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.
An Auntie Anne’s original pretzel cost about $3.50 in 2009. Today it’s $7.29. The pretzel tracked inflation almost perfectly.
The pretzel is accidentally the most honest inflation tracker in America. It’s priced in flour, sugar, labor, commercial rent, and energy. Every cost that went up in 17 years is baked into that $7.29. One mall receipt tells you more about the economy than most dashboards.
Now do the rest. Gas in 2009 averaged $2.35 a gallon. Today it’s $3.81. Up 62%. The median U.S. home sold for $172,000 in 2009. The latest FRED data has it at $405,300. Up 136%. Average public university tuition went from about $7,000 to $12,000. Up 71%. Health insurance premiums for a family of four went from $13,000 to over $24,000. Up 85%.
Every price in the economy moved. The federal minimum wage of $7.25 was set on July 24, 2009. It has not changed once in 6,088 days. $7.25 in 2009 had the purchasing power of $10.47 today. That’s a 30% silent pay cut delivered one year at a time, while the number on the check never moved.
In 2009, $7.25 bought two Auntie Anne’s pretzels. In 2026, it doesn’t buy one.
The dollar lost 30% of its value. The pretzel adjusted. The wage didn’t.
If you remove free throws from everyone, Bam Adebayo's night would rank 73rd all-time.
Most points in single game
1. Wilt 100
2. Bam 83
3. Kobe 81
Most points without free throws
1. Wilt 72 (100-pt game)
2. Kobe 63 (81-pt game)
3. Wilt 62 (78-pt game)
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T-73. Bam 48
🚨 Rep. Neguse just exposed a $143 million no-bid contract live on camera:
The company has no headquarters. No website. No prior federal contracts.
It was incorporated 8 days before receiving the contract.
Its registered address belongs to a political operative.
One of its subcontractors is a political firm tied directly to Kristi Noem from her time as South Dakota governor.
Neguse asked Noem where the company is headquartered.
“I don’t know.”
$143 million of taxpayer money. Vanished into a ghost company. Connected to the Secretary of Homeland Security herself.
This is the agency running DOGE. Cutting waste. Eliminating fraud.
Based on recent data from BLS, Fed, and other sources:
- Job growth: ~15k/mo in 2025 vs. ~150k/mo in 2024. Confirmed low.
- Oil rigs: Fell to 4-yr low (~407). Confirmed.
- Mfg jobs: Lost ~70k in 2025, monthly declines. Confirmed.
- DOGE: Savings exaggerated; disruptions outweighed cuts. Partially confirmed.
- Tariffs: US pays ~90%; no checks, taxes remain. Confirmed.
- Debt: +$2.2T in 2025. Confirmed.
- Wages/blue-collar: Lowest earners down; >100k jobs lost. Confirmed. CC debt >$1.2T.
- Wealth: Top 1% gained significantly. Confirmed.
BREAKING: E Jean Carroll publicly humiliates Donald Trump by revealing that his disgusting body odor and bizarre behavior "mesmerized" the jury during the trial that resulted in her $83 million defamation win.
These details are hilarious as they are gross...
“I don’t understand how people can be afraid of a fat, elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds, and sits in a courtroom and moans and groans and complains and snorts,” Caroll told The Daily Beast podcast.
“They were mesmerized. You have never seen anything like it,” she said of the jury. “He never sat still, and he talked the entire time within earshot of the jury. He belittled Alina Habba, his own attorney. He would spit as he was talking. He didn’t smell so good.”
She recounted how her attorney Roberta "Robbie" Kaplan really got under Trump's skin...
"He stood up with steam coming off his back and hot air blowing out his ears because Robbie Kaplan was giving the final argument, and she was asking the jury how much it would take to make him stop," said Carroll.
“She drove him so crazy, he stood up in the courtroom and left,” she explained. "When a man is innocent, he doesn’t storm out of a courtroom; he stays and fights. He turned tail and stormed out of the courtroom. He lost right at that second. He couldn’t have looked more guilty."
Caroll credibly accused Trump of raping her and he was ultimately found civilly liable for sexually assaulting her. She was awarded $5 million but then Trump continued defaming her in public and denying her story, eventually resulting in her massive $83.3 million victory.
“When the jury heard the evidence, it wasn’t very hard,” Kaplan told the Daily Beast.
“The clerk opens it up, reads it, frowns, shakes his head, folds it back up, and then hands it to Judge Kaplan,” said Caroll. “And Judge Kaplan opens it up, and his eyebrows rise up towards his hairline, and he frowns, and he says, ‘Madame forewoman, what does the M stand for?’”
The forewoman explained that "m" stood for "million.
“That was a moment,” said Carroll. “I left my body. As I say, I felt like Peter Pan who flies around the ceilings. And quite frankly, I’ve never come down from that. That win was so enormous and so powerful, not for me, not for Robbie, but for everybody in the country who had sort of lost hope that he could ever be beaten.”
“We’re still feeling the good victory of that. It’s happened. And we’ve proved—Robbie proved, and I proved—that Trump can be beaten,” Carroll continued. “He can be beaten.”
E. Jean Caroll is right. Trump shouldn't be feared. He can be defeated. All it takes is the courage to fight back.
Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Caroll for standing up to Trump!
Any chance Folarin, pops out at this @DaveChappelle and @clipse show, tonight?!?!
The lexicon legend, at home, in the fone booth, lioke Clark Kent (respect to a legend), would be pretty, pretty, pretty, sooper, man!
@Wale doe.
Trump has fired…
The Navy Chief of Staff
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
The Head of the Navy Seals
The Naval Operations Chief
The US Navy Reserve Chief
The Head of the US Cyber Command
The Head of Defense Intelligence
The Coast Guard Commandant
The Air Force Chief of Staff
The Air Force Vice Chief of Staff
The top of AF Global Strike Command
The top legal officer of the Air Force
The top legal officer of the Army
The top legal officer of the Navy
The top legal official of the CIA
Putin couldn’t do a better job at attacking America than Trump has. Hundreds of years of combined experience decimated by an absolute draft dodging imbecile. America has never been in so much danger.
Hi. Big one here.
Here is a list of what Donald Trump has spent (or committed to spend) in just 8 short months on ONLY vanity projects:
•White House ballroom: $200,000,000
•Qatar plane retrofit: $400,000,000
•Rename Dept. of Defense to “Dept. of War”: $3,000,000,000 (could run into “billions,” using $3B as a high-end placeholder)
•Rename “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America”: $50,000,000 (federal + state/local/signage/textbooks)
•Military parade: $45,000,000
•National Garden of American Heroes: $34,000,000
•U.S. 250th celebration: $100,000,000
•Air Force One upgrade/manuals (separate from Qatar jet): $84,000,000
•Oval Office redecoration: $1,700,000
•Golf weekends: $18,200,000
Total ≈ $3,932,900,000 (~$3.93B)
To put this in perspective, $3.93 BILLION would be enough to house every single homeless Veteran in this nation.
You don’t hate Donald Trump enough.