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About to be the family that owns TikTok.

Mexican restaurants, two locations, Pittsburgh area. /1

Forget eggs—the cost of coffee is skyrocketing, and folks are noticing. I heard it was coming, so I stocked up weeks ago, but my supply won’t last forever. Trump’s Brazil tariffs are to blame.

Noticing a theme here.

ICE just prevented me from entering an immigration detention facility in my district—a clear violation of federal law. Members of Congress have the right to immediately access these facilities. Listen here 👇

Next up: sue this administration! A disabled vet says he was wrongfully detained in last week’s Camarillo raid, despite being a U.S. citizen. • Reporting for his security job at Glass House Farms • Told them he was a citizen • No charges. No phone call. No lawyer. • No care after chemical exposure

Q: "A 75 year old Cuban national died in ICE custody. He had lived in the U.S. for 60 years...Is there anything you can tell us about that?" Border Czar Tom Homan: "People die in ICE custody. People die in county jails. People die in state prisons."

The National Institutes of Health will phase out its support of the clinical practice guidelines that advise doctors how to diagnose and treat HIV.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

CATO has a report out showing how much the immigration parts of the Big Ugly add to the deficit. www.cato.org/blog/deporta...

Trump has tapped Palantir, which has been used by the Israeli government in its war on Gaza, to compile information on people in the United States. “If you're not freaking out yet, you should be,” says @carolecadwalla.bsky.social.

Yet another example of Trump's self inflicted wounds. www.aau.edu/newsroom/lea...

THIS:

While We Were Sleeping? Distracted? "The Securities and Exchange Commission dropped a lawsuit against Binance on Thursday days after the crypto exchange began listing a stablecoin created by World Liberty Financial, one of President Donald Trump’s blockchain ventures." www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

Small businesses struggle under Trump’s tariff whiplash: “It’s just a freaking mess right now,” one business owner said in late May, before this past week’s court rulings on Trump’s tariffs. “And I’m so angry that my own government has done this to me.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the lack of healthy food options on Native reservations a “genocide.” But the Trump administration ended a program that helped provide fresh, locally produced food for tribal food banks, saying the program no longer aligned with its priorities.

www.instagram.com/reel/DHG4yuT...

Really crucial point in the ruling against Trump's tariffs: The court basically said Trump doesn't have the power to invent emergencies out of thin air. The declaration of fake emergencies is central to Trump's abuses. See this exchange with @ilyasomin.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1958...

Republican strategist Karl Rove: “The president’s chaotic trade talk will badly damage Republicans in the midterms…Voters won’t blame foreign countries for higher prices or fewer goods. They’ll blame Donald Trump and his Republican Party

It's not just pencils and dolls... Schools blame tariffs for rising costs and supply woes www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Just in case you forgot, Musk spent at least $250 million to get Trump elected.

Enough said.

And there's another way that Trump's detention centers remind one of the GULag Archipelago:

Trump admits businesses were booming under the Biden administration

Democrats want to keep the 2017 tax cuts for people making <$500,000/yr, and to let taxes on people making >$500,000/yr revert to 2017 levels. This doesn't seem so radical. Indeed, it seems to be what enlightened defenders of democratic capitalism would support.

Bruce! youtu.be/6ZHWIYHlXOs?...

The House Budget Committee failed to advance the tax bill. Five Republicans joined Dems in voting no: Chip Roy (TX), Ralph Norman (SC), Josh Brecheen (OK), Andrew Clyde (GA) and Lloyd Smucker (PA). GOP no votes cited the cost: the massive tax bill is expected to add $4 trillion to the deficit.

NYU conditions a student's right to speak at graduation on his agreement not to call attention to human rights abuses, furnishing more evidence of the clamp down on free speech, and particularly human rights advocacy, on American campuses under Trump. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

NEW: A small company with ties to China and relies on TikTok just bought up to $300 million worth of Trump’s memecoin. Just another day with the most transparently corrupt president in history.

Jokic passed to himself off the backboard

Trump just made it up to 98% more expensive to have a baby. Trump's baby tax is here.

‪Radley Balko‬: Getting the dangerous people out of the country... like a 19-year-old honor student who was brought here at age 4 and her business-owning dad—because she made an illegal right turn at a red light. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

Powell: "If the large increases in tariffs that have been announced are sustained, they are likely to generate a rise in inflation, a slowdown in economic growth, and an increase in unemployment."

this is basically Powell's diss track

A key through line from the modern conservative movement as it emerged in the 1950s to today’s “counter-revolutionary” Trumpist Right is the anti-leftism as the defining sentiment and project. No limiting principle, just “Whatever it takes to defeat the Left” - that’s the path to extremism.

The president is considering renaming the Persian Gulf the “Arabian Gulf,” mere days after his family announced billions of dollars in forthcoming real estate deals in the region.

A Navy fighter jet failed to land on an aircraft carrier and plummeted into the Red Sea on Tuesday, marking the fourth major mishap involving the vessel and the third loss of a fighter jet deployed with it since the warship left home last year.

We won & election denial lost After 7 months of rejecting voters’ will in the NC SCOTUS race, the deniers finally conceded—after a Trump-appointed judge ordered certification We @democracydefendersfund.org proudly filed briefs backing the pro-democracy coalition

“What makes manufacturing jobs good is unions and regulations that protect worker safety. Without those things, any jobs created by somehow bringing toy manufacturing back are not going to be good or safe jobs.” -Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute, quoted in this piece:

Trump's Perfect Storm that Could Sink the American Economy washingtonmonthly.com/2025/05/05/t... It sounds like it's just a question of when the economy craters...

OXFORD ECONOMICS: “In view of the US tariff hikes since April, we have downgraded our forecasts for US industrial output for both 2025 and 2026. The tariffs will influence US industry in several ways including a sharp increase in US goods prices.” www.oxfordeconomics.com/resource/us-...

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...

Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."

Despite knowing the people on the search warrant weren't there, the ICE arrest team STILL took this family's phones, laptops, and life savings — and refused to leave a BUSINESS CARD so they could ask to get it back! This stuff is sadly not unique to ICE; it happens with regular police raids too.

White privilege is being hired for a job you're not qualified to do, whining about DEI while screwing up again and again and again, and then being given extra time to "get it together" in the future.

Our loss will be Canada’s gain. 🤡 #EmptyShelves

Duffy: "She wants to take people off the road and she's taxing people to do it, raising money for the subway system in New York. But then, to put people in the subway -- the subway is dirty! There's violence. There's criminals. It's not safe ... By the way, I like freedom. Let me drive my car."

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…