deep Change Theory’ Could Pull Us Out of a Global Climate and Pollution Crisis, Scientists Say (“A new U.N. report maps a path toward a more sustainable future and challenges society to question basic assumptions and values about the environment, consumption and waste.”)
• Those Dire Wolves Aren’t an Amazing Scientific Breakthrough. They’re a Disturbing Symbol of Where We’re Heading. (“We shouldn’t be celebrating ‘de-extinction.’ We should be focused on the species that are currently in danger.”)
• Africa is proof that investing in climate resilience works – and that it makes good business sense (“Climate denialism should not blind investors and governments to the very real opportunities to be found in financing solutions”)
• Woman jailed over £39 donation to Ukraine freed in US-Russia prisoner swap
• Ukraine claims 155 Chinese fighting for Russia
• Trump is pushing the world towards recession. By learning the lessons of 2008, we can still prevent it
• China Leaders to Meet on Stimulus After Trump’s Tariff Shock
• Why China isn’t backing down (“Beijing hopes not just to fight back, but to use Trump’s trade turmoil to strengthen its own position”)
• What Trump Just Cost America
• China reaches out to others as Trump layers on tariffs
• Exclusive: Chinese sellers on Amazon to hike prices or exit US as tariffs soar
• Trump’s New, New Tariff Plan: Hit Pause, Declare Victory, and Stick It to China
• Trump’s tariffs may be reduced but their impact will be felt in the UK and beyond
• ‘Economically Indefensible’: Trump’s Bad Tariff Math Was Too Stupid To Implement
• Trump’s Tariffs Whiplash Is Open Corruption. He Admitted It Himself.
• Trump told people to buy. Hours later, his tariff pause sent markets soaring.
• Economy
  European Union to put countermeasures to U.S. tariffs on hold for 90 days
• Another U-Turn: Trump reverses tariffs that caused market meltdown, but companies remain bewildered
• Dollar Weakens With Trump Tariff Drama Set to Continue
• Why Trump backed down again on tariffs (“The ‘safe haven’ status of U.S. Treasuries is under review in the Trump era.”)
• Trump blinked. Danger remains.
• Trump’s Madman Act Isn’t Just for Foreign Policy Anymore
• We Just Saw the Cracks in Trump’s Wall of Power (“The past week undermined the narrative that has surrounded the president — that he is a political juggernaut able to run roughshod over his party and beyond.”)
• Trump’s Own Aides Keep Him in State of Delusion About Tariff Fiasco (“His inner circle is telling him that working-class voters are with him. In the real world, all the tariff chaos gives Democrats an opening to try to crack his vaunted coalition.”)
• The Sick Psychology Behind Trump’s Tariff Chaos (“This isn’t trade strategy. It’s Munchausen syndrome by proxy.”)
• Trump Is Already Slowing Global Trade as Companies Pause Orders
• Why Trump Blinked on Tariffs Just Hours After They Went Into Effect
• Trump wants to play market hero. But the economic damage is done
• The week that Trump pushed the global economy to the brink with tariffs — and then pulled back
• Bessent reacts as Trump pauses tariffs but increases taxes on China to 125%
• Trump Says He Will Consider Exempting Some U.S. Companies From Tariffs (That’s pure corruption.)
• From ‘Be Cool!’ to ‘Getting Yippy’: Inside Trump’s Reversal on Tariffs
• Why Trump Blinked on Tariffs Just Hours After They Went Into Effect (“Treasury secretary helped persuade president to take time to negotiate with trading partners in face of pressure from business leaders”)
• Trump’s ‘buy’ tip on social media before his tariffs pause made money for investors who listened
• Adam Schiff Calls For Insider Trading Investigation into Trump Over Tariff Pause
• Trump suddenly backs off major tariff plan after days of economic and market turmoil
• There Was Never a Master Plan (“Trump backed down on tariffs. His supporters think that was the idea all along.”)
