The Daily Ripple

08/09/2025

Music Review - "Late Bloomer" by Kelly Zirbes (Jim Hynes) https://thedailyripple.org/index.php/art-music/cat-blog-reviews-jim-hynes/146-music-review-late-bloomer-by-kelly-zirbes-jh

08/09/2025

https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-trump-tariffs-bessent-2126168

The treasury secretary said the U.S. would have to refund billions if the Supreme Court ruled against Trump's tariffs next summer.

08/09/2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/07/health/video/florida-schools-vaccine-requirements-surgeon-general-ladapo-digvid

CNN’s Jake Tapper challenged Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo over his push to remove vaccine requirements for public school students, questioning why no data analysis or projections were conducted before the move.

08/09/2025

"Since US President Donald Trump started rolling out sweeping tariffs, the Teixeiras have been fielding more inquiries from companies newly interested in their US-based sewing services.

But they have turned down those offers, deterred by the difficulty of hiring in the midst of an immigration crackdown and doubts that the demand will be sustained."

The gulf between Trump's rhetoric and the reality on the ground is starting to show.

08/09/2025

"The budget shortfall stems significantly from the withdrawal of the United States from the WHO, with both USAID and the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) disengaging from GPEI."

The world's leading polio eradication programme faces a 40% budget cut next year as the paralysis-causing virus surges in its last strongholds of Afghanistan

08/09/2025

A current DoD official and many military legal experts say the U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean near Venezuela broke international law.

08/09/2025

⚠️Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is 100% correct. This has been their plan this entire time. Pay attention.

08/09/2025

You'll need to have money in Trump/Project 2025's USA. If not, oh well ....

Pushing more responsibility for disaster response onto the states will mean depending more on private contractors.

08/09/2025

https://abovethelaw.com/2025/09/amy-coney-barretts-fetish-for-phony-reluctance/

Amy Coney Barrett wants you to know she’s not like other reactionaries -- she’s a special kind of reactionary!!!

08/09/2025

08/09/2025

Interesting read --

From the Havemeyer Sugar Trust to Allen Dulles to Jeffrey Epstein, the MAGA billionaire Fanjul family are the welfare barons of all time.

08/09/2025

Trump's brilliant spokesperson "“The attack was not a signal that Russia wants to diplomatically end this war,” Kellogg concluded."

US Envoy Keith Kellogg clarifies that Russia's missile attack on Kyiv shows an intention to escalate, not to seek diplomatic solutions.