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“.. Some of the judges noted that large swaths of the nation’s complex and longstanding trade procedures would essentially become superfluous if the president could simply .. impose tariffs of any size and duration.” 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

ROSENBERG: “.. The one development nobody is talking about is what will happen on Thursday, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the federal circuit begins to hear oral arguments in the case of whether the President’s tariff actions are legal.” ..

“.. Watching Donald Trump try and fail to move the news cycle past Jeffrey Epstein this week was like watching an octopus spray ink and get eaten anyway: a wonder of evolution failing with the strategy that always worked for him.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...

* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED @reuters.com

(Politico) - The president can sue you, but you can’t sue him. It seems like an absurd thing to say but that’s effectively the reality of our legal system today ..” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I expect a lecture from @lastweektonight.com about this very topic when they return.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy... "That's just how it is."

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

This is going to come as news to the President. 🤡 www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

That’s an oldie but a goodie. 🤡

Reminder: Republicans are facilitating a massive transfer of wealth to the richest Americans while making cuts that would rip away healthcare and food from millions of people. It's Robin Hood in reverse.

“.. Trump keeps claiming that all the wars that broke out under his predecessor .. would never have happened on his watch, because he .. is so strong and universally respected. Well, here is a close US ally, Bibi, ignoring Trump’s wishes ..” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

all hail Brian Beutler's conquering substack title "The Greedy Hubris of a Repulsive Creep." nails it. one more time for pleasure: THE GREEDY HUBRIS OF A REPULSIVE CREEP www.offmessage.net/p/the-greedy...

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

Oof I didn’t even think of this.

“.. strong, confident regimes are largely not in the habit of meeting protests with military force .. The Trump administration seems to have exactly one tool at its disposal — blunt force — and it’s clear that it has no plan for what happens when Americans do not fear being hit.” @jamellebouie.net

Strangely, Roberts doesn’t name the “democracies” that, he says, shoot protesters.

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

Yes I’m still laughing at this. They never stopped when my guy tripped, so I’m not gonna stop now.

Trump's culture wars and public spats with his former billionaire buddy provide cover for the most corrupt and self-dealing presidential administration in American history.

We got two months of pre-tariff pull-forward in auto sales. Now, the biggest monthly decline in five years. $GM $F $STLA

While America’s front doors are closing to China, back doors are opening in the form of personal payoffs to Trump that result in alternative routes for America’s advanced technology to reach China. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/while-americas-front-doors-are-closing

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

The hub of criminality is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Call your representatives and demand investigation of Cryptogate and more. Take to the streets! Your guide to Cryptogate, Trump’s $4 billion corruption scandal that’s 10 times bigger than Watergate www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

So there are allegedly 11m undocumented immigrants, and Trump goes after the half million we let in who are here legally and documented as part of his effort to go after undocumented criminal gang members ? I got it. Or may he just doesn’t like people with any color in their skin.

Gold standard science

“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” Keyes told NOTUS .. “We’ve certainly done research on this topic, but did not publish a paper in JAMA Pediatrics on this topic .. or with that title.” @notusreports.bsky.social www.notus.org/health-scien...

If tariffs keep the fed from cutting, Trump should scrap them and take the rate cuts. US would save $280b annually w/ a 1 pp decline in its avg rate. Stocks could soar and cap gains taxes could kick in. Foreigners would really “pay” about 1/3rd, unlike the fake claim of their tariff payments.

RASKIN: ".. Publication of this [dinner guest] list will also let the American people know who is putting tens of millions of dollars into our President’s pocket so we can start to figure out what — beyond virtually worthless memecoins — they are getting in exchange .." @washingtonpost.com

Gov. Hochul:

WSJ: “.. The lowest-earning seniors already pay no federal income taxes, so they wouldn’t benefit. The highest earners make too much to qualify.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but gov-affairs execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Page One: @nytimes.com @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

NYT, page one: The “$1.5 billion golf complex” and “Trump skyscraper .. are the Trump family’s first projects in Vietnam — part of a global moneymaking enterprise that no family of a sitting American president has ever attempted on this scale.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...

Trump announces 50% tariffs on Europe, just days after Greenland signs a mining deal with Europe. 👇👇👇 www.thegodpodcast.com/p/greenland-...

SEN. MERKELEY: ".. Anyone who thinks those 220 people .. just really craved to have a digital equivalent of a baseball trading card, well, you’re a little off the mark. They absolutely want to buy influence over U.S. policy.” @sykescharlie.bsky.social charliesykes.substack.com/p/an-orgy-of...

Yeah that tracks. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Yeah that tracks. 🤡 @ryanlcooper.com itep.org/analysis-of-...

INBOX: Bloomberg publishes an “atlas” to the Trump family’s “money-making machine”: “.. In any other era, this scale of presidential moneymaking would threaten to be the story of the year, but political uproar has hogged most of the attention.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Tax cuts in House Republicans’ megabill would lead to increased assets for the richest Americans, while reducing them for the lowest-income households, a new analysis found.

"News organizations should have long ago stopped affording the Trump administration such credulous coverage," writes @natashalennard.bsky.social. interc.pt/4javKOw

Senate Republicans are fast-tracking the GENIUS Act, which would greenlight a financial system enabling the ultra-rich to exploit unstable crypto schemes. The rest of us will be left holding the bag. Every Senate Democrat must vote against Trump's corrupt crypto scam.