A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

21 Feb 1638: Gerrard Winstanley, future Digger, admitted Freeman of the Merchant Taylor's Company #otd (eebo)

Farmer, 86, Rejects $15 Million Offer to Sell His Land to Data Center Developers: ‘Not Interested in Destroying My Farms’ Pennsylvania farmer Mervin Raudabaugh sold development rights to a land trust for $1.9 million instead.

As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story. And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law. It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real. people.com/jeffrey-epst...

RULING FINDS PRESIDENT EXCEEDED HIS POWERS BY IMPOSING DUTIES WITHOUT CLEAR AUTHORIZATION FROM CONGRESS ...

They will face accountability one day.👇

When a Supreme Court justice has to remind the country that laws are supposed to be written by Congress, not decreed by strongmen, it tells you how far democratic norms have eroded. This is where institutional rot starts to smell unmistakable.

👉 Epstein’s predecessor at L Brands, lawyer Arthur Shapiro 43, gunned down execution-style in 1985. One day before testifying to federal grand jury in IRS probe into illegal tax shelters 👉 After Shapiro’s death, Epstein took over managing Wexner’s finances www.thedailybeast.com/who-murdered...

Things that mob lawyers say for the bonus round, Alex.

I’m personally very excited for Alberta’s vanity referendum on whether or not the federal government should do a bunch of things just because one really whiny province wants them to

On this one I am totally with Kristi. The agents need to go to the Zegna boutique in Rapid City. Perhaps she and Corey can fly them there for a shopping spree in their luxuriously-appointed, DHS-rented Boeing 737 MAX 8

Katyal: "I was able to go to court - the son of immigrants-- & say on behalf of small businesses, 'Hey, this president is acting illegally.' I was able to present my case, have them ask really hard questions, & at the end of it they voted & we won. That is something extraordinary about this country"

AND HERE 🤔

Americans overwhelmingly oppose the U.S. entering into war with Iran. The U.S. government should work to deescalate the crisis, prevent a full blown war, and not escalate tensions that put our national security at risk. sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...

If Trump were innocent in any capacity he’d be suing the life out every single person for defamation and libel. He does LOVE a lawsuit he knows he can win. BUT that’s not what he’s doing, now is it. He’s deflecting, distracting, and delaying at every opportunity.

If Trump is innocent, why are he and the GOP still doing everything they can to prevent his investigation?

But racial profiling?? TOTALLY legal. Women dying from miscarriages?? LEGAL. A felon being Commander n Chief?? LEGAL. Gerrymandering?? LEGAL. Corporations are people?? GTFOH. They love to throw us a bone once in a while to keep us participating in the performance of politics.

Chris Murphy on Trump’s State of the Union address: “These aren’t normal times and showing up for this speech puts a veneer of legitimacy on the corruption and lawlessness that has defined his second term”

a government for, by and of degenerates

Kamlager-Dove: “Trump’s Temper Tariffs are coming to an end — we said this sh*t was not legal, & today SCOTUS confirmed it — the president does not have unilateral authority to impose tariffs on whatever he pleases. The Constitution makes clear that the power to impose tariffs lies with Congress”

newsone.com/6850568/body... Black man found hanging in Marietta ga. a couple of days ago. No news coverage again. Likely not a suicide as they are again trying to say. Statistically speaking Black people don’t hang ourselves from trees. Any guess of who would do this?!

No one said that life was fair But does it have to be this evil? Diabolical illogical It'll leave you feeling feeble It ain't five-dimensional chess It's dementia doin' its best A-ring-a-ding-ding Ya got the mad king And he's mean when he's depressed

One of the most important parts about having a fake social media account is to switch to your fake social media account before you post your fake social media post

DJT is ready to put an expensive war with Iran on the radar while cutting benefits for the American people. He has filed bankruptcy 4 times, and now he's adding our country's economy to the ash heap. We want a divorce from this miscreant. American soldiers will die, Congress must act.

Neal Katyal: "In America, the chief justice said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people, and that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes."

Do not let Brett Kavanaugh's increasingly reactionary politics distract you from the simpler fact that Brett Kavanaugh is a dullard and a shitty writer whose colleagues all (albeit for different reasons) very obviously have nothing but contempt for him

This Trump tariffs presser is just incoherent babbling that journalists pretend is newsworthy and how a human speaks Everything he presents as fact is untrue, any fact he presents he seems to almost immediately contradict, and generally there are very few facts at all as it is mostly empty rhetoric

I wonder what would happen to the economy if you drained the ill-gotten gains hoarded in the Epstein Class and simply flooded the zone with resources? What about all those empty warehouses they are trying to purchase for concentration camps? How about turning them into community hubs for shelter?

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump's global tariffs, a key part of his economic agenda during his second term. Read more: https://to.pbs.org/4kIlmjo

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

“[People in the plastics industry] are very happy for us to look at ourselves and at each other, and not look at them,” says @bethgardiner.bsky.social, author of "Plastic Inc: Big Oil, Big Money and the Plan to Trash our Future."

The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez.

That reporter talks about all the money that’s been brought in, but she neglected to mention that it’s taken from the American people as an additional tax that is absolutely breaking the middle class.

Just so you know: That drunk fratboy fascist Kavanaugh is the one who joined Thomas and Alito in dissent.

CNN: The Supreme Court rules that President Trump’s emergency tariffs are illegal.

In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

Strongly reminiscent of this infamous diagram of a slaver ship. We are repeating our evils.

The fake news will say I said what I said in the previous sentence.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

It’s pretty clear by now that most of the US executive branch *is* the Epstein List.

Olympic athletes, some of whom are teenagers, are held to a higher level of expected maturity than the most powerful man in the world.

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. If your tariff policy is so unpopular that you have to bully the central bank into not talking about it, maybe it’s time for a new policy.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/kevi...

The SCOTUS just emptied the bullets out of Trump’s economic gun. Meanwhile, other countries have figured out ways to circumvent Trump‘s tariffs leaving us basically fucked.

Hmmm… www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/t...

Actually, it’s looking like FIFA is reporting that ticket sales are greatly down. And hotels surrounding the event are saying that no one‘s booking rooms. They’re gonna get what’s coming to them. And I’m hoping it looks like an orange jumpsuit.