BREAKING: SCOTUS holds in a 6-3 decision that Trump's tariffs imposed pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) are not authorized as he exceeded his authority.

Nope.

Stephen Colbert Offers Kristi Noem’s Alleged Lover 1 Piece Of NSFW Advice Let’s just say the comedian’s hilarious warning will leave you howling with laughter.

Kristi Noem and Corey Lewindowski are traveling together on a luxury 737 MAX jet, equipped with a private bedroom.

Given Noem’s creepy canine history, Late Show host Colbert quipped:

“If that romantic part is true ...” “Corey — a word of warning: Avoid doggy style.”

www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

To win the favor of the Trump administration, CBS pushed Stephen Colbert out the door, accepted a Republican “bias monitor” to approve their programming, and is now cancelling interviews with Democratic candidates. Weiss is not responsible for these decisions, but she symbolizes that ecosystem, the handpicked choice of the new owners of CBS, the Trump-supporting Ellison family. Trump has personally praised that choice, saying of CBS News: “I think you have a great new leader, frankly.”

Bari Weiss talks about trust *a lot* to justify her goal of making CBS News more like the Free Press, a niche publication which critiques mainstream media. She is losing viewers, as people view her as an unthreatening choice for an ambitious Trump-supporting media consolidators.

Bezos wrote his note was to justify his decision, unprecedented in the paper’s history, to spike an editorial page endorsement of a presidential candidate, Kamala Harris. Bezos then up-ended the editorial board and opinion writers, which had been broadly bipartisan, to now focus on “personal liberties and free markets.” The long-time right-wing Post contributor Marc Thiessen was more upfront in saying: “We’re now a conservative opinion page.” The editorial board routinely parrots Trumpist justifications in an era of growing authoritarianism. So much for personal liberties. Most recently, Bezos oversaw a gutting of The Post, firing more than 300 reporters, including entire teams, such as reporters covering climate change. The Post is now about half as large as it was when he bought it, even as his net worth is 10 times greater, at about $250 billion.

Some examples: Jeff Bezos bemoaned declining trust in the media to justify fundamentally changing The Washington Post. Destroying the Post feels like part of a giant bribe to the Trump administration. Do people trust it more? No. Subscribers are fleeing and not being replaced by Trump supporters.

The Trust Trap What do Jeff Bezos, Bari Weiss, and RFK Jr. have in common?

New from me: What do Jeff Bezos, Bari Weiss, and RFK Jr. have in common?
Each has used the trust trap: they bemoan a loss in institutional legitimacy as a justification for radical actions that further undercut trust in their institutions. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...

Are They Greenhouses, Or OUR
HOUSES........

Les Wexner’s lawyer threatening to “f*cking kill” him if he speaks more than five words in a congressional deposition is… certainly a choice. The United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability deserved answers, not threats.

This is an incredibly important datapoint.
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Why isn’t the biggest tax increase in more than three decades a bigger story? Donald Trump’s tariff scheme is burning up the middle class, yet the news media is baffled as to why middle-class Americans are mad at the president.

32. When you understand this double standard, you can see how the news media actually created conditions during the 2024 election in which some middle-class Americans unknowingly voted for their own immiseration.

And now they’re mad.

www.editorialboard.com/why-isnt-the...

31. Basically, if it’s a tax on them, elites make it sound like a tax on you. If it’s a tax on you, they make you wonder if it’s a tax at all.

As proposed, Trump’s tariffs are a historic tax increase Politicians and economists said President Donald Trump’s "Liberation Day" tariff rollout amounted to a historic tax incr

30. The aligned interests of the Republicans and the billionaire owners of news media corporations is also why, no matter how loudly or how strenuously Democrats accuse Trump of implementing “the largest peacetime tax hike in US history,” the allegation rarely breaks through.

27. Trump’s tariffs are different. They are part of the elite goal of making the tax code regressive, so less responsibility falls on those who can afford to pay more. Tho they are known as the anti-tax party, the Rs don’t mind taxes, as long as it’s you, me & everyone we know who’s paying.