• ‘Government By Chaos’: Trump Slammed For Whiplash Tariff Policies
• The Art of the Retreat (“Trump’s abrupt pivot from his planned global trade war was touted by allies as grand strategy. The president’s own words suggested otherwise.”)
• Inside the Oval: 3 reasons Trump buckled on tariffs (“After several days in which Trump steadfastly said the falling stock market didn’t bother him, the market’s continued slide, emerging problems in the bond market and the falling value of the dollar became impossible to ignore. Friendly world leaders, congressional allies, major donors and CEOs ‘were practically begging for a pause'”)
• US Commerce Secretary says 90-day tariff pause not influenced by markets (Obvious, blatant lie.)
• Trump’s day of tariff mayhem contains a scary lesson for his second term (“The fate of the US economy, the jobs and retirement savings of millions of people, and global security are liable at any moment over the next four years to be thrown into turmoil by the volatile moods and untested obsessions of the 47th president.”)
• Fed Leans Against Inflation and Away From Preemptive Rate Cuts
• The questionable assumption fueling the stock market rally (“Trump’s tariffs are still pushing the US to the brink of economic crisis.”)
• Trump Refuses to Bring Back Those Wrongly Detained in El Salvador. You Could Be Next. (“Will the Supreme Court allow permanent disappearances?”)
• U.S. starts monitoring immigrants’ social media for antisemitism (Are they going to monitor for racism as well? misogyny? homophobia? etc? Of course not.)
• The Supreme Court Doesn’t Need Facts (“The justices exhibit a disturbing willingness to ignore the human costs of Trump’s actions, preferring instead to remain within the more comfortable zone of high-minded legal theory.”)
• Editorial: Leveraging tax records for deportations undermines trust in IRS
• Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window (Goons.)
• Trump Says He’d “Love” to Deport US Citizens to El Salvador Gulags if It’s Legal (“But what does legal even mean to Trump?”)
• CDC faces backlash for cutting sickle cell, adult disability programs
• Trump Orders DOJ To Investigate Prominent Critic in Shocking Oval Office Remarks: ‘I Think He’s Guilty of Treason’ (This is pure authoritarian/fascist crap. And Republicans like Glenn Youngkin won’t utter a peep…)
• Trump orders probes of two former officials who defied him (Or, NBC News could point out in its headline that Christopher Krebs and Miles Taylor both followed the LAW and the FACTS, while Trump pressured them to help him illegally hold on to the presidency, aka help him stage a coup. But noooo…instead, NBC News goes with the “defied him” framing. WHY? One reason is that they are cowards.)
• Trump Signs Orders Punishing Those Who Opposed His 2020 Election Lies (This is actually an excellent headline, by the NY Times believe it or not!)
• House votes to rein in federal judges amid Trump’s attacks on the courts (Disgraceful – the House GOP is aiding/abetting authoritarianism and underming our constitution/rule of law.)
• Trump signs order targeting law firm behind $787.5m Fox defamation suit (Appalling.)
• Social Security backs off cuts to phone services amid outcry
• House GOP cancels budget vote as hard-liners agitate for more spending cuts in Trump’s ‘beautiful’ bill
• US intelligence investigating whether FBI involved in 2021 Capitol riot (It was an insurrection, not simply a “riot,” but ok Reuters…)
• Scoop: Democrats launch campaign to oust Musk by June
• US DOGE Service Agreement With Department of Labor Shows $1.3 Million Fee—and Details Its Mission
• Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Getting Audited (“The Government Accountability Office’s audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED.”)
• Kash Patel replaced as acting ATF director by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll (Weird.)
• Read the DOJ memo barring employees from participating in American Bar Ass’n events
• US Justice Dept bars its attorneys from participating in American Bar Association events (WTF???)
• Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii (That’s a crime, right?)
• Top Dem Ripped by Own Side for ‘Disaster’ Oval Office Visit (Huge mistake by Whitmer.)
