We are unironically in the face of a third USA (and by extension global) recession in under 20 years. Is a big recession or even a depression guaranteed? No. Is it looking likely during Trump's regime? Yes. 

There was a short-lived dot.com bubble recession from March 2001 to November 2001. So, what is insane is that if you lived from early 2001 or at least from around Clinton's presidency onward, you're already at 3 recessions in your life and looking at a 4th. 2 of those were big recessions with the 4th looking big as well. 

Recessions don't inherently mean a bad administration or bad economy. "Ike" had 3 recessions during his presidency, all 10 months or shorter. And he was one of the USA's best presidents and 1953-1961 was one of the best periods ever for the USA's economy, if not the best. 

NEW: Elon Musk blames "massive cyberattack" with IP addresses from Ukraine for X outage

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— BNO News (@bnonews.com) 10 March 2025 at 20:54

Lmfao! His face when he blatantly lies and that nodding. Dark Storm already claimed responsibility for it hours ago. Idk where Dark Storm is based but they're a Pro-Palestine group. If it was however actually someone from Ukraine then well done, they have more than enough reason to bring Twitter to its knees, poor billionaires propaganda outlet was down for a few hours, how will he live.

I'd cheer them on to do it again, half the world has a good reason to want to bring it down and get back at Musk, dude is one of the most hated people alive right now. Having said that, I'd bet that even I know more about IPs than Musk, Lol. I somehow doubt that someone capable of bringing down Twitter forgot to hide their IP address, shit even many users on VGChartz know that basic.

It's rather disgusting for a fellow who cozies up to Putin and China to call a former astronaut and US Navy captain—who's married to a onetime House member who was shot in the line of duty—a "traitor."

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— David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) 10 March 2025 at 21:17

Republicans only pretend to care about the military and astronauts when it suits them.

I also lived through the first Bush recession. I was born when Carter was president, but I wasn’t old enough to remember 1970s stagflation.

Recessions may not necessarily mean a bad administration, but Trump is doing a very poor job of managing the economy and deliberately creating chaos, which the economy does not like. 

He inherited a relatively solid economy which had a bunch of positive indications for the future with a bunch of solid trade partners, I remember all the articles about Biden's economy being pretty good before the election, I also remember Trump bragging that the stock market was increasing because they believed he was going to win the election as well, Lol.

Then Trump once again, like with Obama's economy wrecked it all, spat in the faces of America's trade partners, ruined relationships, slammed tariffs with zero plan on everyone, then removed tariffs, then brought them back, then removed them, then brought them back, then refused to rule out a recession happening which seemed to finally be the nail in the coffin for the market to finally realise that he is being serious, before then, a lot of the market was believing it was all talk or temporary so they were holding.

Definitely can't always blame the one in charge but in Trump's case he is doing nothing to help the economy and doing everything to help fuck it up, I mean he even straight up admits his actions are going to fuck the economy but he doesn't care, Lol. And he won't get the grocery prices down either, Lol. So it's going to be shit all round.

I'm normally not a Bernie Sanders fan, because I'm naturally averse toward every political cult, and Bernie (or at least his team, which included people such as Briana Joy Grey) cultivated a rather substantial one that I felt was about as effective of moving the US leftward as a bullet to the foot. But I do enjoy it when he's out there challenging billionaire oligarchs.

"A government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, and for the billionaire class."

Arrest of Palestinian student at Columbia is first ‘of many to come’: Trump

The US president hails the detention of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil over his pro-Palestine activism, describing him as a “Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student”.

“This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it,” Trump said.

“Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again.”

There is no evidence to support claims of “paid agitators” during the pro-Palestine protests that swept US campuses last year. Khalil is a legal permanent resident. His arrest has raised the alarm over violations of free speech to shield Israel from criticism in the US.

US progressive Jewish group decries detention of Palestinian student

IfNotNow warns that the detention by immigration authorities of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia University and a permanent US resident, could signal a broader crackdown by the Trump administration on civil rights.

“This attack, which most acutely targets Palestinian students and advocates for Palestinian rights, also enables Trump’s authoritarian consolidation of power against his political opponents,” the youth-led group said.

“It is utterly despicable that they are carrying out this authoritarian lurch under the guise of fighting for Jewish safety. Let’s be perfectly clear: not only does destroying higher education and abducting students for political speech not keep Jews safe, it actively endangers us.”

‘Black and Palestinian unity is a threat to the status quo’

More than a month into his second term, US President Donald Trump has already made good on many of his dreadful campaign promises. He has ordered mass deportation of migrants and asylum seekers; cancelled federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programmes; cut funding to underprivileged Black and Latino communities; and pledged to expel foreigners with legal residency who have participated in pro-Palestinian protests.

It is clear that if we are to survive the next four years, minorities and oppressed people of all stripes must build solidarity networks to stand together and resist.

Many Black Americans like me see the parallel between the historical ways in which our people have been harmed and what is happening in Palestine. The brutal apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people directly relate to the mass killings and subjugation of Black people here in the US. There is a reason so many of the things we say in our community resonate with the people of Palestine and vice versa. Our mere existence is a threat to the status quo.

US judge temporarily blocks deportation of arrested Palestinian Columbia student

A US District Court judge in New York has ordered that Palestinian Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil not be deported for now, “unless and until the Court orders otherwise”.

Judge Jesse Furman also set a court hearing in Khalil’s case for Wednesday.

Khalil’s lawyers urged Furman to order Khalil’s return to New York after he was moved to a federal jail for migrants in Louisiana to await deportation proceedings, accusing the government of seeking to deprive Khalil of access to legal counsel by sending him far from New York.

Khalil, a US lawful permanent resident who participated in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza at Columbia University in New York, was arrested on Saturday night as he tried to enter his home with his wife, a US citizen who is eight months pregnant.


_{The Jena/La Salle ICE detention facility where Palestinian Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, was transferred is seen in Jena, Louisiana, on Monday}

"If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone."