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HOLY CRAP!

Kash Patel when asked by Senator Klobuchar about an Assault Weapons ban:

"Senator, I think there are instances on this legislation that could prevent future attacks, but I’m not going to weigh in to the creation of legislation."

Now do something about it!

“.. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year due to tariffs and deporting agricultural workers.”

@waiterich.bsky.social
@fortune.com #CPI
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He's changed his name and religion three times. This dude cares about power above all else.

By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trump’s tariffs exceed his statutory authority.

The ruling won’t go into effect until October 14, though—which gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:

So free speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.

The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us? Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what it’s doing to us:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We are frogs in boiling water 👇

The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.

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Remember when conservatives believed federal agents randomly patrolling the streets were a threat to liberty?

Melting Mar-a-Lago face was her biggest concern.

Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska next week, Trump says President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are planning to meet in the United States, multiple sources tell CBS News.

It’s truly depraved for Trump to welcome Vladimir Putin to the US while Putin is actively wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Ukraine.

Trump calls this a peace summit but it’s just an opportunity to hang out with one of his dictator buddies. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

The billionaire CEO of the third richest company on the planet gives the President an actual block of gold so his company is exempted from US Government tariffs. And the whole thing is broadcast live on TV.

Anyone who can't see what is happening to this country is unsalvageable at this point.

Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away

What Trump fails to understand, what he is not capable of understanding, is that a pillar of our economy and government is trust. Weaponing data erodes public trust, leading to less investment and fewer jobs.

To those around him who stay silent are severely damaging their country.

Mark Zandi @Markzandi · 8h The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue. Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked. Mark Zandi @Markzandi · 8h It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy.

Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi says:
- We are headed for a recession
-The BLS data is totally reliable- for now
-The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs
-Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy
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Text from the hubby this morning at the grocery store. The next thing we will hear is that these tariffs are curing Americans of their caffeine addictions.

#econsky

#EconSky

Trump and the GOP have proven themselves to be not only liars but anti-truth. Data is always a threat to despots, so the easiest thing to do is to get rid of the data. @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social's firing should be alarming to all Americans.

#bls #econsky

I would want a real social safety net like Medicare For All and unemployment benefits while job retraining. Tariffs are not a catch-all for keeping manufacturing jobs. Even with tariffs, technology changes an economy. I've been laid off before. It sucks. But hurting consumers won't help anyone.

Nothing is bringing manufacturing jobs from the 1960s back. We don't want low-wage manufacturing like textiles. We are the second largest manufacturer and should be focused on high-end manufacturing like semiconductors, not pandering to populists who think old factories can be brought back.

Just a reminder: none of these "deals" are actually trade deals. These are just frameworks at best, tweets at worst.

All of them leave us worse off because our effective aggregate tariffs prior to the second term were about 2.5%.

Trump is actively trying to make us worse off.

#econsky

‘1984’ is upon us

I am the least shocked I have ever been.

Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.

On July 3, 2025. Young Kim VOTED to cut even MORE from Medicaid ($930 billion) than she did the first time with the big, ugly bill. She is putting 159K people on Medicaid in District 40 at risk because of her disastrous vote.

Understatement of the year.

Everyone needs to be dragged into the light, exposed and punished. No exemptions!

I am a native of CA-40 and excited to hear about this campaign.

Trump Administration Deports 82-Year-Old Pennsylvania Grandfather to Guatemala On June 20, 82-year-old Luis Leon, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, went to a Philadelphia immigration office with his wife to replace his lost green card.

An 82-year-old grandfather and Pinochet refugee, Luis Leon, was detained without warning while replacing a lost green card—then secretly deported to Guatemala, a country he’s not from. This is Trump’s deportation machine—built on the Heritage Foundation’s vision: punish, erase, dehumanize.