Translation: In six months, the economy will be tanking, but we’ll be able to falsify the numbers.
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Translation: In six months, the economy will be tanking, but we’ll be able to falsify the numbers.
"Among those detained were South Korean employees on business travel.... "The raid could raise concerns for South Korean companies that are sending personnel to the US and hiring locally." It comes weeks after Hyundai pledged $26 billion in US investments. Gift link ⬇️ www.wsj.com/us-news/u-s-...
Cabinet secretaries, lying on the record
JD Vance said the government had to deport undocumented immigrants because they increase demand for and thus prices of housing for citizens. What they’ve actually accomplished is to decimate construction of new supply, which will definitely increase prices for everyone
This is a deeply reported, heart-pounding read Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
With revisions, here's private sector job creation prior to the April tariff announcements Jan +79k Feb +107k March +114k April +133k and after May +69k June -27k July +77k August +38k
CNN: When the jobs report comes out, are you going to believe the numbers? REP. RANDY FINE: Um, I'm going to look at the numbers. Look, the people who put these numbers together are human & fallible and make mistakes C: It wasn't that they make mistakes F: Numbers always tend to benefit the left
The governor of Hawaiʻi is a medical doctor, and it’s not surprising that we’ve joined the West Coast Health Alliance formed by California, Oregon, and Washington to coordinate public health guidelines and vaccine recommendations.
Great time for the U.S. to raid a battery plant construction site in Georgia and arrest 450 people, including executives of the company building the plant!
BRUTAL JOBS REPORT: Just 22,000 jobs added in August. Unemployment rises to 4.3%. Broader jobless rate jumps to 8.1%. Slowest 4-month growth since 2020. Plus, downward revisions for June and July of -21,000. Yikes.
So much greatness.
Hawaii’s health insurers say they will cover COVID vaccinations for anyone older than six months, despite new FDA guidance that says children and healthy adults don’t need the shots.
this reminds me that i think people would be less interested in “raw milk” if we called it “poop milk” or “shit milk”
Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…
It's not getting the same attention as USAID or CDC, but the Trump administration is hollowing out and destroying the Department of Veterans Affairs just the same.
25th Amendment all day long….
also great to hear ICE is getting sniper training.
Where we are as a country in two posts. 1. He claims the power to arbitrarily prosecute you while granting allies impunity. 2. He claims the power to engage in extrajudicial acts using the military and law enforcement including the use of lethal force. We fought a revolution to prevent this.
I know Dems see everything as a ruse to prevent them from talking about health care, but I’d encourage them to consider the effect on incentives when they’re silent on dovetailing developments like “Trump murders Venezuelans in the Caribbean” and “Trump nepo-hires sniper to train ICE agents.”
Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
Enough with the backroom scheming. If Trump is serious about intervening in the mayoral race, he should come to New York City and debate me directly.
There are people in public life clearly and accurately stating the danger to America at this bizarre moment. Those people need support from every Conservative and Liberal American who find our Constitution worth preserving.
A modest proposal for these folks: The current president has to pass your proposed citizenship test before you can impose it on everyone else.
Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.
The Justice Department's acting deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will "redact every Republican" from an Epstein client list and "leave all the liberal, Democratic people."
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid-19 vaccines to anyone who requests them, regardless of age or underlying conditions.
Particularly notable given that Bove is now a judge on the court tasked with deciding whether or not Alina Habba legally has a job
First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.
Drove across DC border to Maryland, and got flu shot and (new) Covid shot, at CVS. We qualify, by age. "A ton of people have been coming in for these." Go to hell, RFK Jr.
Soybeans are collapsing because China isn’t buying them. The farm economy is in deep trouble. Because of our needless trade war that we are clearly losing. Maybe farmers will wake up
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.
Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in
“Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters.” (Gift link) Murder first. Research legality later. Trump simply wants the unchecked godlike power to smite anyone he likes.
Trump's never going to get to heaven like this! Tuesday's cold-blooded strike on a boat in the Caribbean that murdered 11 people has zero legal justification, but that's not the worst part. He's sending a message that a dictatorial POTUS has no limit My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Three co-authors told Vox that they were informed last month that the Trump administration did not intend to publish the final draft of the study or its findings. www.vox.com/health/46008...
My message to Donald Trump is very simple.
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
A different way to say this — they will define whoever they want as an enemy they can kill on sight. We are all in great danger, and so is our nation.
Recall Trump’s admiration for Rodrigo Duterte.
Being asked about crazy inflated numbers by antivaccine groups regarding how vaccines kids get. ANS: we went from vaccinating vs 8 diseases when I was a resident in the 1980s, to 16 diseases today. But of those 16, 11 diseases are combined into just two shots. Breakdowns below:
Horrifying story, and yet horrifyingly understated. This is a five-alarm fire. These are war crimes. This is murder. Trump should go to prison for this. Servicemembers should have refused their orders.
RFK Jr has taken a chainsaw to American public health and undermined the mission of HHS. It's no surprise the patriots who still believe in that mission are calling on him to resign. He is a danger to Americans' health. He should be fired immediately.
Wyden to RFK Jr: "I hope that you will tell the American people how many preventable child deaths are an acceptable sacrifice for enacting an agenda that I think is fundamentally cruel and defies common sense."
Spoke further with the @nytimes.com about the legal issues raised by the US attack on a vessel in the Caribbean. “Do the people in that boat off Venezuela constitute enemy fighters? And what facts are you going to look at to make that assessment?” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
The Nazi early prohibition on Jews from owning guns has been an NRA talking point for decades.
NEW: Trump has targeted political foes — including Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook — for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers. But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.
I don't post much any more, but for everyone poring over the manifesto, scrawlings, and footprint following the Minneapolis shooting, here's a timesaver. The aim is to be remembered, discussed, to turn oneself into content that then becomes the next reference on a gun.
