
Busy couple of days. Trump’s tariffs are fighting a losing battle in federal court, and his Iran talk spiked oil prices — working families are paying for both. In New Mexico, it turns out nobody searched Epstein’s Zorro Ranch for 26 years. New documents are explaining why that might have been convenient. Here’s what happened.
The Bag of Rocks: SCOTUS, Iran, and the Week America’s Economy Got Kneecapped
His tariffs were ruled unconstitutional — not just bad policy, but illegal. The same week, his war rhetoric over Iran sent oil prices spiking, which means higher gas prices, which means working families are carrying the cost of both. SCOTUS handed him a loss. The market handed everyone else one. This piece connects the two and names the people who will never feel the impact of either.
Zorro Ranch: The Crime Scene Nobody Searched
For 26 years, Epstein’s New Mexico compound sat unsearched while the federal case circled everything except the actual property. New documents are out now, and they raise the obvious question: who decided Zorro Ranch wasn’t worth looking at, and what would they have found if someone had? This is the piece the New Mexico angle needs.
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