A battery plant co-owned by Hyundai is facing a minimum startup delay of two to three months following an immigration raid last week, Hyundai CEO Jose Munoz said.
A battery plant co-owned by Hyundai is facing a minimum startup delay of two to three months following an immigration raid last week, Hyundai CEO Jose Munoz said.
Construction work on the Georgia battery plant that was raided by US immigration authorities is being delayed as the companies involved grapple with worker shortages
Initial jobless claims soared to 263,000 last week, the highest level in nearly four years. When does the “golden age” begin?
NEW: Inflation heats up in August as Trump tariffs ripple across economy
DOUBLE WHAMMY: Trump’s tariff taxes are raising the price of food, gas and housing — and killing American jobs. Does anyone have a Trump, “I did this!” sticker handy?
Despite today’s outrageous ruling, we all have the right to go about our daily lives free from racial profiling by the federal government. We will never stop fighting for our civil liberties and our immigrant communities.
Masked federal agents in DC are arresting and detaining our immigrant loved ones and neighbors, tearing apart our families and communities. This isn't public safety, this is cruelty.
TRO lifted. Appeal for injunction incoming.
What wonderful precedent that’s being set every day with the Supreme Court. Can’t wait to see how future Presidents will further abuse their power.
It really is difficult to destroy the greatest economy in the world in less than a year, but he is always looking to find new ways to do it.
“BUT HUNTER BIDEN”
This isn’t Moscow or Beijing. It’s Chicago. Masked federal agents grabbed U.S. citizens protesting ICE and threw them into an unmarked van. “Who are you? Where are you taking them?” people shouted. “You are kidnapping them!” What has America become?
“You often hear ‘this is how authoritarianism happens’ — NO. This is authoritarianism HAPPENING.” @ezraklein.bsky.social sounds the 🚨alarm. He says Dems can’t vote to keep funding Trump’s broken mob-style government, and must be ready to make the case why. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DOTkpvB...
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
Ronald Reagan explaining why tariffs don’t protect jobs, they destroy them and drag the economy down.
Every word of this.👇
This hot mic Zuckerberg moment show their numbers are all lies, undercutting Trump’s entire economic agenda. In a rational world every media outlet would be leading with it.
🧑🌾 ARKANSAS: “We’re gonna lose 25-30% of farmers in 🇺🇸… I’ve never been as worried… Mr. Trump, I need to see the fruit of your love…” His trade war is killing farmers (again) — “they have no choice but to send them a check” (again) TLDW: Another farmer bailout is coming.
It’s because no one cares about those other places. He’s only concerned about places that matter, according to himself. He’s insulting them, in a way.
Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
WTAF.
I mean, we all saw how badly the Kamala debate went for him. Didn’t change their minds.
The Justice Department's acting deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will "redact every Republican" from an Epstein client list and "leave all the liberal, Democratic people."
👀
Looks fire.
Rand Paul: "It might be ironic if in the end the protectionist flavor of the day - the tariffs we're putting on - brought together our enemies & ultimately led to the collapse of the reserve currency of the world... if you put a 50% tariff on Indian goods, India will become closer to China & Russia"
Corruption so obvious even Fox Business sees it 👀
That’s far more than the total number of goods traded, so you know it’s BS.
We’re at executive order #8000 now?
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Before President Trump deployed troops to LA, Army officials determined that using the military to protect federal agents carrying out his cruel deportation agenda posed an "extremely high" risk to civilians and soldiers alike. Congress must hold the administration accountable.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬
Shuler: This is the choice working Americans have been given: chaos, or the same broken status quo. We wanted cheaper groceries—and we got tanks in our streets. We wanted affordable health care—and instead, 16 million Americans are about to be kicked off their coverage
At least the new DOJ’s malevolence and corruption is mitigated by its incompetence. They can’t even get an indictment on the Subway guy. meidasnews.com/news/d-c-res...
In DC, a heated standoff between police, neighbors shows unease amid Trump's law enforcement surge apnews.com/article/wash... Sad scenes.
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g...
A man who identified himself as a 20-year combat veteran was arrested after setting fire to an American flag in front of the White House – just hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pushing for strict penalties for desecrating the flag. https://cnn.it/3JrC3RP
Imagine if Obama had tried this stuff. (via Bloomberg Opinion)
Inside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Monday, tensions over the potential for federal overreach broke into open court.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.” He was just taken into ICE custody.
Sticking it to him.. #politics #activism
That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s? So, we asked them. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
Kilmar reunited with his children and family the Trump regime has kept him from for half a year
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
Critics warn that Trump's demands for business leaders to step down, and for the government to take a cut of sales, threaten American-style capitalism.
"What I saw of the arrest lasted less than five minutes, but it felt terrifying and surreal. I never heard the agents tell Samuel why he was being detained," CNN's Chelsea Bailey writes. https://cnn.it/4oPRpiU
People voted for this nonsense.
Bill Maher calls it a “slow-moving coup” and predicts Trump will use the army he’s amassing in D.C. to maintain power even if the Democrats win.
