Trump's war has wiped out an entire year and a half of wage growth

Consumer prices were up 4.2% last month compared to May 2025.

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. inflation rises to highest level in three years, highlighting affordability challenge as elections nears.

Americans are working more hours per week than they were this time a year ago -- and yet still taking home less money each week in real terms, thanks to inflation www.bls.gov/news.release...

“The greatest threat to a democracy is not necessarily a dramatic rupture. It can be the slow, steady acceptance of behavior that previous generations would have immediately recognized as unacceptable.” zurl.co/tnj0j

Arkansas PBS has raised enough from individual donors + foundations to remain a PBS member station for 3 years — reversing plans to disaffiliate. Donations came from all 75 counties in the state. "It truly was an example of the voice of the people being heard.” arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... #PBS

“these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people” Franklin Roosevelt on D-Day 🗃️

During #WWII, the Allied cryptographic victory was achieved primarily by women. + 17,000+ American & British women codebreakers filled 70%-75% of the total intelligence workforce at key command centers + Their work intercepted shipping routes, anticipated troop movements & broke Axis ciphers #DDay

More than half of the publicly identified donors to Trump's White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion during the past six months, according to a report released by a government watchdog group.

Epstein’s former assistant Sarah Kellen named the two men as being among those who allegedly committed abuse.

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

So Trump blew up Obama's deal with Iran, launched a new war, depleted our arsenal, cost us tens of billions, exposed the US as weaker to the world, and ended up just going back to a version of Obama's deal but worse? Do I have that right?

Every American should be disgusted by this.

Nothing makes someone look guiltier than forcing the Justice Department to promise never to investigate your taxes or prosecute you for anything they might find

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $270B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $210B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

White supremacy has gone by many different names in the United States. Manifest Destiny. The Confederacy. Jim Crow. KKK. Christian nationalism. MAGA. Different names for the same thing: white nationalism, misogyny, and predatory capitalism. All while using Jesus as a mascot.

CEO pay rose 20 times faster than worker pay in 2025, per Oxfam. Overall, global worker pay declined 12% between 2019 and 2025 — while CEO pay rose 54% during the same time. Trickle-down economics was always a sham. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence assessments indicate that the time Iran would ​need to build a nuclear weapon has not changed since last summer .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/middle...

By popular (?) demand, I've updated (and cleaned up) my suffrage and citizenship timeline with recent events and some additional clarifications. Feedback welcome! I will make the file available on my website (christinawolbrecht.com) by COB.

‘The last thing we needed’: US farmers hit by spiralling prices due to Iran war www.ft.com/content/c3b7...

Yes, this IS a disgrace! Republicans are pedophile protectors. 😡

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

Hungarians celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising by voting out the Kremlin

Reagan’s OMB Director:

Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."

Look at all that DEI sending astronauts around the moon.

This is an account close to the Iranian leadership. We are now seeing the shape of why Iran agreed so enthusiastically to this "ceasefire". They will control and toll the Strait for the first time. They keep their nuclear program. They keep their missiles. What a disaster.

Murphy just laid it out: Trump gave Iran control of Strait, agreed to enrichment, suspended sanctions, and let them keep their missile, drone, and nuclear programs After month of bombing, thousands dead, and threats of genocide-Iran got everything they wanted Huge W for Iran

Thousands dead, billions spent, oil prices through the roof, no regime change, the Middle East in angry chaos and now we have Iran making £2m/ship going through the Strait where before no such fee or issue arose. Trump is a dementia- addled imbecile. #r4today

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

World’s most important price for real-world oil barrels soared to $144.42, highest level on record. A key oil-pricing period that helps set the benchmark earlier saw 12 unanswered bids for cargoes.

Turns out these guys really do respect some traditions of Western Civilization! Sure, they hate art, culture, self-reflection, civic responsibility, and democracy, but they're game for some good old Catholic/Protestant conflict.

Moulton: One thing that came out of the president's speech the other night, besides the fact that he's senile and falling asleep, is that there's no plan, there's no plan whatsoever…

Frost: What Blanche said, I think he was fed that by the administration. He's been told to say, hey, listen, we're moving on beyond this…. but we're not going to move on because the law has been broken. The law that was voted on by damn near every member of congress to release the files

gas above $4 for the first time since 2022

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

Good afternoon. This is your daily reminder that Trump just lifted sanctions on Iran to give them $14 BILLION to hep fund their war against us. In other words, your daily reminder that this is probably the dumbest war of all time.

Goldman: “‘The Democrats offered to open up everything but ICE. But Trump said no deals with the Democrats.’ That is a Republican senator [Kennedy]. That is why none of your agencies [are] funded…You ought to call your boss, President Trump, and tell him to take the offer the Democrats made.”

JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida. And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024). That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.

6:49am: sudden spike in oil futures trading. no news. no announcement. nothing public. 7:05am: trump announces a pause on iran strikes. markets move. someone knew. 16 minutes early. $580 million in contracts. the corruption is staggering.

BBC Newsnight brought five Epstein survivors together for the first time. "During the hours-long discussion that followed, there were supportive gestures and, as they studied photos of themselves from the time when they first met Epstein, there were tears," the BBC reported. #EpsteinCoverUp

The SEC's top enforcer just quit after Trump-appointed agency leaders pushed her to go easy on Trump's family and donors, including Elon Musk and crypto mogul Justin Sun. Trump's inner circle is raking it in at your expense — and his cronies are letting them get away with it.

What oil is transiting Hormuz now? Russian and Iranian oil. Headed to China. So it goes, so it goes.

Because the president of the United States is the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. It's just that simple.