With with Bessentās most optimistic projections, that would take about 27 years.
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With with Bessentās most optimistic projections, that would take about 27 years.
The White House account on X boasts of ā$8 trillion in tariff revenue.ā š¤”
āU.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent watches as his food order is served during a Labor Day visit to Metro 29 Diner in Arlington, Virginia.ā @reuters.com
White House releases new photo of Trump golfing today Your move, shitlibs
Source: Jessica Riedl, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
$5 trillion in new business investment, hundreds of thousands of new jobs tied to those investments, and record low gas prices. While the numbers sound impressive, none of them are true.
Trump spent Labor Day promoting what he called a āGolden Age,ā but the claims being pushed donāt hold up. The White House circulated talking points on social media boasting of $8 trillion in new tariff revenue, $4 trillion in deficit reduction,
WH just posted.. this youtu.be/SXGIN7Er9Y0?...
Tuesday, 9/2
This seems importantā¦ šØ Trump is set to make a televised announcement from the Oval Office on September 2, 2025, at 2 PM ET.
Laguna Beach CA protest, Sept. 1st, 2025. Cohosted by @indivisible47.bsky.social & #50501LagunaBeach
3/ juice? What's happening exactly?
2/ forced him out of the race in the final stretch. totally unprecedented in American history. meanwhile you've got Trump showing up in public events with parts of his body looking like morgue photos and talking like he's playing mad libs and yet ... I guess the elite press ran out of reckoning ...
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
Trump announces he will award Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom. If you are corrupt...a criminal...and just an overall dirt bag....your odds of getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump...skyrocket.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodās Handmaidās Tale used to come to power.
Enjoy the short buzz. Vance will come in hot to try to establish quick dominance. Trump is/was a corrupt nincompoop. Vance is a dangerous asshole.
Warren Buffett, philanthropist, has made a monumental pledge of $6 billion to combat world hunger. His record donation underscores his long-standing belief in power of wealth to address global challenges Donation marks significant shift in how wealthy can contribute to solving pressing issues
Of the many reasons this is a bad answer ā the kind of answer I would delight to get in cross-examination because it makes the speaker look shifty and untrustworthy - is that āmaintain or rebuild institutionsā is not particularly less abstract than ādemocracy under threat.ā Itās just less direct.
What is up with Trumpās hair. Where is it?
He is not ok and the decision to not report it as such is a choice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-heal...
Where is his hair?
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
Could be declaring an Emergency and demanding to be king?
I personally chose to believe that he's announcing the identity of the administrator of DOGE #WITAOD bsky.app/profile/anna...
What is Trumpās announcement? Wrong answers only.
The Air Force disgraced themselves for what? an orange blob?
Convenient lack of memory from the MAGATS AGAIN!
Amen!
NEW: Trump will be making an announcement from the Oval tomorrow at 2 PM ET.
The 2PM Oval Office announcement tomorrow is the only thing on his calendar. rollcall.com/factbase/tru...
heās announcing that his name was actually craig this whole time
it would be so funny to announce that youāre dead
thereās gotta be a MAGA lurker on here who wants to leak me something
ICYMI ā āLA wouldnāt be standing todayā This is a real thing @Sec_Noem said on tv, with a straight face
Marsha Blackburn wants the National Guard in Memphis. www.actionnews5.com/2025/09/01/s...
NYT reports TRUMP & MODI had a falling out because Modi wouldnāt back Trumpās lie that he brokered the India-Pakistan ceasefire ā a lie šŗšø media has let him get away with with even as Indiaās media has openly mocked him for it. Video: x.com/thetnholler/...
āLIKE A BROKEN RECORDā Now that the @nytimes is reporting Modi and Trump had a falling out over Trumpās lie that he deserves credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire, we re-submit to you this clip of an Indian anchor calling him out months ago ā even as šŗšø media wouldnāt.
These Are the U.S. Senators Who Voted Against Vaccines Everyone knew who Bob Kennedy was when they confirmed the mad clown's choice to destroy the CDC By Charles Bastille www.ruminato.com/p/these-are-...
Convicted Felon Donald Trump orders federal funds for disaster relief blocked for undocumented immigrants. My latest video on this disgusting lack of humanity & why we canāt let this be our legacy. youtu.be/KV6K42Ldy-I?...
Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
And donāt miss my follow up piece, which contains additional reporting on Giulianiās role. Among other consequences of the 2024 election, one is that weāll probably never learn the truth about the nature & extent of his involvement in the Coffee County breach. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trumpās effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
A triumph
Meiselas: Xi Jinping and Modi and Putin and all these world leaders are gathering in China, and they're laughing. You know when Donald Trump says the world was laughing at us ā the world was not laughing at us before. The world is quite literally laughing at us right now.
