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Most CEOs Say Trump Has Harmed Their Businesses

September 22, 2025 at 11:23 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“In private, the leaders of some of the country’s best-known companies say that a number of White House policies have been bad for their businesses — and possibly illegal, per the results of a survey from Yale School of Management,” Axios reports.

Some results:

  • 71% of the CEOs said tariffs were harmful to their businesses.
  • 74% said that the courts were correct to find that the Trump’s tariffs are illegal as executed.
  • 80% said that the president was not acting in the country’s best interest by pressuring Fed chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates.
  • 76% said that Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is putting U.S. public health at risk.

Trump Scrambles to Save Kirk’s Young Voter Machine

September 22, 2025 at 11:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Trump White House is scrambling to preserve the powerful voter mobilization machine built by Charlie Kirk, whose assassination left a leadership vacuum at one of the right’s most influential political organizations,“ Reuters reports.

“Behind the scenes, the White House has held ‘preliminary discussions’ about Vice President JD Vance engaging directly with young voters.”

Harris Says She Was Reckless Not to Challenge Biden

September 22, 2025 at 11:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“In her first television interview about her new campaign memoir, Kamala Harris was pressed on what she meant when she wrote that it was reckless to let former President Joe Biden seek reelection,” CNN reports.

Said Harris: “I realized that I have – and had – a certain responsibility that I should have followed through on. And so when I talk about the recklessness, as much as anything, I’m talking about myself.”


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Murdochs Seek Return to Social With TikTok

September 22, 2025 at 11:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A Fox Corp. investment in TikTok would give the Murdoch media empire a platform with 170 million US users to promote a broad range of TV programming — from the NFL to The Simpsons — and a chance to redeem the family’s catastrophic purchase of MySpace 20 years ago,” Bloomberg reports.

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

September 22, 2025 at 7:39 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“We’ve got a lot of stupid people in this country running things.”

— President Trump, speaking to reporters this afternoon.

Sinclair Won’t Air Return of Jimmy Kimmel’s Show

September 22, 2025 at 7:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

While “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to ABC on Tuesday, the late night show won’t be returning to Sinclair’s ABC affiliates as the broadcaster will replace the show with news programming as discussions with ABC continue, The Wrap reports.

Trump Gives Unproven Medical Advice

September 22, 2025 at 5:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump spoke about autism and vaccines at the White House, giving direct and unproven medical advice about vaccines and the use of a common painkiller, acetaminophen, despite not having any medical background,” the New York Times reports.

“He declared that there was a link between rising autism rates and the use of the painkiller, the active ingredient in Tylenol. Scientists’ research on a potential connection has yielded inconclusive results.”

Associated Press: Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence.

Wall Street Journal Seeks Dismissal of Trump’s Lawsuit

September 22, 2025 at 5:22 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Wall Street Journal, its parent company and Rupert Murdoch asked a federal judge to dismiss Donald Trump‘s $10 billion defamation lawsuit over the publication’s report on the president’s past connections to Jeffrey Epstein,” Deadline reports.

“The attorneys also challenged the notion the that the article could have damaged Trump’s reputation, noting that he had ‘publicly admitted to ‘locker room talk’ and has made numerous bawdy public statements,’ as well as to his relationship with Epstein.”

White House Denies Homan Took Bag of Cash

September 22, 2025 at 4:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A White House spokeswoman denied on Monday that the president’s border czar, Tom Homan, accepted a bag with $50,000 in cash as part of an undercover FBI investigation last September, contradicting news reports about the case,” the New York Times reports.

“FBI agents working under cover made an audio recording of the September 2024 meeting in which Mr. Homan accepted the money in a bag from the fast-food chain Cava.”

Trump Agrees to Meet with Schumer and Jeffries

September 22, 2025 at 4:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Donald Trump plans to meet this week with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to discuss the looming government-funding crisis, Punchbowl News reports.

Justices Weigh Trump’s Power Over Independent Agencies

September 22, 2025 at 3:58 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider expanding President Donald Trump’s power to shape independent agencies by overturning a nearly century-old decision limiting when presidents can fire board members,” the AP reports.

“The justices have allowed the Republican president to carry out some high-profile firings while lawsuits play out, signaling the conservative majority is poised to overturn or narrow a 1935 Supreme Court decision that found commissioners can only be removed for misconduct or neglect of duty.”

New York Times: “A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Trump to fire one of the leaders of the Federal Trade Commission, the latest in a series of emergency orders enabling the president to remove Democratic members of several independent agencies.”

Trump Cancels Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars

September 22, 2025 at 3:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking back federal aid: the projects aren’t designed for cars,” Bloomberg reports.

Jimmy Kimmel to Return to Air

September 22, 2025 at 3:46 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show will resume broadcasting on Tuesday, days after Disney pulled the show indefinitely during controversy over the host’s remarks about the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Georgia Election Case Against Trump Hits the Skids

September 22, 2025 at 3:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Atlanta Journal Constitution: “It’s not quite over. The case will soon be transferred to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, a nonpartisan state agency that steps in when a prosecutor is removed or has a conflict. Whomever the executive director appoints to replace Willis could decide to pick up where she left off, slim the case down or dismiss it entirely. What is clear: There is no guarantee Willis’ evidence will ever go before a jury.”

“That means some of the most contentious elements of Georgia’s 2020 election — some of which are still being fought over in party and election board meetings, in the legislature and on cable TV — might never have their day in court.”

Mamdani Cancels Town Hall Over Kimmel Suspension

September 22, 2025 at 3:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, said on Monday that he was canceling a town hall on WABC that had been planned for this week, in protest of the decision by the station’s parent company to indefinitely suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show,” the New York Times reports.

Washington Post: Mamdani pulls out of event with ABC station after Kimmel suspension.

This Is How Democracy Ends

September 22, 2025 at 3:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Zack Beauchamp: “The kind of authoritarianism I fear is emerging in the United States, which political scientists call ‘competitive authoritarianism,’ doesn’t involve the outright criminalization of the opposition or formal martial law.”

“Instead, it depends on perverting the law, modifying and twisting it with the intent of incrementally undermining the opposition’s ability to compete fairly in elections.”

Trump to Redirect Funds for California High-Speed Rail

September 22, 2025 at 2:58 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Trump administration plans to allocate the roughly $2.4 billion that was stripped from California’s embattled high-speed rail to other transit projects,” Bloomberg reports.

How Much Trump’s Kids Have Made from His Presidency

September 22, 2025 at 2:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Forbes: “President Trump just had the most lucrative year of his life. But percentage-wise, members of his immediate family, including sons Eric, Don Jr. and Barron, did even better.”

“Crypto is the big driver, but additional funds have come from advising right-wing companies in America and partnering with cash-rich firms overseas, especially in the Middle East. Family members who never had significant fortunes of their own—Eric, Don Jr., Barron and Melania—have accumulated tens, then hundreds of millions of dollars. All told, the family (including the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner) is now worth an estimated $10 billion, having nearly doubled its net worth since last year’s election.”

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