"Black Americans Are Losing Jobs in a Warning for the Economy Unemployment among Black people reaches highest level since 2021; ‘I am in the fight of my life’" www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
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"Black Americans Are Losing Jobs in a Warning for the Economy Unemployment among Black people reaches highest level since 2021; ‘I am in the fight of my life’" www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
30 cases of voter fraud annually, and the GOP passes 104 voter suppression laws. 47,000 gun deaths a year, and the GOP does absolutely NOTHING.
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
You left this out. www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-gi...
"Mr. Trump denied statistical reality last week when he was asked whether he might send federal forces into high-crime cities in Republican-led states. 'Sure,' he said, 'but there aren’t that many.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
MAGA GOP is a cult of white supremacy: Of trump's immigration actions, Democrats almost unanimously disapprove — 95%. And 72% of independents are opposed. But 79% of Republicans approve. Hate is all the GOP's got. www.latimes.com/politics/new...
Here's a better response to RFK's destruction of our public health system than what Senator Schatz is offering here, from JB Pritzker (with some additional ideas thrown in from me and public health experts): newrepublic.com/article/1998...
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
CNN should say it’s the Trump-inflicted injury. The article doesn’t even mention his name until the eighth paragraph. Cowards.
University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index was 74.0 in December, now 58.2 in August. Conference Board’s consumer confidence index was 104.7, now 97.4. Government officials shouldn’t go on TV and blatantly lie like this.
This isn’t politics. It’s not left or right. It’s not conservative or liberal. Cutting funding to treat children with brain cancer is hate and greed.
My colleague Matt Zucker (along with Kendra Albert) wrote on how Trump's attacks put reliable science at risk - gift link share.inquirer.com/RFiRkS - @standupforscience.bsky.social you'll like this one.
.@velshi.com “Head in the sand”? Please. Part of the problem is limp news coverage that turns every Dem wobble into a five-alarm fire while treating GOP extremism as background noise. That’s what depresses our base.
Democrats Predict Shutdown After Trump Tries to Snatch Congress’ Most Important Power talkingpointsmemo.com/news/democra...
Shutdown incoming
There is literally one historian interviewed in this whol long and unfocused piece — he (only men were interviewed) is an emeritus professor with a very loose definition of totalitarianism.
China tries to use Trump turmoil to unite leaders against U.S.-led order www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Right now in Michigan, we’re in the middle of a budget showdown. The Republican Speaker of the House slipped a provision into the budget that would kneecap our Attorney General – and make it near-impossible for us to take the Trump Administration to court.
“New York City is seeing a return of broken windows-style policing, which former mayor Rudy Giuliani popularized in the 1990’s” “97 percent of those stopped are Black and/or Latine despite making up less than of half of New York City’s population.”
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
This month spoke w the ambassador of a longtime close US allied country. The indignities, damage, and "the cruelty is the point" (tm A Serwer) that this allied country has been put through would defy belief, except that we see counterparts every day in ICE / MAGA news. Just for the record.
The Trump administration has enacted a sweeping suspension of approvals of almost all types of visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders, according to U.S. officials. The move will stop, at least temporarily, travel for medical treatment, business, attending university or visiting relatives.
Americans still don't seem to get it. Canadians aren't boycotting US products because of tariffs or trade wars—it's because the president has threatened to annex Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Thank you @adamkinzinger.substack.com Trump cares so much for our National Guard....NOT!! Puts them on orders for 29 days only so they are not paid housing allowance or health insurance Adam Kinzinger on X ⬇️⬇️
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Everything here seems true to me but I wonder how SCOTUS and Trump v Anderson (2024) might fit into this. States are supposed to run their own elections. Colorado correctly identified that Trump was ineligible to appear on their ballots under the 14th Amendment. SCOTUS intervened. Why not again?
Any baseball writers gonna ask Rob Manfred what "deal" he had with Trump about Rose before Rose died?
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
Trump said tonight he is going to issue an executive order purporting to require enforcement of voter ID rules: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u... The president has no such authority to order how elections are conducted.
Right. Same thing as 2020 [see below].Through 2 debates and a session on Economics in Chicago during the 2024 campaign I never heard a reporter bring up the cost of the 2020 tariffs & the bailout to farmers WE paid for to cover Trump’s tariff folly. I’m sick of it. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
*Court rules that Trump's policies are illegal but allows them to stand anyway* is the best summary of America in 2025 I know.
Because we are among the world's biggest human rights violators now. And allied with not one but two ajudicated war criminals. Well done, maga. You ended the empire.
A federal employee directory helped us figure out just how many workers have left federal health agencies since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term. Here’s how we crunched the numbers. By @pratheekrebala.bsky.social @anniewaldman.bsky.social @bxroberts.org
"Upgrade?" The Felon Administration is putting pressure on the Holocaust Museum to 'upgrade' the US response to Nazi Germany during WW2. They will whitewash the awful part of history when America turned away fleeing Jews. Many had to return, resulting in death.😢✡️ abcnews.go.com/US/upcoming-...
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We're trying to bully Japan into taking our LNG, but ... "Fossil fuels generated a record low share of Japan's utility-scale electricity supplies over the first half of 2025, marking an important milestone in the energy transition momentum of one of the world's largest fossil fuel consumers."
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... Trump going after Lisa Cook rings hollow.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
As people once again think about gun reforms in the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, I hope you’ll read my latest story, which is based on gun industry documents and pubbed in partnership with @thetrace.org and @rollingstone.com www.thetrace.org/2025/08/gun-...
