Graph showing that the number of consumer complaints that credit bureau Experian closed with relief dropped significantly after Donald Trump's inauguration. The chart also shows the total complaints received has continued to rise over time. The x-axis shows year from 2021 to 2025 and the y-axis shows number of monthly complaints from 0 to 200K, with tick marks at increments of 50K.
Under Trump's CFPB, two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor.
In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%: https://propub.li/3OY2qBw
13.03.2026 01:00
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This is really something. New Marist poll has Trump underwater with noncollege whites and even noncollege white *men.*
It looks like Global Civilizational Total War isn't doing it for them (see below).
12.03.2026 16:11
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Americans ration medicine and postpone retirement to afford health care, polls find
Almost every metric in the health care surveys has moved in a negative direction in recent years.
About 1 in 3 U.S. adults say they’ve made trade-offs to afford health care in the past year, including rationing or skipping medications or borrowing money, according to a poll from West Health-Gallup.
12.03.2026 12:00
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I just voted YES on the biggest housing bill in Congress in more than 30 years.
12.03.2026 16:13
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Trump: "The Iran National Soccer Team is welcome to The World Cup, but I really don’t believe it is appropriate that they be there, for their own life and safety. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
12.03.2026 15:01
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Stryker Hit With Suspected Iran-Linked Cyberattack
Global outage affects U.S. medtech company; some staff devices remotely wiped.
"Medical technology giant Stryker is experiencing a global outage across its systems, with staff and contractors reporting that the logo of an Iran-linked hacking group has appeared on login pages."
11.03.2026 17:47
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Dozens of U.S. service members in Kuwait suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, sources say
About 30 U.S. service members remained hospitalized Tuesday after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.
That deadly attack on US service members also left "dozens w/ injuries including brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns. At least one may require the amputation of a limb."
More than 30 are hospitalized.
And credit where due: This is a strong story from CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com/news/strike-...
11.03.2026 17:08
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4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans
They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.
1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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11.03.2026 16:41
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It's really a mind-melting moment, scrolling Bluesky war and economy reports on phone while on the TV, a morning show is literally teaching the hosts how to create pretty flower planters.
My brain can't sync the two realities
11.03.2026 13:28
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Trump's invasion is the most unpopular war in modern US history. That matters. It shows the public is not reflexively pro war even at moments of intense propaganda bombardment.
It's really tanking with groups Trump made inroads among. Look at the numbers below! 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2076...
11.03.2026 11:51
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Call is always the outlier in good times and bad. I remember a family member saying they paid over seven bucks during a crunch a few years ago. Texas was at an unheard-of $4.29. Timing? Start of Ukraine war.
11.03.2026 11:51
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I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
11.03.2026 01:03
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Yes, it's AI, but probably pretty good:
11.03.2026 11:38
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2/day x 4= $40K/day. 10 major markets, 365 days? $146M. Now add in all the smaller markets, radio, digital. And yes, a couple million in production costs.
If Dallas is any indicator of how they completely saturated media, I'm not surprised at $220 million.
11.03.2026 11:37
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It's a good question, let's do some math.
Ads ran on TV, radio, digital, social, international.
1 :30 spot, morning or evening news, major market, let's say $5000. I know they ran at least two a day on CBS Dallas ALL YEAR because I saw them. Assume they did this on other 3 networks.
11.03.2026 11:34
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Giving gun rights back to felons? They've tried it before and it didn't go well.
11.03.2026 11:04
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Comms 101: Always watch the framing of the headline. This one sets up right wing as the norm, the standard to be compared against, and left-wing as unusual, out of the norm.
Even on a piece that *reports on* left-wing, they're bashing left wing.
11.03.2026 10:53
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CNBC: “.. Almost all of the economic effect of the individual tax cuts in the ‘big beautiful bill’ .. could be erased if oil prices remain elevated by more than $20 compared with prices before the U.S.-Iran war ..”
@cnbc.com #OBBBA
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/r...
10.03.2026 23:32
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This is a threeeead.
10.03.2026 22:50
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New drinking game: every time a network news report says
"massive"
It's not an attack unless it's massive
It's not a storm unless it's massive
It's not a fire unless it's massive
It's not damage unless it's massive
5 massives in 18 minutes
10.03.2026 22:50
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It was nicer once upon a time a week ago waking up gently to coffee and oatmeal, not the daily war propaganda report
10.03.2026 12:15
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oh
10.03.2026 10:43
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Exclusive: Saudi Arabia prepping 'huge deal' for Ukrainian weapons amid Iranian drone threat
A Saudi Arabian arms company has signed a deal to buy Ukrainian-made interceptor missiles, the Kyiv Independent has learned, with one source within Ukraine's defense industry saying that Riyadh and Ky...
A Saudi Arabian arms company has signed a deal to buy Ukrainian-made interceptor missiles, the Kyiv Independent has learned, with one source within Ukraine's defense industry saying that Riyadh and Kyiv are negotiating a separate "huge deal" for arms that could be finalized this week.
10.03.2026 11:20
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Missile in Deadly Iranian School Strike Appears to Be U.S.-Made, Photos Taken by Iran Show
Iranian state media posted mangled remnants it claims were from the Feb. 28 attack in Minab. An analysis shows they have the markings of a missile made by American manufacturers
Mangled missile fragments purporting to be from the deadly strikes that hit a naval base and elementary school in southern Iran on Feb. 28 bear the markings of an American cruise missile, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
10.03.2026 05:10
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