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[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

False.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who signed the first federal minimum wage into law in 1938 via the Fair Labor Standards Act, clarified, “By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of a decent living.”

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨 OH. MY. GOSH!!!!!!!

It has been revealed that the city of Asheville NC will only rebuild 8 HOUSES with the $225 MILLION grant they received from the Trump administration after Hurricane Helene.

Yes, you read that right... EIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!

...OUT OF 11,488 DAMAGED HOMES

The city allocated ONLY $3 MILLION for home repairs.

And $14.9 MILLION for "administration"

FIVE TIMES MORE for PAPERWORK than for the people whose homes got COMPLETELY DESTROYED!!!!!!

Over 100+ approved families are CURRENTLY ON A WAITLIST that will never be funded.

THIS IS CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!!!

PEOPLE NEED TO GO TO JAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DIDU @muglare]

This is a crazy sentence but yet inspiring

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie just sounded the alarm:

Congress is on the verge of handing Monsanto total immunity to mass poison Americans with glyphosate.

This is existential for MAHA.

“If farmers contract a form of cancer … from this chemical, if this makes it into the Farm Bill, you won’t be able to sue.”

Instead of pushing to repeal Big Pharma’s vaccine liability shield, Trump and his cronies are trying to expand immunity for even more poison.

It’s a complete betrayal of MAHA.

And it would cause vastly more harm than all of the benefits that MAHA has done combined.

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Food inflation is set to accelerate in the US:

Average inflation for food and beverage companies surged +7.9% YoY in March, the biggest jump in at least 12 months.

This is up +373 basis points from +4.2% in February.

The largest jump was recorded in tomatoes at +102% YoY, vegetables at +90%, and diesel at +88%.

This was largely driven by higher fuel costs, meaning the full impact of rising fertilizer and plastics prices has not yet been reflected.

Meanwhile, urea prices, the world's most widely used nitrogen fertilizer, have doubled since February, to ~$900 per metric ton, the highest since the 2022.

Fertilizer costs are rapidly rising for farmers and will eventually translate into higher wholesale food prices before landing on grocery store shelves.

Food inflation is set to accelerate.

[Killa Kam @urbansocialight]

This lady has had TEN YEARS to engage with parents, kids, teachers, and the community on a strategy to combat DC’s teen issues. She could have gone up the road to Mayor Scott & asked to piggyback off his “Outside in ‘25” strategy’s success. Instead her big idea is stay home?!

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

BOMBSHELL CONFIRMED: The Supreme Court corruption scandal that was lingering from a year ago? We can now call it CONFIRMED today.

Chief Justice John Roberts' wife pocketed $10.3 million recruiting for law firms with cases before his court. He illegally labeled it "salary" instead of commission on disclosure forms.

Justice Clarence Thomas took $500,000+ luxury yacht trips, $133,000 real estate deals, and decades of private jet vacations from billionaire Harlan Crow—all hidden from the public.

Justice Neil Gorsuch sold a $1.8 million property to the CEO of Greenberg Traurig—a law firm with 22 cases before the Court—just nine days after his confirmation. He left the buyer's name BLANK on his disclosure forms.

Republicans: "The Supreme Court is impartial!"
The Supreme Court: a billionaire-funded cash register.
Three justices. Three scandals. Tens of millions in hidden money and favors.
This isn't a court. It's a corruption convention with robes.

Tell me again why we should trust these people with our rights?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Warren Buffett says if the top 800 other major corporations paid what Berkshire Hathaway did in taxes, Americans wouldn't have to pay a dime in income taxes, or any taxes

“If we send in a check like we did last year, we send in over $5 billion to the US federal government, and of 800 other companies had done the same thing. No other person in the United States would've had to pay a dime of federal taxes. Other income taxes, no social security taxes, no estate taxes — It doesn't bother me in the least to write that check, and I would really hope with all the America's done for all of you, it shouldn't bother you that we do it”

You understand what he’s saying here right? We are subsidizing corporations cheating on taxes with our income tax

Abolish the Income Tax

[💎 @chaoswintour]

I’m not over these Zimmerman FW26 scarf looks

[Acyn @Acyn]

Setmayer: The fact that we've got someone who is a morning show host, unserious cosplaying G.I. Joe, frat boy.

Jennings: Duly elected! Won the popular vote!

Setmayer: I’m talking about Pete Hegseth, not the draft dodger.

[Chris Marler @Vern_Funquist]

Jesus seeing Judas on Sunday morning

[the women in manets paintings @kwonalonzo]

i feel bad for pooh shiesty bc you really used to be able to just do that

[John Alexsander @j__Alexsander]

Me fighting with Kristi Noem

[Bob @tweetsbybob_]

Me convincing people to watch the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion defense budget — a 40% increase, the largest since WWII.

In exchange for more war he wants to:

-Cut the EPA budget by half
-Cut $10.7 billion for housing
-Cut $8.5 billion for K-12 programs
-Cancel $15 billion for clean energy
-Cut $2.5 billion for clean drinking water
-Eliminate $1.6 billion for youth job training
-Cut $3.5 billion from the Labor Department
-Eliminate $395 million for senior employment
-Eliminate $775 million in food assistance grants
-Eliminate the National Endowment for Democracy
-Cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health
-Eliminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

In all, cuts to domestic programs would account for a 10% reduction in discretionary spending.

[Nick Turse @nickturse]

"If even the fractional number of known contractor injuries is added to the tally, the casualty count for Americans and those on U.S. bases may top 13,600."

[TMZ @TMZ]

Pooh Shiesty Arrested for Allegedly Kidnapping Gucci Mane https://t.co/DYfxlJqyXM

[ProPublica @propublica]

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.

Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
https://t.co/10GXAeIOtp

[Jon Michael Raasch @JMRaasch]

So Kristi Noem's husband apparently likes to crossdress and wear massive fake boobs...

National security experts warn it could have opened up the ex-Cabinet member to blackmail

What an insane report from @JoshTBoswell and @newshound990
https://t.co/f2DXZ5Vwtd

[Adam Kobeissi @TKL_Adam]

The Fed's worst nightmare is materializing in front of our eyes.

What is often overlooked is that the Fed primarily controls demand-side inflation, not supply-side inflation. In other words, it can influence how much people borrow and spend, but it cannot directly increase supply, like producing more oil.

This means that in the case of a supply-shock, as we are seeing now with energy prices, the Fed often has to overcompensate on the demand-side to contain inflation, and vice-versa.

During the pandemic in 2020, this meant effectively cutting interest rates to zero, as lockdowns triggered a sharp collapse in demand alongside widespread supply disruptions.

With oil and gas prices skyrocketing, our models suggest US CPI inflation is set to rise toward 3.5%, or 150 basis points above the Fed's long-run target. In a vacuum chamber, this means the Fed should tighten policy and theoretically hike rates.

However, the issue becomes the fact that the US labor market is objectively at its weakest point in years, and it has not improved despite recent Fed easing. Therefore, if the Fed hikes interest rates now, the US is positioning itself for a full-blown labor market crisis.

On the flip side, if the Fed does not tighten its policy stance, US CPI inflation could potentially even exceed 4.0%, depending on how long the Iran War persists, and how long the post-war recovery takes.

In a sudden turn of events, the Fed is now forced to pick between 3.5%+ inflation or 5.0%+ unemployment.

The Fed is in a very bad spot.