Dean Baker

This story is not about Russia - It's about Patel strapping people to polygraphs to see if they're laughing at him. It's about Gabbard trying to harvest emails to see if anyone's not MAGA enough. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Donald Trump is boasting about hitting American workers with some of the largest tax increases ever cepr.net/publications/t… Higher taxes, it's very MAGA!

ICYMI — The Tennessee Republican supermajority has us in the national news for cruel reasons again, after passing a law that lets doctors deny people care… even to pregnant mothers. Here’s the video we shared again 👇🏽 Full JONESBOROUGH story: tennessean.com/story/news/hea…

Boykin: He's talking about Obama because he doesn't want to talk about Epstein. He's talking about the Washington Commanders and the Cleveland Guardians because he doesn't want to talk about Epstein. He releases the Martin Luther King files because he doesn't want to talk about…

MORE NEWS --> Last year, Sen Ron Wyden sought to subpoena the release of Epstein financial transactions on file with the Treasury Department. He asked GOP senators to join him in backing a subpoena. None of them agreed, a Wyden aide tells me: newrepublic.com/article/198247…

Every non-cultist knows that a statement Maxwell gives to the current DOJ implicating Trump will not result in any sentence reduction. Maxwell & her lawyer also know that any statement she gives to lie & exonerate Trump likely will. The truth is in the files, not from Maxwell.

Cannot be said enough how deeply the media has internalized the idea that he can go off on these discursive, non-sensical rants and say nothing about it. "Hey man, just Trump being Trump" and they move right along.

Reminder: Todd Blanche is not meeting with sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to do justice. He's meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell bc she has damaging dirt on Donald Trump so Todd needs to find a way to get the sex trafficker out of prison.

From @adam_tooze --> If you are a US manufacturing plan in the Midwest, you're now paying much more for aluminum because of tariffs. Is aluminum important in manufacturing? Hope not

Hey Senator, you have some more political assassination jokes for us?

People will remember and talk about what Israel is doing in Gaza 80 years from now, just as we remember the Holocaust more than 80 years ago.

Donald Trump's incredible own goals on trade policy substack.com/home/post/p-16… He keeps raising our taxes and doesn't even seem to know it.

Emails show that IRS chief counsel Andrew De Mello said a recent DHS request did not comply with the law. Two days after refusing the demand to turn over more than 7 million home addresses, De Mello was pushed out of the top legal job. propublica.org/article/trump-…

The Epstein birthday card is now public. (Trump can continue to pretend it's not real, but that's not the point.) The point: If the card were the worst thing for Trump in the files, why wouldn't Trump now make the files public? Conclusion: There are worse things in the files.

Senator Ron Wyden says investigators found Trump’s administration held records of 4,725 Epstein-linked wire transfers totaling ~$1.1B through one bank, plus millions via others. He claims Trump officials ignored this evidence, including Russian bank ties, refusing to act.

Trump promised MAGA he would take down a corrupt cabal of lying elites who were hoarding power at the expense of the people. Trump's allies made the Epstein Files part of that promise. Now, Trump has proven that he is one of the corrupt elites he’s been warning them about.

I introduced the only binding congressional legislation to release the Epstein files and already have 20 sponsors. In return, the attacks on me intensified. As you can guess I’m not backing down, I’m fighting, but I need your support to stay in the ring: secure.thomasmassie.com/donate

Respectfully disagree. Resigning concedes the thing in question, which is Trump’s idea the Fed Chair is an at-will employee who serves at the pleasure of the President. The past week has also confirmed the market hates Trump’s action, an important data point as this unfolds.

BREAKING: In an unearthed video going viral, Axios' Jonathan Swan asks Trump about his well wishing to Ghislaine Maxwell, pointing out that she's a child sex trafficker. Trump's reply: "Big deal." Wow.

Good to see Trump having fun.