Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

REPORTER: Is the president okay with this bill adding to the deficit?

#LEAVITT: “This bill does not add to the #deficit.”

Reality:

Independent estimates from the #Tax Foundation and CRFB say the “Big Beautiful Bill” could balloon the deficit by $3.3T–$5.3T over 10 years due to sweeping tax cuts.

The White House claims it saves $1.6T but the Council of Economic Advisers hasn’t backed that up with evidence.

Bottom line?

The math doesn’t lie. But apparently, the messaging does.

Trump admin lifts hold on offshore wind farm, doesn’t explain why
Reasons for the hold were never backed up, and nobody's explaining why it ended.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/trump-admin-lifts-hold-on-offshore-wind-farm-doesnt-explain-why/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/health/fda-covid-vaccines.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250520/p74#a250520p74

You'd never know reading the New York Times that charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver are nothing but an authoritarian attack. https://theintercept.com/2025/05/20/trump-prosecuting-democrat-mciver-ice-media

And that they are asserting that J6ers who Trump pardoned for attacking police were ALSO pardoned for prior drug and gun charges. This is not how you make police or the streets safer. It’s how you fire up a mob.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5304454/jan-6-pardons-drugs-firearms

Imagine Biden saying he doesn’t want to do anything that helps Tennessee

If you are a lawyer, a judge or just love a country based on equal protection under the law it’s time you’ve got to stand with LaMonica. A President who encourage his political supporters to attack the government is now using the government to attack his political opponents.

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist

https://www.404media.co/chicago-sun-times-prints-ai-generated-summer-reading-list-with-books-that-dont-exist/