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"The US launched 65 airstrikes in 24 hours in Yemen, and then Trump’s intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard tweeted, “President Trump IS the President of Peace. He is ending bloodshed across the world and will deliver lasting peace in the Middle East.”

These freaks have no connection with reality."

-- Caitlin Johnstone

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Trump Supporters Can No Longer Say Trump Never Started A War

I’d like to point out that the tired MAGA talking point about how Trump “never started any new wars” has officially been invalidated because of Yemen.

The focus on “new wars” was always a dopey arbitrary distinction meant to shelter Trump from criticism of his extensive warmongering throughout his first term, but his restarting the US bombing campaign in Yemen in order to protect Israel’s right to commit genocide means even this feeble excuse has gone up in smoke.

The US launched dozens of airstrikes in Yemen on Friday morning in its new offensive against Ansar Allah, who are essentially Yemen’s ruling government since the territory they control contains some 80 percent of the nation’s population. The US has bombed Yemen every day since restarting the war earlier this month, and Trump told the press on Wednesday that he intends to keep the attacks going “for a long time”.

Trump Says He Will Continue Bombing Yemen for a ‘Long Time’
The president claimed the bombing campaign has been 'very successful' even though the Houthis show no sign of backing down
by Dave DeCamp@DecampDave #Yemen #Houthis #Trump #Gaza https://t.co/IFIfqLpTWz

— Antiwar.com (@Antiwarcom) March 27, 2025

And when I say war, I mean war. When you are bombing a country every single day and announcing that you intend to keep bombing it for a long time, that’s the thing that war is. You might not call it that, but that is in fact what you are doing. You are waging war on that country.

And make no mistake: this is a new war that Trump started. Yemen was at war between 2015 and 2022 against a US-backed coalition spearheaded by Saudi Arabia, but that conflict has been over for three years. Biden had been launching airstrikes against Houthi forces in 2024 in response to their Red Sea shipping blockade which was aimed at forcing Israel to halt its genocide in Gaza, but Ansar Allah suspended that blockade when a ceasefire was reached between Israel and Hamas, and the Red Sea had been peaceful.

That all ended when Trump began sabotaging the ceasefire and failed to use the White House’s immense leverage to force Israel to abide by its agreement with Hamas. Israel announced a genocidal starvation siege on Gaza in full coordination with the Trump administration, and Ansar Allah responded by saying it would resume the Red Sea blockade to pressure Israel to halt its genocidal atrocities. Trump then began bombing Yemen before the Houthis had even launched any kind of attack, all to make sure Israel could commit genocide without consequences. The Trump administration reportedly even asked Israel not to respond to Yemeni attacks against it, saying the US would take care of the whole thing.

So there you have it. Trump started a new war, in every way that matters. There was peace, and then Trump actively sabotaged it, committing instead to a long-term war so needlessly that his own cabinet was seen in a leaked group chat questioning the decision and trying to come up with reasons why it was even necessary.

The United States bombed Yemen 44 times tonight.

A statistic for some, but behind it lies homes destroyed, families terrorized, people killed and wounded.

— Hussein (@EyesOnSouth1) March 28, 2025

Face it Trumpers: you’ve been had. You voted for a president who told you he was going to end the wars, and he started a new war and was backing an active genocide within a few weeks of taking office. You voted for a president who said he’d protect free speech, and he’s stomping out free speech throughout the United States to silence criticism of Israel. You voted for a president who said he’d put America first, and he’s putting Israel first.

Mark Twain said “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled,” so maybe I am wasting my breath here. But you have been fooled, my red-hatted lovelies. You have been fooled very badly.

If you can’t accept it just yet, don’t worry. He’ll show you more proof before long.

Democrats Insist There’s a Better Way to Indiscriminately Bomb Civilians

The Democrats in Congress are livid and it should come as no surprise that their anger is equal parts performative and terribly misplaced. In the wake of President Trump’s decision to resume the US military’s reckless and illogical bombing campaign against the Houthis, congressional Democrats haven’t bothered to ask how long the salvo will last, how the Pentagon can avoid civilian casualties, or how this operation will differ from the identical one launched by the previous administration a year ago.

During Tuesday’s Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing to discuss the intelligence community’s Annual Threat Assessment, not a single lawmaker asked about the children the president’s recent strikes are reported to have killed. Not one senator inquired about the Houthi statement that the White House’s actions have only emboldened the group to intensify their targeting of commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea even further. Because Joe Biden is guilty of the same transgressions, none of these topics seemed like viable options.

