Porter karma is the shizz
Porter karma is the shizz
The laughter in Seoul, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Ottawa, New Delhi, Brasília and Beijing must be .. hearty. 🤡 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
CAP ECON: “We obviously have no particular insight into whether the Supreme Court will uphold .. If it did, “Treasury would .. need to return most of the now-close to $100bn in additional customs duties .. and there is a danger .. other countries would back-track on any preliminary agreements.”
“.. 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...
NEW -- Sure, Russia is slaughtering Ukrainians in their homes nightly, but Ukraine is damaging Russia's oil refineries! See? Both sides! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
"Trump has vowed repeatedly to halve power prices within 12 months of taking office as well as double electricity capacity. Instead, residential electricity prices have climbed about 10% from January until May and are projected to rise another 5.8% next year," www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...
WOLFE: ".. we assume Cook will seek an injunction against this move, and we think she is likely to get one from the DC District Court. This would preserve the status quo until SCOTUS weighs in .. Therefore, we assume Governor Cook remains in her seat — and it seems the market assumes that as well."
".. unless Pulte somehow had particular knowledge about issues with Cook's application, which is unlikely, then one has conclude that Pulte handed Fannie and Freddie a list of political enemies and asked for their loan files for review."
An “unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity. .. If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
Trump administration fires the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency weeks after it drafted a preliminary report that contradicted Trump’s contention that Iran’s nuclear sites had been “obliterated.” @julianbarnes.bsky.social Eric Schmitt www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
Powell: "GDP growth has slowed notably in the first half of this year, to a pace of 1.2%, roughly half the 2.5% pace in 2024. The declining growth has largely reflected a slowdown in consumer spending ... higher tariffs have begun to push up prices in some categories of goods."
So Putin agreed to hold off leaking the Epstein Files if Trump does his bidding and gets him Ukraine?
Donald Trump's tariffs are forcing prices to rise. Here's what we learned today: John Deere announced layoffs. PepsiCo will increase prices by 10%. Sony is raising PS5 prices in the U.S. by $50 across all models. Electric bills are up 10% so far this year.
(Guardian) - Household electricity bills have increased by 10% since Donald Trump re-entered the White House, a new report has found, with its authors highlighting the impact of the president’s datacenter boosterism .. as part of the cause. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Our American feeling great again? Or is it just the fossil fuel companies that are feeling great?
Tax the Churches!!!
Putin probably told Trump he had the Epstein Files and threatened to leak them.
Golden shower girl from Moscow?
Putin probably has the Epstein Files and threatened to leak them.
Union busting is disgusting. The Trump Administration is working to fire tens of thousands at the VA including countless veterans. This will immediately harm vulnerable vets! As a proud union daughter I was taught what unions mean: honor—dignity—solidarity. We MUST stand up for veterans and workers.
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
Corruption cometh!
Ukraine is a secondary topic for both Trump and Putin in Alaska. This is a mafia meeting arranged by war criminal Putin to restore Russia internationally & economically. Trump wants his "peace" glory and Putin used that to get this summit. But it's mainly about money for both of them, as always.
U.S. wholesale inflation surged unexpectedly last month, signaling that President Donald Trump’s sweeping taxes on imports are pushing costs up and that higher prices for consumers may be on the way. https://to.pbs.org/4mjJGYZ
ICYMI, the eye-popper in today's PPI: a 39% rise in wholesale fresh vegetable prices. It's the largest month-on-month increase ever recorded in the summer (data to 1947), and one of the ten largest ever, regardless of season. With the estimable @alexjamesfitz.com www.axios.com/2025/08/14/i...
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. (Published 2021)
"Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals." - Donald Trump, bloodthirsty criminal whose violent gang has overtaken our capital city
American corporations are on pace to spend $1.1 trillion on stock buybacks in 2025, an all-time high. Buybacks don't create more jobs, increase wages, or grow the economy — but they do help juice CEO pay that's often tied to stock performance. Nothing trickles down to workers.
The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.
Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...
Oh man, who's he gonna fire this time? Math? Maybe he'll fire math.
(WSJ) - An index of U.S. employment fell to its lowest point since October last year, as concerns rise about the resilience of the jobs market after large downward revisions to official data. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
AP: “.. About half of all Americans say the cost of groceries is a ‘major’ source of stress in their life right now ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/poll...
“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.” @electrek.co $TSLA electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...
Interest rates will be higher over the next decade because of the GOP’s megabill and drive up borrowing costs even for the federal government, Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper predicted in a new report. The federal deficit will also increase by $4.1 trillion over a decade, according to the report.
JPMORGAN: “.. Even with these various deals either inked or getting closer, we still think we are on track for an average effective tariff rate somewhere in the very high teens. This wouldn’t be much lower than the immediate post-Liberation Day tariffs that were the cause of so much market angst.”
Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.
In the U.S., as nowhere else, health insurance and employment are deeply connected. And that means confusion can snare even elite athletes.
