Corrupting economic statistics will change our economic reality. Here's how: Tariffs raise prices. Social Security is indexed to inflation. If Trump tells a partisan BLS head to downplay inflation, seniors' social security checks won't keep up. Rigged stats = stolen benefits.

🧵Great russophobic writers in history, pt 2: Kume Kunitake (1839-1931) In the spring of 1873, a Japanese delegation arrived in St Petersburg. Some were diplomats. Others were there to study russia… 1/12

🚨 BREAKING: Republicans are lashing out at the creators of this new ad. They're TERRIFIED. It must have struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as pedophile-protectors. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

Fact check: A federal judge signed the Mar-a-lago search warrant after a finding of probable cause. The FBI seized 700 pages of 184 unique documents with classification markings, including 25 documents marked "Top Secret", and 92 marked "Secret.” The FBI and prosecutors later

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Don't be gaslit. Trump's home was raided in 2022 after he REFUSED numerous requests from the National Archives for the return of classified info. What happened today with Bolton is pure authoritarianism.

Trump yesterday, talking about golf courses and lawns: “I know more about grass than any human being, I think, anywhere in the world." Trump today, on the FBI raiding the home of his former National Security Adviser: "I know nothing about it."

Day after Russia bombed an American company in western Ukraine

Sooo... Putin bombs an American factory in Ukraine & Trump shows everyone a picture of him and his buddy Putin... and brags about wanting to invite him to the World Cup in America? This is sick.

“Putin looks great in this photo, I look okay, but he looks great, better than me”, - Trump. When will people stop admiring dictators, murderers, war criminals? When will leaders of the democratic world stop doing it?

Trump and Vance “admitting” the criminal investigation of Bolton is coming from the White House isn’t a mistake. They want critics to understand if they cross Trump, they can be subject to criminal investigation. They want people to know that law enforcement has been politicized.

Here is a London tabloid story about Ghislaine Maxwell introducing Trump to one of the girls who later said Epstein raped and trafficked her. Trump started dating her and moved her into Trump Tower.

This is what authoritarian regimes do. Replace the competent with loyalists. In this case, the head of state wants the total collapse of national security and defense to the benefit of Putin and Xi.

ALL HAIL CHAIRMAN TRUMP! WITH HIS GLORIOUS 10% PURCHASE OF INTEL, THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF AMERICA ENTERS A BOLD NEW ERA OF GOVERNMENT-RUN BUSINESS.

Let me explain how this works. The model is Putin's model. 1. Trump nationalizes shares. 2. Later, shares are gifted to Trump cronies. 3. Repeat with every large US corporation until the wealth of the nation is in the hands of the new Royal Family.

Trump knew that Putin had just bombed an American business in Ukraine. Nonetheless, he went out in front of cameras in the Oval to fawn over a picture of himself and Putin in Alaska. Aside from being a traitor and communist.. there's something seriously wrong with him.

No he hasn’t. The Kremlin has mocked you, the First Lady (nude pix on your Inauguration Day), and our Country (Lavrov wearing a Soviet Union sweatshirt to Alaska, Russia bombing an American business in Ukraine). Not “very respectful”. They fear no consequences from us.

Those of us who were pounding the tables over this at the time are going to have to do these periodic reminders since so many people have memory-holed how Biden’s policies resulted in a protracted war to Ukraine’s disadvantage.

1/ Russia tried to freeze Ukrainians. Now Ukraine is melting down Russia’s oil empire. Ukraine has knocked out 13% of Russia's oil refinery capacity in weeks. Kyiv calls it “direct sanctions.” This was achieved with “toys.” But now Ukraine’s unveiled a monster 🧵⤵️