Luckily, the Democratic Party found what it was looking for in the pages of The Atlantic. Just a day earlier, the magazine printed an account of how their editor-in-chief was inadvertently added to a private chat conversation in which a group of Trump cabinet members planned the military’s March 15 bombing against the Houthis. There’s absolutely no denying that accidentally disclosing war plans to someone who wasn’t authorized to hear them was careless, unprofessional, and potentially extremely dangerous. However, the more important point – the one Democrats have chosen to blissfully ignore – is why these plans existed in the first place. ...

Initial reports indicate that at least 53 people, including women and children, were killed in the strikes. Were their lives cut short because President Trump wanted to “send a message,” as Vance declared? Was it to reopen shipping lanes, as Hegseth said? Who knows? As the defense secretary noted, “This [is] not about the Houthis.”

In a healthy society, the revelation that the calculus for deciding to bomb another country could be so casual would be a generation-defining scandal. The Democrats didn’t even mention it. Based on their questioning during this week’s hearing, their concerns appeared to be centered on finding ways to more effectively execute a war we have no business fighting. This is what makes the Democratic Party’s so-called “resistance” to the Trump presidency so comically ineffective and ultimately pointless. His election has been branded as an “existential crisis” to US democracy, yet the most authoritarian power-grabs often go unchecked. By making sure never to focus on the things that Democratic administrations have also been guilty of, the DNC is choosing to narrow the scope of its opposition to what they believe will help them in the next election cycle. Because the Democrats were never willing to hold Biden accountable [truly accountable] for his unilateral strikes last year, they certainly can’t attempt to do the same with Trump.

Netanyahu says he is ‘willing’ to reach deal to free Gaza hostages

Rejecting claims from Hamas and Israeli protesters that his government is not engaged in serious negotiations aimed at securing the release of those held captive in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he was committed to reaching an agreement to free the hostages and military pressure had been effective. “We are willing,” Israel’s prime minister told a cabinet meeting. “We are negotiating under fire” and “can see cracks beginning to appear” in what Hamas has demanded in its negotiations, he said.

“Military pressure is working,” he added. “It works because it acts simultaneously. On the one hand, it crushes Hamas’s military and governmental capabilities, and on the other hand, it creates the conditions for the release of our hostages.”

Netanyahu said on Saturday night “the security cabinet convened and decided to increase the pressure, which had already increased, in order to further pound Hamas and create the optimal conditions for releasing our hostages”. ..

Under pressure at international and domestic level, Netanyahu stressed that “Hamas must lay down its arms”, adding that its leaders would be allowed to leave after they did so, and Israel was also willing to talk about “the final stage” of a hostage release-ceasefire deal with the militant group. “We are ready,” he said. “Hamas will lay down its weapons. Its leaders will be allowed to leave. We will ensure general security in the Gaza Strip and enable the implementation of the Trump plan, the voluntary immigration plan.”

On Saturday, Hamas allegedly offered to free five living Israeli hostages in exchange for a 50-day ceasefire, and released a video of a hostage making an appeal for his freedom. Hamas’s chief, Khalil al-Hayya, said on Saturday that the militant group expressed willingness to release the five hostages over the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr, which begins on Sunday, after a proposal it received two days ago from Egypt and Qatar, Reuters has reported.

Pepe Escobar : What I Am Seeing In Yemen!

Netanyahu Vows to Attack ‘Everywhere in Lebanon’ as Israel Bombs Private Beirut School

While Israel has launched hundreds of attacks on Lebanese territory since the “ceasefire” went into effect in November, they had so far only done flights over the capital city of Beirut. Today, however, they started attacking the capital again.

Moments before the attacks started, IDF spokesman Avichat Adraee issued a statement in Arabic on Twitter informing the area of imminent attack and ordering civilians to withdraw from at least 300 meters around the target, which was displayed in a satellite image along with its name.

The area is smack dab in a residential neighborhood in the suburbs south of Beirut, and the target is actually a private school, kindergarten through 12th grade, called the Lycée Des Arts, and neighboring buildings. ...

As usual, Israel is using Hezbollah as an excuse. A subsequent Tweet from Adraee declared the target, which had explicitly been identified as Lycée Des Arts in the first Tweet, as “Hezbollah infrastructure” used for storing drones.

Israel offered no evidence that this literal school was full of attack drones, or indeed had anything to do with Hezbollah. The school’s website, perhaps needless to say, doesn’t show any drone either, just finger painting and such.

Minnesota officials seek answers after Ice detains graduate student

Officials in Minnesota were seeking answers in the case of a University of Minnesota graduate student who was being detained by US immigration authorities for unknown reasons.

University leadership said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detained the student on Thursday at an off-campus residence. Officials said the school was not given advance notice about the detention and did not share information with federal authorities. The student’s name and nationality have not been released.

As the case remained largely a mystery, state and local leaders called on federal authorities to explain their actions.

“My office and I are doing all we can to get information about this concerning case,” the Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar said in a post on the social media site X. “We’re in contact with the University and understand they had no prior warning or information that led to this detainment.” ...

The detained student was enrolled in business school at the university’s Twin Cities campus. University officials said the school was providing the student with legal aid and other support services.

Columbia alumni rip up diplomas to protest activist Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest

A handful of alumni from Columbia University’s school of international and public affairs (Sipa) ripped their diplomas in a show of protest against the federal government’s jailing of graduate student Mahmoud Khalil’s over his activism for Palestinians. On Saturday, instead of participating in the university’s annual Sipa alumni day, a few dozen alumni and students gathered outside campus as part of a protest organized by Sipa’s and Barnard Alumni for Palestine groups.

The groups wrote on Instagram: “Join us March 29th at 1pm to PROTEST SIPA Alumni Day and demand justice for our community. Mahmoud Khalil – our colleague, our classmate, our friend – was unjustly arrested with the active complicity of Sipa’s administration, which has chosen surveillance and collaboration with federal agencies and law enforcement over protecting its students.”

Outside of campus Saturday, several alumni held their diplomas while others held signs that read “Shame on SIPA”. Speaking at the protest, Amali Tower, a 2009 Sipa alum, ripped her diploma and said: “It’s not easy to do this, with none of us doing this lightly. There’s no joy in this.”

Tower went on to add: “I’m not a proud alumni at all, and instead I want to stand with the students, and I want to stand with Palestinians, and I want to stand with immigrants who are being rounded up and harassed, oppressed and deported as we speak.”

Goldberg dismisses Waltz’s Signal leak defense: ‘Numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones’

Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg has dismissed the explanation offered by national security adviser Mike Waltz for how he was included in a Trump administration group text chat about – and in advance of – the recent bombing of Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Goldberg said Waltz’s theory that his contact was “sucked in” to his phone via “somebody else’s contact” was implausible.

“This isn’t The Matrix,” Goldberg told NBC’s Kristen Welker on Sunday’s Meet the Press, referring to the classic science fiction movie about humans unknowingly living in a simulated reality. “Phone numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones.

“I don’t know what he’s talking about there.”

Goldberg continued: “You know, very frequently in journalism, the most obvious explanation is the explanation. My phone number was in his phone because my phone number is in his phone.”

NYT, US waged COALITION WAR against Russia

Donald Trump says he is ‘very angry’ with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine

Donald Trump has said he is “pissed off” with Vladimir Putin over his approach to a ceasefire in Ukraine and threatened to levy tariffs on Moscow’s oil exports if the Russian leader does not agree to a truce within a month. The US president indicated he would levy a 25% or 50% tariff that would affect countries buying Russian oil in a telephone interview with NBC News, during which he also threatened to bomb Iran and did not rule out using force in Greenland.

“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault, which it might not be, but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,” Trump said. “That would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t do business in the United States. There will be a 25% tariff on all … on all oil, a 25 to 50-point tariff on all oil.”

The abrupt change of direction came after Putin had tried to attack the legitimacy of Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, Trump said. Appearing on Russian television, Putin had suggested Ukraine could be placed under a temporary UN-led government to organise fresh elections before negotiating a peace deal. Trump has previously called the Ukrainian president a dictator, but on Sunday he said: “I was very angry, pissed off” when Putin “started getting into Zelenskyy’s credibility, because that’s not going in the right location, you understand?”

He said “new leadership means you’re not gonna have a deal for a long time, right” and that he wanted to exert pressure on the Kremlin, which has thrown up a string of questions about a peace settlement and only agreed to limited maritime and energy ceasefires so far. Trump repeated that “if a deal isn’t made, and if I think it was Russia’s fault, I’m going to put secondary sanctions on Russia”, but then indicated he would quickly back down if there was progress on a ceasefire. ...

