When Reagan took office in 1981, the National Debt was $934 billion. When Reagan left in 1989, it was $2.6 Trillion -- a 270% increase. Reagan spent more than the taxes he raised, boosting the National Debt for eight years, confident it would be handled by other, future Presidents...

🇺🇸💰 The U.S. national debt just hit $38 TRILLION a record high! 📈💸 That’s up $2 trillion since the start of 2025. ⚠️⏰ Fastest jump outside the pandemic era time to talk fiscal responsibility! #USDebt

Even in countries that chose *not* to impose retaliatory tariffs on US spirits, our spirits exports have plummeted. Exports to UK and Japan declined >23% YoY, while exports to the EU were down 12%. Canada did retaliate - and US exports there fell 85%. www.distilledspirits.org/wp-content/u...

🇺🇸💸 The U.S. just sent $20B to Argentina 🇦🇷 while China 🇨🇳 hasn’t bought a single U.S. soybean 🌱 since May. Argentina cut tariffs so China buys from THEM instead of US. Our farmers 🚜 are hurting. How is this a “good deal” for America? 🤔 #AmericaFirst #Farmers #Trade

Las Vegas is slumping. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t... "the city is in the midst of a tourism downturn, with an 11 percent decline in visitor volume since last year"

Why do we have so many men amongst us willing to step forward and handle women or anyone like this, even in spite of 10-15 cameras on him? This is deeply troubling.

Excellent.

W. Kamau Bell to Jemele Hill at #TAF25: “It is so gross what Joe Rogan has done, not only to discourse in this country, but just to comedy ... He has made comedy worse again.” Watch here: http://bit.ly/46a5DUE

Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

A big objective here is to keep people busy confronting and analyzing obvious nonsense and while they steamroll over whatever they want

For Schumer to not step down right now after watching on the sidelines is frankly insane. He should retire, make up a health thing, whatever. Make way for a fighter.

Agree in principle with your overall point. Ruskin, however, voted to honor Charlie Kirk.

And the people I know who hold themselves out to be Christians who have repeatedly voted for him🤦🏾‍♂️

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PRITZKER: “.. The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

“.. ‘We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity,’ the USTA said in the memo.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/660...

COLORADO GOVERNOR’SOFFICE OF STATE PLANNING & BUDGETING: “.. the effective tariff rate in Colorado has increased sevenfold since last year ..” @colorado.gov drive.google.com/file/d/1Y_-7...

Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.

I wouldn't make a big distinction between the situation for Black women and Black men. The labor market situation for both has deteriorated sharply since January. The Black unemployment has risen a full pp to 7.2%, the white rate hasn't budged at 3.7%

motherfuckers

So he can suspend the 2026 election.

This👇

"If an independent redistricting commission is standing in your way, roll it the fuck over it. If the filibuster is standing in your way, if the parliamentarian is standing in your way, if any good government reforms are standing in your way, barrel through those things."

D.C. TODAY…

Yes where are they!👇

At a time when we have a president who wants to halt Black progress, silence Black voices, and erase Black history… I’m thankful for this 🙏🏽

i do not understand suing a dairy because you made the unwise decision to purchase and consume raw milk www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2...

But how? Every New Yorker would give their right hand for a rent stabilized apt. It’s not illegal. It’s the dream.

Public Service Announcement: FOCUS ON 2025 and 2026 not 2028 FFS

Gov. Newsom and his social media team once again reaffirm my strongly held belief in the power and majesty of abject mockery

We have the money for universal healthcare, they just decided to spend it on tanks attacking American cities instead. Remember that the next time they ask anyone left of center “how will you pay for it?”

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of course the president’s BLS nominee is a jan 6er

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And no small business owner has the clout to show up in the Oval Office and give the president a gold statue to catch a break.

Put a useful idiot in charge of economic statistics and we suddenly get a reason to suspend our most valuable and reliable measures, just as the economy is slowing. It's cooking the books by erasing inconvenient numbers. Indefensibly destructive, economically harmful, and markets will hate it.

Sorry, “poorest”. @nytimes.com #OBBBA www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

So ugly. So appalling. So dangerous. (And not a peep from a single Republican. Why? Because they support it. They are the sponsors and enablers of an American police state.)

Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”? You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.

Foreign Producers Are Not Paying the Tariffs Now that we are a few months into the tariff surge, we've got enough data that makes it pretty clear that foreign producers aren't cutting their prices in response to the surge in duties.

“.. At the time I believed I had a higher duty to represent my client zealously and to protect the tabloid’s First Amendment rights — which included the right not to publish a story. Now I wonder whether I was kidding myself.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...

Going to get worse.. Why would any non American come to visit this country??? Florida snowbirds from Canada, good luck.... Tourism is cratering right before our eyes and it employs many middle class workers.

Someone tell the Murdochs that the guy responsible for tourism being down isn't a "young American" but is in fact a 79 year old, senile, Russian puppet pedophile.

47 knows he's been killing entire sectors of the workforce, right? Did he think those jobs don't count in the jobs report?

🎰Vegas workers score tax-free tips 📉Tourism is down, and Canadian visitors have vanished 💸A $25K tip tax break sounds great… unless no one’s tipping. 📉Hotel occupancy dropped 14.6% 🇺🇸Rising costs + tough immigration rules = fewer tourists, tighter wallets. 💬If the economy sneezes, Vegas gets the flu