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@mattyglesias Some May Not Like But What They Said Is True. "If A Free Society Cannot Help The Many Who Are Poor, It Cannot Save The Few Who Are Rich." JFK 35th POTUS 🇺🇲

Q: "What do you make of the President voting by mail as the SAVE Act seems to try to stop voting by mail?" .@RepJeffries: "This is a states' rights issue…What happened to the days when Republicans supported states' rights? These people are phony."

Even Republican Senators now agree: MAGA is responsible for the DHS shutdown. Trump is in charge. Republicans run both chambers of Congress. Their incompetence & failure to govern is making your life harder. That’s the exact opposite of what government is supposed to be about.

It is what it is… youtu.be/PiT7a4H46rc?si…

Trump says he is waging a "war on fraud." But it's a war in which he is embracing some proven to be on the other side, so far granting clemency to more than 70 allies, donors and others convicted in fraud cases. @mattbpurdy @lukebroadwater nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/…

Landowners in the world’s second greatest natural gas-producing region are becoming millionaires. But at what cost to residents?

BREAKING. The United States Treasury’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025 report $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities. That is a negative net position of $41.72 trillion. And that number excludes Social Security and Medicare, which CBO projects add another $50 to $70 trillion in unfunded obligations over 30 years. Steve Hanke and David Walker wrote in Fortune on March 23 that these numbers constitute insolvency under any standard accounting framework. The Treasury has not used that word. No sovereign government that issues its own reserve currency calls itself insolvent. But the numbers are the Treasury’s own. They are published on Treasury.gov. They are audited. And they show a government whose liabilities exceed its assets by a ratio of nearly 8 to 1. Now layer the war on top. Annual interest on the national debt reached $1.22 trillion in fiscal year 2025. That is more than the defence budget. More than Medicare. The war supplemental request for the Iran conflict exceeds $200 billion. The Federal Reserve cannot cut rates because Hormuz-driven energy inflation has pushed PCE to 2.7 percent and rising. Every basis point the Fed holds is a basis point that compounds against $39 trillion in gross debt. The war that was supposed to last weeks is now costing hundreds of billions while the borrowing cost of financing it rises with every barrel of oil that does not transit the strait. The arithmetic is circular and accelerating. The war spikes energy prices. Energy prices spike inflation. Inflation prevents rate cuts. Higher rates increase the cost of servicing $39 trillion in debt. Higher debt service costs expand the deficit. The expanded deficit requires more borrowing. The borrowing occurs at higher rates because the war is still running. The circle has no exit as long as the strait is closed. Japan is watching from the other side of the carry trade. Life insurers hold $5 trillion in foreign assets, heavily weighted toward US Treasuries. The BOJ is tightening. The 10-year JGB hit 2.278 percent. If Japanese institutions begin repatriating, the largest marginal buyer of American debt becomes a seller at the exact moment the US needs to borrow $200 billion more for the war. The yuan is entering the gap. Every tanker that pays $2 million in yuan at the IRGC toll booth is a transaction that does not require dollar settlement. Every bilateral deal between Russia and China in rubles and yuan is a trade flow that does not pass through SWIFT. Intra-BRICS trade reached $500 billion in 2025 with over half settled in local currencies. The dollar’s share of global reserves has fallen from 72 percent in 2000 to 56.9 percent. The Hormuz toll booth is not just blocking molecules. It is demonstrating in real time that global energy can settle without the dollar. And the demonstration occurs while the dollar’s issuer publishes financial statements showing $41.72 trillion in net liabilities. The Treasury is not insolvent. A sovereign that prints its own reserve currency can always meet its obligations. But the mechanism for meeting those obligations, borrowing at ever-higher rates, printing when borrowing becomes untenable, inflating when printing becomes visible, has a cost. That cost is measured in purchasing power, in credibility, and in the willingness of foreign holders to continue financing a government whose own statements show liabilities eight times its assets while fighting a war it cannot afford to win or afford to lose. The molecules are trapped behind the strait. The fiscal credibility is trapped behind the numbers. And the numbers are the Treasury’s own. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Donald Trump is the most corrupt President the US has ever seen. Now it looks like he and his cronies may have used insider knowledge to enrich themselves while their war makes everyone else poorer.

If the Trump Administration was serious about fighting fraud, it’d start from within.

Thank you for the early support. Enterprise reporting does have a home

Only 27% of Americans agree with Trump's war on Iran, but on TV one expert after another comes on the news to support the war. Turns out most of these experts are from a few think-tanks. And most of these think-tanks get funding from the military industrial complex.

Two of the biggest names in private credit blocked investors from getting even half of the money they wanted out of their funds, a sign of mounting strain in the $1.8 trillion market. @daniburgz has more bloom.bg/3PsFtXm

I tried AGAIN to pass my bill to pay TSA workers. Once again, Senate Republicans blocked it.

Trump’s comments on social media yesterday morning sent fuel prices tumbling. But right before the post, there was a flurry of activity between oil traders, per a Financial Times analysis of Bloomberg data. gzeromedia.com/news/hard-numb…

This is what INSANITY looks like: Claiming Iran sent him a present, serial lying sociopath Trump is once again giving off serious used car salesman vibes. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇

Iran says ‘non-hostile’ ships can transit Strait of Hormuz ft.trib.al/pTLHZjW

Make no mistake: ICE is not at our airports to help TSA reduce lines. They are there, under Trump's orders, to check passengers' IDs so they can arrest people and continue to terrorize our nation. This needs to end.

Iran-linked hackers have stepped up cyberattacks on Israel since the war began, wiping the data of over 50 small businesses and compromising dozens of security cameras, according to an Israeli official. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week," John Kennedy of Louisiana told Fox News, but Trump said "no deals with the Democrats." #Echobox=1774353445" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newsweek.com/republican-say…

BREAKING: US President Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 36%, its lowest level since he returned to office, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/sgecll

Iranian missiles continue to strike multiple Israeli regions, including the upper, central, and lower Galilee, as well as the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Rockets from Hezbollah also targeted northern Israel, killing at least one woman. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports.