Nancy Benson

Professor Emerita University of Illinois journalism, Fulbright Specialist, Benton Fellow, international journalism consultant, Chicago radio news

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

It’s odd that it’s always framed that other countries “stole” American jobs, and not that the ultra wealthy shipped our jobs away for a quick buck.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

A Christianity that gets offended at the idea of a society using its resources to care for one another is a Christianity that has abandoned Jesus a long time ago.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Senator Adam Schiff just announced he is formally opening an investigation to see if members of Donald Trump’s Administration illegally profited off of today’s stock market shenanigans. Retweet to make sure every American sees this.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price.

Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

If only the US had a co-equal branch of government that was in charge of monetary policy and could put a stop to this nonsense

[Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch]

It will never cease to amaze that Americans basically just got bored of having the best lives on the planet so they elected a lunatic to blow it up in the hopes of building some microwave factories for their children to find meaning in.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump could not have destroyed America, impoverished our nation, ruined our global standing, and obliterated our national security without his long list of enablers.

Never forget the enablers.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

In my life I have never seen a more brutal evisceration of an American president than what The Economist said about Trump and his tariffs.

IF YOU failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States. It’s hard to know which is more unsettling: that the leader of the free world could spout complete drivel about its most successful and admired economy. Or the fact that on April 2nd, spurred on by his delusions, Donald Trump announced the biggest break in America’s trade policy in over a century—and committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The @FT, not mincing words https://t.co/sWokEj4Oev

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

The crash is the goal. They want to destroy the economy. They want to destroy the government. They want us to be serfs in their new oligarchy. The destruction is the entire purpose of all of it. Stop saying you don't understand the goal of the destruction...the destruction is the goal!

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

I’m not saying Trump is a Russian asset trying to destroy America from the inside, I’m simply saying if he was, it would look exactly like this.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

Reminder the President has no inherent Constitutional power to declare tariffs. That power resides with Congress.

Trump only has this power now because the GOP Congress handed it to him in an "emergency."

There is no emergency.

Republicans are entirely to blame for this.

[WeThePeople🇺🇸🇺🇸 @PrincessBravato]

Destroying our economy on purpose should be impeachable.

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

Maybe it’s just me, but the orange felon using his destructive vindictive tariffs just to deliberately sabotage and destroy the U.S. economy looks a lot like sabotage and treason.

[Chris Bury @ChrisBuryNews]

Americans are being "liberated" from their retirement savings.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

I don't believe these special elections are buyer's remorse after barely two months.

I don't believe the general electorate moved 15 points away from Trump this quickly.

I believe Trump stole the 2024 election with Elon Musk's help, and these results mirror the real vote.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Because I was raised politically by institutional conservative organizations, I’m still, even now, amazed and disoriented by how thoroughly they’ve abandoned everything they once stood for. The intellectual dishonesty is breathtaking.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

40% of U.S.-affiliated Nobel Prize winners in the sciences (physics, chemistry and medicine) between 2000 and 2023 were immigrants. https://t.co/JQ7mgfOm02

[Tim @trouble_man90]

You see how other countries don’t play bullshit games with their corrupt politicians??

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

Everyone says, “It makes no sense that Trump wants to invade Canada.”

IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE.

Trump is a Russian asset. Canada is a NATO country and invading it would break the NATO alliance.

The NATO alliance is the single greatest countervailing force to Russia in the world.