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[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Shocker. The Trump administration’s story doesn’t match reality. not even close.

Trump on Mesabi Metallics’ proposed $15 BILLION steel plant in Lee County, Iowa:

“They’ve already started building.”

REALITY: No permits. No disclosed site. No major land purchase. Financial incentives still unresolved.

They’re selling Iowa a finished deal that doesn’t exist.

[Ryan Satin @ryansatin]

Weird how the people who said Mamdani would institute Sharia Law in NYC aren’t more vocal about this

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Ripping apart NATO for his Russian master, Trump says the UK, the Baltics and France are not allowed to attend next month's NATO summit in Poland.

A reminder, the Baltics are next on Putin's list and all 3 cannot attend.

[Jason Beeferman @JasonBeeferman]

.@SherrodBrown says in a blog post that half of his campaign Facebook ads went dark with no notice, costing him "thousands and thousands of dollars – and potentially thousands of votes."

@Meta spokesperson @andymstone tells me there was "an error over the weekend impacted the delivery of ads for several advertisers, including the Brown campaign. All of the Brown campaign's ads have since been restored. We apologize for the error."

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Trump’s Big Tech friends are going to try to steal the election.

[Brad Batt for Tennessee State House @bradbatt]

Hey, real quick. This is Nazi shit.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump says a war is not a war, therefore the War Powers Act doesn’t apply.

Trump says political ads are not ads they are “public service announcements,” therefore the laws banning the use of taxpayer $ don’t apply.

The gangster govt changes the meaning of words to avoid the law

[Sharon S Brown @MySharonaBrown]

Not to alarm anyone, but a religious department at the Pentagon is bad. Like, really bad. It was bound to happen b/c he thinks he's fighting a holy war and his religious mentor thinks slavery should make a comeback. Good times.

[Badlydone Emma is with her #Harris2024 @chemimommy]

And more coming after the elections. Many voters aren’t aware but republicans scheduled the worst of the big evil bill for after the midterms, knowing voters are uninformed and will blame democrats

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

New in PN: Scenes from a personality cult

"The ads are unambiguously illegal — and that’s the point. Again and again, this regime has broken the law not just to accomplish some immediate goal, but as a dominance display to say to everyone: Donald Trump does whatever he wants, and nobody can stop him." https://t.co/vElndnjZz0

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Before you do anything else today, you should read the transcript of @TIME’s brand new interview with President Trump. https://t.co/aWJgBILw3s

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

Inflation numbers came out today, and the official story is that inflation went down. What the headline number doesn't tell you is that the government changed how inflation is calculated in the same release. A month ago, they said July inflation was 3.7%. Today, they recalculated July with the new formula and it dropped to 3.36%. If you measure August the same way as the months before it, inflation comes out around 3.8%, which means it went up. They didn't bring inflation down, they just changed how they calculate it.
Bessent did something similar with CPI last month. You only modify the way you calculate if they numbers are that bad. They genuinely thought we wouldn't notice...

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The VP is being incredibly dishonest.

Undocumented immigrant are not eligible for Social Security. Period. In fact, they pay billions of dollars into Social Security in their paychecks that they will never get back. They are a net fiscal benefit to the program!

[ToutdeSuiteLaSinner Is Salty AF @ToutSuiteSinner]

It can’t be overstated enough that Jack Smith had 86 witnesses that provided this "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" - and not a single one was a Democrat.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

This remains one of the president's most ludicrous lies. He lost California by 30 points in 2016 (more than 4 million votes), 29 points in 2020 (more than 5 million votes), and 20 points in 2024 (more than 3 million votes). https://t.co/8tNW5tSGA6

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Pretty clear Hegseth’s primary mission is to transform the military ideologically by overtly indoctrinating troops with Christian nationalism and apocalyptic holy war messaging while rooting out those who don’t want to participate and just want to serve their country admirably.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Pete Hegseth is what happens when no one has ever told you to shut the fuck up.

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

Spot on 👇

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

Donald Trump attempted a coup to remain in power.

Donald Trump stole top secret docs, upto and including TS-SCI, and kept them at his country club.

Maybe focus on that.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Markwayne Mullin is clutching a stress ball while answering questions from reporters