Bill Grueskin

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Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Baltimore, Miami Herald, WSJ, Bloomberg, Columbia J School bit.ly/bgcjr

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Prosecutors redacted "portions of the transcripts they gave Perry. She asked them to bring unredacted copies to a hearing. "But moments into it, prosecutors announced they’d dismiss the conspiracy charge and abandon the grand jury’s indictment — proceeding with misdemeanor charges" instead.

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Doesn't look like we'll be seeing $2.90 gasoline anytime soon, based on these headlines today

EXCLUSIVE

Iran in Talks With Oman Over Permanent Hormuz

Toll System Iran and Oman are discussing how to set up some form of a permanent toll system that will formalize its control of maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

Exclusive: Supreme Leader says enriched uranium must stay in

Iran, Iranian sources say Iran's Supreme Leader has issued a directive that the country's near-weapons-grade uranium should not be sent abroad, two senior Iranian sources said, hardening Tehran's stance on one of the main U.S. demands at peace talks. T hour ago

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When this happens, the next reporter has to ask the EXACT SAME QUESTION. This is not that hard!

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Why is the top prosecutor at SDNY even blabbing about this case?

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Four hours ago, Fox News came out with a new, devastating poll, showing Trump’s disapproval rating on the economy is 71%. It’s the 31st headline on Fox’s home page. Below the story about the 50 rattlesnakes found on the set of ‘Dutton Ranch’

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When ICE comes to town: “We see no evidence that employers increase wages to attract U.S.-born workers to fill these jobs in the face of immigration enforcement. “Instead, our results are consistent with employers reducing labor demand overall, including jobs often taken by U.S.-born workers.”

LABOR MARKET IMPACTS OF ICE ACTIVITY IN TRUMP 2.0
Elizabeth Cox
Chloe N. East
Working Paper 35129
http://www.nber.org/papers/w35129
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
April 2026
We are grateful to the Russell Sage Foundation for funding. The vie

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When Bezos is right, he's right. And right. And right. And right. And right. And right. And right. And right. And right. And right. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/c...

BEZOS: At all. Why SORKIN: BEZOS: That's $1,000 a month that could help with rent r groceries or anything. And so - and by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3 percent of the taxes. It's only 3 percent. We can find 3 percent. So we don't have - it's a small amount of money for the government. SORKIN: Right. BEZOS: You know that and really, it's - and the more I thought about it, to me, it's kind of absurd that we're doing this. You know, we shouldn't be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington. They should be sending, ser: apology. It really makes ne sense. SORKIN: Okay. But then on the other end, the question is, should you be paying higher ta 's to pay the 3 percent component part of this that you think is going to need to he paid for, if not more than that, given the debts we have. BEZOS: The -it's certainly a perfectly valid policy debate - SORKIN: Richt. know, the kind of the line that gets quoted all the time is, you know, the wealthy should pay their fair share. SORKIN: Richt. BEZOS: And i That's okay. But the vilification is the thing that's just the distraction. SORKIN: Right.

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Queens who makes $75,000 a

paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?

- to say, do we want an n more progressive tax system? So, you

argue about what the fair share is. That's a policy debate.

BEZOS: And by the way, if you really are being honest about it, we don't have a revenue problem in this country. We already have the most progressive tax system in the world. The top percent of taxpayers pay 40 percent of all the tax revenue. The bottom half pay only 3 percent. We have already, and I think it should be zero. I don't think it should be 3 percent. SORKIN: Right. BEZOS: I think it should be zero. So we would be making, more progressive that way. Te actually have a spending problem and that's a skills issue. I mean, let me give you an example. The New York City school system- SORKIN: Right. BEZOS: They spend $44,000 per student, $44,000. That's 30 percent more per student than other big cities like Chicago, I A., and Boston. And it's three times more than Miami and Houston. And by the way, New York City doesn't it better outcomes. So what this, listen, let me, let me just say, if we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system- SORKIN: Right. BEZOS: Your packages would take six weeks to arrive. We'd have to charge you $100 delivery fee. And then when the package did finally arrive, it'd have the wrong: SORKIN: Right. BEZOS: We can't, that's a skills issue, Andrew. SORKIN: Right.

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New Quinnipiac poll on Trump and the economy: In April, he was 38% positive, 57% negative. In May, he's 33% positive, 64% negative And among Republicans? He's gone from 9% disapproval in April to 24% disapproval in May. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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The Post lost > 250,000 subscribers after Bezos screwed up the editorial page, and an additional 60,000 subs after he fired around half the staff. Doesn’t seem like profit is his actual motive here.

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"We just won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service," Bezos brags, without mentioning the Pulitzer Prize winners he laid off.

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