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Kennedy Center finances deteriorated sharply after Trump name change Budget and meeting documents obtained by The Post show ticket revenue and fundraising plummeted even as leaders publicly touted a financial turnaround. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/08/25/kennedy-center-revenue-plunged-after-trumps-name-went-building/ Everything Trump touches, dies.

Just look at history for the last 100 years or so. The republican party has always been anti-worker and has opposed social security, minimum wage increases, medicare, etc, etc. Their platform has always been tax cuts for the upper class, racism for the lower class.

His cell phone.

From the editors of the Wall Street Journal: The Dumbest Trade War Revisited Trump’s decision to escalate a tariff brawl with Canada makes no economic or political sense. President Trump took exception last year when we called his tariffs against Canada and Mexico the dumbest trade war in history. It got dumber this weekend as Mr. Trump escalated with another round of border taxes on Canadian imports, a mere 10 weeks before midterm elections. Mr. Trump’s latest round of border taxes will hit an array of consumer goods, construction materials and manufacturing components. Republicans are already getting pounded on the campaign trail over his tariffs and inflation. One reason for Mr. Trump’s frigid approval rating is that voters believe Mr. Trump is waging blunderbuss wars without a strategy, and on trade they’re right. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-dumbest-trade-war-revisited-57c9fe81?st=ceuakW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Trump can't make a trade deal with Canada, our neighbor and ally, much less make a deal to end war his with Iran. The Art of the Deal.....lol

The outcome of the game is meaningless and not predictive. We all know that. That doesn't mean we can't tell that Deculus is terrible in pass protection and Barton is poor in coverage. The coaches evaluate individual performances in preseason games and in some cases those evaluations are used to make roster decisions and bottom of the roster guys know that.

Busted coverage

Trump's beef imports are gettng a huge backlash, mostly from ranchers and republicans https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/21/trump-beef-anger-01046346

The Dolphins will be in the running.

President Trump’s investment accounts continued to actively trade individual stocks in June, revealing they made more than 1,000 transactions, according to his latest government disclosure. Earlier this year, a 900-page filing revealed the accounts had made more than 21,000 trades last year https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/top-stocks/trump-discloses-1-000-stock-trades-in-june/ar-AA2aJqCu?ocid=BingNewsSerp

James Carville: I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

Better hope she's not on the payroll of another country.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Wednesday morning that the department would at least double its buyback operations for 10- to 30-year debt, from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation, starting Sept. 9. The timing mattered: the 30-year yield had just hit 5.34% on Tuesday, its highest level since June 2007, after a lackluster 20-year auction. The announcement worked almost immediately. The 30-year yield dropped to 5.184%, and the 10-year fell to 4.637%. Stock futures jumped and precious metals also rose. For a few hours, it looked like Bessent had found a lever that actually moved the world's largest bond market. The bigger story arrived within 24 hours. President Trump posted Wednesday night that he was launching an "ECONOMIC D-DAY" against Iran, describing it as the "most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country" and warning any nation providing Iran a financial lifeline would face consequences too. Oil responded first: Brent crude climbed as high as $94 a barrel Thursday morning, up roughly 3%, while WTI touched $87.01 Bonds followed. By Thursday, according to Bloomberg, the 30-year yield had climbed back to 5.26% -- seven basis points higher on the day and essentially back to where it stood before Wednesday's announcement. The 10-year yield touched 4.71%, just shy of its highest level since early 2025, before settling near 4.704%. In short, the entire move Bessent bought with a surprise doubling of buybacks evaporated in one trading session. Bloomberg's framing was blunt: bonds "unwound all of the gains" from the intervention. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/scott-bessent-steadied-the-bond-market-president-trump-s-iran-threat-wiped-it-out-in-less-than-a-day/ar-AA2azRg0?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a873191058a47e1b20965e8c6c6d4ff&ei=36

The largest buyer of Iranian oil is China. So is Trump declaring economic war on China? And btw, Trump has done nothing to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. We have no control over their uranium and no international inspectors on their sites (which we had under Obama's agreement) to check on their enrichment. We've gone backwards with less control.