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“.. he argued that Americans could avoid tariffs by buying cars made in America. But it is well documented that when the price of an imported item goes up, domestic producers are then free to increase their own prices — and often will.”

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Today's jobs report shows what many Americans already knew: despite record highs in the stock market, the “economy” is not working for ordinary people.

Rather than accept reality & try to address it, Trump chooses to fire the bearers of bad news.

This is what authoritarians do.

It’s just like his approach to COVID — the problem is never that people are suffering, the problem is that the government is bothering to keep track of how many people are suffering.

Chilling: "speaks to the intent to use the military within the United States at a level not seen since Japanese internment" newrepublic.com/article/1987...

McMorrow: Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining. Nothing is working right now. Our automakers are gearing up for the worst…

And just as a reminder: all of this was man-made. Trump chose to do this. And it’s just a mess on the ground right now

The economy is so good that I'm firing the BLS Commissioner for reporting numbers so grim I refuse to believe them, and also demanding the Fed cut rates typically seen during a recession.

Wow

“Both of them.”

Opinion | What Hulk Hogan Left Behind

The NYT has a heavy house style that prevents me from using more, shall we say, colorful, language to describe Hulk Hogan but I think I still got my central point across here www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...

Lutnick two days ago: The Trump Economy has officially arrived!

Today: Economy shows weakest job growth over a 3-month period since the Great Recession, excluding 2020

“What do you think of the possibility of Trump pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell?”

Virginia Giuffre’s family: “It would be an abomination… our sister always told us Maxwell was even worse than Epstein.”

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EVERY SINGLE TIME the republicans have “devastating” evidence against a democrat, it ALWAYS turns out to be manufactured by Russia. Rudy’s Shokin “documents”, the “laptop”, their Biden “bribe” witness Alexander Smirnov, and now this.

Meiselas: You had Lawrence Taylor, a registered sex offender who r*ped a 16-year-old, featured by Trump at the WH as he announced his initiative for kids...He's not hiding that he's ok hanging w sexual predators that target underage girls. How is what I just said not leading every freaking newscast?

Americans Wanted a Cost of Living Warrior. Trump Is the Opposite Americans are increasingly concerned with cost of living issues. They voted for Donald Trump to help, but he's done the opposite.

Despite the circus-like news cycles coming out of the White House, Trump's role in creating this economic catastrophe is not lost on the public.

A whopping 60% say that Trump has made their cost of living worse, and many worry that he will make it harder for them to pay their bills.

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YouTube video by MSNBC Hayes: Gaza is starving. These are real people.

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Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

we're gone from "we're not cutting Medicaid" to "if you lose Medicaid you deserve it"

FORD’S PROFIT WIPED OUT BY TARIFFS

Ford reports a net loss of $29 million last quarter, compared with $1.8 billion in net income a year ago, after being hit by more than $800 million from Trump’s tariffs.

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Powell on tariffs: "It's starting to show in consumer prices. We know from surveys that companies feel they have every intention of putting this through to the consumer, but the truth is they may not be able to do so in many cases."

Heartbroken for Julia, Wesley, and the two officers taken too soon. Heroes, parents, neighbors—gone because a man with a documented mental illness still got a gun. We had an assault weapons ban. It worked. We can save lives. Doing nothing is a choice.

E.P.A. Moves to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change

It’s hard to overstate the scale of irresponsibility involved in cutting limits on greenhouse gas emissions. This is criminal—and we’ll all pay for their rejection of reality.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

Trump has been creating these trade wars that have resulted in Americans paying more. Tariffs are taxes on Americans — consumers pay, not foreign companies.

If they really helped, why are Trump and Josh Hawley now pushing rebate checks? Because voters feel the rising cost of living due to tariffs.

All of these "this is not what I voted for" podcast bros should quit podcasting. If you're too stupid to see thru Trump's obvious lies, then you should be willing to admit that nobody should be listening to you talk about anything at all.

I don't think most Americans realize how hard tariffs are about to hit them. The combination of 1) escalating tariffs, 2) companies slowly passing the cost to consumers, and 3) the repeal of the de minimis exemption in the Big Beautiful Bill, a lot stuff will be more expensive in 2027.

Meiselas: Donald Trump is being protested all across Scotland... You saw a protest in Edinburgh. There are protests in communities across Scotland...Let me show you this, where the speaker says, “As for Mr. Trump, we could smell your stink the moment that you landed”...

Top Scottish Protest Signs of Trump As I carry on my tradition of featuring the best protest signs against Trump, this time we go international as the Scots turned out to protest his visit to their country as he plays golf on the US tax...

The Scots did not hold back

Alan Dershowitz, who was very close with Epstein and served as an attorney for both Epstein and Trump, called for Ghislaine Maxwell to be given immunity just a few days ago.

Days later, the DOJ granted her limited immunity.

So cool to see Michael Ian Black in Superman! That Peacemaker scene had a huge laugh in the theater