Trump gives the country an economics lesson on tariffs. The textbook story comes through loud and clear deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trump-give...

Health care costs are spiking all across the country. The solution? Extend the ACA tax credits. But our Republican colleagues refuse.

* ALTERNATE DATA PROVIDER REVELIO LABS SEES 9,000 US JOBS LOST IN NOVEMBER @reuters.com

J-MART: ".. he’s turned the office into an adult fantasy camp .. brazen corruption, near-daily vulgarity and handing out pardons like lollipops .. ".. the country has never seen such an indulgent head of state." @politico.com www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Important: Alvin Holsey, the commander who oversaw Trump's boat bombings and resigned w/no explanation, had concerns about legality of operation, WSJ reports. Recall that Rep Adam Smith told me he sought Holsey's testimony. Pentagon said No and Rs won't push for it. newrepublic.com/article/2025...

Giant corporations are lobbying Donald Trump for yet another tax handout — this time for research they've ALREADY DONE. Give me a break. The last thing American families need is a tax code rigged even more for billionaires and billionaire corporations.

15 years ago, Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act. We fought to ensure every American could access affordable, high-quality health care. And we’re still fighting. Republicans want to rip health care away from millions. We won’t let them.

Where are Somalis in the Epstein Files? Oh wait there aren't. It was rich men, overwhelmingly white men, who raped girls with Epstein. Allegedly Daddy Trump was Epstein's closest friend for 10 years. So where are the Epstein Files? Hit MAGA back and don't let them demonize Somalis. Enough.

Next year, health insurance will cost an average $27,000 for a family of 4. 154 million Americans with employer insurance face the biggest premium increases in 15 years. What’s the response from Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress? Tax breaks for billionaire corporations.

Host: More than 71,000 job cuts in November, bringing the year to date total to nearly 1.2 million in total. Job cuts in November have risen above 70,000 only twice since 2008

Remarkable how many Rs are now openly warning of 2026 bloodbath: *Ted Cruz calls for sounding "alarm" *Elise Stefanik says Rs are "underperforming" *Leading GOP strategist warns Tuesday results "flashing red" On the pod we dig into Trump denial and GOP angst: newrepublic.com/article/2039...

The pardons Trump is handing out are a huge, growing scandal that not enough people are talking about. This is a money making operation - for for Trump, his family, his crypto pals, and the Trump-affiliated lobbyists and grifters who the pardon seekers pay.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

The Inspector General report found that Hegseth put our troops at risk. He thinks it “exonerates” him and makes him look good. This man’s failure and stupidity puts Americans at risk and he would never have gotten near a job this important in any competent administration.

Fox says that "1.1 million job cuts" in 2025 "could be good news for the president" (This is 54% increase from 2024)

In case you missed it yesterday:

ADP Jobs Report: Private-sector job growth has collapsed under Trump. His first 10 months have been a disaster for the labor market. #EconSky #NumbersDay

ADP Jobs Report: Private-sector job growth has collapsed under Trump. His first 10 months have been a disaster for the labor market. #EconSky #NumbersDay

KNAPP: "ADP Small Business Employment -120,000, -0.24% YoY ".. The sector is in recession. We've been arguing for three years the Fed's unbalanced policy tightening put most of the burden of tightening on small banks and businesses. Tariffs were the nail in the coffin." substack.com/chat/4168/po...

Remember when we were going to "de-lever the public sector and re-lever the private sector".

Weak US private sector employment: -32k via @ADP in November Key insights: 🔻Declines in 4 of last 6 months 🔻3-mo average down -3k 🔻Job losses for small businesses 🔻Prof & business services, info, manufacturing, construction & finance ✅Healthcare & leisure

The Trump Effect:

Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25 President Trump approval Disapprove 60% (+6) Approve 36% (-5) news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

Not sure who needs to hear this but a US President can not pardon someone being charged for war crimes at The Hague.

The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of: -ABC, which bribed the president -CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans -WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor Fools.

This article lays out just how clear the case was against Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran president convicted of trafficking cociane to the US was. He primised ro “shove cocaine up the nose of gringos” Trump promises to pardon him. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

A reminder that there’s a perfectly good bill with *bipartisan* support to resolve the ACA tax credit crisis which could easily be passed THIS WEEK. It won’t get a vote, of course. open.substack.com/pub/charlesg...

Corrupt AF. Kushner manifesting Conflict of Interest, his family wealth at stake & exercising public power without any of the usual checks.

I would like Twitter to have stronger border security.

Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

Trump isn’t just firing more Veterans than any President in history— He’s cancelling contracts with Veteran-owned small businesses that help cancer patients… …and forcing them to consider selling their cars just to pay their employees. Truly despicable.

Quite like this question about the issues people say they're looking at when evaluating Trump's presidency www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-ve...

How can you say that? After all, Lutnick bought another house, in DC, for $25 million. In cash. From Brett Baier. Of Fox. Nothing says "in touch with average American working family" like that! /s washingtonian.com/2024/12/20/b...

Every time I listen to Trump, Bessent or Lutnick talk about economic conditions, it is always completely obvious how utterly disconnected they are from the everyday struggles the average American working family is dealing with right now. They simply can’t relate to normal people.

The harmful policies of Trump and rubber stamp Republicans are crushing the American people. -Grocery prices are up -Car prices are up -Healthcare prices are up And what is Trump focused on? His parties with billionaires, his used jet from Qatar, and his Epstein ballroom.

Thanks for everything, DOGE. 🤡 @birdyword.bsky.social

Every one of these posts makes me giggle at the very serious pundits who say BlueSky is in a bubble

Rubio told senators that the so-called Ukraine peace plan, which reads like a list of Russian demands. was actually given to the Trump team by Moscow, according to a Republican senator. Now Rubio's denying it and insisting it really is a US plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

Ian Miles Cheong: Everyone must go back to the country where they are born. Please don't tell people I'm living in Malaysia, where I was born, but spend my entire life complaining about America. Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*

This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law. There must be consequences.

Only someone this wealthy would so flippantly suggest you uproot your life, sell your house, pull your kids out of school, quit your job, request a transfer — all to save 50 basis points on CPI. 🤡

This is incoherent blather

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Don't. Host. Lying. Liars. On. The. Teevee. Shows. If you've screwed up & done that, immediately end the interview when they performative lie in public on your teevee shows. Congrats again to everyone who told us this guy was a credible Treasury Secretary.

They should definitely keep putting this highly relatable down-to-earth dude worth $600 million in front of cameras to keep explaining to all the dumb poors that the economy is good, actually. He's got the magic touch.

An inconvenient chart for Bessent:

Really important for everyone to dress up while they stand in the customer service line figuring out how to manage their cancelled flight

DOGE was a failure if the goal was saving money. It was a huge success if the goal was giving a bunch of techbro adjacent people unfettered access to govt data in ways that, thus far, are evading the Privacy Act.