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36,000
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) drew a record-breaking crowd of at least 36,000 at his rally in Los Angeles on Saturday, The Guardian reports.
125%
“Beijing punched back with its own tariffs of 125 percent on all U.S. goods on Friday in response to President Donald Trump’s tariff increases, sharply escalating the spiraling trade tensions between the U.S. and China,” the Washington Post reports.
$4,000
“This is the worst self-inflicted wound that I have ever seen an administration impose on a well-functioning economy.”
— Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, who said President Trump’s shifting tariff policy has increased the odds the U.S. will enter into a recession, the Wall Street Journal reports.“Yellen said the Trump administration’s tariff policies could cost the average U.S. household $4,000 a year.”
87%
Reuters: U.S. retailers are almost completely reliant on China for Christmas decorations, where they source 87% of such goods – worth roughly $4 billion. Chinese factories are also heavily dependent on the U.S. market, where they sell half of what they make.
1 million liters
A 2019 study estimated that in the US alone, the country’s roughly 56 million urinals splatter public bathroom floors with as much as 1 million liters of urine every single day. Urine is mostly sterile, but the liquid quickly becomes a breeding ground for bacteria. Meanwhile, its ammonia-laden odor frequently seeps into the ambient air. The results are urinals and floors with significantly higher bacteria concentrations compared to toilets requiring additional cleanup efforts.
41%; 44%
A new Pew Research poll finds that by more than a two-to-one margin, Americans oppose rather than favor the U.S. taking over Greenland or Gaza. More Republicans support (41%) than oppose (28%) Trump’s proposal to take over Greenland, though around three-in-ten (31%) are unsure. But, in the case of taking over Gaza, more Republicans oppose (44%) than support (27%) the idea.
58%
A new Navigator Research poll finds that the share of Americans who say the economy is “getting worse” is now higher than it was before Donald Trump won the election in November 2024, and that 58% of Americans disapprove of his tariffs, while only 30% approve.
46% to 51%
A new Wall Street Journal poll finds President Trump’s approval underwater at 46% to 51%.
1,100
A nationwide anti-President Trump movement on Saturday is expected to be the largest single-day protest since he entered office, Axios reports. More than 1,100 rallies, visibility events and meetings were scheduled in all 50 states.
205%
Layoffs across the U.S. surged 205% in March when compared with a year earlier, with last month’s 275,240 job cuts fueled by widespread firings engineered by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. reports CBS. March’s layoffs represent the third-highest monthly total ever recorded, Challenger said. The two previous highest monthly totals were recorded in April 2020 and May 2020, when more than 671,000 and 397,000 job cuts, respectively, were recorded, due to the pandemic shuttering the U.S. economy, according to its data.
