This is what American news commentary would look like if the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs was allowed to script it. There's no point even creating your own propaganda when the homegrown content is as good as this.

Sometimes all you need is the chart. economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering theonion.com/trump-calmly-r…

Guess we should have taken it more seriously when Donald J. Trump posted this to Truth Social four hours ago...

Every senator and member of Congress should immediately and voluntarily disclose any stock, bond, or similar trades they have made in the last ten days.

I serve with some brilliant people. This is not one of them.

We’re in the bad place

Give Van Hollen the damn rock. He came to ball.

everything is ridiculous

Who could possibly tell whether or not this is real

I am seriously weighing a presidential run. Stay tuned.

Important story from the NYT this morning: The President running a crypto operation with largely anonymous offshore investors at a time when he regulates the industry is a huge red flag that you can’t imagine being tolerated by Washington or the public in any other era.

Adding a tsp of taco seasoning to your morning coffee grounds creates what's known as a "funky pot." A real treat!

Your 👀stat of the day, from TIGTA. Just from the probationary firings and first deferred resignations, the IRS lost 31% of its revenue agents (auditors). tigta.gov/sites/default/…

After DOGE aid Gavin Kliger was detailed to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he was told by an agency ethics laws that his personal stock holdings could present a conflict of interest—days later, Kliger helped to lay off the lawyer. propublica.org/article/cfpb-g…

The economic impact of research funding cuts on red-state public universities—enormously important to local economic growth—is an undercovered story.

DOGE said 40% of phone calls into Social Security centers were fraud, so it built a tool to track it. Turns out the 40% was actually 0.0018% and the tool slowed down processing significantly.

Great chart on Medicaid work requirements from Aella

Congress is on the brink of taking health insurance away from 16 MILLION PEOPLE without even a hearing!

In fact, the opposite is true.