Brian K
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The federal workforce is 9% smaller now than at the beginning of 2025. Federal spending has increased 6% over the same time period. https://t.co/Al2zcg6KNC
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The Department of Government Efficiency — formerly run by Elon Musk — ends 2025 with strikingly divergent results around its two primary goals.
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The defining legacy of DOGE will be deaths across the developing world without a penny saved at home
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. https://t.co/M54pgz4bX1
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Multiple sources confirming this is the spiked CECOT story This story is confirmation of what we already knew/suspected — so @bariweiss is correct in that front. That being said, @60Minutes confirming that America knowingly sent innocent, nonviolent immigrants to be knowingly
*If* this is the spiked @60Minutes cecot episode, it confirms what we all suspected: We (the United States) and El Salvador committed significant, and inhuman, human rights violations, and got it wrong in 50-90% of the cases. As a country, we need to hold the executives who
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Say what you will about Donald Trump: the dude never misses a chance to remind everyone he’s a self-centered scumbag of the first order. Absolute GOAT at being the worst human being alive.
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Wonder what kind of conversation we’d be having if everyone in America were forced to read every word of this post out loud, all the way through
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Once again, w feeling: The White House says we’re doing tariffs to help manufacturing—and the tariffs are clearly hurting manufacturing! The White House is *not* doing tariffs on computer parts, because we want to help AI—and AI is booming! It’s like a controlled experiment
Huh! Would you look at that: Manufacturing employment has been steadily decreasing since "Liberation Day." I guess the president wanted to liberate American manufacturing employees from their jobs! Graph created using the seasonally adjusted manufacturing employment data from
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For almost a year now, the Trump administration has insisted the new taxes, higher prices, market chaos, open cronyism, & aggressive deportations were needed to rebalance the economy to favor the American working class. The results so far:
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist but I feel like if they are destroying economic data and then immediately rolling back tariffs, floating stimulus checks and proposing 50-year mortgages, the economic signals they are destroying must not be pretty
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It’s not even fun to say “told you so.” It’s been needless economic harm and uncertainty while lying about who would pay, now followed by rollbacks messaged as favors.
The Trump administration is preparing tariff rollbacks on goods from countries beyond those that have reached trade agreements with the US in effort to lower prices @AnaSwanson @tylerpager me
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Congrats, Americans, our benevolent leaders will give us "relief" from their own policy, in the process finally admitting that the policy has the effect (price increases) they insisted was never happening. Can't make it up.
🚨 BREAKING: In a major development, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirms the PRICE OF COFFEE will go down after an impending announcement for tariff relief "You're gonna see SUBSTANTIAL announcements over the next couple days for things we don't grow in the U.S. Coffee,
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"Mr. President, people are worried about continued inflation and the price of goods. What are you going to do?" "I'm going to impose a hefty tax on imports, and then send out stimulus checks."
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You’re telling me that removing tariffs is directly connected to lowering prices??? Hmm maybe we should remove more of them…
🚨 BREAKING: In a major development, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirms the PRICE OF COFFEE will go down after an impending announcement for tariff relief "You're gonna see SUBSTANTIAL announcements over the next couple days for things we don't grow in the U.S. Coffee,
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Ozempic exists because scientists studied Gila monster saliva. The exact kind of basic research this Administration would have cut without hesitation. Breakthroughs like this happen only if we choose to fund science even if the outcome is impossible to see at the start.
“We’ll lose 125 million pounds by this time next year.” RFK Jr. says the new deal with GLP-1 drug companies will play a major role in helping Americans get healthier. “It’s going to have dramatic effects on human health in this country.”
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Not only is this not true, real wages are actually flat since May, after tariffs were announced, as higher inflation eats into any wage gains.
"Wages for workers are rising at the fastest pace in over 60 years," says @POTUS in Miami. "Since I took office, wages for the typical factory worker are up $1,300, construction workers' pay is up $2,200, and miners are up nearly $5,000 this year alone."
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President Trump's legal team before the Supreme Court just admitted that their tariff argument means a future Democrat could declare a climate emergency and impose massive tariffs on automakers to harm that industry to save the environment.
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It'd be great if the Supreme Court saves Trump and the GOP from themselves and kills the President's ability to drive up costs on consumers by ending his unconstitutional tariffs.
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Trump and Milei are complete opposites. Trump is a deficit-increasing, tariff loving socialist who literally has gotten the federal government involved with owning key companies and the means of production (Intel, MP Materials, Lithium Americas, Trilogy Metals, U.S. Steel Corp).
Argentine President Javier Milei’s extraordinary electoral victory could be a good omen for American Republicans in 2026.
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