Quick background, one breath: in February the Supreme Court struck down Trump's emergency-powers tariffs. A stopgap 10% global tariff was due to expire Friday. So at midnight Thursday, the administration rolled out brand-new tariffs on 60 trading partners — 10% or 12.5%, covering 99.4% of everything America imports — under a law about forced labor. Same blanket, new legal costume, zero hours of gap between the old regime dying and the new one starting. * Here is how NBC News headlined that: "U.S. sets tariffs on 60 trade partners as temporary duties expire." * Read it again. No Trump. No Supreme Court. No forced labor. No 99.4%. Just "the U.S." — the whole country, apparently — calmly "setting" tariffs the way you set a thermostat, while some unrelated duties happen to "expire" in the background like a gym membership. It's the headline equivalent of describing a jailbreak as "inmate updates address as lease ends." * The thing NBC's headline declined to mention is the entire story. The forced-labor rationale is so central — and so odd — that governments from Australia to Brazil spent Friday loudly rejecting it, since being tariffed "over forced labor" is an accusation, and it just got leveled at Canada, Japan and the EU. Al Jazeera's headline handled that oddness with a pair of tweezers: "Trump's latest 'forced labour tariffs': Who's been hit, how badly?" Those quote marks around 'forced labour tariffs' are load-bearing — they tell you this is the government's label, not the paper's verdict. NPR went with a serviceable "Trump imposes a new round of tariffs" — at least someone imposes something. * And if you think calling it a costume change is editorializing, take it up with the lawyers, who filed suit within hours arguing the new tariffs are "designed to preserve substantially the same broad tariff regime that this Court and the Supreme Court have held Congress did not authorize." That's the plaintiffs' claim, not ours — but it's a claim NBC's headline reader doesn't know exists, because in their version nothing happened except some paperwork changing hands at midnight. * Headlines are triage. Most people never read past them. When a court-killed tariff regime walks back in wearing a human-rights lanyard and the headline says "duties expire," the triage nurse just waved a resurrection through the lobby. The story wasn't that the old tariffs ran out. The story is that, functionally, they didn't.