Stock market PLUMMETS as the US is begins the Second Great Depression. Amid Trumps FAILING trade war that MAGATS voted for, the stock market was left REELING Friday with massive losses as an across the board sell of rocked wall street. The jobs numbers came back and they were very very bad. But great news (not) trump is firing the guy responsible for the jobs numbers and replacing him with a crony. AGAIN.
DJIA -1.2%!?
SP500 -1.3%!!?!
NASDAQ -1.7%!!??!?
https://economictimes.com/news/international/us/u-s-stock-market-plunges-today-as-dow-sp-500-and-nasdaq-sink-deep-in-red-a-stormy-start-to-august-on-wall-street-as-weak-jobs-report-and-trump-tariff-turmoil-spark-economic-recession-panic/articleshow/123046147.cms
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https://www.newsweek.com/stocks-plummet-amid-tariffs-weak-jobs-report-trump-fires-labor-official-2107830
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/us/politics/bresnahan-congress-stock-trading.html

Over the first several months of his freshman term in Washington, Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr., Republican of Pennsylvania, became one of the most active stock traders in Congress, despite having campaigned for his seat on a promise to end stock trading by lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Now Mr. Bresnahan’s trading is attracting more scrutiny after he made several transactions that appeared to benefit from the consequences of his own votes on the House floor.
Democrats are working to weaponize Mr. Bresnahan’s trades against him as they plot a campaign to oust him in next year’s midterm elections, and some Republicans privately concede that the issue could hurt him in his highly competitive district as they attempt to hold onto their slim House majority.
It is not just the striking number of trades that is dogging Mr. Bresnahan, a wealthy former chief executive of an electrical contracting company who was a top G.O.P. recruit. As of Thursday, he had made 626 stock trades since taking office, according to Capitol Trades, a site that monitors the stock market activity of lawmakers. That number made him the second-most-active trader this Congress.
It is also the possibility — or at least the appearance of one — that he could be benefiting financially from votes he made in Congress in favor of elements of President Trump’s domestic policy agenda that could end up harming his constituents.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pentagon-s-recruitment-boast-unravels-as-strikingly-beautiful-soldiers-revealed-as-ai/ar-AA1KBh2J?

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The Department of Defense claimed on social media that its recruitment of women into the armed forces is going great. The problem, however, is that when they bragged about it in an interview, artificial intelligence photos were used.

AI-generated images were part of an effort to "make it seem like the government’s recruitment efforts are actually working," The New Republic reported Friday.

Edith Olmsted wrote that a "propaganda segment" appeared on Matt Gaetz's show on Thursday, where DOD press secretary Kingsly Wilson cheered "incredible success" bringing women to the DOD.

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“These numbers are fantastic. Under the previous administration, we had about 16,000 female recruits last year. Now we’ve got upwards of 24,000,” Wilson said.

Images showed "photographs" of what Olmsted called "strikingly beautiful and notably diverse female officers." However, a watermark appeared in the corner of each image showing that they were images created by Elon Musk's AI named Grok. The writer called the recruits "nothing but ghosts in the machine."

Billions will be spent to reach more than 107,000 beds, including in mega-facilities, tents and at least two new family detention centers, according to an internal agency roadmap.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/15/ice-documents-reveal-plan-double-immigrant-detention-space-this-year/

When President Donald Trump took office this year, the United States already commanded the largest immigrant detention system in the world with a capacity of close to 50,000 migrants. Right away, his administration set a goal of doubling it.

An internal planning road map obtained by The Washington Post shows for the first time exactly how immigration authorities plan to reach that goal, including by opening or expanding 125 facilities this year. By January, ICE will have the capacity to hold more than 107,000 people, internal agency documents show.

Apparently you can't keep up a fake emergency if you don't arrest anyone, and no ones surprised Trump can't keep it up

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/15/trump-dc-police-chief-dea

White House officials and attorneys for Washington DC have agreed to scale back the Trump administration’s takeover of the city’s police department.

Under an agreement announced early Friday evening, the US capital city’s Metropolitan police department will remain under the control of its chief, Pamela Smith, instead of Terry Cole, the top administrator for the Drug and Enforcement Administration (DEA), according to reports.

A revised directive Bondi issued late on Friday referred to Cole instead as her “designee” for purposes of directing the DC mayor “to provide such services of the Metropolitan Police Department as the attorney general deems necessary and appropriate”.

Those services, according to Bondi’s two-page order, would include assisting federal immigration enforcement, contrary to DC “sanctuary city” policies constraining metropolitan police department action on immigration.

Friday’s pact would also allow the Trump administration to use Metropolitan police department officers for federal purposes in emergencies.

