"Bridge"
Teableau for 08/25/25

The painting is "Bridge" by Joseph Stella, 1936, for the WPA. You know, back when the US federal government could actually do something good for the country and its people.

Trump’s DOJ warns of another Great Depression in court filing to save tariffs – MSNBC

An absurd new court filing from the Trump administration tries to scare a U.S. appeals court with grim predictions of economic catastrophe should it uphold and immediately enforce a ruling that blocked many of the president’s haphazard and widely unpopular tariffs.

On Monday, the Justice Department basically copied and pasted a hysterical plea from Donald Trump’s Truth Social account, in which the president claimed the country would experience another Great Depression if the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit confirms and enforces a May decision from a Court of International Trade panel that found many of Trump’s tariffs on foreign countries were illegal. Judges at the appeals court have already expressed skepticism about the Trump administration’s arguments.

In a letter to the court, Solicitor General John Sauer and Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate argued that even if the judges agree that some of Trump’s tariffs are illegal, they should hold off on enforcing its decision while the administration appeals to the Supreme Court. And the letter was replete with Trumpian self-praise and propaganda:

There is no substitute for the tariffs and deals that President Trump has made. One year ago, the United States was a dead country, and now, because of the trillions of dollars being paid by countries that have so badly abused us, America is a strong, financially viable, and respected country again. If the United States were forced to pay back the trillions of dollars committed to us, America could go from strength to failure the moment such an incorrect decision took effect.

These deals for trillions of dollars have been reached, and other countries have committed to pay massive sums of money. If the United States were forced to unwind these historic agreements, the President believes that a forced dissolution of the agreements could lead to a 1929-style result. In such a scenario, people would be forced from their homes, millions of jobs would be eliminated, hard-working Americans would lose their savings, and even Social Security and Medicare could be threatened.

The country, of course, wasn’t “dead” a year ago — though it has teetered on the brink of recession under Trump and continues to suffer the impact of his protectionist agenda. For instance, U.S. companies paying these tariffs have started passing the costs on to consumers.

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#2025 #America #DonaldTrump #GreatDepression #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #MSNBC #Politics #Resistance #Science #Tariffs #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpLies #UnitedStates

100% we are about to hit #GreatDepression level #economic numbers & they’re just going to hide it as best they can. #EJAntoni

Um, #tariffs, #AI stealing jobs, #BenefitCuts, #FoodShortages because of #ClimateChange and #farmworkers being arrested. Friggin' projectionist!

#Trump warns of '#GreatDepression' if appeals court curbs tariff power

by BRETT ROWLAND | The Center Square
Mon, August 11th 2025

https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/trump-warns-of-great-depression-if-appeals-court-curbs-tariff-power-court-of-international-trade-congress-economy-liberation-day

Old Joe Kennedy said, before the crash of 1929, he knew it was time to get out of the market when the shoe shine boy was divining him stock tips?

“The uncomfortable fact about its historic run is that no one is sure why it’s happening—or what could bring it to an end.”

#stocks #crash #depression #recession #GreatDepression
https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/08/stock-market-theories/683780/

#Trump's #inflation is up 2.7% from a year ago when Biden was in office, yet another broken campaign promise from #DictatorDonald. As everyone with 2 brain cells predicted #TACO's #tariff #taxes #Americans pay on imports are now the highest since the #GreatDepression despite chickening out twice & have the same negative effect on the economy today.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/15/nx-s1-5468293/inflation-cpi-consumer-prices-tariffs

(1/2) Conservatives have never cared about troops, only about sending them to die. Example: On #ThisDayInHistory in 1932, the #BonusArmy was attacked in DC. A group of black and white WWI #veterans were peacefully asking for help during the #GreatDepression. They were shot...

most popular film actresses of her time, #ColleenMoore assembled a legion of her industry colleagues to help craft this miniature home of fantastic proportions. She shared it during the #GreatDepression, touring the

most popular film actresses of her time, #ColleenMoore assembled a legion of her industry colleagues to help craft this miniature home of fantastic proportions. She shared it during the #GreatDepression, touring the

most popular film actresses of her time, #ColleenMoore assembled a legion of her industry colleagues to help craft this miniature home of fantastic proportions. She shared it during the #GreatDepression, touring the

most popular film actresses of her time, #ColleenMoore assembled a legion of her industry colleagues to help craft this miniature home of fantastic proportions. She shared it during the #GreatDepression, touring the

most popular film actresses of her time, #ColleenMoore assembled a legion of her industry colleagues to help craft this miniature home of fantastic proportions. She shared it during the #GreatDepression, touring the

America’s economy roared in the ’20s… then it collapsed. In our newest episode, we unpack the Great Depression: Wall Street’s fall, the Bonus Army, FDR’s New Deal, the Dust Bowl, and how America found its footing again.

https://url.thaliyal.com/srfN

I may as well be a #greatdepression survivor at this point.

I was so poor for five years straight that I've found myself hoarding #food like everyone who lived through that time we know/knew.

I'll find something I like, then buy about 30 of them as my brain thinks I may never have money again.

I don't need to do this as the place I stay caters two meals a day.

I'll take free Denny's on #california.

#shelters are pathetic.

You'll be in line for plain grits sometimes.

#politics #BBB #History #GroverNorquist #Taxes #oligarchs #fascism #greed #GreatDepression #GDP #Banking #Wages #Childern #Elders #Drougnt #NewDeal #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 6/30/25
REPUBLICAN PLAN TO TAKE US BACK TO THE “GOOD OLD DAYS” OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION..BUT THEY WILL BE RICH

my dad (who is active with the Workers’ History Museum in Ottawa) asked me to share this Vancouver showing of one of their films tomorrow, June 3 at VIFF Centre here in #Vancouver
"Featuring hundreds of archival photographs and extracts from multiple historical sources [...]
Filmmaker Juan Andrés Bello will be in attendance and joined in conversation afterwards by representatives from the BC labour sector."
https://viff.org/whats-on/never-forgotten-on-to-ottawa-trek

Today in Labor History May 26, 1895: American photojournalist Dorothea Lange was born. She is best-known for her empathetic photographs of people during the Great Depression. However, she is also one of the first to document the suffering of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned during World War II.

Lange grew up poor, in New York’s Lower East Side. She was one of the only gentiles in her school, which was predominantly Jewish. As a young adult, she moved to San Francisco, where she began her career doing portraits for the wealthy. But as the depression began, she turned her camera to the streets, on hobo camps, refugees from Oklahoma, farmers, breadlines, the homeless, portraying the misery and desperation of the period, becoming one of the first photodocumentarians. 22 of her photographs were used in John Steinbeck’s 1936 journalistic series for the San Francisco news, The Harvest of Gypsies, and they served as an inspiration for the film version of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.