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Why prices won't drop after the Trump tariff ruling, according to economists The Supreme Court struck down President Trump's signature tariffs. But the president has other tariff tools, and consumers shouldn't expect cheaper prices anytime soon, economists say.

NPR tells us what we already know. Price Stickiness is a real thing. The Republican Party has pushed the price up of everything from a pickup truck to an avocado sky-high. Those prices aren't going down ever.

The Golden Age for the rich has arrived.

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33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.

Trump Claimed “I Was There” for Texas Camp Flood. Timeline Says Otherwise. In reality, Trump was partying at the White House while children were missing

It took Trump a week to visit the area, but even then he didn’t visit Camp Mystic. meidasnews.com/news/trump-c...

Picture of the US Capitol. PROJECT 2026 Vote the Republicans out.

We are all Greg Ketter - and we know the assignment!

The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution.

We've had bad people that made good presidents.
We've had good people that made bad presidents.

Now we have the worst person that's made the worst president.

Immigratus incompetus, aka ICE agents, a pack animal defined by its blubber and mask to avoid accountability #DefundICE #ShutICEdown #DV1 #ProudBlue

Why Labor Needs a Declaration of Political Independence | Common Dreams ​No matter how you slice the demographics, aside from Democratic and Republican Party operatives, a new working-class political party independent of the Democrats and Republicans is really popular.

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GOOD FOR AOC ❤️💙❤️
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The New York Rangers expect me, a woman, to come back and watch the rest of the season after I watched the people who run the organization and two of its players laugh at female athletes. I think I’m good on hockey for the rest of the season. It’s been, like, really ruined.

Both DT & Kash wearing gold medals they hadn’t earned is so perfectly on par with MAGATs, the types who also whined about handing out participation trophies, saying it gives kids a false sense of entitlement. 🙄

Meanwhile DT cries until he’s given a fake Peace medal from a soccer organization.

Hey, NYT!
I fixed your headline. Do better next time.

Boycott the State of the Union Trump doesn’t deserve our attention

Boycott the State of the Union
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Rep. Massie:  “I've not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files…Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this DOJ.”

A reminder that fake voter fraud and false claims of election rigging were always the plan. Here’s a direct message from Assange to Don Jr way back in 2016.

"...a Big Secret"

NEW: US courts are foiling efforts by the Trump administration to keep information under wraps about DOGE and the role that Elon Musk played during his whirlwind stint with the White House last year
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Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

Breaking MS NOW:

Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available.

Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

What she says…

Trump's properties remain an epicenter of his conflicts and corruption in second term - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington In his first 365 days back in office, Trump visited his properties 198 times, and visited his golf courses 116 times.

Here’s what we found: On every metric, Trump has only embedded his personal financial interests more with his presidency this time around.

It wasn’t normal during his first term—and it’s even worse now.

Read our full conflicts report here:

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

Question of the Day...

Trump snubbed as U.S. Women’s Hockey Team declines State of the Union invitation Olympic champions opt out of high-profile White House moment, citing scheduling conflicts

The US Women’s Olympic Hockey team declines Trump’s invitation to attend the SOTU speech. meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...

It’s not leadership anymore it’s a circus, and everyone’s fighting for center ring.