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| Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ is tarnishing fast Republicans were forced on the defensive this week after a slew of new economic data confirmed what regular Americans already know: President Donald Trump’s economy is a mismanaged disaster.�
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Max Burns | 12/09/2025 | 0 |
| Photo Diary: Crescent Lake, St Pete FL Our winter birdie visitors are arriving. There are flocks of several species which spend the winter here at Crescent Lake Park.
Some photos.
Crescent ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/06/2025 | 6 |
| Exporting Trump's ignorance to allies who aren't buying In late November, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent instructions to US diplomats directing them to sell Trump’s ... |
sabrina haake | 12/06/2025 | 3 |
| Holiday shopping boycott fights Trump with the power of the purse A new campaign against Amazon, Home Depot and Target says diversity is the best value. By Erin Aubry Kaplan for Capital & Main When it comes to struggle, � there are no holidays. But this year ... |
Capital and Main | 12/05/2025 | 44 |
| For-profit college education encourages cheating, hurts academic integrity A 2020 study by the International Center for Academic Integrity found that large minorities of college students are cheating. I’m not surprised: our system of for-profit education gives students, professors, and administrators every incentive to cheat... |
Matthew Adarichev | 12/04/2025 | 7 |
| Cartoon: Con job president A cartoon by Clay Jones.
Related |� Trump claims 'affordability' to be made-up Democratic ... |
Clay Jones | 12/04/2025 | 15 |
| Mad about the economy? Trump toady says you're just in a bad 'mood' National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett was confronted on Fox News, of all places, with polling that shows most Americans have a negative view of the economy and blame it on President ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/04/2025 | 82 |
| In Fox's bizarro world, huge layoffs mean 'good news’ for Trump Following a report that showed a spike in layoff announcements, a Fox Business reporter said it could be “good news” for President Donald Trump.
The consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/04/2025 | 58 |
| Photo Diary: A Walk at Sunken Gardens Sunken Gardens in St Pete FL is one of my favorite places to spend an afternoon. They are always rotating plants in and out, so there is something blooming at every time of year. I come here at ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/04/2025 | 7 |
| Daily Bucket: Birdwing Grasshoppers
The Daily Bucket is a regular series from the Backyard Science group. Here we talk about Mother Nature in all her glory, especially the parts that live nearby. So let us know (as close as you are ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/04/2025 | 37 |
| CARTOON: Affordability doesn’t mean anything It’s the ECONOMY, stupid! TAKE ACTION Write, Email or CALL Capitol Switchboard (202) 224‑3121 to tell your elected officials to stop dropping sh*t on our cities. CLICK HERE to find your officials’ contact information. We must stand up and speak out,... |
Power of One | 12/04/2025 | 5 |
| Trump Policies Place U.S. Economy at Risk Economist Paul Krugman and I are very worried. He titled a recent Substack post, “Getting Ready to Party Like It’s 2008,” the last time there was a global financial meltdown. Putting foxes in charge of the hen house is a recipe for economic disaster.... |
Alan Singer | 12/03/2025 | 5 |
| Vance promises to totally fix economy 'next year' During a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance argued that it was unfair to expect the Trump administration to address issues like affordability in the first 10 months of President Donald ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/03/2025 | 117 |
| Commerce secretary has great excuse for Trump’s gruesome jobs numbers Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick appeared on CNBC on Wednesday, where he tried to massage Americans’ growing concerns over the economy. When asked by host Sara Eisen about the godawful jobs ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/03/2025 | 83 |
| Watch Trump’s treasury secretary get schooled on inflation numbers Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was interviewed by Andrew Sorkin Wednesday at The New York Times DealBook Summit. And when Bessent attempted to spin President Donald Trump’s poor inflation ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/03/2025 | 71 |
| Small businesses suffer brutally under Trump A new report released Wednesday shows that small businesses experienced a six-figure drop in employment in the month of November as millions of Americans struggle with a worsening economy under ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/03/2025 | 78 |
| Device Hoarding, AI, Oligarchs, Affordability, And The End of the American Economy Did you know that your refusal to purchase new devices is destroying the economy?
It’s true, at least according to CNBC, the people who sell devices, and various economists. �The problem, you see, |
angryea | 12/03/2025 | 102 |
| News the felon and GOP don't want us to see! Dec 3, 2025 edition, with poll In the last month, we have seen significant weakening of the felon and his enablers.
A brief summary of some of the evidence of the increased weakness:
The elections in November proved that. And, |
chloris creator | 12/03/2025 | 36 |
| Do stories of the EU/UK Treasury dump plan bring a different crisis into view? The EU/UK plan to dump US Treasuries if the US abandons Ukraine starts to hint a growing global risk — the lack of underlying ability to trust. We are seeing it develop but haven’t tied it to the one big risk — are currencies going to cease to... |
tjlord | 12/03/2025 | 23 |
| Trump claims 'affordability' to be made-up Democratic thing During his televised Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Donald Trump claimed that concerns about the affordability of goods and services are a “fake narrative.” Trump also falsely claimed ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/02/2025 | 167 |
| Hidden History: China's Almost-War With Taiwan and the US Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in a military situation which threatened to go hot. "Hidden History" is a diary series that ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/02/2025 | 14 |
| DEMENTIA J. TRUMP Says Affordability is a Scam. And Also that He is the Affordability President? It's becoming more and more difficult to keep up with the meandering mental mania that emanates from the mind of Donald Trump. Anyone observing his increasingly deranged behavior has to be concerned about the risk of harm that he is capable of to the... |
News Corpse | 12/02/2025 | 15 |
| Trump is cutting drug prices by infinity dollars, apparently President Donald Trump unveiled a new brand of MAGA mathematics during his Cabinet meeting Tuesday. And while he didn’t repeat absurd claims like cutting drug prices by 1,500% , his assessment of ... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/02/2025 | 91 |
| TN 7th Congressional District: GOP Meltdown in the Special Election? (Updated with Results Links) UPDATE #1, 7:15 pm EST — For Analysis and Live Results Analysis — Voting Trend, begins LIVE at 7:15 pm EST — MS Now, Steve Kornacki — begins LIVE at 7:45 pm EST Live Results (Polls close in TN at 7:00 pm CST, or 8:00 pm EST) — Tennessee Secretary of... |
JekyllnHyde | 12/02/2025 | 161 |
| Trump tariffs gut manufacturing as jobs shrink for 9 months straight The Institute for Supply Management released the results on Monday of its most recent survey of the manufacturing industry, revealing a loss of jobs for the ninth month in a row.
The trend under ... |
Oliver Willis | 12/01/2025 | 83 |
| I told you so, and here are the receipts.
The economic crash was visible from Trump's first days I’m not particularly brilliant. It’s just a simple reading of history that displays what works and what does not. In particular, proven decades ago, the economy operates from the demand side, ... |
DemandSide | 12/01/2025 | 26 |
| Daily Bucket: A Walk at Sawgrass Lake
The Daily Bucket is a regular series from the Backyard Science group. Here we talk about Mother Nature in all her glory, especially the parts that live nearby. So let us know (as close as you are ... |
Lenny Flank | 12/01/2025 | 46 |
| GOP goes all-in on culture war—and it's not going great In yet another sign the electorate is rejecting MAGA’s culture-war politics, Democrats swept school board elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. “From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, ... |
kos | 11/30/2025 | 232 |
| Here’s why Latino voters are turning away from Trump We already knew Latino voters were drifting from President Donald Trump, pushed not just by his hard-edged deportation agenda —... |
Alex Samuels | 11/30/2025 | 160 |
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