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Military deployments to LA will cost $134 million. Per Pentagon officials, that’s how much the US government is spending to send, house, and feed the 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines that President Trump ordered to Los Angeles this week amid anti-ICE protests. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who filed an emergency motion yesterday to block Trump’s deployment of troops to the state, has argued California doesn’t need military help to handle the protests and that its presence only increases tensions. Despite Newsom’s objections, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said yesterday that the deployments will last 60 days. Trump also warned that any protesters at a planned military parade in Washington, DC, on Saturday will be met with “very big force.”
US and China agree to framework for reducing trade tensions. After two days of intense trade talks in London, the US and China have agreed to a preliminary plan to implement the trade truce they reached last month in Geneva—which each side had accused the other of violating. “The two largest economies in the world have reached a handshake for a framework,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said, noting that President Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping must both still sign off on the agreement. Details of the deal were not immediately released but two main sticking points going into the talks were China’s withholding of rare earths and US controls on tech exports to China.
World Bank predicts weakest growth since the 1960s. Global economic growth this decade is on track to average 2.5%, which would be the slowest since The Andy Griffith Show dominated airwaves, according to the World Bank’s latest estimates. The international financial group cut this year’s forecast to 2.3% from 2.8% last year (and 2.7% as of a January prediction). “Without a swift course correction, the harm to living standards could be deep,” Chief Economist Indermit Gill wrote in the report. Gill cited “international discord—about trade, in particular” for the pessimistic outlook. The World Bank lowered forecasts for nearly 70% of economies, but notably did not yet foresee a global recession.—AE
Robert Reich
Office Hours: So What's Our Game Plan Now?
In face of Trump’s emerging police state?
Friends,
Demonstrations against Trump’s emerging police state are growing, not just in Los Angeles but around the nation. In New York yesterday, demonstrators walked through the streets after assembling in Lower Manhattan near a large government building that houses federal immigration offices and the city’s main immigration court.
Thousands gathered in Chicago, chanting anti-ICE and anti-Trump slogans while marching through the city.
This coming Saturday, in response to Trump’s display of military might in Washington (ostensibly to honor the 250th anniversary of the creation of the U.S. Army but also to honor himself and his own birthday), many of us will be protesting in “No Kings Day” events across the nation. See here.
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LIFE's Worth LIVING
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is different for everyone as some like to feel as though life is OPPRESSING them... and maybe it is but what is the alternative?
The JOY OF LIVING is not wishing that you have what other people have and then going in debt to try and get there, but to accept what you have and make the most out of it.
I know of a young man who at 19 was charged with murder because he drove the get-away car but did not know what his passenger was planning. He spent 30 years of his life in prison before being granted parole.
While in prison his attitude was "DO YOUR TIME DON'T LET YOUR TIME DO YOU."
He read books, took courses, learned woodworking, and became an electrician after being released.
He started at the bottom at 49 years of age and did not complain, learned what he could as fast as he could. Five years later, he had his own crew and was making over $25/hour.
Today, he is a model citizen because he accepted what he had, and someone was willing to give him a second chance.
I understand, not everyone can be like that, but his example, no the crime, is a good one to follow.
We have been given LIFE and sometimes that life is cut short and sometimes we live to 80 years of age and older, many of us now reaching 100 or better.
This life of ours, only happens once... that we know about...
It is not always going to be perfect nor is it always going to be what we want, but we can accept it and deal with it whatever it may be and make the most of it when presented to us...
BEING POSITIVE IS MUCH BETTER THAN BEING NEGATIVE
Chinese well-drilling technology turns Egypt's deserts into farmland
This photo taken on May 3, 2025 shows a well-drilling rig at night at the site of Owainat Water
Well Projectin the desert of New Valley Governorate, Egypt. (Xinhua/Sui Xiankai)
These wells, part of a broader effort to reclaim desert land for agriculture, have transformed the barren landscape into productive farmland, offering a model for sustainable development in arid regions and underscoring the potential of international cooperation in addressing food security and ecological restoration.
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