26. But I also think part of the reason is media interest. Whenever Dems talk about raising taxes, they mean raising them on rich ppl & corporations, asking them to pay their fair share. Such proposals get wall-to-wall coverage, b/c who’s getting taxed includes rich ppl who own media corporations.

25. In addition to Trump’s lies, what prevents reporters from building a narrative about the largest tax increase since the late 20th century is a kind of cognitive dissonance. The story can’t be that big since it’s the anti-tax party that’s doing it.

24. Why didn’t that happen to Trump?

I think part of the reason is media stereotypes. The GOP, not the Democrats, is seen as the anti-tax party.

23. But she wasn’t taken seriously, not as seriously as Trump would've been had their roles been reversed – if Harris had proposed a tax increase that keeps increasing. In that case, there would have been saturation coverage abt the peril of raising taxes in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis.

21. I don’t mean now. I mean then – back when saying it just like that would have mattered. If voters had understood, truly understood, that he wanted to impose a tax hike bigger than any since 1993, in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, would they have made the same decision?

Key Findings President Trump has imposed International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs on US trading partners, including China, Canada, Mexico, and the EU. In addition, he has threatened and imposed Section 232 tariffs on autos, heavy trucks, steel, aluminum, lumber, furniture, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, and copper, among others. The Trump tariffs amount to an average tax increase per US household of $1,000 in 2025 and $1,300 in 2026. Under the tariffs imposed and scheduled as of February 6, 2026, the weighted average applied tariff rate on all imports rises to 13.5 percent, and the average effective tariff rate, reflecting behavioral responses, rises to 9.9 percent—the highest average rate since 1946. The Trump tariffs are the largest US tax increase as a percent of GDP (0.54 percent for 2026) since 1993.

20. In its assessment, the Tax Foundation said in no uncertain terms that Trump’s tariffs amount to the biggest tax increase in 33 years, and what I want to know is:

Why don’t major media outlets say it *just like that*?

taxfoundation.org/research/all...

White House proposes new taxes to boost US shipbuilding The Trump administration has proposed a new set of cargo taxes on goods entering the United States.

19. And more pain is on the horizon. The White House wants to impose a new tariff, or “cargo tax,” on imports as part of a scheme to revitalize domestic shipping, according to Roll Call.

rollcall.com/2026/02/13/w...

The Break Is Over. Companies Are Jacking Up Prices Again. Higher tariffs, labor and health-insurance costs have pushed many businesses to raise prices for consumers.

18. All that pain might have been a honeymoon. Importers that had been absorbing costs are no longer going to. “After holding the line on prices for several months, companies — big and small — have begun a new round of increases, in some cases by high-single-digit percentage points,” the WSJ said.

Americans, not other countries, paid Trump's tariffs in 2025 President Donald Trump has repeatedly said foreigners would pay for his import tariffs. A new report says Americans picked up most of the tab.

17. The Federal Reserve of NYC said Friday we are paying nearly all the cost of tariffs (90 percent). A previous report by the Tax Foundation said average households are paying the equivalent of $1,000 in taxes. (That’s expected to climb to $1,300 this year.)
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

16. Remember, they knew. Tariffs are taxes we pay on imports. It was never going to be foreign countries. It was always going to be us. But the press corps, in deference to Trump’s lies about what they really are, made it sound like it was a question of maybe.

Well, there’s no more maybe.

15. But the owners of the country’s most lucrative media properties are not making a major story out of the fact that Trump is burning up the middle class because it’s the middle class that’s getting burned up.

14. As things stand, however, we can reasonably conclude that, to the owners of the country’s most lucrative media properties, taxes are less important than the question of who’s paying for them.

13. You would think that a president who is immiserating middle-class Americans with the biggest tax increase in over three decades would get the attention of a press corps that can otherwise be trusted to chase down every detail of every program that affects tax-payers.

The ‘Phony War’: Tariffs as prelude to a US recession The tariff war launched by US President Donald Trump has entered a phony war stage. But the next six months will reveal the true impact of a threatened trade war.

12. All of this, in one way or another, is driven by Trump’s tariffs.

www.chathamhouse.org/2025/05/phon...

George Orwell wrote: "Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.”
But they're not. They're definitely not. With your help, we'll defeat the fascists and save our country.