Trump spent Labor Day promoting what he called a “Golden Age,” but the claims being pushed don’t hold up. The White House circulated talking points on social media boasting of $8 trillion in new tariff revenue, $4 trillion in deficit reduction,
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Trump spent Labor Day promoting what he called a “Golden Age,” but the claims being pushed don’t hold up. The White House circulated talking points on social media boasting of $8 trillion in new tariff revenue, $4 trillion in deficit reduction,
The National Immigration Law Center sued the Trump administration to stop its plan to deport hundreds of Guatemalan children, citing violations of federal law.
Nate used to be reliable. What happened to him?
In Chicago, thousands protest against threat of ICE, National Guard deployment reut.rs/4newN2y
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵
The Oregon House of Representatives has passed a transportation funding package in a 36-12 vote. The bill now heads to the Senate.
Tens of thousands gather under ‘Workers Over Billionaires’, pushing for livable wages and economic justice.
Today is the first day of public trading for Trump’s crypto scam.
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It was sickening for sure.
The HUD is asking local public housing authorities to provide the federal government with the citizenship information of tenants receiving rental assistance.
Does anyone know why some guard members are wearing badges and others (seemingly) are not?
Tourism down in five out of six months, with experts linking decline to president’s rhetoric and restrictive policies.
A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen was forced to land without GPS navigational aid following a suspected Russian jamming attack
International Labour Organization staff fear job losses as Trump proposes $107 million cut reut.rs/45VJWWX
There are people in public life clearly and accurately stating the danger to America at this bizarre moment. Those people need support from every Conservative and Liberal American who find our Constitution worth preserving.
A DOGE whistleblower revealed that employees uploaded a Social Security database—containing full names, dates of birth, and addresses of hundreds of millions of Americans— to a cloud server without “independent security or oversight," creating “enormous vulnerabilities" to hackers. trib.al/FDTWG43
"It isn’t that many more Americans wouldn’t like to belong to unions if they could —they don’t have the chance. That decline in union membership is no accident." By @paulwaldman.bsky.social in PN: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-labo...
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his first trip to China in seven years to reset relations with India’s powerful neighbor while also seeking to strengthen ties with Russia as President Donald Trump ratchets up tensions with New Delhi
He can't make or keep friends. Sad.
Scared for his own life.
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
Stability is at stake. (via Bloomberg Opinion)
Is he dead, yet?
Russian windows=American roads.
Is he dead, yet?
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
If that person were a woman there would be more of them working together.
Voters prove their identity when they register. Extra ID checks at the polls are redundant & risk silencing seniors, students, low-income & voters of color. The real threat? False claims used to block voter access. #ProtectTheVote #VotingRights Share this post! @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvva.bsky.social
Today is the 12th day that Reginfo.gov — the federal government website for informing the public about what survey data & other information agencies collect — has displayed a notice saying it's "currently undergoing revisions" with no further explanation. The site was temporarily offline on Aug 30.
Post-war plan sees US administering Gaza for at least a decade: Washington Post reut.rs/3VpIyqH
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Exclusive: President Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One plan would establish U.S. control and pay all of Gaza’s more than 2 million population to leave.
In Ghislaine Maxwell’s Justice Department interview, she comes off as pathetic, loathsome, and utterly lacking in remorse. The entire operation was damage control—an attempt to exculpate President Trump from his own involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
Lithuania views Russia as a significant security threat following Moscow's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, geographic proximity to Russia and the country's history as a former Soviet republic. euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/31/l...
colleagues in an email Friday that he was submitting what he called an “involuntary resignation.” He explained that ever since his whistleblower complaint became public, the agency’s actions against him amounted to retaliation that ultimately drove him out of his position.
On why the media is suddenly covering Epstein: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
Most Trump tariffs are not legal, US appeals court rules reut.rs/47qBqSt
Trees can be replaced, but that takes time and effort. Dirtier air, soil erosion, habitat destruction … these are all irreversible in the short run, and cause lasting damage in the long run.
⚡️ 'We are already in conflict with Russia' — Merz says Putin destabilizing Germany. "(Russian President Vladimir) Putin is destabilizing a big part of our country," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told French outlet La Chaine Info.
NEW: Reginfo.gov is offline as of 9 a.m. ET, 10 days after the federal government's website for informing the public about what survey data and other information agencies collect began displaying a notice saying it's "currently undergoing revisions" with no further explanation
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Good.
Creativity, compassion, community engagement are the antidote to the present cruelty and rising authoritarianism. Be proactive rather than reactive. Please follow expert on authoritarianism Dr @sarahkendzior.bsky.social for expert analysis and good advice on moving forward with clarity & compassion.
BOOM. The federal appeals court rules Trump's tariffs illegal, because they are. There's no national emergency, and so the power to tariff a country rests with Congress. Trump admin has lost at every stage of the process, but stay tuned for the Supremes to chime in.
In detailed budget logs it tried to keep from public view, the White House is trying to wrest more control over spending from Congress. (and this was *before* last night's pocket recision) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
In an Aug. 28 letter to the C-TRAN Board Composition Committee, a top Washington State Department of Transportation official wrote the agency “does not agree with the Board’s analysis” that smaller cities in Clark County should get an outsized voice on the transit board.
This rule would have meant I couldn't do my Ph.D. in America. I did do it in America. Became a professor. 12 thriving U.S. labs are now headed by trainees from my research lab. Like me, they are all working hard to enrich American knowledge and society. With this self-harming rule, none of that.