“As one extremism researcher posted last week, the goal of these attacks is to join the lineage of mass shooters and for the next killer to inscribe their name on a gun before an attack.”
Imagine at your summer internship a guy gives a talk about how women generally have lower IQ. It's awkward enough that a senior administrator later explains that the talk was inappropriate. Now, imagine reading that the President has nominated this person to lead a major govt agency!
“It affirms that the government cannot extort money from private institutions for political reasons,” he said. “That’s important to everybody, not just Harvard.” www.wgbh.org/news/educati...
Geier is one of the most cracked of crackpots. He was stripped of his medical license in MD and promotes wildly anti-science crankery. Having him work with the government using medical data is not just an embarrassment, it's a huge threat to public health. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Florida — where “you have no idea if there could be a measles outbreak or, God forbid, even polio will reappear. So, we are in uncharted territory.” @thehill.com thehill.com/homenews/sta...
Earlier this summer, there were ~12 congressional Republicans ready to push for disclosure of all Epstein files. Only 6 were needed because all Democrats were expected to support the effort. But after Trump repeatedly called the files a "hoax," the GOP support has dwindled to only 4.
72 government officials have resigned in protest rather than carry out actions they believed violated the law or their oaths of office—just since Trump’s second term began. That’s nearly 450 years of civil service experience lost. 🧵
it is, in fact, a difficult question because SCOTUS invented presidential immunity and defined it broadly enough to make it difficult
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
"On Sunday, the govt tried to kidnap hundreds of Guatemalan kids and sneak them out of the country. This gross abuse was only halted by the quick action of Judge Sooknanan. It was a remarkable display of judicial tenacity and a testament to how the DOJ has shredded its credibility with the courts."
Selectively revoking constitutional rights for vulnerable minority groups is a GIGANTIC red flag. The reddest possible flag.
absolutely fascinating that louisiana is begging trump to do fascism to new orleans so that he doesn' t lose face for doing it to chicago
Something rare—maybe unprecedented—is unfolding in D.C.: Grand juries are refusing to indict Trump opponents whose minor acts of defiance have been inflated into felony charges. Washingtonians have few tools to resist the occupation of their city. This is one of them. slate.com/news-and-pol...
rfk: we need to figure out why so many people feel hopeless and are on antidepressants. also, lightbulbs cause autism and we are getting rid of water.
Susan Monarez, who was recently fired as director of the CDC, warns that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was actively seeking to undermine the scientific process used to make influential public health recommendations.
I’ve been calling them a Confederacy of Shitheads but calling them a Confederacy of Psychopaths is better.
A Confederacy of Psychopaths
Oh this bodes well.
this was never going to be true because stephen miller hates immigrants no matter whether they’re in red states or blue states and absolutely doesn’t give a shit about the administration’s popularity
WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?
#ImpeachRFK
#ImpeachRFK
Sen. SCHIFF: Would the president be immune from prosecution if he ordered Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political opponent? Trump nominee: *dodges* Schiff: Is that a difficult question? Nominee: *avoids question* Schiff: I’m asking a yes or no. Is he immune? Nominee: *dodges*
If we ever get past the era of Trump and presidents like him, it'll take a long time for us to fix everything that's been broken.
#ImpeachRFK
#ImpeachRFK
Hilarious the Louisiana Gov and Senators are now asking Trump to federalize the Guard to take over New Orleans like supplicant subjects should. Let's remember. The Gov can do this any day of the week. That's what the Guard is. A state militia. Asking Trump to federalize them is some weird GOP kink.
Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."
BREAKING: Sen. Warnock gets RFK Jr. to admit that he demanded that then-CDC Director Monarez fire CDC officials before her firing.
McConnell saw Trump for what he was and it was all the more damning that he chose not to remove him from American politics when he was uniquely positioned to do so open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
This is a damning anecdote from Rep Jim McGovern. He tells me that during debate over Trump's big budget bill, House Rs privately admitted to him that it would screw over their own constituents, yet they had to vote for it anyway. Read all of it. He wrecks them: newrepublic.com/article/1999...
seems to me that roberts has decided that it is the job of SCOTUS to protect the administration’s exercise of radical executive power irrespective of what the law says
This might be the dumbest time to be alive.
Trump's surge of federal law enforcement into Washington, D.C., is exposing the FBI's fleet of unmarked cars, potentially risking its ability to do its most sensitive national security and surveillance work, nine current and former employees of the bureau warned.
Wyden on RFK Jr: "This committee's unwillingness to swear in this witness is basically a message that it is acceptable to lie to the Senate Finance Committee about hugely important questions like vaccines."
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society
NEW: In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases. “It is inexcusable,” a judge said of the Supreme Court justices. “They don’t have our backs.”
“This is an encroachment on everything we signed up for and it feels like a violation.” Schuyler Mitchell spoke with Alex, a National Guard recruiter, who said the DC mission has deterred potential recruits and pushed already-disillusioned soldiers to their breaking points.
Going to play out his Central Park Five fantasy www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms. It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro. It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume. When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.
The last 100 years of US politics
So fun fact if you are looking for a legal authority to tell the public your strike was conducted under a few days after you did the strike then the strike was just illegal bsky.app/profile/chri...
Colorado Secretary of State:
One more time: one of Trump's key lessons from the first administration is that he needed lawyers who would never say no. The whole administration never says no.
In fewer than five years, Bari Weiss managed to parlay her resignation as an NYT columnist into a massive platform on Substack and then into editorial control of CBS News--making a vast fortune along the way--all off the absurd claim she's being silenced. First ballot hall-of-fame grifter.
We're in a bad place when we're arguing which laws were broken depending on which administration lie is true.