If you don't measure it, it still exists.

The "Border Czar" laying out an American foreign policy stance tells you precisely how fucked up the Trump administration is. Every slack-jawed buffoon with access to Trump believes they can speak for all of America. A real president would fire him in a nanosecond. Beyond embarrassing.

Trump: "People don't pay the tariffs. The countries pay them." Also Trump:

🎯🎯🎯 I've been shouting about this for months. Trump has literally ceded America's future to China to make his oil and gas donors richer for the next few years.

Remember when House Republicans held two hearings every day on the weaponization of government? And now crickets. Maybe it was all just theater back then.

NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."

Looks like all Friends of Trump are in line to get very, very rich, and we taxpayers get to foot the bill. Not enough that 8 GOP Senators are going to rip us off for millions each. Now Trump wants all of his friends to line up at the public feed trough and get rich.

This is excellent reporting, the kind no longer delivered by the Washington Post. Great work, WBEZ-Chicago!

Is Trump a Democrat?

It seems Trump's claim that he would have the economy humming on day one might have been--what--a lie?

NIH institute directors have always been non-political. They are science administrators who have always been top-tier scientists themselves. This has been true during Dem and GOP administrations. Smart presidents understand: don't fuck with success. And now we have Donald Trump.

Trump is really going to love it when BLS starts putting out their monthly reports again.

NEWS: White House held Epstein crisis meetings in the building’s most secure facility — the Situation Room. Trump says there’s “nothing to hide.” But I’ll tell you from experience… the only reason you hold SitRoom meetings IS when there’s something to hide. defiance.substack.com/p/must-read-...

WATCH: @raskin.house.gov explains the deal that would allow eight GOP senators lucrative lawsuits over phone record subpoenas: "It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."

House DINOs.

I’m about to entire my Situation Room to watch the coverage of today’s revelations.

Two stories. NYTimes accurately notes that emails were release by Dems and Republicans; Washington Post only mentions Democrats. Bezos and WaPo are doing some heavy lifting for Trump and the GOP.

I don't think legacy media is reading the room correctly on the Epstein Files. Many of us are asking why they have ignored this story for the last decade? Why did they dismiss all of us who were concerned that Trump might be compromised? And where is their fucking contrition and apology now?

I still don't see a path to getting hold of the DOJ/FBI Epstein files. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the process. As I see it: 1. House will vote because the discharge petition means the Rules Committee can't kill it. 2. It passes the House by a few votes, unless some Rs cave. 1/3

🎯 Few people stay in one house for their entire lives. Their needs change, job demands shift, etc. With a 50 yr mortgage homeowners would never build up any equity in their homes. But mortgage lenders would be rolling in $$$$

Did Donald Trump just stupid his way into socialism? @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social

Though it pains me, thanks to Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Nancy Mace, and Thomas Massie...and every Democrat in the House. Now we await further shenanigans from Mike Johnson and Donald Trump.

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

The Self-Immolation of Larry Summers

Definitely the actions of a man with nothing to hide. Panic at the White House.

The United States was a no-show at the global climate meetings in Brazil. California showed up.

In her appearance tonight on Jen Psaki's show, Stephanie Ruhle missed one of the biggest drawbacks of extended mortgages: early mortgage payments are almost purely interest payments. Under the Trump plan we'd pay the first 20+ years and get almost no equity. Bankers get RICH!!!

Fact! Never forget...EVERY single Republican Senator save one voted to jack up the health care costs for all Americans, not just ACA insurance purchasers.

Everyone must pitch in and help Walgreens’ new owners compete the destruction of this business. Boycott.

Bone Spurs Donny says what????????

White House aides are referring to the Dem Senate "Cave Caucus" as "losers" and pussies." Can't disagree. Nice work, @kaine.senate.gov and colleagues.

It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.

Not to mention what happens when people are completely uninsured. We all pick up the costs of uncompensated emergency care for the uninsured in the form of higher medical costs and higher insurance costs. Republicans know this. They just don't care. Demagoguery, pure and simple.

We are a banana republic.

Eight Senate Democrats are playing Tic-Tac-Toe while Republicans are playing checkers. There are no chess players in the US Senate. We have the politicians we deserve, and they are idiots.

The centrist Dems are about to get royally f**ked by the Republicans. Later, we constituents shall do the f••king.

Do these Dem senators realize that by caving now they take full ownership of a pointless but painful shutdown?

Which of these traitors is going to vote for cloture then later vote against the bill, then wave their hands and shout "I voted against it!!!" when the bill passes?

Thank you, Senator Schiff! Now, please, call some of your confused colleagues.

A YES vote from any Dem senator disqualifies them from ANY support of any sort in the future. Vote yes and be prepared to be retired by your voters.

The Crucifixion, courtesy of Joyce Carol Oates.

People don't seem to understand that what Trump and the Republicans have done to the ACA and Medicaid is disrupting the entire health care marketplace. ALL health insurance premiums will rise. Not just ACA rates, but Medicare, private and employer-supported plans...all of them. The GOP broke it.

Translation: "Our utter incompetence, our unwillingness to even enter into negotiations about funding the government, is going to screw over millions of Americans."

Must read (gift article) The "You are all terrorists" line comes from what a prison guard said to the inmates. But one could read it as a damning statement about all of America. We let this happen. Our elected leaders made this possible.

This is so, so, so good! No, it's not about Mamdani. It's about the New York Times and our failed media ecosystem. And it 🎯

Coming soon: Republican Soup Kitchens and Trumpville camps for the out of work.

Make Bankers Richer Yet!

Amazing! Instead of tackling high housing costs, Trump and Republicans want to put "homeowners" in a position where they will never own their home. Instead, people will be paying a mortgage until they die. But banks and mortgage companies will get RICH.

I know many of us have feeling about the role institutions like the Times has played in legitimizing the anti-intellectualism and spurious attacks that put our campuses at risk before Trump, but also, I think I’m glad for whatever motivated this