The Political Thread

[Chris]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

Stocks fell on Thursday, with equities unable to shake a three-week market rout under the weight of new tariff threats from President Donald Trump.

The S&P 500 dropped about 1.39% to settle at 5,521.52, ending the day in correction and 10.1% off its record close. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 537.36 points, or 1.3%, marking its fourth day of declines and closing at 40,813.57. The Nasdaq Composite shed 1.96% with shares like Tesla and Apple lower.

 

[Chris]

Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Reaches the Supreme Court

Trump administration lawyers asked the justices to limit the sweep of decisions by three lower courts that had issued nationwide pauses on the policy.

www.nytimes.com

Lawyers for President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to lift a nationwide pause imposed on the president’s order ending birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants.

The move represents the first time the legal wrangling over the president’s order to end birthright citizenship has reached the Supreme Court. If the Trump administration succeeds, the policy could go into effect in some parts of the country.

Three federal courts, in Massachusetts, Maryland and Washington State, had issued directives temporarily pausing the order, which was signed by Mr. Trump on his first day in office and declared that the government would no longer consider the U.S.-born children of undocumented people as citizens.

 

[Loochblade]

During an Oval Office meeting with Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte, U.S President Donald Trump refuses to rule out the U.S. annexation of Greenland saying "I think that it will happen".

Donald Trump says he thinks US will annex Greenland

Mr Trump questioned Denmark's claim to the territory, saying Denmark was "very far away" from Greenland despite being part of the country's kingdom.

news.sky.com

Wouldn't be a bold prediction to make, if someone would claim the US will definitely annex some soil of a different sovereign nation, before Trumps Presidency comes to an end...whenever that might be.

 

[Chris]

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/13/congress/chuck-schumer-shutdown-vote-00230000

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stepped Democrats away from the edge of a shutdown on Thursday — warning that repercussions of closing the federal government would be worse than the only viable alternative, passing the House GOP funding bill that many in Schumer's party loathe.

Schumer’s remarks — made first during a closed-door lunch with his coleagues Thursday and then from the Senate floor in a lengthy speech — are a significant indication that enough Senate Democrats will vote to advance the House GOP bill and avoid a shutdown that would start after midnight Friday.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Schumer's a bitch

 

[Comrade Khan]

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/13/congress/chuck-schumer-shutdown-vote-00230000

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stepped Democrats away from the edge of a shutdown on Thursday — warning that repercussions of closing the federal government would be worse than the only viable alternative, passing the House GOP funding bill that many in Schumer's party loathe.

Schumer’s remarks — made first during a closed-door lunch with his coleagues Thursday and then from the Senate floor in a lengthy speech — are a significant indication that enough Senate Democrats will vote to advance the House GOP bill and avoid a shutdown that would start after midnight Friday.

coward

 

[Barry Poppins]

 

[Chris]

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-trump-federal-funding-demands-0c6f7078

The Trump administration is demanding Columbia University make far-reaching changes—from banning masks to reforming undergraduate admissions—in order to restore roughly $400 million in federal grants and contracts to the school.

The Ivy League school is under scrutiny from the Trump administration for an alleged failure to combat antisemitism. Last week, the government said it was canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants and contracts to the school. The school has a 30-day period in which it can try to address the government’s concerns and potentially reinstate the funding.

 

[Brandon]

I can understand not wanting mask mandates or whatever but why would anyone ever ban someone using a mask? It's always things that have no effect on ppl except the ones doing it.

 

[Chris]

I can understand not wanting mask mandates or whatever but why would anyone ever ban someone using a mask? It's always things that have no effect on ppl except the ones doing it.

Harder for facial recognition software probably

 

[Comrade Khan]

what a pig

 

[Tommy MBE]

Fuck!! Elon has showed he's a nationalist coward who will get nothing but disgust from one from now on. What a twat

 

[Tommy MBE]

He's lost a lot of support from Democrats from all wings of the party. He's hated in the UK now from centre left voters . Including myself.

 

[Molag Bal]

I can understand not wanting mask mandates or whatever but why would anyone ever ban someone using a mask? It's always things that have no effect on ppl except the ones doing it.

People can wear masks to hide their faces to commit crimes more easily.

 

[Molag Bal]

what a pig

What an idiot. Stalin, Mao, and Hitler exterminated millions each. Stalin with his purges and Holodmor. Hitler with the Holocaust. And Mao with the Great Leap Forward.