Does the EU know and have they made a statement about the agreement?
Does the EU know and have they made a statement about the agreement?
"America is starting to eat Trump’s tariff TACO salad, UBS says" fortune.com/2025/07/25/t...
They go on with @jaketapper.bsky.social because they know he won't press them when they lie.
EX GREEN BERET: “In my entire career, I never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate & unnecessary force against an unarmed, starving civilian population until I was in Gaza at the hands of IDF & US contractors… without question, war crimes.”
“It appears her team wants a pardon” Ya don’t say. #TrumpEpsteinCoverup
How does the GOP find soooo many scumbags like this?
"Food is unaffordable. There is nothing": In Gaza, a third of the population has not eaten for multiple days in a row, according to the World Food Program. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
This is a Trump admission ...
* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED @reuters.com
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NEW: Want to learn about the Supreme Court justices’ financial connections to companies and people? We've updated our database with 2024 filings that detail travel reimbursements, gifts, book income and more. By @cerealcommas.bsky.social
Moves by the Trump administration to pare back Medicaid, rescind medical debt rules and loosen vaccine requirements threaten to increase medical bills for millions of Americans.
Ethnic Cleansing is a term that comes to mind.
This is what happens when you make a deal with Epstein's best friend ...
So is the GOP now the party of pedos and sex traffickers?
Would've never happened if Trump were President ... Oh wait ...
Trump needs to coordinate these sanctions decisions with ... A. Satin (thank you South Park) B. Putin C. Zelinsky (Choose only 1).
Ask not what AI can do for you. Instead, fear what AI will do to you.
Republicans are dragging us back to the days of coal and lung cancer. Meanwhile, California gets 2/3 of our power from renewable and zero-carbon sources — the largest economy on Earth to achieve this. It's time for America to follow the Golden State's lead into the future.
Linda and her husband make America stupider with every passing day.
Wait ... Didn't this asshat say that the Russian Invasion of Ukraine would be over by the time he took office?
Would've never happened if Trump were President ... Oh wait!
South Park ROASTS 60 Minutes for their cowardice.
Right! Lindsay and his GOP have ushered in the most corrupt U.S. Administration ever. Irony is dead.
He is checking on the status of the more expensive marble facade for the Fed building that members of his Administration requested.
An indebted worker is a more docile and desperate type of worker.
Wait ... What # lie is that from Trump? I've lost track. Should just start keeping track of the times he seems to tell the truth instead?
“.. In another scene, Trump jumps into bed with Satan, who rejects his sexual advances and comments on the size of his penis.” @politico.com $PARA www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Things that happen when you get involved with Jeffrey Epstein's best friend ...
Jerome Powell is probably hoping Trump watches the newest South Park episode on the way over to his Fed visit.
Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)
This sucks. And it's a bad thing. But ... Americans can't hold Ukraine to a higher standard than the current Trump Administration, which is pure corruption.
So wait — Speaker Johnson thinks shutting down Congress to duck 🦆 a vote on the Epstein files will make people talk about it… less? 🤔
As Trump DOJ henchman goes to clean up Ghislaine Maxwell problem, Trump House takes a powder to avoid Epstein problem.
I guess this is Trump's way of admitting he is in the Epstein Files.
Trump must be in the Epstein Files!
One of the Trump family’s crypto ventures has received key behind-the-scenes help from the world’s largest digital-asset exchange, whose founder is a convicted felon now seeking a presidential pardon.
Pardon for a promise?
Trump's recently passed megabill is expected to increase the federal deficit by $3.4 trillion and cause 10 million people to lose health insurance, Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper predicts.
> @politico.com #OBBBA www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
He's on the list ...
And Blues States should stop paying taxes to the Feds until they get the allocated money promised from the Administration.
Talk was cheap. $AMZN $WMT
Hello Mueller, She Wrote, I’m Zach, a high school journalist. I just published an exclusive investigation into how 193 Trump donors funneled $2M through Guam, raising quid pro quo and campaign finance concerns. Would be grateful if you gave it a look or shared it: open.substack.com/pub/zachkahn...
The “anti-ESG movement,” so-called, maps astonishingly well with fossil fuel political money and influence. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Some 78 public radio organizations and 37 TV organizations are at risk of going dark as a result of the cuts Trump pushed through Congress, from major cities to far-flung towns like Unalakleet, Alaska, and Pendleton, Ore. @elenalingshao @BenMullin www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
DNC should sponsor them.
In states without policies to drive renewable energy, power prices could surge as federal tax incentives for clean energy disappear, according to Energy Innovation, a think tank.
Russia relieved by unserious US tariff threat. Moscow stock exchange rose 2.7%. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman believes tariffs President Trump has threatened to impose on countries, including Mexico and Brazil, are here to stay and will cost U.S. consumers.
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Everything SCOTUS is doing makes the most sense if they believe that they can successfully keep a Democrat from ever taking office again