It comes after Washington DC sought an emergency restraining order on Friday against Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department, dubbing it a “hostile takeover” of law enforcement in the nation’s capital. US district judge Ana C Reyes had signaled that she would issue a temporary restraining order scaling back the Trump White House’s takeover of DC’s metropolitan police if the administration did not alter the arrangement by Friday evening.

Reyes, during oral arguments on Friday, expressed skepticism that the Trump administration has legal authority to run the city’s police force or that Cole could effectively take charge of the department as its chief.

Yet another one. Federal felony corruption charges, prominent Democrat. This time it's the (first female) mayor of New Orleans. She was stealing money from the city. Even after being warned three years ago that she was committing felony fraud she continued doing it
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5455134-new-orleans-mayor-indicted-on-federal-corruption-charges/
New Orleans mayor indicted on federal corruption charges

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell (D) was indicted on federal charges Friday after an alleged affair with a local police officer.

Cantrell, the city’s first female mayor, is accused of engaging in a romantic relationship with Jeffrey Paul Vappie II, a police officer in the executive protection unit.

Court documents allege she orchestrated out-of-state trips to maximize their opportunities to engage in “personal activities” that cost the city of New Orleans more than $70,000 in addition to travel expenses for Cantrell.

Prosecutors say both Cantrell and Vappie were warned about misconduct in 2022.

“Public officials should be in their jobs to serve the public and not themselves. To do otherwise is a breach of the trust that undermines the public’s faith and trust in their own government,” acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana Michael Simpson said at a Friday press conference.

The Democratic mayor is in her final term as the city’s leader and is now charged with making false statements and false declarations before a grand jury, conspiracy to obstruct justice and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Nobody is surprised.

>Women doxxed and shamed men.
>These women were then doxxed and shamed in return.
Poetry.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hackers-leak-user-data-thousands-020825855.html

Hackers leak user data from thousands on Tea app, a safe space for women to chat about men

Administrators of the Tea App, which is designed to help women “date safely” and reportedly boasts over four million users as of this week, confirmed the breach Friday.

The cyber attack occurred at around 6.45 a.m. PT, when the app’s legacy storage system was compromised and hackers gained access to all user data prior to February 2024.

The stock market is done "crashing" >>1423905.
The "stock market crash" ran for a full 1 trading day, and the 1% drop seen by indexes has now recovered.
This historically huge crash will surely make the history books for generations to come
https://www.investors.com/market-trend/stock-market-today/dow-jones-sp500-nasdaq-market-sell-off-tesla-stock-tsla-musk/
Stock Market Today: Dow Bounces After Market Sell-Off; Tesla Rallies On Musk Pay Package (Live Coverage)

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and other major stock indexes rebounded in morning action Monday following Friday's stock market sell-off. Among the gainers were Palantir Technologies (PLTR) and Tesla (TSLA), the latter of which rallied on the stock market today after the company approved a new pay package for Chief Executive Elon Musk.

After the opening bell, the Dow rose 0.6%, while the S&P 500 gained 0.7%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite moved up 0.9% in morning trade.

The 10-year Treasury yield ticked lower to 4.2%. Oil prices fell with West Texas Intermediate futures selling around $65.70 a barrel.

Stock Market Today: Palantir, Figma, Shopify, Spotify
Just after the stock market open, Palantir Technologies, Figma (FIG), Shopify (SHOP) and Spotify (SPOT) were among the big movers.


Tesla Stock Rallies On Musk Pay Package
The electric-vehicle giant approved a new pay package for CEO Elon Musk, awarding him 96 million shares. As of Friday's close, those shares were worth about $29 billion. The shares only vest if Musk stays CEO through 2027, and they have a five-year holding period.

The pay package comes in place of the 2018 incentive deal for Musk that was blocked by a Delaware court. It will act as interim compensation should that 2018 deal be reinstated, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note to clients.

"We believe this grant will now keep Musk as CEO of Tesla at least until 2030 and removes an overhang on the stock," Ives said.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/02/politics/the-trump-administration-takes-a-very-orwellian-turn

Back in March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeted at the Smithsonian Institution that began as follows: “Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”

Despite the high-minded rhetoric, many worried the order was instead a thinly veiled effort to rewrite history more to Trump’s liking. The order, for example, cited a desire to remove “improper ideology” – an ominous phrase, if there ever was one – from properties like the Smithsonian.

Those concerns were certainly bolstered this week. We learned that some historical information that recently vanished from the Smithsonian just so happens to have been objective history that Trump really dislikes: a reference to his two impeachments.

The Smithsonian said that a board containing the information was removed from the National Museum of American History last month after a review of the museum’s “legacy content.” The board had been placed in front of an existing impeachment exhibit in September 2021.

Just to drive this home: The exhibit itself is about “Limits of Presidential Power.” And suddenly examples of the biggest efforts by Congress to limit Trump’s were gone.