Evening Roundup, April 4
Featuring Jen Rubin in conversation with Ezra Levin and with Maria Peralta; Eliza Orlins; Jeff Nesbit; Josh Levs; The Democracy Index; Marissa Rothkopf; the Pet(s) of the Week; and Ruben Bolling!
Ezra Levin and Jen Rubin on the April 5th Day of Action
Tomorrow, Saturday April 5th, people will be gathering in protest of the Trump-Musk regime all around the nation (and the world!). Jen Rubin and co-founder of Indivisible, Ezra Levin, discuss why this is the right moment, why people are fed up, and how we can demand accountability from the wealthy and powerful.
Maria Peralta on the moral direction and clarity of everyday Americans
Maria Peralta and Jen Rubin discuss the momentous rallies happening around the country tomorrow, April 5th. Find your local event here. Show the people in power that the power lies with the people.
Eliza Orlins explains the dismissed corruption case against Eric Adams
New York City public defender Eliza Orlins breaks down Judge Ho's decision to dismiss corruption charges against disgraced NYC mayor Eric Adams—with prejudice. The catch? Adams' "win" isn't an admission of innocence—it's about curbing political favoritism in prosecutorial decisions.
Musk and Kennedy have taken a chainsaw to HHS. What does it mean?
Virtually everything HHS is responsible for affects our daily lives.
By Jeff Nesbit
Legacy media is losing America
The first robust study of what really happened in the 2024 election should serve as a wakeup call to Democrats and to legacy media.
The Democracy Index
This week, the vision of our democracy that emerges is of one that is battered but still resilient. The wellsprings of resistance, of democracy itself, are continuing to bloom, in the middle of the serious damage this administration is trying to inflict on it. The Democracy Index takes stock of both forces.
Cake for Cory Booker
This week, I’m fangirling over my filibustering giant of mind and heart, Sen. Cory Booker. Instead of tattooing his name on my forehead or something drastic, I instead created a cake in his honor. I figured the guy must be hungry.
Friday comic: Tom the Dancing Bug
Follow Ruben Bolling on Substack here; Join Tom the Dancing Bug’s Inner Hive here; and here is the Tom the Dancing Bug website, with information about the new book, “It’s the Great Storm, Tom the Dancing Bug!"
"Hands off" demonstrations will be near you!
Democracy is NOT a spectator sport.
💥💥💥 DONT MISS “Hands Off” 🧨🧨🧨
🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋♂️ Gigantic nationwide demonstration! 🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋♂️
Saturday April 5 National “Hands Off” Day of Action
on the National Mall and 657 local demonstrations
Click this link to find a “Hands Off” demonstration near you.
https://handsoff2025.com/
Trump's tariff “operation" (the largest peacetime tax hike in U.S. history) & Musk's DOGE with surgery by chainsaw will not kill the "patient", but will bring on recession or worse...economic pandemic, panic, depression on a scale that most of us have never experienced.
Trumpian malevolence & malignant stupidity will tank the economy. It’s what Republicans do. https://newrepublic.com/article/193360/trump-tank-economy-liberation-tariffs
When MAGAs realize how Trump policies screw them: "I blame Biden. He shoulda done a better job explaining how Trump's policies were gonna screw people like me. That's why I'm still MAGA.”
Trump World & CalvinBall: ignore facts & science; make rules up as you go…
Trump’s economic plan seems to be: short the markets, post rants, play golf, host a Saudi golf tourney...He's running the Presidency like a side hustle.
Former treasury secretary Lawrence Summers posted: “It’s now clear that the [Trump] Administration computed reciprocal tariffs without using tariff data. This is to economics what creationism is to biology, astrology is to astronomy, or RFK thought is to vaccine science. The Trump tariff policy makes little sense EVEN if you believe in protectionist mercantilist economics.”