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 fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...

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 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. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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

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.

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.

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 1/

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

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

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

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.

Understatement of the year.

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

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.

"If you look at page 1 of the tariff handbook, it says: Don't tariff inputs. It's the simplest way to make it harder—more expensive—for Americans to do business. Any factory around the world can get the steel, copper, and aluminum it needs without paying a 50% upcharge, except an American factory."

The House gives final approval to President Donald Trump's $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid. Passed by a vote of 216-213, the bill now goes to Trump for his signature.

More on the war on higher education. #econsky #academicsky

Holy shit -- Kevin Hassett completely bombs on ABC when pressed by Jon Karl to explain how Trump can possibly justify 50% tariffs on Brazil even though the country has a trade *deficit* with the US

Kash Patel, Dec 2023: "What the hell are the House Republicans doing? They have the majority. You can’t get the list?...Put on your big boy pants, and let us know who the pedophiles are." The "black book" is "under direct control of the director of the FBI...Release it all." Kash Patel today:

"In short, deportations are a stagflationary impulse to the economy, resulting in lower employment growth and higher wage inflation." #econsky www.apolloacademy.com/the-economic...

We reelected the bleach injection guy. We will have terrible disaster response as long as he is in office.

The tariffs are back baby!! #Econsky As Trump's mood swings one way, the tariffs resurface but won't take effect until August 1st. Rational for these seem to be based upon worries that these countries will be used to launder Chinese goods. Who knows how long this will last this time 🤡

Yes, mercilessly mock this. It's freaking LA in 2025. Go buy a taco. This isn’t the hinterland of Afghanistan. It should be viewed as absurd because it is. All of these guys should be thinking, "WTF am I doing here? Can we get some boba?"

We need to make more resources available to bring people out of this cult.

I couldn't think of a better way to spend the 4th, especially after the big, ugly pile of trash passed on the 3rd, and Young Kim voted for it

Cheery news #econsky

The Federal Reserve is forecasting aggressive stagflation for the remainder of 2025. Stagflation defined: An economic situation characterized by slow economic growth, high unemployment, and rising inflation. newrepublic.com/post/196983/...

Regarding the flooding: GOP doesn’t want to fund the programs that predict these things, but they still want to blame the federal government for not predicting this. DOGE has consequences

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

"One major concern stems from reduced Medicaid support to hospitals, which, according to the American Hospital Association, will increase uncompensated care and strain already-stretched systems." --https://share.google/zKc2GXOApR2ed03B9

If you need one more reason to support Rebecca Cooke to oust Derrick Van Orden ( #WI03), this is it.

The horrors persist, but so do we. It's been a hell of a week. We might be down, but we are not out. Now is the time to protect our neighbors and work as hard as possible to vote every Republican out of the House.

But “we’re broke”, right? We can’t afford health care, housing, education, etc right? A budget is a moral document. 🇺🇸

Anyone in South OC, please call.

It was only 5 months ago that Trump said he would only go after the worst of the worst. Now they are disappearing people including U.S. citizens. Next they want to create a national database of citizens. Will states send back individual voting data? If anyone thinks they are safe, they are wrong.

Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”

yeah man, institutionalized racism is when you try to recruit poor kids and black kids to get an education. great work. you are definitely not a dipshit who gets on the internet to say nonsense to make up for the fact that you have nothing but your own resentments to get you through the day

no amount of free money is going to get people to have children in a stagnant society of rampant corruption and dwindling opportunity

Near the end of the Biden years, Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to rein in nationwide injunctions in a low-stakes case where a Republican judge/Fifth Circuit blocked an act of Congress from applying to anyone anywhere. They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.

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