Inflation remains elevated as Trump's tariffs take hold Inflation remained elevated last month as President Trump's tariffs continued to make their way into the prices that consumers pay. The average cost of living in July was up 2.7%.

Inflation remained elevated last month as President Trump's tariffs continued to make their way into the prices that consumers pay. The average cost of living in July was up 2.7%.

BALTIMORE MAYOR BRANDON SCOTT: “D.C.’s violent crime is at a 30 year low…. It’s notable every city Trump called out has a Black mayor - most are seeing HISTORIC LOWS in violent crime… he could learn a lot from instead of throwing things at us.”

“A horrible display of waste… rotting fruits and vegetables… store after store closed… if the ice raids continue be ready for even bigger sticker shock when you go grocery shopping…” 🍎 🥕

Political comic circus style. Oval Office, but with blue and white striped walls, red starry floor with the red bleeding into the stars, yellow curtains, and a yellow desk. The three stooge clowns Elon, Donald, and JD sit center stage, wearing red cone hats inscribed with the acronym maga and backed by destruction and death outside of the windows - left window shows a lawn of graves stretching to the horizon, middle window shows fossil fuel pollution, right window shows a forest going up in raging flames. Between the windows are two flags, all white with stripes made of sideways dollar signs and stars replaced with cartoonish penises (or middle fingers, however the viewer would rather interpret it). On the front of the desk is a logo with a dog with a particular little mustache wearing a green collar and side eyeing the clown that represents Elon, the words "awkward gesture" arching over its head. A row of giant ghoulish special interests, some of which are wearing silly ass royalty attire including crowns that say Putin, the Heritage Foundation, Ziklag, Exxon, and Thiel, and several more unnamed billionaires and corporations leer over the top of the Oval Tent, strings running from their gnarled fingers to the three stooge clowns in the center. By the left side of the page are elephants performing happily or on threat, one of which wonders "constituents or peanuts?", and by the right side are donkeys struggling to read a book that says "For those times a book has a thicker spine than you: Guide to start thinking about how to plan to fight tyranny". On a table above the donkeys sits a smaller book that has "only book you'll ever need" on the cover and "trumple" on the spine. On a camera at the bottom of the page is a screen reflecting a normal, non circus view with a runner at the bottom that says "everything is fine because we said so".

I'm sorry, I thought this was politics, not the vindictive billionaire Howdy Doody show. We might not see the forest grown in our time, but we can help plant and nurture the saplings, just like the many civil and human rights warriors who came before us.

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Fact-checking Trump's claims during his address to Congress Many of President Trump's statements during his address to Congress on Tuesday on a multitude of issues have been called into question. PBS News Hour's White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López joi...

We examined some of the key misleading, exaggerated, or false statements that the president made during his address to Congress earlier this week. to.pbs.org/3QKhXSS

That place looks awesome!

YouTube video by WeRateDogs The Most Decorated Dog in U.S. History

Here are The Top 10 Dogs of the week!

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I bought the 10 pack from the ACLU this week! Going to give it to my friends and family who want one.

How does terrorizing farm workers, school kids and hard working immigrants make America great, especially when you release and pardon violent insurrectionists?

White Nationalism is Nazism.

Just a reminder! Get your library cards and build your personal libraries! 💙

#booksky #resist

If she can do it, we can all do it.

The “male at conception” nonsense on the White House official page is SENDING ME.

There is no such thing as “male at conception”—ALL zygotes start out female. That’s why men have nipples.

We look RIDICULOUS to the rest of the world even more than we did before.

America is a laughing stock.

Trump hanging his supporters in DC out to dry in favor of an exclusive inauguration where only his inner circle and top donors can attend is the perfect metaphor for this administration and today’s GOP.

The fact that so many of the members of Congress who voted to ban TikTok turned around and bought Meta stock is so icky. It’s infuriating. It’s disgusting, and it’s going to radicalize a lot of people. They are killing people’s livelihood and businesses and they are going to reap a whirlwind.