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5+ hour, 32+ min ago  (265+ words) President Donald Trump is trying a new way to obtain his desired tariffs on imports after the Supreme Court knocked down his first attempt. This time, says Paul Krugman in his Substack column, the play is to invoke a clause…...

4+ hour, 5+ min ago  (375+ words) A judge has quashed a set of subpoenas tied to a criminal probe against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, writing that "the Government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the President." Now as…...

4+ hour, 11+ min ago  (189+ words) Steven Greenhut reports in Reason Magazine that the MAGA world has three go-to approaches for jettisoning their so-called principals to follow President Donald Trump " but rest assured they will follow. It's a shocking pivot, said Greenhut, but it's their reality....

8+ hour, 8+ min ago  (336+ words) While Donald Trump ran and was elected on the promise of easing the cost of living crisis "on day one, since taking office, his administration has leaned into the message that if Americans will put up with "short-term pain they…...

1+ hour, 8+ min ago  (354+ words) President Donald Trump's own social media posts harmed the Department of Justice's efforts to criminally investigate Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, according to a Washington, D.C. reporter. On Friday, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg "quashed a pair of subpoenas tied to the…...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago  (324+ words) President Donald Trump has learned that creating "fake emergencies" is the best way to get things done with his various agendas while invoking obscure laws as justification. That's the opinion of Lisa Needham, writing in Public Notice, who says Trump,…...

4+ hour, 14+ min ago  (362+ words) Kyrsten Sinema believes it's all about location, location, location when it comes to her homewrecking affair with a former bodyguard. The ex-Arizona Senator, who claimed earlier this month in sworn statements that she's didn't know Matthew Joseph Ammel, the security…...

5+ hour, 22+ min ago  (265+ words) Left Hook creator Wajahat Ali and author/professor Jared Yates Sexton say President Donald Trump's base is feeling the pain of tying themselves to him. Sexton referenced FBI Director Kash Patel's ploy to use UFC fighters to train agents at…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago  (351+ words) Author and former Cedar Rapids Gazette columnist Lyz Lenz battered popular podcaster Joe Rogan for being gullible enough to buy the lies of President Donald Trump prior to his election. "Joe Rogan, that sentient Monster energy drink, spent part of…...

40+ min ago  (276+ words) Daily Blast podcaster Greg Sargent says President Donald Trump's advisors are panicking as creeping oil prices prepare to wreck voters and molly-whop the White House. International relations professor Nicholas Grossman told Sargent that there is no reason to believe Trump's…...