Allan Piper

"In the end, American consumers paid $159 billion in temporary national sales taxes for which most will never be reimbursed a penny. And rather than those taxes being used by the federal government to, say, repave roads or build bridges, most of the money will instead provide corporate windfalls." publicnotice.co/p/trump-tariff…

My unpopular opinion is that Biden’s econ team achieved their stated goal of world class Covid recovery, avoided recession (once thought inevitable), prioritized employment, navigated global inflation, and delivered benefits to the working class. it’s just that voters hated it.

Screening #3 is tomorrow (Tuesday). A few tickets still available. See you at the Roxy. roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/a-r…

We need a Shazam/IMDb crossover app so I can find out what movie I heard that song in

I keep saying “we are the casinos he bankrupted, or The Plaza hotel, or Trump Shuttle, or the USFL, or Trump University, Trump Mortgage, and on and on. He’s actually a lousy businessman who inherited a ton of money.

There’s so much going on that it’s easy to overlook the fact that the president is telling so many lies. Here’s a fact check of 28 different false claims President Donald Trump made from Monday through Friday. cnn.com/2026/05/23/pol…

The new movie from @wangontheweb, “A. Rimbaud” (now playing at the @roxycinemanyc ) is beautiful and bizarre and makes me want to pick up Rimbaud’s poetry again. And if you want to see Patrick Wang himself on screen, check him out in @evilsublet on Tubi, Amazon, and more.

This was fun to write. A little tribute to some of the songwriters who have invoked Rimbaud.

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy #donation-big-tobacco-vaping" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2…

This isn’t a legal document. It’s a PR document that in parts contradicts how the legal document reveals how the fund will actually operate. Some examples 🧵⬇️

Screening #2 is tomorrow (Wednesday). Tickets still available. See you at the Roxy. roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/a-r…

The President is now exempt from our tax laws while everyone else has to obey them. Got it. It's just mind blowing that is what's happening in America.

For Trump and his friends: - A $1.8 billion slush fund, paid for by you. - A $1 billion ballroom, paid for by you. For you and other American taxpayers: - Millions kicked off health care. - Highest gas prices in 5 years. - Soaring costs for groceries. nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

Maddow: So in January, Trump buys hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Nvidia. Then a week later, his commerce department approves the sale of Nvidia chips to China.  Also in January, Trump buys between 50,000 and $100,000 worth of stock in AMD. One week after he buys it, his commerce department approves AMD doing business in China as well.  The following month, in February, Trump buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell. Nine days after he buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell, Trump veers off script in a speech in Georgia to tell the crowd literally, quote, go out and buy a Dell computer.  Then in March, Judd Legum at Popular Information reports that Trump repeatedly buys up Thermo Fisher stock, and then he goes and visits Thermo Fisher on a presidential visit and praises the company. That same day, Trump bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Apple. And then that same day he bought the stock, he did another event where he singled out Apple and Apple CEO Tim cook for praise. Apple a great company. Then after that, Trump buys Micron stock. The very next day, he calls into the Fox News channel and tells them Micron is one of the hottest companies. CNBC reporting Trump makes seven separate purchases of Palantir stock. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Palantir stock. Then he gets on truth social and praises Palantir.

While hard-working Americans struggle to pay for gasoline, health insurance premiums and groceries our president is using our tax dollars for his personal retribution campaign. He just makes up reality and we all have to placate him.

George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

But you can’t have decent affordable health care. They are telling you who they are.

Donald Trump pardoned over 70 allies and donors convicted in fraud cases, and wiped out over $1 billion in restitution, fines, and debts owed by those he pardoned.

CASAR: For the $1 billion we're being asked to spend on Trump's ballroom, we could fund 217 million free school lunches and 15,000 more teachers. As secretary of education, which do you think helps our nation more? McMAHON: I think those are incredibly weird comparisons

Let me get this straight. Trump sued his own IRS for $10 billion. His own Justice Department is now considering settling that case. And one of the terms on the table is that the IRS drops all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses PERMANENTLY. He’s using the full weight of the federal government to protect himself and his family from accountability and potentially pay himself BILLIONS of your tax dollars. nytimes.com/2026/05/12/bus…