BACKFIRE: James Talarico’s Fauci Action Figure Tweet Resurfaces After Damning Fauci Senate Hearing – “Let’s Help by Getting Vaxxed and Boosted!”

An old tweet from Texas Senate Democratic Nominee James Talarico has come to light, where he idolized the mass murderer Dr. The post BACKFIRE: James Talarico’s Fauci Action Figure Tweet Resurfaces After Damning Fauci Senate Hearing – “Let’s Help by Getting Vaxxed and Boosted!” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

What is Medicare Part D, the subsidy program the Trump administration plans to end?

The Trump administration announced this week it is making a key change to Medicare, a federal health insurance program widely used in the United States.  Medicare is a government-funded program managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS said Tuesday it will no longer provide federal subsidies meant to keep premiums stable for […]

What Anthony Fauci's Defenders (and Critics) Get Wrong

His legacy is one of failure.

Limelight-loving Fauci all smiles as he’s surprised by flowers left by adoring fan — after getting savaged by Senate Republicans

Dr. Anthony Fauci beamed with delight Thursday as he collected flowers from an admirer placed on the front steps of his $2.4 million Washington, DC home.

Mamdani's Judicial Appointments Scandal Just Got Worse

'Tough position': Todd Blanche gets stark warning as he ponders Trump betrayal

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will have to betray President Donald Trump if he has any hope of getting a positive Senate confirmation vote before the chamber adjourns, a new political analysis contends. Senate Republicans' mounting resistance to Trump's demands has only shortened the odds of Blanche's confirmation making it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, MS NOW host Ali Vitali argued Thursday. Blanche must also face non-committee Republicans who have expressed doubts about the president’s former personal attorney. This mounting pushback has caught Blanche in a trap, Vitali said. "In order to get this job, he was going to have to make agreements that put him crosswise with the person who wanted him to have this job in the first place," she said. "Donald Trump. Now we are watching the paradox."“It's going to be interesting to see the way that Blanche actually gets himself out of this, " Vitali said. "I do believe that to get himself out of committee is to be the thing that puts himself in a tough position with Trump, and we know how long people last when that's the case.” - YouTube youtu.be

Trump policies backfire: Corporate profits soar as Americans get shafted

As Trump’s tariffs and his war with Iran drive up prices of everything from oil to steel, you’d think big American corporations would be screaming bloody hell. Presumably, Trump’s tariffs and war are squeezing their profits just as they’re squeezing the wallets of average Americans.To the contrary, corporate America is quietly encouraging both Trump’s war and Trump’s tariffs. Why?One possibility is they’re raking in money off the war as defense contractors and suppliers. Some surely are, but this can’t account for the acquiescence if not outright support by most big American corporations that have nothing to do with the defense-industrial complex. Another possibility is they don’t want to p--- off Trump, fearing his retaliation. But if they were really concerned about the negative effects of Trump’s war and his tariffs on their bottom lines, surely they’d be using their armies of lobbyists and piles of campaign contributions to stop his war and his tariffs. After all, that’s what the armies and piles are for. There’s a much simpler explanation for corporate America’s silence if not encouragement. In point of fact, both Trump’s war and Trump’s tariffs are helping their bottom lines. Trump’s war and his tariffs are allowing domestic U.S. producers to raise their prices to match the elevated prices of imports. And those who aren’t directly affected are using the higher import costs as excuses to raise their prices, too.Presto! — corporate profits have exploded, and their stock prices have soared. But American consumers are getting shafted. Both Trump’s war and his tariffs are pushing up prices for a vast range of goods and services. The result is a massive redistribution of income and wealth from American consumers to big American corporations. This is the story of the American political economy under Trump that’s rarely if ever told, but it’s critical to understanding why Trump has been getting away with his war in Iran and his tariffs without much political opposition. Start with oil. Brent crude is now selling for $90.05 a barrel. If the war drags on it could push crude prices much higher, especially if it further depletes oil inventories, and spreads to Houthi militants starting a naval blockade in the Red Sea and to other Gulf states.Oil prices are set globally. As global supplies dwindle, oil prices rise across the board — including prices charged by domestic U.S. producers. They’re enjoying a huge windfall. With crude oil prices averaging $95 a barrel between March and June — up from about $66 before the war — ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Occidental Petroleum have collectively raked in some $31 billion in earnings for the second quarter of this year, according to FactSet estimates. That’s up from about $12 billion for the same period last year. These windfall profits have helped boost Big Oil’s stock prices. Big Oil’s investors and executives (who are paid partly in shares of stock) have done wonderfully well. But American consumers are bearing the burden, as gas prices once again soar past $4 a gallon, a dollar more than they were before Trump started his war on February 28. So is it any wonder that Big Oil isn’t criticizing Trump’s war, and is quietly rooting it on?Or consider steel. Trump imposed steel tariffs of 50 percent in March and June 2025. These tariffs have driven up steel prices in the United States. The tariffs have been a boon to American steelmakers, who have raised the prices they charge their American customers to match the higher prices now charged for steel from abroad. As a result, leading American steel producers like Nucor and Steel Dynamics report significant year-over-year earnings increases.Nucor’s profits in the second quarter of 2026 were $1.16 billion, up from $603 million a year earlier. Steel Dynamics has reported a second-quarter income of $534.1 million, nearly double its net income compared to the same period last year. A third U.S. producer, Cleveland-Cliffs, earned $97 million in the second quarter of this year (before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization), compared to a loss of $213 million last year, and the firm anticipates doubling earnings next quarter. Who’s bearing these higher costs? American consumers of steel — in the prices of everything we buy that contains steel (such as cars and appliances). The Producer Price Index (a widely used proxy for input costs) for steel mill products is now sitting at its highest point since May 2023. American-based producers that utilize oil and steel have been able to pass those costs on to their customers without harming their profit margins. Some corporations that don’t depend on oil or steel have used the higher import costs as excuses to raise their prices, too. Hence, Trump’s war and Trump’s tariffs are wins for corporate America. Profit margins are up, the value of shares on the stock market are up. Shareholders are happy.

'Laughably bad:' Expert reveals Trump's tanking on issue that won him the White House

President Donald Trump's standing on the issue that won him the White House in 2024 has collapsed to levels without precedent in modern polling, according to CNN's Harry Enten.The president's net approval rating on inflation, measuring approval minus disapproval, now sits 50 points underwater in CNN's latest polling – representing more than a 50-point swing from where Trump stood before the 2024 election, when voters trusted him on inflation more than Kamala Harris, creating a dynamic widely credited with helping him win a second term."The numbers are laughably bad," Enten said. "They are laughably bad, but no one is laughing about these.""I looked back at every single poll before President Trump that asked about inflation and the approval rating of the president," Enten added. "There has never been a president before President Trump who had ratings this bad."Seventy percent of Americans say the country is on the wrong track when it comes to cost of living, according to the polling. Even within Trump's own party, sentiment has soured, as half of Republicans now say the country is headed in the wrong direction on cost of living, compared to just 38 percent who say it's on the right track.Seventy-eight percent of Americans overall say Trump hasn't focused enough on lowering prices, and that skepticism has grown sharply among Republicans too, rising from 48 percent early in his presidency to 58 percent now — meaning a majority of his own party agrees he isn't doing enough on the issue."Honestly, that is insane," said CNN's Sara Sidner. - YouTube youtu.be