Trump in the last few hours:
Threatened Iran again
Threatened tariffs on Canada again
"Decertified" Bombardier jets
Threatened to tariff oil trade with Cuba
Sued the IRS and Treasury for $10 billion
Reached deal to avert shutdown
Said his Fed pick comes tomorrow

Taking flak? Release a lot of chaff

Families of two men killed in Trump’s military boat strikes sue US government - The Guardian

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

So. No particular order…

Tell me again we’re still the dependable nation. He’s proving Carney’s point from that speech in Davos

Convenient the markets are closed, no?

The President of the United States is a chaos agent.

Republicans in Congress endorse this with their silence.

Trump Mobile launched a golden “Made in America” phone and accepted $100 deposits from customers.

Now, the phone may no longer be "Made in America" and is nowhere to be found.

Is Trump Mobile scamming people? I’m calling for an investigation.

Retiring Walmart CEO Doug McMillon made $27.5M last year, over 930 times the median Walmart worker's salary of just $29,469.

Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by.

It's past time Walmart paid them a living wage.

China Purchased No U.S. Soybeans For An Unprecedented Fifth Straight Month U.S. soybean famers look for markets other than China as the trade war with the United States continues: countries like Mexico, Egypt, Germany and Pakistan.

www.forbes.com/sites/kenrob...

This should concentrate some minds.

Will it?

I ask this every now and then and I’ve yet to get a good answer.

How long does it take for people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history?

Supreme Court conservatives poised to back Trump in FTC firing case

By arguing that the conditions have changed and so the the law should be viewed differently, don’t the justices undermine their ‘original intent’ philosophy?

Do we really need more stuff? A proposal for a recycled economy

My shelves are overflowing with books. My closet can't fit any more clothes, most of which I haven't worn in years. My attic is filled to the brim.

All of the Black Friday shopping deals remind me that I'm drowning in stuff. Are you?

This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.

This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.

Poverty is a policy decision.

Concentrated wealth is a policy decision.

Inequality is a policy decision.

Remember this.

A serous problem. Amen.

Coffee prices are up 21%.

Ground beef prices up 13%.

Big reason why?

Trump’s chaotic tariffs on Brazil.

I voted to repeal these tariffs along with every Democrat and a few Republicans, and it PASSED the Senate.

All eyes now on House Republicans who are still on vacation.

I’m not a lawyer, but NDAs for government officials?

Trump pulls gun and points at China.

China pulls gun and points at Trump.

Trump and China eye each other, then put guns down.

Headline: "Trump makes trade deal with China"

Opinion | Trump's push to eliminate DEI at colleges denies conservatives an opportunity | Opinion - USA TODAY

Worth a read, worth sharing.

Opinion | Don’t Just Defend the Fed. Reinvent It.

Don’t Just Defend the Fed. Reinvent It. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

He says this very well. We shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, neither should we mythologize Mr. Kirk.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Larry Ellison is worth roughly $400 billion.

Elon Musk is worth roughly $385 billion.

Meanwhile, the minimum wage is still $7.25/hour, 86% of Americans stress over grocery prices, and most are living paycheck to paycheck.

Opinion | Being Creative With A.I., for Better or Worse

This is a fascinating stab at describing the ineffable…

Being Creative With A.I., for Better or Worse www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

Five under the radar things Trump snuck into his "Big Beautiful Bill":
- Delivers tax breaks to Big Oil
- Defunds Planned Parenthood
- Raises drug prices for seniors (Big Pharma giveaway)
- Hikes monthly student loan payments
- Makes ICE the biggest federal law enforcement agency

Quite right. The White House was pulling the strings all along and lied about it.

Hard to believe I'm siding with the guy who spent $300 million to get Trump elected, but he's not wrong:

Republicans’ plan to run up the national debt to hand out giant tax breaks to billionaires will be an economic disaster.

If the GOP bill passes, a lot of folks who have grandma in a nursing home will need to take her back home. Do voters across the rural states this will impact the most understand that?

Troy A. Myers a long predicted phenomenon. it will be interesting to see what happens the rest of this year.

www.facebook.com/1496601006/p...

Is the national guard still active in Los Angeles? If so, why?

The Worst Bill in History Trump’s giant budget-busting, Medicaid-shattering, shafting-the-poor-and-working-class, making-the-rich-even richer bill

Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all. It comes at a time of near-record inequalities of income and wealth.

This budget bill is a nightmare.

First up: magic math.

Republicans are rewriting the rules so that tax breaks for billionaires officially cost zero dollars.

They’re LYING to Americans to try and make their giant billionaire tax breaks make sense. I’m a NO.