Deportations were sold as a wage increase mechanism. Prices rose anyway because the actual price drivers are supply chains, corporate margins, and housing costs. The immigration framing was a misdirection that protected the real extractors from scrutiny.

Hey weren’t all the deportations supposed to do the opposite of this?

Trump’s greatest skill is spending other people’s money to make everything worse

The new Virginia maps may have been struck down but on the bright side all the billionaire pedophiles in the Epstein files are still walking free

What did people think he meant when he said Republicans just had to elect him this one time and then they would fix it so no one had to vote anymore? Like what other explanation was there?

This is particularly maddening because the court allowed the election to go ahead when all the legal facts were exactly the same. The only real new information they have now is what the result was.

Don't look up but the president and all his friends and family are insider trading and using our men and women in uniform as pawns to get richer

A source tells CNN's Brian Stelter that the FCC is preparing to "call in all of the TV station licenses for Disney/ABC for early renewal." That's an apparent pressure tactic as the Trump regime demands Jimmy Kimmel's firing. The fascists want to decide what TV shows you're allowed to watch.

Every American with a brain, every single day: What does that mean?

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

Trump is like Jesus if Jesus loved gold, hated his neighbors, and never died

Joe Biden got more shit for his dogs‘ behavior than Trump is getting for tossing a $100 bill at a grandmother being forced to work in retirement to pay for her husbands’ cancer medication after calling himself Jesus

If I was still a WH correspondent I might have been tempted to ask the DoorDash driver about Trump’s gas prices.

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

There's a lot going on in this clip but can we circle back to the "DoorDash GRANDMA" t-shirt for a second? Trump normalizing retirement-age gig workers tells you everything you need to know about the American economy under Republican leadership

the funny thing about sending jd vance out to do sensitive diplomatic negotiations is he has literally no experience. like, none whatsoever. he doesn't even have related experience in lawmaking or some executive role.

The ballroom is a bonus to sit atop the bunker for the inevitable coup attempt

Seems unwise for the gallows-at-the-Capitol folks to erect an arch

Sorry, which side is supposed to be religious zealots here, someone remind me.

Yup.

This is an absolutely rotten, evil thing to say. “Stone Age” implies targeting civilians—the innocent men, women, and children he is supposedly trying to liberate from a brutal, oppressive regime. That would be a war crime.

Polymarket is allowing users to place bets on the rescue of U.S. pilots shot down over Iran. Disgusting.

Trump is like Jesus if Jesus loved gold, hated his neighbors, and never died

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

jesus christ

trump is not going to let the war crimes in Iran distract from his genocidal attack on trans people at home.

Don’t you hate it when a conspiracy theory turns out to be a totally true but intentionally crazy sounding phenomenon designed to make similar future accusations against powerful people sound silly and conspiratorial and therefore makes it difficult to hold them to account for literally anything

I mean there it is.

Nothing highlights the uselessness of Congress like going on a two-week vacation amid an illegal war and the president manipulating the markets for his own personal gain

At some point there‘s not going to be enough time to have enough Congressional hearings to uncover all the corruption happening in this administration and some of them are just going to get away with it

Ossoff: "The American people need to know that the president is fundraising for his political campaign and his PAC using images of American service members killed in action, and it's a disgrace"

lol remember when he pretended to be progressive

This has been a topic in bar circles for weeks. Two Democrats are calling on the DOJ's internal watchdog to launch a probe into what they say is a "troubling pattern" of favorable outcomes for clients of defense attorney Brad Bondi, the brother of AG Pam Bondi, in cases involving the DOJ.

As you prepare to file your taxes this year, remember where all that money is really going. And vote accordingly.

Democrats should demand a clawback of ICE's remaining OBBB money before agreeing to supplemental Pentagon funding.

What the fuck

In retrospect, renaming it the “Department of War” should have been a sign

Cool cool cool

And this is a huge issue for the whole world because this is TRUMP’S ONLY TACTIC. He can’t solve anything, can’t understand anything, can’t out-negotiate anyone. He has no capacity to end a war. He will just keep making increasingly delusional pronouncements in an attempt to manifest reality.

Another corrupt deal from Trump and Pam Bondi that screws over everyone else. Remember the naive fools who said "at least Trump would be good on antitrust"?

The below quote is from Hegseth's pastor, Brooks Potteiger, speaking at one of Hegseth's prayer gatherings at the Pentagon. This is what they think about Tomahawk missiles that fall:

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

In short, the Trump NEA engaged in exactly the type of partisan ideological grants they accused the previous version of the organization of doing. No DEI! We must maintain merit! By removing competitive processes, and handpicking aligned cronies for public money.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

I wonder which types of vehicles will be most effected by the spike in gas prices

I don’t remember Trump campaigning on Americans needing to make financial sacrifices for foreign wars. bsky.app/profile/atru...

AI is going to take my job and my tax dollars are buying bombs to kill children in the Middle East but at least I got to pay $1 more for a gallon of milk this morning

Fetterman is basically a reactionary now: there is no real effort to explain why Mullin - a buffoon who spent the week insisting we are not at war with Iran - is qualified. Trump nominated Mullin, and that’s good enough for him.