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
President Trump’s forays into private business appear driven by money rather than an overarching plan to bolster American competitiveness, writes WSJ's Greg Ip
Bondi fires Justice Department employee for gesturing at National Guard reut.rs/3JDrwTp
The Transportation Department on Friday said it was terminating or withdrawing $679 million in federal funding for 12 projects around the country intended to support the development of offshore wind power.
Multnomah County is facing allegations that sheriff deputies continued to hold a man in custody for 22 hours after a federal judge ordered his release. The man was later turned over to U.S. Marshals, who transferred him to federal immigration officials.
But the court has allowed the tariffs to remain in place while the Trump administration appeals to the Supreme Court.
Oregonians: I need your help. I'm collecting stories about how Trump and Republicans' efforts to raise the costs of prescription drugs will impact patients, specifically anyone taking the cancer drug Keytruda.
BREAKING: Appeals court rejects Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NBC - An SSA official who alleged in a whistleblower complaint that DOGE had put the personal data of millions of Americans on a vulnerable server is submitting his "involuntary resignation" because of actions the agency has taken against him.
BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., delayed enforcing its decision, which is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Reuters: MOST TRUMP TARIFFS ARE NOT LEGAL, U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES
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President Donald Trump has called for billionaire George Soros and his son to face federal racketeering charges over their support of "violent protests."
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is handing over the wind-down of USAID to President Donald Trump’s budget director as the administration works toward closing the international development agency it criticized as wasteful and politically misguided.
Because lawmakers have 45 days to respond, President Trump's request effectively ensures the foreign aid money will lapse unspent.
When a president decides to disregard the will of the American people, you’re right, that’s the mark of authoritarian rule. The White House has notified Congress that it plans to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding that lawmakers had already approved, doing so without their consent.
Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, has signed a new redistricting bill that will redraw the state’s congressional map to heavily favor Republicans.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Republicans have long claimed to be the party of business. But if you're a business owner, Trump’s contradictory economic policies are making it almost impossible to get the materials you need or deliver products to customers. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/poJ1Rkv
Emil Bove, a senior Trump administration official, was narrowly confirmed last month to serve on a powerful appeals court judgeship. He's not yet been sworn in, and has continued working for the Justice Department.
SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work. When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet. This time, they spoke to me.👇
Today is the 10th day that the homepage of Reginfo.gov — the federal government website for informing the public about what survey data and other information agencies collect — has displayed a notice saying it's "currently undergoing revisions" with no further explanation
www.huffpost.com/entry/kilmar...
US withdraws from key UN human rights report, draws criticism from rights advocates reut.rs/4n42lYu
The calculated silence of America’s business and finance leaders on.ft.com/3JJNpAx
“It has become a political cliché to say something new is like something old, but ‘on steroids.’” When it comes to Trump’s corruption, bribery and self-dealing, it’s true. From @jeffhauser.bsky.social and @timi-iwayemi.bsky.social @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:
Fired workers seek corrected employment records from feds @mhattridge.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/fired-worker...
Cook has filed a lawsuit against Trump for trying to oust her (Powell/Fed are defendants for their ability to carry it out). The basis for cause has not been proven, nor was Cook given due process, it says www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/b... @nytimes.com @bencasselman.bsky.social @tonyromm.bsky.social
Trump administration officials intend to remove protections and open to some development more than 58 million acres of national forests across 40 states, including 2 million acres of national forests in Oregon.
A Republican appointee rebuked the Trump administration's efforts to remove the director of Voice of America.
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
As the country grapples with another mass shooting, gun advocates petitioned the Supreme Court on Thursday to loosen restrictions on weapons that have become synonymous with such tragedies. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/despite-conn...
“Rather than serving the laws, the American people, or the constitution to which they swore allegiance, our nation’s military and federal law enforcement are slowly being cast into the role of political henchmen for the president,” new from @jonsteinman.bsky.social for @starsandstripes.bsky.social
JUST IN: A D.C. Circuit panel has revised its recent impoundment decision to keep alive a challenge to the Trump administration's cancelation of massive sums of foreign aid funding. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Elon Musk has been ordered to stand trial over allegations that he misled voters with a dubious “lottery” scheme orchestrated by his America PAC ahead of the 2024 election. At a rally in Pennsylvania last October, Musk promised a crowd, “We are going to be awarding $1 million randomly to people who.
There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.
Our leaders who spoke truth to power were just escorted off Roybal campus by security. Speak out and you’re gone? Go ahead - we’re not afraid. 🖕
End of US low-value package tariff exemption is permanent, Trump officials say reut.rs/4n6PKUK
Federal officials warned the district to revert its all-gender bathrooms to single-sex facilities or face enforcement action.
Dollar weakens as September Fed cut bets grow reut.rs/4n8jK2p
At a profound level, MAGA's immigration policies are simply a way to transfer taxpayer dollars to private contractors whose job is to terrorize the American people. Fundamentally, leaders are using our own money to destroy our democracy.
Newsweek's tracker shows Trump's net approval rating at -11 points, with 43 percent approving and 54 percent disapproving.
August 27, 2025
DC *is* being run poorly... by *Congress* 🙄 Congress gutted DC's budget so that Trump could say the city was in trouble and invade it. We've seen this Trump regime playbook before: break it, and then say it's broken.
A federal judge has ruled that the new Florida detention center must close within 60 days.
France, Britain and Germany on Thursday triggered a mechanism to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran for failing to comply with commitments over its nuclear programme ➡️ u.afp.com/SAhs
Years of lobbying, campaign contributions and White House ties are positioning some companies to make billions of dollars by flying immigrant detainees out of the US. Here's a look behind the booming business. on.ft.com/4mVHxTL