The US president also used the same short interview to tell Iran that if “they don’t make a deal” to curb their nuclear weapons programme, “there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before”. Officials from both countries were engaged in negotiations, he added. He also mentioned fresh economic sanctions as an alternative. “There’s a chance that, if they don’t make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them,” Trump said. “I am considering putting on secondary tariffs on Iran until such time as a deal is signed.”

Alastair Crooke : Russia Flourishes Under US Sanctions

Turkish opposition leader calls for weekly rallies and deeper economic boycott

Turkey’s anti-government protesters are weighing their options, amid calls by the main opposition leader for weekly rallies, a growing economic boycott and a groundswell of fired-up student demonstrators determined to stay on the streets. The leader of the Republican People’s party (CHP), Özgür Özel, expanded a call to boycott goods and services from companies perceived as close to the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, during a rally in support of the jailed Istanbul mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu.

Speaking to the hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters who filled a park in Istanbul over the weekend, Özel took aim at the Doğuş Group, a Turkish conglomerate that owns the pro-government NTV channel, and its ties to Erdoğan. “The Doğuş Group will be buried underground, as it fears this gathering,” Özel told the crowd. The Doğuş Group oversees a vast portfolio of construction companies, pro-government media outlets, energy companies, real estate and Volkswagen distributors in Turkey. It acts as the parent company for more than 200 restaurants and popular entertainment spots, including Soho House Istanbul. ...

The CHP leader also called on Turkish companies not to advertise on pro-government media channels that have broadcast limited news of the protests, often hewing closely to Erdoğan’s depiction of the demonstrations as “a movement of violence”. The detention of İmamoğlu sparked Turkey’s largest anti-government protests in years, with people gathering nightly around Istanbul city hall and frequently clashing with police. But with the opposition calling for an end to the nightly demonstrations, the burgeoning protest movement is at a crossroads.

The CHP is attempting to shepherd a nationwide protest movement that quickly grew to include demands far beyond İmamoğlu’s freedom, with demonstrators calling for an end to the democratic backsliding that has occurred under Erdoğan’s rule, as well as the liberation of the Kurdish former presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş.

Despite the CHP taking the lead by calling for the initial demonstrations, the protest movement includes other political parties, students and other groups with their own agendas and concerns. These include calls for a halt to a years-long cost of living crisis, increased judicial independence, and freedom for hundreds of student protest leaders detained in the past 10 days.

Trump 'COULDN"T CARE LESS' On Car Price Hikes

Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if tariffs make car prices go up

Donald Trump said on Saturday he did not warn car industry executives against raising prices as tariffs on foreign-made autos come into force, telling NBC News he “couldn’t care less” if they do. The president’s comments came as the White House prepared to impose new tariffs on a range of consumer goods on 2 April, a move that has drawn criticism from international leaders and concerns about potential price increases for consumers.

Among those to express concern on Sunday about Trump’s devotion to tariffs was US senator Rand Paul, Trump’s fellow Republican. “International trade since [the second world war] has made us phenomenally rich,” Paul said on The Cats Roundtable on New York’s WABC 770 AM. “He says, ‘We’ve been taken advantage of.’ But I really strongly disagree because trade has made us so rich and really has made the world a better place. The more we trade … the less we fight.”

In the NBC News interview, Trump said his permanent tariffs on foreign-made automobiles would be a boost to US-domiciled factories and was confident the move would lead to increased sales of American-made cars. “I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are gonna buy American-made cars,” Trump said.

Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’

Beneath the smugness of Ron DeSantis, at Florida leading the nation in immigration enforcement lies something of a conundrum: how to fill the essential jobs of the scores of immigrant workers targeted for deportation. The answer, according to Florida lawmakers, is the state’s schoolchildren, who as young as 14 could soon be allowed to work overnight shifts without a break – even on school nights.

A bill that progressed this week through the Republican-dominated state senate seeks to remove numerous existing protections for teenage workers, and allow them, in the Florida governor’s words, to step into the shoes of immigrants who supply Florida’s tourism and agriculture industries with “dirt cheap labor”.

“What’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? That’s how it used to be when I was growing up,” DeSantis said at an immigration forum with Donald Trump’s “border czar”, Tom Homan, in Sarasota last week. “Why do we say we need to import foreigners, even import them illegally, when teenagers used to work at these resorts, college students should be [doing] all this stuff.”

