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The Sept. U.S. trade deficit in goods was $134.9 billion, the highest ever recorded in Sept. There were only three months in history when the deficit was higher, all under Trump in 2025.
Here are the facts. Measured by the size of our trade deficits, Trump has been the worst president in history on trade. The tariffs have been a complete failure. Not only have they failed to bring manufacturing back to the U.S., but the U.S. is now more dependent than ever on foreign producers. Not only are we importing more than ever, but we are now paying Trump's tariffs on those imports.
Trump says trade deficits represent a loss. Judged by his own standard, Trump is the biggest loser in the history of the presidency. Also, if the economy is booming as Republicans claim, why have our trade deficits gone way up? Why are the trade deficits under Trump so much larger than they were under Biden, when, according to Trump, we had the worst economy in U.S. history?
Here are the facts. When you compare Trump's first two years to Biden's last two, GDP growth and job creation are slower, inflation is higher, and budget and trade deficits are bigger. If Trump is right that under Biden we had the worst economy in history, and the Trump economy is objectively worse on all counts, then the Trump economy is now the worst economy in history.
Genitally examining teens is the repressed desire of the transphobe.
Five states have initiatives on the ballot to outlaw trans athletes in girls’ sports and gender transition treatment for children.
Washington state could require genital exams for girls in school athletics. wapo.st/48nAxsN
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Washington ballot initiative requires a healthcare provider's verification of biological sex for girls' school sports based on reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup or testosterone levels as part of routine physicals; it does not mandate genital exams.
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These people are utterly corrupt.
The Trump administration is set to announce a proposal to weaken a regulation that requires oil and gas companies to limit leaks of methane, a more potent driver of climate change than carbon dioxide, according to people familiar with the matter. wapo.st/4ibQJ6j
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RFK senior came to care deeply about racism. How ashamed he would be of his namesake.
This should be focused on, bigtime, once the election is over.
It's actually the Republican view.
This is such an insane thing to say out loud. No wonder Ashley Moody has been campaigning from the basement.
“When you stand up for representing the BOSSES and putting THEM first…we will thrive.”
Florida, vote @AngieNixon to stand up for working people.
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This book is really damning for Kushner. It claims the UAE paid Kushner $50 million to get Rex Tillerson fired as Secretary of State.
Cheesecake Factory is to Cracker Barrel as the suburbs are to the exurbs. I'm going to call the Cheesecake Factory Boglitz: bourgois glitz (versus Bobo, bourgeois bohemian).
Larry Rothfield @[email protected] retweeted
Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
We're now at the point where we're comparing the brutalism-with-clasped-hands ugliness of the Obama Center with the ugliness of Trump's kitsch Saddam Palace-meets-Cheesecake-Factory travesty of a White House.
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It has not concluded. But, in order to overcome social media platform censorship, there is also a work-around. See announcement tomorrow, 10/26.
The film concludes its theatrical run with a $571,902 box-office performance. mashable.com/entertainment/c…
Even being born in America doesn't make you an American, says a Trump supporter speaking next to the president as the crowd applauds.
Hammer this home to people.
“On Feb. 5, 2025, her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, dismantled the department’s unit pursuing Russian oligarchs’ assets, and narrowed enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. CISA paused its election security work, abandoned the information sharing center that connected it to state and local election officials, and by mid-2025 had lost more than a third of its workforce. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard gutted the Foreign Malign Influence Center, the State Department closed its office for countering foreign disinformation, and National Security Council working groups on Russian sabotage and disinformation stopped meeting.
The next target was the people. In August 2025, Gabbard revoked the security clearances of 37 current and former officials, among them a senior Russia analyst who helped produce the 2017 assessment, citing the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence.” Comey was indicted on Sept. 25, 2025, over his 2020 Senate testimony, five days after Trump publicly demanded his prosecution. A judge dismissed the case, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is currently hearing the department’s appeal. CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred former Director Brennan for prosecution for alleged perjury in his congressional testimony, and Brennan has been subpoenaed to appear at a Florida grand jury examining whether officials who investigated Trump conspired against him.
The purge also reached below the senior level, and analysts who worked on the 2017 assessment also had their clearances stripped. The FBI forced out a veteran counterintelligence agent over his ties to an official in the original Russia investigation, and dozens of FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors were fired or demoted for work investigating Trump or Russia.”
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This Forbes investigation is a must-read.
Donald Trump pulled in roughly $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025, plus more than $200 million from real estate, and faced a projected tax bill north of $500 million. So his company donated the "development rights" to his Jupiter, Florida golf course to a land trust, argued the course was a natural habitat worth protecting, and kept right on running the club. Forbes estimates the write-off could land around $825 million.
He has done this at least five times since 2005. New York's attorney general alleged two of those appraisals were inflated. In Doral, he claimed a deduction of up to $323 million, more than double what he paid for the entire resort.
A month after the Jupiter deal, he sued the IRS. The settlement his own Justice Department signed bars claims against him over matters that "could be pending," language that appears broad enough to cover this year's taxes. A federal judge found the case was brought to manipulate the judicial process. And the man now running the IRS, who took the job as this deal was being assembled, has a home backing onto those same Jupiter fairways.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Nobody should be able to use the presidency to write his own tax bill.
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I don't know if this is true, but it would make a great premise for a movie.
Trevor Milton told investors his electric semi could drive on its own power. It couldn't. So they rolled it down a hill and filmed it like it was driving.
A federal jury convicted him of fraud. Four years in prison.
Then, less than a month before the 2024 election, Milton and his wife wrote more than $1.8 million in checks to Trump's campaign.
In March 2025, Trump pardoned him. Nearly $700 million prosecutors wanted paid back to his victims. Gone.
If you're a working American and you break the law, you face the consequences. If you're a big Trump donor, you get a pardon.
This is far and away the most corrupt White House in American history.
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…



















