“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

When it comes to gasoline prices, Trump lacks the one thing he always claims to have: Agency. He might yet try to reclaim it with export controls @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Trump’s pump price anxiety is rising. He might yet turn on Big Oil @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A Cornered Trump Just Might Turn on Big Oil

While I wouldn’t necessarily rely on Truth Social for facts, it occasionally serves as a barometer of President Donald Trump’s anxieties. On Monday, the needle pointed to pump prices:

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When it comes to gasoline prices, Trump lacks the one thing he always claims to have: Agency. He might yet try to reclaim it with export controls @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Trump’s railing against oil companies for pump prices is futile, but approaching midterms are fueling his anxiety. There’s one nuclear option he might yet deploy @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A Cornered Trump Just Might Turn on Big Oil

While I wouldn’t necessarily rely on Truth Social for facts, it occasionally serves as a barometer of President Donald Trump’s anxieties. On Monday, the needle pointed to pump prices:

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Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"

Trump’s railing against oil companies for pump prices is futile, but approaching midterms are fueling his anxiety. There’s one nuclear option he might yet deploy @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A Cornered Trump Just Might Turn on Big Oil

While I wouldn’t necessarily rely on Truth Social for facts, it occasionally serves as a barometer of President Donald Trump’s anxieties. On Monday, the needle pointed to pump prices:

bloomberg.com

Trump’s pump price anxiety is rising. He might yet turn on Big Oil @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A Cornered Trump Just Might Turn on Big Oil

While I wouldn’t necessarily rely on Truth Social for facts, it occasionally serves as a barometer of President Donald Trump’s anxieties. On Monday, the needle pointed to pump prices:

bloomberg.com

Nymex distillate cracks, at ~$83, are now higher than the crude oil price itself

The UAW worries about robots coming for auto jobs. But robots are only half the story @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Reshoring Invites Robots Into US Car Plants

Shawn Fain, leader of the United Auto Workers, is warning his members that artificial intelligence and robots represent a threat on par with the North American Free Trade Agreement, which pushed jobs ...

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The UAW worries about robots coming for auto jobs. But robots are only half the story @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Reshoring Invites Robots Into US Car Plants

Shawn Fain, leader of the United Auto Workers, is warning his members that artificial intelligence and robots represent a threat on par with the North American Free Trade Agreement, which pushed jobs ...

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Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right

Nearly 20% of US "news analysts, reporters and journalists" are in the New York and DC metro areas, up from a little over 10% a quarter century ago. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Reshoring invites robots to US auto plants @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Reshoring Invites Robots Into US Car Plants

Shawn Fain, leader of the United Auto Workers, is warning his members that artificial intelligence and robots represent a threat on par with the North American Free Trade Agreement, which pushed jobs ...

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“New reporting on govt documents claiming that Miller poured hot water on his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, held a gun to her head and broke their young daughter’s collarbone has brought a wave of new attention to the Ohio lawmaker’s long-running public marital dispute.” www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating

The Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.

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Charges Dropped in Reflecting Pool Case as Prosecutors Say Work Was ‘Botched’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Charges Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool

A former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.

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So @wsj.com reported that #Tesla might sell its China operations to make it easier to merge the company into #SpaceX. CEO Musk denied it angrily, as is his wont. It would definitely help SpaceX. The shareholders, however? Not so much, at least per this @liamdenning.bsky.social piece. [GIFT LINK]

Tesla Without China Would Help Musk, Not Its Investors

Elon Musk has denied a Wall Street Journal report that Tesla Inc. might hive off its business in China to facilitate a merger with Space Exploration Technologies Corp. as “absurdly fake news.” Let’s a...

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Only the states that Trump likes are worthy of cyberattack

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

Musk has denied Tesla might split/sell its China business. There’s signal in the noise anyway @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Tesla Without China Would Help Musk, Not Its Investors

Elon Musk has denied a Wall Street Journal report that Tesla Inc. might hive off its business in China to facilitate a merger with Space Exploration Technologies Corp. as “absurdly fake news.” Let’s a...

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The pedophile “attempted to keep one victim quiet by claiming he would receive $10 million from the Trump administration as restitution for former Jan. 6 defendants and would share the money with the victim in his will, according to the police report.” www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted of sexually abusing children

A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child.

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Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 5d ago

“Andrew Paul Johnson, who was freed from prison as a result of the pardon in 2025, was convicted of five charges, including child molestation, in February 2026, and sentenced to life in prison. The criminal conduct for which he was convicted took place both before and after his pardon.”

Grocery prices, the Iran war, diarrhea lettuce: These are the obvious midterm issues. But there's another one that could change lives, and it's how climate gets represented in this vote: the home insurance crisis Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Home Insurance Is the Stealth Political Issue of 2026

Quick, name a critical issue in this year’s midterm elections using just two words. Many of you probably said “food prices” or “Iran war” or “diarrhea lettuce.” And you might not be wrong. But there’s...

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Skynet waiting for the IPO to drop before annihilating mankind.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

BARTIROMO: It feels like we're moving into a Terminator-type world HASSETT: I hope not and I think not. AI companies definitely have an incentive not to destroy the world. That would destroy their companies too.

European nations to boycott World Cup in protest at Fifa’s plans ft.trib.al/i7nDCBm

European nations to boycott World Cup in protest at Fifa’s plans

Move by Uefa deals major blow to efforts to sell stake in new $20bn commercial venture

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The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

No Technokings A response to Musk’s vision of AI @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A Troubling Glimpse into an AI Musktopia

Elon Musk’s adoption of the title “Technoking” at Tesla Inc. looks less like a joke, in retrospect, and more like a manifesto. His recent interview with The Economist ranged widely, from the future of...

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BOUIE: ".. Musk spends a large part of his free time fomenting violence and spreading .. hateful ideology .. ".. It is that fact, and not the cars he builds or the rockets he launches, that ought to define his place in public life." @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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The stockmarket in a headline: "After Ford Soars 44% on AI Fever, Traders Want Proof It’s Real"

53% of US crude oil imports over the past month came from Canada

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

KILMEADE: So the USMCA, are you looking to update that? TRUMP: I don't care. I don't really want to. I'd rather be independent. Here's the thing -- Mexico and Canada need us. We don't need them.

Even with stonking exports, Chinese automotive manufacturing profits dropped 19.5% year-on-year to 195.35 billion yuan ($27.1 billion) in the first half of 2026 despite overall industry revenue rising 1.8%

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.