U.S. stock futures dropped on Sunday evening as the White House remained defiant even after a two-day historic stock market rout that followed President Donald Trump’s rollout of shockingly high tariff rates on most key U.S. trading partners.
The Dow posted back-to-back losses of more than 1,500 points for the first time ever, including a 2,231-point shellacking on Friday.
The S&P 500 dropped 6% on Friday for its worst performance since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020. The benchmark lost 10% in two days, pushing it to more than 17% below its February record, perilously close to a 20% bear market.
The Nasdaq Composite entered a bear market Friday — down 22% from its record — after losses on Thursday and Friday of nearly 6% apiece.
Idaho Falls Police spokeswoman Jessica Clements says that overall the rally was peaceful, aside from some verbal arguments. Officers were called to escort an inebriated counter-protestor from the event. The man was not arrested.
Yeah, I remember that time period very well. I actually went to Germany the following May for a month. My strongest memories of that trip are crossing into East Germany one day at some random roadside crossing somewhere east of Hanover. The gate was wide open and the East German guard standing there was just waving cars right on through with the biggest grin on his face. The other strong memory is going through Checkpoint Charlie, and then watching a news report a week later showing them dismantling Checkpoint Charlie, so I was probably one of the last few hundred or thousand people to go through there. The future seemed so hopeful then. I’m not feeling hopeful right now.
The documentary that they took the footage from is great (though it’s a British import)…
Yeah, when I teach the Cold War, I always stress to my students just how that moment felt… I don’t know that it’s worked out as any of us imagined, sadly.
Midewin is the largest natural area in the Chicago region, encompassing 20,000 acres that provide needed habitat to numerous species amid surrounding urban and agricultural sprawl.
On Feb. 11, Reusswig received an email from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, which is administering the $1.5 million America the Beautiful Challenge grant on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service.
The funding account associated with the grant, the email stated, had been frozen at the federal level, part of a broader clamp down by the Trump Administration.
In short, bills would not be paid.
Openlands had attempted to push through invoices at the end of 2024, out of concerns about rumored pending funding freezes, Reusswig said, but those disbursements were never made.
She estimated there’s now a backlog of $475,000 in unpaid invoices owed to contractors on the project — mainly Homer, but also The Wetlands Initiative, a sub-grantee, which had a three-person team assigned to Midewin, tackling smaller invasive shrubs and following in Homer’s tracks with herbicide.
These reimbursements are for work that’s been completed, not anticipated, Reusswig said, and there’s no timeline for when vendors will be compensated.
Notice that they had tried to get paid before the inauguration, knowing things were going to get bad. Even that didn’t save them.
Trump: They’re doing reports on it. So far it’s a small number of people relative to what we’re talking about. Something that people have known about for many, many years. This is not something new… if it progresses, we’ll have to take action
Yeah, it definitely makes more “sense” within the context of his typical pattern if you assume he had no idea the protests were about him. Thinking about it some more, I’m not even sure it occurs to him, the way the Fox question was asked. He’s assuming something must have happened (that his supporters are angry about) that he doesn’t know about. (And as you say, people will spin it later, as usual, and it really doesn’t matter what he says.)
In this case he’s clearly not even heard about the protests, or he’d at least have a(n angry) feeling about it. As seen in the first term, he’s never actually bothered to learn about anything (and what he learned, he retains very little), but if he’s been told about something he has an emotional response, and that he remembers. He’s a life-long bullshitter, and he’s willing to riff off nothing but his feeling about a subject (something we’ve seen quite a bit), making it hard to know when he’s bullshitting based on a few vaguely-remembered assertions, and when it’s based on nothing at all.
(This seems to apply to pretty much everything he does, too - I recollect his hostility towards the conservative Australian PM in his first term, seemingly in large part because he was a “Liberal,” which Trump took to mean a leftist… people must have corrected him, but all Trump remembered was his initial emotional response.)
