Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says.
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#Tariffs #Consumers #Economy #Business #Bills
Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.
A lot of people are about to learn how to contact the companies the own their local network affiliates.
Oh. That’s really bad timing. People have been mental preparing to leave & then Disney is going to give them another reason.
CNN just figuring this out now.
A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19
What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us?
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“Jimmy, I stand with you and your staff 100%,” Colbert told his audience at “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” “This is blatant censorship,” he said, adding that “Tonight, we are all Jimmy Kimmel.” https://cnn.it/4mp2wNw
Analysis: The overwhelming majority of the 30,000+ documents released on Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee about Jeffrey Epstein were nothing new.
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House
wtaf
November Rain
She sold everyone out (especially her fellow female service members) & then she’s bowing out like a 🐓.
"All I really want is honesty. Mass shootings are the price we pay for the Second Amendment. It’s as simple as 2+2. Why can’t gun defenders just say that?"
If only people paid attention before the election.
JUST IN: Judge Berman agrees that effort by DOJ to unseal Epstein grand jury files is a “diversion” when DOJ could just release a trove of far more comprehensive documents without court involvement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In a stunning moment, Elise Stefanik was booed off the stage twice at an event in her district.
Went ahead and updated my map of cities with higher crime than D.C. to accommodate the two new states from the Deep South who are sending troops to the capital. In the five states there are 64 cities, home to 1.7 million people, that had more crime in 2024 than D.C.
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Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.
top 10% 1.5% better off. everyone else worse off
New from @budgetlab.bsky.social: the combined effect of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and his tariffs leave the bottom 90% of America poorer on average, with only the top 10% of America better off.
BBC: “Al Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza city has been killed.”
Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I just learned that Newsmax — the Skinemax of News — named Alex Acosta, the guy who cut Epstein’s sweetheart plea deal, to its board of directors last month
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.
None of the Epstein/Maxwell survivors were notified of Maxwell’s transfer to the minimum security facility.
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Not only is today’s employment report uniquely bad, but revisions to the prior months show that, on average, we have seen 35k net new jobs created for the last 3 months:
JAN: +111K
FEB: +102K
MAR: +120K
APR: +158K
MAY: +19K
JUN: +14K
JUL: +73K
No way to put lipstick on this pig.
In The Handmaid’s Tale, the Commanders preach purity but sneak off to brothels. It’s not fiction, it’s a mirror.
The most repressed are often the most controlling. If they just let themselves enjoy life, maybe they wouldn’t burn the world trying to punish everyone else for enjoying it.
"As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to end the Ukraine war on his first day in office and swiftly bring the Gaza war to a close as well," writes Brett H. McGurk. "Now more than six months into his presidency, peace on both fronts appears further away than ever." | Analysis cnn.it/3GKupkw
1 out of 8 residents of #MI01 will either lose coverage entirely or have to pay through the nose or fill out a mountain of paperwork to keep it due to the #MAGAMurderBill.