Unsurprisingly, the proposal has alarmed immigration advocates and watchdog groups concerned about child labor abuses and exploitation. They point out that there is nothing “part-time” in the language of the companion senate and house bills currently before lawmakers, which instead will permit unlimited working hours without breaks for 14- and 15-year-olds who are schooled at home or online, and allow employers to require 16- and 17-year-olds to work for more than six days in a row.

RUSSIAGATE Files FINALLY Being Released? Crossfire Hurricane EXPOSED: Aaron Maté

Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House

Donald Trump has said there are “methods” – if not “plans” – to circumvent the constitutional limit preventing US presidents from serving three terms. In an interview aired Sunday on NBC, Trump was asked about his trying to stay in office beyond his second presidency, a specter he has repeatedly raised while sometimes claiming he is just joking.

Trump told host Kristen Welker “there are methods which you could do it” – and this time made it a point to say he was not joking. “Well, there are plans,” Trump said to Welker. “There are – not plans. There are methods – there are methods which you could do it, as you know.”

Welker alluded to a purported loophole some Trump supporters have fantasized about finding in which he could be the running mate to his vice-president, JD Vance, or someone else in the 2028 election. The person to whom Trump would be the running mate in that scenario could then immediately resign after winning and being sworn in as president, letting Trump take over by succession.

Their argument would be that the constitution’s 22nd amendment only explicitly bans being “elected” to more than two presidential terms without saying anything about becoming the commander-in-chief on an additional occasion through succession. Vance has not indicated he is interested in participating in such a plan. And an election law professor at Notre Dame, Derek Muller, told the Associated Press that the constitution’s 12th amendment says “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of vice-president of the United States.” ...

Trump then said it was “far too early to think about” trying to defy the two presidential term limit in the constitution to stay in office and that he was “focused on the current”. But asked if being president a third time would be too much work, he said: “I like working.” And asked if he was just joking, as he and his supporters like to say whenever he floats anti-constitutional ideas, he said: “No, no, I’m not joking. I’m not joking.”

“Obsessed”: Elon Musk Pours $20 Million into Wisconsin Supreme Court Race as Voter Anger Builds

Wisconsin supreme court race a litmus test for Elon Musk’s political power

A race to determine control of the Wisconsin supreme court that has profound stakes for voting, abortion and labor rights in the state, is also shaping up to be a litmus test of Elon Musk’s political power, making it one of the most consequential elections of Donald Trump’s second term.

Liberals currently hold a 4-3 majority on the state supreme court, but the liberal justice Ann Walsh Bradley is retiring. Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, is facing off on Tuesday against the conservative judge Brad Schimel for the seat. The winner will determine which party has control of a court that is set to rule on the future of the state’s 1849 abortion ban, collective bargaining rights and the makeup of the state’s six congressional districts.

The election has become the most expensive judicial election in American history, with more than $80m spent on both sides so far. Musk began spending in the race earlier this year, shortly after Tesla filed a lawsuit challenging a Wisconsin law that blocks the company from opening car dealerships in the state.

The billionaire’s Super Pac is offering $100 to those who sign a petition in opposition to “activist judges”. So far, Musk and groups he funds have spent more than $20m in the race. On Friday, he posted on Twitter/X and said he would campaign in Wisconsin this weekend and give away $1m as part of a sweepstakes-like contest to people who had voted. He later deleted the post after experts pointed out such a program could be illegal under state law. He posted a revised tweet saying he would distribute the money to people to act as spokespeople for the petition. The Wisconsin attorney general, Josh Kaul, a Democrat, also sued Musk and his Pac on Friday to stop the giveaway, though an appeals court reportedly declined to immediately step in and stop it.

“This is kind of a test case for Elon Musk,” Crawford, a former prosecutor, said in an interview. “He wants to make sure that nothing stands in the way of what he’s doing to try to dismantle the federal government.”

Majority of Democratic Voters: Current Leaders Failing to Combat Trump, Defend Working Class

A large majority of registered Democrats and Independent voters who lean Democratic are frustrated with the party, see no clear leader of it, and want to see elected officials fight harder for working people and against Republican President Donald Trump, according to a pair of polls released Friday.

"Democratic voters are sending a clear message: They want leaders who will fight Trump and put working people first," said Danielle Deiseroth, executive director of Data for Progress, the progressive think tank behind the surveys. "The base is tired of weak opposition and business-as-usual politics."

"This level of discontent is unsustainable for a party looking to build back in the wake of major losses—at a certain point, Democratic leaders will need to show voters that they are taking a stronger stance against Trump, or step aside for someone who will," Deiseroth added.

