A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on November 15, 2025.
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Saturday’s lesson was simple: when Trump says he has a fix for inflation, trade, or any other problem, the fine print usually arrives wearing steel-toed boots. On November 15, the story was not a single spectacular collapse so much as an accumulating paper cut that became a hemorrhage—more tariffs, more legal vulnerability, more evidence that the cure is often worse than the disease.
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The Supreme Court heard argument on Nov. 5, 2025 in the challenge to Trump’s tariff authority. A Federal Circuit order on Aug. 29 had set up the next stage of review, and the justices are now deciding whether the emergency law covers the duties at issue.