• A ‘disaster’: Gretchen Whitmer’s talk on tariffs and meeting with Trump anger fellow Democrats
• Trump draws criticism from Michigan business and auto groups as auto tariffs remain
• NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University (This is why universities should fight – they’re going to get screwed regardless, so at least stand firm on principle!)
• Newsmax defamed Dominion Voting Systems, judge rules
• H.R. McMaster receives accidental call from President Trump (Beyond parody.)
• Trans pilot falsely blamed in D.C. plane crash sues conservative influencer
• ‘You’re a much smarter person than that’: US senator rages over Australia tariffs (“An increasingly angry Warner responded: ‘Sir, you’re a much smarter person than that answer: the idea that we are going to whack friend and foe alike, and particularly friends with this level, is both, I think, insulting the Australians, undermines our national security and, frankly, makes us not a good partner going forward.'”)
• Schapiro: Va.’s senators on the front lines, in the headlines
• Video: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08) Explains to Trump’s U.S. Trade Representative Why “the president’s trade policies are…stupid and bad.” (“Why tariff bananas? Why tariff cocoa? Why tariff coffee? We don’t have the capacity to produce these things at a scale that meets domestic demand.”)
• Top Democratic target Rep. Kiggans announces fundraising haul (“Kiggans announced that her campaign raised over $1.1 million during the three months of 2025 and ended with over $1 million cash-on-hand.”)
• CASEY: Rep. Morgan Griffith issues form letter denying ‘overreach’ by President Trump (Griffith is way beyond worthless as a Congressman; he’s actively harmful.)
• Video: Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10) Asks, “How Many Americans Will Get Sick or Die” Due to “Trump-Musk Administration’s Attacks on FDA and Public Health” (“I don’t know how much clearer I can be; these health cuts will kill people. They will make us less safe and less healthy.”)
• Congressman Beyer wants to limit the use of public funds for sports stadiums
• Sen. Warner talks tariffs, TikTok and disaster relief for Southwest Virginia
• Video: At Meeting of the VA House Emergency Committee on Impacts of Federal Workforce and Funding Reductions, Fairfax Chair Jeff McKay Declares, “What we’re facing here is far worse than Covid” (“This is expected to reduce Virginia’s 2025 GDP by $7.4 billion, causing a loss of $250 million in tax revenue to Virginia’s budget.”)
• NEW AUDIO: Behind Closed Doors, Winsome Earle-Sears Calls Trump’s Tariffs “Good,” “To Our Benefit”; Also Says “I think Trump is crazy like a fox”
• Spanberger, Democrats tout unions as Virginia governor’s race firms up
• 7 things to know about Virginia’s historic 2025 governor’s race (“Our first $100 million gubernatorial candidate? Our first $200 million campaign?”)
• DPVA List of Candidates Qualified to Appear on the Ballot for the 2025 House of Delegates Primary Elections (The vast majority of seats will have Democratic candidates; just 9 primaries)
• Lynchburg GOP cites ‘cross-party voting’ theory in suit to overturn Virginia’s open primary law
• Data centers can bring high-paying jobs and millions in tax revenue. Is that what Southside will get?
• Virginia Beach School Board votes to remove DEI programs amid federal funding ultimatum
• Chesterfield leaders seek community feedback on new zoning maps that could spur more housing
• Chesterfield supervisors approve ‘austere’ $2.4B fiscal year 2026 budget
• TSA officers protest in Richmond over the removal of workplace protections
• Richmond TSA workers picket to get union rights back from Trump administration
• Witness: ‘Agitated’ man in truck brandished gun at Staunton protest rally (“Staunton Police confirmed that they are investigating a reported incident involving a man with a gun at the April 5 Hands Off! protest rally, and one of the witnesses to the incident told AFP on Wednesday that he intends to press charges against the man.”)
• Why Hampton Roads is one of the nation’s worst areas for pollen allergies
• CWG Live updates: Showers arrive late today before a drenching rain late Friday (“Showers may linger Saturday before slow clearing on Sunday and a warm up on Monday.”)