The polling—released nearly five months after the election in which Democrats lost the White House and both chambers of Congress—shows that when asked how they would grade the Democratic Party on its response to Trump, who returned to power in January, 70% of voters said C or below, and 21% said F.

Voters were also divided in terms of who they see as the current leader of the Democratic Party. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost the race for the White House in November, was at the top, but with only 17%. She was followed by former President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who tied at 15%.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) tied with "no one" at 11%, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at 9% and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at 6%.

Sanders, who sought the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, announced Friday that Ocasio-Cortez will join the Los Angeles stop of his "Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here" tour on Saturday—as she did across the U.S. West last week, drawing the biggest crowd of either of their careers at a rally in Denver, Colorado.

"Today, the oligarchs and the billionaire class are getting richer and richer and have more and more power," Sanders said Friday. "Meanwhile, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and most of our people are struggling to pay for healthcare, childcare, and housing. This country belongs to all of us, not just the few. We must fight back."

The new polling makes clear that voters want elected officials to fight back in a variety of ways, including legal challenges, media appearances, voter registration drives, letter-writing and phone-banking campaigns, procedural tactics like the filibuster, supporting worker walkouts, consumer boycotts, mass protests—including at government buildings—and disrupting Trump campaign events.

Voters are specifically disappointed with Schumer: 61% said he isn't doing enough to fight Trump. After being told about the Senate majority leader's decision earlier this month to lead a group of 10 caucus members who helped Republicans pass a stopgap spending bill, 51% said Democrats in the chamber should choose a new leader—and if they did, 66% of voters would want "someone who fights harder against Trump and the Republican agenda."

A large majority of voters of all ages want elderly Democratic Party leaders "to retire and pass the torch to the younger generation." Big majorities also want party leadership to be diverse in race and gender, and to prioritize funding for programs addressing issues such as healthcare and housing, even if it increases the national deficit.

As the party battles Trump and rebuilds after November's devastating losses, voters are stressing that Democrats must emphasize how they will fight for the working class. Large majorities urged them to focus on taking on corporate interests and the Democratic establishment, taxing the wealthy, lowering prices, and "laying out a bold, progressive agenda for economic and political reform."

The Data for Progress polling follows an internal survey conducted earlier this month by Our Revolution, the progressive political organizing group launched as a continuation of Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign. That survey of 9,024 members found that nearly 90% of respondents believe Schumer should step aside as Senate minority leader and 86% would support a primary challenger for his Senate seat, should he refuse to step aside. Calls for Ocasio-Cortez to primary him have mounted throughout the month.

"These survey results point to an undeniable crisis of confidence in Chuck Schumer and Democratic leadership at a time of unprecedented executive overreach and corporate takeover of the American federal government," Joseph Geevarghese, the executive director of Our Revolution, said at the time. "It's time to step up or step down."

Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed

A Canadian deep-sea mining firm has revealed it has been negotiating with the Trump administration to bypass a UN treaty and potentially gain authorisation from the US to mine in international waters. The revelation has stunned environmentalists, who condemned the move as “reckless” and a “slap in the face for multilateralism”.

It comes at a time when calls for a pause in deep-sea mining are intensifying. More than 30 governments are calling for a moratorium, arguing that there is not enough data for exploitation of the seabed to go ahead, and scientists have warned industrial mining could cause irreversible loss of biodiversity.

In a statement on its website on Thursday, Gerard Barron, chief executive of The Metals Company (TMC), said: “We believe we have sufficient knowledge to get started and prove we can manage environmental risks. What we need is a regulator with a robust regulatory regime, and who is willing to give our application a fair hearing. That’s why we’ve formally initiated the process of applying for licences and permits under the existing US seabed mining code.”

Leticia Carvalho, the secretary general of the International Seabed Authority, a UN body set up to govern deep sea mining, has expressed “deep concern” over TMC’s announcement. At a meeting of delegates on Friday, Carvalho said: “All exploration and exploitation activities in the Area must be carried out under the Authority’s control. Any unilateral action would constitute a violation of international law and directly undermine the fundamental principles of multilateralism, the peaceful use of the oceans and the collective governance framework” set up under the treaty. ...

The Metals Company said it had initiated a process under the US Department of Commerce to apply for exploration and permits to extract minerals from the ocean floor. It plans to apply under the 1980 Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act instead of the ISA, and is moving forward “with urgency”.

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