Welp... I asked Claude a pretty bland question about the USPS rule and got an answer sourcing the Gateway Pundit. Bummer.
Will Ragland
@citizenwillis.bsky.social
VP for Research, CAP Action. (~);}
If voters do not viscerally grasp the breadth and severity of the problems Trump has caused, they may not understand the urgency and scale of what it will take to fix them. presswatchers.org/2026/08/norm...
Normalizing Trump doesn't just fail readers — it jeopardizes our future | Press Watch
If voters aren’t sufficiently alarmed, they may not recognize the need for emergency action once he is gone. I have some suggestions.
presswatchers.org
Do we have a good justification as to why Playbook this AM similar to others dedicated a huge chunk to their lead story re AES Piker and the Trump pardoned J6 influencer, Jake Lang, who’s organizing hate rallies across the country and was arrested this week didn’t get a mention?
"Mr. Trump’s budget for the next fiscal year proposes a nearly $5 billion cut to the Agriculture Department, essentially eliminating programs for beginning farmers, conservation and rural aid." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u...
A reader donated $13,000 to Payday Report - we've now fundraised to replace 2/3 of a grant we lost due to Trump cuts. Donate to help us replace the rest & keep labor reporting alive! paydayreport.com/reader-donat...
ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound. theintercept.com/2026/08/16/r...
ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.
With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody.
theintercept.com
There should be an emergency meeting among Dem leadership tonight and the entire Dem delegation should be on the Capitol steps tomorrow morning denouncing this and describing steps they’ll take in light of this latest dangerous insanity.
Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2w agoBreaking: Trump announces the US will now be siding with North Korea and Kim Jong Un instead of the democratic South Korea. “Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea...”
We warned that Trump’s cuts to SNAP would equal cuts to school cafeterias. @pbshoemaker.bsky.social warns us how Miami-Dade won't be the last district forced to eliminate free meals.
Miami-Dade eliminated free school meals. They won’t be the last.
A senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress breaks down how and why the nation’s third-largest district lost access to district-wide free meals.
tinyurl.com
“A year after OBBBA, four Trump policies have raised costs on American families by $2,072 to $3,569, and a Republican-led Congress gave him the votes to do it.” www.americanprogressaction.org/article/how-...
How Trump and His Congressional Allies Drove Up Gas Prices and Cost Families At Least $2,000
A year after OBBBA, four Trump policies have raised costs on American families by $2,072 to $3,569, and a Republican-led Congress gave him the votes to do it.
americanprogressaction.org
The strain on family budgets is real — gas, utilities, groceries, healthcare. A new analysis shows those costs add up to more than $2,000 per household this year alone. www.americanprogressaction.org/article/how-...
How Trump and His Congressional Allies Drove Up Gas Prices and Cost Families At Least $2,000
A year after OBBBA, four Trump policies have raised costs on American families by $2,072 to $3,569, and a Republican-led Congress gave him the votes to do it.
americanprogressaction.org
Republicans raised your costs. Democrats are fighting to lower them. www.americanprogressaction.org/article/how-...
How Trump and His Congressional Allies Drove Up Gas Prices and Cost Families At Least $2,000
A year after OBBBA, four Trump policies have raised costs on American families by $2,072 to $3,569, and a Republican-led Congress gave him the votes to do it.
americanprogressaction.org
“A recent CNN poll found 77% of Americans believe Trump’s policies have increased the cost of living in their communities… Costs have piled up every month during Trump's second term…” www.americanprogressaction.org/article/how-...
Wait… so Mark Walter and the Guggenheim group unload the Lakers to a Trump family member - Josh Kushner last seen two weeks ago failing to stripmine FIFA. - and Walter & Guggenheim are under a mammoth DOJ and SEC investigation? Watch that “investigation” disappear. This country is being looted.
SCOOP: A group of election deniers claim they met with CISA & said they've pitched the Trump administration on a midterm “election-security plan." The group includes Tina Peters; Clay Parikh, who's served as a “special government employee” for the Trump administration; & two podcast hosts.
Tina Peters and other election deniers claim they've pitched the Trump administration on a midterm “election-security plan”
mediamatters.org
"He said he wouldn't do it, then he did. Rep. Rob Bresnahan voted to gut life-saving healthcare from Americans who need it most. We went to Pennsylvania to learn the impacts of Bresnahan's vote. Watch Grace's story. Link in bio.
You know inequality must be bad when even Mitt Romney thinks there’s too much money concentrated in the hands of a few Out here sounding like @aoc.bsky.social & Bernie! (So hundreds of billions is fine but Mitt draws the line at a trillion apparently)
77% of Americans blame their cost increases on Trump policies. Gas (Iran War), Utilities (OBBBA), and tariffs alone have cost the avg household over $2K since Trump took office to date. For those on ACA Marketplace plans it’s $3,500. Congress could have stopped all of them.
“The Trump clan is cashing in on the Presidency in big and sketchy ways.” -WSJ Ed Board www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
Opinion | The Trump Family and ‘Honest Graft’
They are profiting off the Presidency in ways that demean the office.
wsj.com
77% of Americans blame their cost increases on Trump policies. Gas (Iran War), Utilities (OBBBA), and tariffs alone have cost the avg household over $2K since Trump took office to date. For those on ACA Marketplace plans it’s $3,500. Congress could have stopped all of them.
The same company that managed logistics for Trump's January 6 rally is now overseeing his Great American State Fair after being awarded $68 million in taxpayer funds.
Trump: "Almost anything my kids do -- if they buy a truck -- they have inside information"
Me on Trump's financial disclosure showing he raked in $2.2 billion. Is he selling the presidency? Yes, a new Congress willing to investigate should because this is a pocketbook issue for working families & is policymaking by and for the highest bidder.
Over four months the US government subjected the one major AI company that refused the Pentagon's demand for unlimited use — no surveillance of Americans, no autonomous weapons — to an extraordinary punishment; meanwhile, SpaceX..... surveilorbebanned.netlify.app
Switched Off Without a Standard — A Standing Record
surveilorbebanned.netlify.app
AFAIK, this is the first on-the-record statement from a state (Alabama!) that the SNAP cost-shift could end the program. “Absent any federal guidance, there’s only 3 current options available to us...And that is either pay the cost share if we’re over 6%, get the rate under 6%, or end the program.”
Well, headline (though not core) inflation is now higher than it was at any point in the 18 months before the last election.
Corruption is a pocketbook issue. Musk spent ~$290M to elect Trump. Friday SpaceX goes public at $1.75T with little SEC scrutiny. Stock indices rewrote their own rules to fast-track it in—so your 401(k) will be forced to buy it whether you want to or not.
1/ What if you put all the ways that Jared Kushner is selling out America while lining his pockets into one place? In our new cover story, @cjcmichel.bsky.social did just that www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
While the threat of a chemical tank blast in CA has eased, 16K residents still can’t go home. ~180 million Americans live near a facility capable of causing a catastrophic chemical disaster. Instead of strengthening safeguards, the Trump admin has proposed to weaken them: apnews.com/article/cali...
Thousands still evacuated near Southern California chemical tank despite eased explosion fears
Thousands of people who live near a damaged hazardous chemical tank in Southern California still can't return home, even as officials say the risk of a catastrophic explosion had largely passed.
apnews.com