It's the same story every day: Prices are going up and Americans are losing their jobs
Kick rocks.
🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.
BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks out after the state legislature passed a redistricting plan in response Texas’ effort to advance its controversial electoral map. "We got here because the president of the United States is struggling," Newsom said.
Prejudice.
China is no longer in the market, prices are already low and now there’s going to be a big harvest.
Fitch Ratings: U.S. consumer spending is slowing sharply, pressured by a weakening labor market and rising inflation from tariffs.
The National Guard are meant to be deployed to respond to real emergencies like natural disasters and public health crises. Advancing President Trump's political agenda is not one of those emergencies — and the former vice chief of the National Guard Bureau agrees.
“South Park” slowing down when it comes to mocking the Trump administration.
The world's largest retailer — like many others — has been absorbing most of the increased costs, but raising prices of some goods. n.pr/477XqRS
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “They say Trump tells it like it is… today he said ‘inflation cooling, right where we want it’ and we got wholesale inflation the highest in 3 years, veggies up 39%, beef up 80%…”
Lawrence O'Donnell does it again. Great call. It's hard not #USDemocracy
Wal-Mart is feeling the pinch as tariffs cause price increases that customers can’t keep up with forcing stores to close in low income areas.
Heartbreaking For the crime of working
Who could’ve possibly guessed that deporting America’s farmworkers, slapping massive tariffs on our closest partners, and gutting food assistance would make groceries more expensive? Shocker.
BREAKING: Donald Trump bought more than $100 million in bonds since January, filings show. The purchases could let the president make money off companies and local entities that could be affected by his agenda.
NEW - make sure to catch the latest episode of South Park, where Towlie goes to Washington DC! South Park season 27 episode 3 drops Wed, Aug 20 at 10PM ET/PT on Comedy Central. It will be streaming on Paramount+ the next day at 6AM ET / 3AM PT.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/p... Another admission that it was never about states’ rights.
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
Any questions?
Sarah Shaw’s detention is among the latest examples of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, which, despite pledges to focus on violent criminals, has also swept up lawful residents like Shaw. cnn.it/4mmBl6R
📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
“He’s been here 25 years cutting the state’s grass, paying his taxes — never even had a ticket… we got a felon in the White House but these are the people they got in there. Without immigrants this country is gonna go down.” 🇺🇸
Consumer prices edged higher in July as Trump’s tariffs began to push up the cost of household goods. With new, heavy-duty taxes on goods from dozens of trading partners now in effect, more companies are expected to pass the extra costs to consumers in the coming months.
Rosie O’Donnell brings it 👇👇👇👇👇
The courts aren’t helpless. The highest court is complicit.
And also rose the debt by nearly 8T his first term, the most of any President in a 4-year term. I’m sure he’ll hold the record after this term.
The exact reason this administration has installed such highly qualified individuals to lead various departments. 😉
All of his people have 8 jobs. What could go wrong?
He means to the US government at our expense. We call that a tax.
💯.
WATCH — Dan Koh on FOX: “If you’re gonna criticize Kamala for selling a book, how about Trump’s crypto, cologne, and Bibles?” “Apparently forcing people back to the office doesn’t count when it comes to Congress voting on releasing the Epstein files.”
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
Absolutely.
The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.
She’ll do a terrible job.
Apply any of these five storylines from the past week to a foreign leader — or even a past U.S. president — and it reads like an authoritarian playbook.
FOX: We do we need to know about these recent aircraft near misses? SEAN DUFFY: Well, what you need to know is the last administration didn't pay attention to some really risky signs in the DC airspace. They didn't care about safety. They cared about DEI.
OLIVER: “It’s understandable why Trump is struggling to get even his own base to take his word for it that there’s nothing to see here - because to do so you’d have to believe everything we’ve learned about Trump over the years is either irrelevant, or sheer coincidence.”
Why is it acceptable for the president to use taxpayer money to fly overseas and cut a ribbon at his own golf course? Don’t normalize this abuse of office. It’s blatant corruption.
“We’re caught up in a broken system.” Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, Nebraska, tried to verify every hire through a federal system. After a workplace immigration raid, the company is wondering how it can keep going.
July 18: If we have a smart president, you're never going to let the dollar slide. If you have a dummy, that could happen. July 25: A weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money. It doesn't sound good, but you make a hell of a lot more money with a weaker dollar than with a strong dollar
WATCH: “The current system is broken. Indiscriminate raids are tearing families apart and punishing hardworking people.” 1 of 3 marine sons of a landscaper viciously beaten by ICE testifies before Congress.
A Tennessee woman was denied prenatal care by her doctor because she is "unwed." Let's be clear: the Republican agenda is not pro-life or pro-family. If it were, pregnant women wouldn't be forced to flee their home states to get basic prenatal care.
Hunter Biden on the Trumps: “Meanwhile, these motherf*ckers… I don’t get why people don’t understand it’s the biggest grift there is.” He says even if you believe their lies about him it doesn’t compare to corruption they’re openly doing. 🎯 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DMYufPh...