Trumpās mysterious disappearance from public raises new questions about Joe Bidenās advanced age
10 years ago, I was diagnosed with Stage IIB, grade III (fast-growing) breast cancer. Chemo, surgery & radiation saved my life. We need science and research funding.
Translation: The man from Moscow Putin and Trump, the alliance of predators Macron's game, Europe's options, China's shadow.
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From Moscow film week to this
SEP 1: Earthquakes, Escalations, and New Iron Curtains ā The World on Edge onest.substack.com/p/sep-1-eart...
Expect health insurance prices to rise next year, brokers and experts say flip.it/hl0iNP THANKS TO STUPID ASS MAGARATS.
Netflix is putting its money where its mouth is: š° $2M to back Newsom in the redistricting fight šŗ A deal for Sesame Street ā new episodes and the full archive free to watch. Thatās how you pick a side.
Again, wake up America! The war on women is right in your face. #Pinks
Wow: 78 year old congressman Jerry Nadler decides not to seek reelection, saying Biden fiasco showed need for "generational change." āWatching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that."
Kudos to Nadler for recognizing itās time to hand power to a new generation. I hope other Dems do the same.
Or dead.
Buhahahhahahahhahaahhahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahh There is no way itās him, he hasāt read Kant.
Reupping, just have to continue asking I guess
every time they curse our names it makes us stronger
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
I love this guy
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldnāt be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
Which outlet will be brave enough to use this photo for their story about Trump awarding Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Is that Melaniaās window?
PANTHEON: ā.. Real consumption rose by 0.3% in July, .. but the trend still looks much weaker than last year. .. Julyās pick-up also appears to have been driven by households bringing forward purchases of imported goods before prices respond fully to the current set of tariffs ..ā
Gonna keep reposting this @timdickinson.bsky.social / me item: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
2. The 2nd half of September āis the worst two-week period of the year with an average return of -1.38% looking back from 1928 ..ā
GOLDMAN DESK: ā.. September is comfortably in first place as the worst month of the year for the S&P 500 with an average return of -1.17% looking back to 1928 ..ā
(AP) ā President Donald Trump said Monday heās awarding former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, announcing the honor two days after his political ally was badly injured in a traffic accident. apnews.com/article/trum...
From my latest: Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trumpās Power.ā open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, heās poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." ā @paulwaldman.bsky.social
To be clear: Trumpās tariffs + Trumpās trillions transfer amount to the biggest tax INCREASE on regular folks everā¦ yet @MarshaBlackburn calls it āthe biggest tax CUT everā ā because for rich people it is, and they are all she cares about. She hopes we donāt understand this.
Literally.
NYT: āWhen Tennesseeās Republican governor @GovBillLee dispatched troops to support Trumpās crackdown on crime, critics wondered why he didnāt keep them within state lines. Memphis has a murder rate twice DCās, Nashvilleās is higher as well.ā www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Trump announces he will severely devalue the Presidential Medal of Freedom
100+ years of CDC Directors support our client Dr. Susan Monarez. Powerful. "None of us would have agreed to the secretaryās demands, and we applaud Dr. Monarez for standing up for the agency and the health of our communities." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
šNate Silver out-Nate Silvering himself by spreading his noxious fumes on a toxic, right-wing site owned by an apartheid-loving racist ...
This is VERY. BAD. Russell Vought at OMB wants to rip away Congress' most important power, the power to set the budget, and put it in the hands of a president-king. This illegal impoundment stuff runs contrary to the most important principle of Anglo-American gov'tā
Sounds like a scientific study to me.
Exactly. Keep the pressure on. Trump will not stick with anyone he thinks may be dragging him further down. That was the beginning of his distancing from Elon. Keep the pressure on. RFK must go.
Chicago this Labor Dayā¦ Thousands fighting for what #WorkersDeserve
ITāS ALL NATIVE LAND!
Hey Congress ā make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
Blocks and blocks of Chicagoans marching against Trumpās fascism.
News agencies should be required to use the most recent candid photo with each of these edicts.
we aren't that lucky
Where's his hair? He looks like he's on death's door. He needs to address the media.
"Solidarity Forever" at the Workers Over Billionaires rally on the steps of Wisconsin's Capitol on this beautiful #LaborDay
WHERE ARE YOU, BOEBERT? MEDIA? āI demand proof of life from Joe Biden today by 5:00pm," the congresswoman wrote. "He needs to get in front of some camera and discuss if he's aware that he dropped out." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
If I had one piece of advice, it would be to just copy and paste his old posts and change some nouns and verbs ad lib style š
Dear Trump staffers: It would really help sell the whole thing if you were a bit less observant of traditional rules of grammar, punctuation, and casing in his social media posts.
the correctly-placed comma inside quotation marks just really ruins the worldbuilding
This exactly. This is what's particularly glaring.