Andy Tuck

While Americans drown in rent hikes and grocery bills, Trump adds hours to his luxury golf escape. As the country burns, he swings clubs at Bedminster, flaunting obscene wealth and a total lack of urgency or empathy.

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Perhaps unpopular opinion — if you’ve been covering business and the economy for 25 years, you don’t have to cite “economists say” to state the truth — that firing the commissioner of the BLS is a bad thing.

* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED

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🚨 One of the biggest forces in the global economy right now isn’t just the Fed.

It’s how Scott Bessent is managing the government’s cash account.

Here’s what it is, how it works, and why it matters

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This week, I’m hosting The Daily Show Tuesday through Thursday.

It’s my first time hosting anything on TV. Ever.

I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people. Now, for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.

Maybe NPR and PBSNews can now finally just report the news without bending over backwards to demonstrate that they’re being totally fair to American fascists. It didn’t work.

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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#HFS

The Biden administration spent $800,000 on high energy biscuits that were to be distributed to children through USAID.

Now, they are set to expire, and the Trump administration is spending $130,000 to burn them instead of distributing them.

Waste, fraud, and abuse

The White House Press Corps?

🚨 The U.S. auctioned off $22B in 30-year bonds today.

It went “smoothly” but look a little closer and some key trends emerge.

Let me explain what happened.

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AG Sulzberger insists that @nytimes.com has no politics. In his Reuters lecture at @ox.ac.uk he stressed the independence of his newspaper. The idea is that they are non-partisan, above the fray. It’s simply not true. That’s the most damning part: pretending your paper no viewpoint. 1/

As President of the United States, I’m not going to let this Communist Lunatic destroy New York. Rest assured, I hold all the levers, and have all the cards. I’ll save New York City, and make it “Hot” and “Great” again, just like I did with the Good Ol’ USA!

welp, I guess the nation's largest city is no longer free to elect a mayor of its choosing

Murkowski votes yes and hopes it doesn’t pass.

Hawley says it’s terrible for his constituents and the middle class … yet votes yes.

It’s pretty simple: words don’t matter. Votes do.

Trump's secret police are terrorizing American streets The altercations are growing more tense — especially in Los Angeles.

New in PN: Trump's secret police are terrorizing American streets

"The scenes of aggressive, masked agents roughing people up are reminiscent of the world’s most authoritarian regimes, where police and the military act with impunity against citizens."

In Trump’s wartime reality show, truth is a casualty Relentless lying has real-life consequences.

Trump regularly lies. He disregards intelligence. So how can anything he says about the Iran attack be trusted? My latest:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

#trumppressconference High on his own supply.

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

Great. Terrific news. Thanks asshole.

Un fucking believable.

Yep. I went right to social media. Why would I want an idiot who speaks into microphones for a living tell me what’s actually going on.

Brutal.

Rest of the world is obviously not taking the President of the US seriously or literally on tariffs or war. They believe him to be a corrupt, confused, easily manipulated, frail old man.

No - he shifted under the pressure of his own staggering weakness: the incapacity to formulate coherent policy, the spectacular ignorance and destructiveness & above all the stupefying egocentrism that drives him to appear in command of events when he is just awash in the chaos he creates.

We aren’t entering or approaching competitive authoritarianism. It’s fully here.

McIver, Baraka, Padilla, Lander.

The use of state power to muzzle and even jail the opposition is officially here. The U.S. is a competitive authoritarian system now.

It’s reversible! But the midterms are crucial.

CBO releases a “dynamic” score of the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, finding that it would add $2.77 trillion to the debt. That’s worse than the static score of $2.4 trillion in new debt. The reason? Economic growth revenue is outweighed by higher interest payments.