Devorah Kennedy

US factory orders down 5%. Trump's agenda is far more one of sabotage than growth.

Wait, what?

“You Feel Like You’re Being Cheated”: Oil Companies Unfairly Take Millions, North Dakota Mineral Owners Say Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the state,...

Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from in North Dakota, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the state, and public officials have refused to take action. @northdakotamonitor.com

DOGE Wasted Tens of Billions While Chainsawing the Government in the Name of 'Efficiency': Senate Report | Common Dreams Elon Musk's DOGE wasted more than $21 billion in just six months. Other studies have found that in the longterm it may cost the government more than it saved, while resulting in millions of deaths.

Musk’s DOGE burned $21 billion in six months. Fourteen billion paid to workers not working. Six billion more in severance. IRS cuts may cost up to $2.4 trillion. USAID slashed, food and meds spoiled. One million dead already. Trump calls it savings. The math calls it a crime.

Insider trading isn’t an option for most of us.

Ansari: I’m a massive believer in knocking on doors and field organizing. Does anyone remember how many votes Attorney General Kris Mayes won her race by?
Yes—270-some votes out of over 2 million…

TIL if you fly Eurowings from Germany to Portugal you pay more carbon tax for that flight than a multimillionaire does for flying the same route in a private jet.

💯👇🏾

UPDATE: Governor Abbott just threatened to REMOVE THE TEXAS DEMS FROM THEIR SEATS if they don’t return by 3pm Monday (so Republicans can steal 5 seats in Congress using a special session about the flooding as cover) — and charge them with FELONIES.

We are over the cliff.

This is actually hilarious 😆

Jeffrey Epstein sold Prince Andrew’s secrets, new book claims Andrew Lownie writes that the serial sex offender used the Duke of York to access political leaders and sold his ‘intimate secrets’ to foreign intelligence agencies

🤔🧐Any chance we can get the Epstein files from the Brits? Just saying.

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I am so sick of the left saying that Trump is in the Epstein Files. He’s the President and deserves top billing. Epstein is in the Trump Files

The most corrupt White House in 🇺🇸 history. Pay for play. Selling the country for parts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Forget eggs—the cost of coffee is skyrocketing, and folks are noticing.

I heard it was coming, so I stocked up weeks ago, but my supply won’t last forever. Trump’s Brazil tariffs are to blame.

I don't think enough good things can be said about the people who worked hard to build the political pressure for his and everyone else's release, including senator van hollen. otoh there is no bottom to my contempt for the people who were urging the opposite course of action

oh god

The US economic model it's offering to the world is fartcoin, sports betting, and natural oils, the Chinese economic model is high speed rail and solar panels. Americans have rejected Geist and their country won't survive it

I Know Exactly What They Are Doing Rural foresight

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”

I beg to differ. This is curated failure open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Feelin' great yet everyone?

Elon Musk’s DOGE Burned Through $21.7 Billion of Taxpayer Cash A report added up all the costs associated with DOGE and found it wasted billions by paying employees not to work, cancelling projects and more.

How is this humanly possible in just a couple of months...

Pay it back, fElon.

Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in July 2, 2020. She was charged by Trump’s DOJ the same day.

Joe Biden did not become president until January 20, 2021.

Do not let these Cons change the past.

U.S. Jobs Report Falls Flat With Only 73,000 Added in July Massive downward revisions to prior months and a rising unemployment rate paint a troubling picture—healthcare drove most of July’s limited gains

NEWS: The U.S. added just 73,000 jobs in July—far below expectations—while the unemployment rate rose to 4.2%. May and June payrolls were revised down by a collective 258K, painting a trouble picture for the economy.

I don't want a ballroom in The White House. I want healthcare.

White House ballroom.
Millions of $.

Personal jet from Qatar.
A billion $ to refurbish.

But Corp. for Public Broadcasting, healthcare…

Nope.

He assumes everything is his.
NOT the country’s.
Nothing else matters to him.
But him.

But the president is a public servant—our servant.
Not a king.

From today's Nir & Rupar: @davidnir.com breaks down how Texas Republicans are trying to engineer a 60 point (!) rightward swing in Al Green's distract as part of their new ultra-gerrymandered congressional map.

Full episode: www.publicnotice.co/p/republican...

This is something I recall writing about back during the first Trump Admin when a few states did briefly impose work reporting requirements for Medicaid expansion enrollees.

The math all checks out with one caveat: If your income does nudge over 138%… 1/

to some extent this is true; everyone blames the people in charge when things go awry.

most admins for that reason really try to keep the economy from tanking. this admin, though, has done everything it could to cause inflation and job losses.

Thanks for laying it plain @garrisonhayes.bsky.social