Mark Simmons

Presidency Boosts Trump's Net Worth By $3 Billion In A Year

Trump meanwhile has become incredibly rich.

Almost doubled his wealth in last year.

Trump's tariffs cost American households $1,000 last year: Research group President Donald Trump’s tariffs cost the average American household $1,000 last year, according to new research from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation.

MAGA voters loved tariffs.

Thought that it meant punishment for the rest of the world.

Instead they've made themselves poorer.

Way to go Einsteins.

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Good news: Trump lost on tariffs.

Neutral news: the process for remedying that will probably be refunding the companies that paid the tariffs.

Kinda sucks news: this will be a windfall for corporations who passed the cost onto the consumer by raising prices and little will flow back to consumers.

Thinking IBM did a better job of this for the Nazis.

Too real.

A reminder, before a certain movie probably makes a big thing of it again:

A young Irish couple did not provide the critical data that made Stagg tell Ike to delay D-Day.

The most critical data came from HMS Hoste, alone out in the Atlantic.

The Blacksod story is nice. But it's not true. /1

Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

Reform’s by-election candidate Matt Goodwin received a salary of up to €10,000 a month from a far-right pressure group based in Hungary 👀
https://goodlaw.social/pif5

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

This press conference is quite the "Justice Roberts has issued his decision, now let him enforce it" statement

"SCOTUS said I can't implement these tariffs, but I will continue to do them under a different legal authority"

How long will SCOTUS keep playing along with the authoritarian speed run?

It is so incredibly humiliating that this dumb motherfucker is running a society of 350 million people into the dirt because he's scared of dying.

Literally today's news:

⚠️ President is corrupt
⚠️ Royalty is corrupt
⚠️ Govt is corrupt
⚠️ Opposition is corrupt
⚠️ Journalist is corrupt
⚠️ Celebrity is corrupt
⚠️ Sports body is corrupt
😕 Why is public trust so low?

Much self-soothing in Trump's talk.

At the press conference, Trump says he is "absolutely ashamed of certain members of the court for not having the courage to do what's right for the country" & congratulates the dissenters by name for their "strength and wisdom and love of our country, which is right now very proud of those justices"

It is very troubling that the insane elderly person babbling on my TV right now is in charge of this country.

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

McConnell dunks on Trump.

Charges against Former Prince Andrew must be dropped if it’s determined that raping teenagers was an official act.

by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett)

People keep debating whether Epstein is more tied to Russia or Israel without understanding it's the same people: dual Russia/Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. The modern roots of this operation, going back to the 1980s, are detailed in the excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT below.

ICE talks abt undocumented humans w/ a “criminal record.”

Reminder that, as @prisonculture.bsky.social often says, many things are crimes that are not harmful & many things are harmful that are not crimes.

& that trauma & oppressive systems force impossible choices

& child rapists run the govt.

"A source at GB News told the Guardian that Farage had characterised the complaint as “that is just Matt being Matt”."

SpaceX and Blue Origin abruptly shift priorities amid US Golden Dome push The largest U.S. commercial space companies recently shifted priorities toward lunar development, just as DOD pushes its next-gen missile shield plans.

Article suggests DOD + SpaceX & Blue Origin are thinking of placing Golden Dome BMD sensors and comms *on* the Moon, and that not Artemis explains the firms lunar plans. That makes ZERO sense. 1/ www.defensenews.com/space/2026/0...

Free idea for the next Democrat in the White House: auction off the privilege to push the button that blows this thing up. Give the proceeds to refugee groups.

Jeffrey Epstein's Really Big Short In addition to his sex crimes, Epstein ran an obscure company that accrued billions in liabilities in the same dicey securities that led to the 2008 financial crisis. Know who bailed him out? You did!

Blimey. Remember how Bannon promoted the Tea Party as a reaction to the bank bailouts in 2008

His pal Jeffery Epstein was give $7bn in bailout money

Socialism for the rich

craigunger.substack.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

Not even joking, but we need support groups for journalists working on the Epstein data.

There's so much traumatic shit in there, and we don't know what's relevant until we look at it.

And some of it is legitimately nightmare fuel.

I’m no legal expert

but the documents leaked to Epstein by Mandelson seem even more market sensitive to me than the Prince Andrew ones

(Mandelson leaked information about imminent $500bn eurozone bailout, £20bn of UK gov asset sales, tax changes etc)

This is so beautifully put. I'd recommend reading the whole thing. (I'm assuming this is @bryce.lol's prose in the latest Alphaville Substack post.)

A screenshot of an article from https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-fatally-shot-us-citizen-texas-dhs-records-11544225 reading: Federal agents shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Texas last year, but initial reports did not reveal their involvement, with the details now coming to light through internal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records. Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was shot by an ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officer in South Padre Island, Texas, on March 15, 2025, after what ICE described as a failure to follow law enforcement instructions during a traffic incident as agents worked with local police on immigration enforcement.

We only know what happened to Renee Good and Alex Pretti because rapid response organizers were there to record it.

We don't know how many people they have murdered, but information about more killings keeps coming to light.

And who knows what happens in the camps.

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taps sign (as they throw me into van)