Breaking News: The Trump administration moved to lay off about 500 employees at the news network Voice of America, two months after it retracted layoff notices. nyti.ms/3HT3cfV
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Attorney General Pam Bondi fired a Justice Department employee accused of flipping off National Guard members deployed to D.C., a Justice Department official confirmed.
West Point honored Robert E. Lee with the help of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Hegseth is honoring him with the help of Christian nationalism. White supremacist garbage in the 1950s and the 2020s.
Martin O’Malley, former Social Security Administrator, says the DOGE bro upload of SSA to cloud is the biggest data theft in history and could maybe lead to need to mass issue new SSA#s. 🤯 www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Military officials raised alarms that using troops during a July immigration raid on Los Angeles' MacArthur park posed an "extremely high" risk, including the possibility of "miscommunication and fratricide." The Secretary of Defense ordered that it go ahead. www.reuters.com/world/us/mil...
“Disaster money is just sitting,” one FEMA employee tells WIRED. “Every single day applicants are asking their FEMA contact ‘where’s my money?’ And we are ordered to just say nothing and redirect.” Trump wants to use the FEMA budget to build concentration camps around the world.
What's the best movie about journalism where they get all the little procedural details correct? The Paper and The Post are quite good in that respect I know people usually answer All the President's Men or Spotlight, but i'm wondering if there are some less well known ones that I'm missing
officially adding "public health civil servants" to the list of professions giving a good account of themselves under authoritarianism in the US www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
"Kennedy’s decision to oust Susan Monarez as director of the CDC over disagreements on vaccine policy proves that no one will provide an effective check on Kennedy — not Republican senators, not thoughtful leaders at HHS and certainly not President Donald Trump." From the Editorial Board:
I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...
This is insanity
The problem is Republican legislators and judges who make it easier to have guns. Too bad this column doesn’t say that.
The exodus has set off alarms among CDC staff: “My main concern is they will be replaced with puppets." www.wired.com/story/center...
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
What problems are solved by the government becoming a passive investor in Intel? Some simple analytics: If the government truly remains a passive investor -- as it promises -- this simply shifts stock certificates from one safe, to another, and nothing else changes.
"'People don’t want to reach this conclusion: This is authoritarianism."
NEW: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to permit it to withhold foreign aid funding that groups say is being illegally impounded by the president — setting up a crucial high court clash over the power of the purse. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Why won’t CNN just say Trump is a liar?
Once again, video evidence debunks a Trump story about somebody lavishing praise on him in a made-up conversation. It's so weird how every time his stories can be checked, they turn out to be bullshit. Almost like you can't trust anything he says. www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/p...
The U.S. government is holding a massive fire sale for mosquito nets, water towers, printers, generators, textbooks, agricultural equipment, and motorbikes that once belonged to USAID, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports.
NEW: More than 199,000 federal workers have left their jobs or have been forced out by the Trump admin since Jan. 2025, per a new report. That’s nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce. “We’re seeing the arson of our government." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump is firing the competent people in the national security apparatus because they are competent. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
A 2023 @pewresearch.org survey asked people in 24 countries about various kinds of government. At the time, 75% of Americans viewed representative democracy as a good way to govern, while 72% viewed strongman rule/autocracy as a bad way to govern. www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/...
Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
DOGE, you may recall, secured access to our Social Security data thanks to an unsigned, unreasoned shadow docket order. The Roberts Court dropped it on a Friday afternoon and barely anyone noticed.
Whopper lie. "There are no known links between large whale deaths and ongoing offshore wind activities." www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-england-...
Expect less of a fight against monopolies, and more of it shaped solely by the president’s private financial and political interests. Trump is the guy who throws a rock through your window so he can sell you a new pane of glass. trib.al/THy0vWI
🚨BREAKING: Trump just announced at his cabinet meeting that they'll seek the death penalty for anyone killing someone in the Capitol building. Families of the police officers who died at the Jan 6 insurrection and saw their murderers walking free would like to have a word.
He’s just itching for someone to get shot so he can crack down even more
The Death Penalty Information Center noted last month that while deterrence is “one of the most commonly expressed reasons” for using the death penalty, the evidence shows that “states that impose the death penalty are not safer than states that do not use the death penalty.”
Does this apply if his troops kill protesters?
Super important thought from Steve Levitsky, co-author of "How Democracy Dies." newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Small-dollar donations – contributions of less than $200 – are the lifeblood of campaigns and a key measure of voter enthusiasm. And on ActBlue, Democrats’ largest online fundraising platform, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received the third-most small-dollar donations in the first half of the year.
I think Trump wants someone to get hurt by his troops which would result in protests. Then he will crack down even harder and be more authoritarian.
Lisa Cook's Unjust, Illegal Firing- BRAVO... where are the other voices? the defenders of Fed independence? former Treasury Sectys? open.substack.com/pub/econjare...
Charles Borges, Social Security Administration’s chief data officer and whistleblower, said that DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server. Free 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
BREAKING: Trump-appointed judge *dismisses* DOJ lawsuit against Maryland judges over their decision to automatically pause deportation cases for 48 hours He also calls Trump and his admin's attack on judges a "smear" that is "unprecedented and unfortunate storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This seems like pretty stunningly inappropriate when appearing on an official tax-payer funded .gov website. Also, you absolutely would be wrong.
“refiling her case as a misdemeanor after they were unable to persuade three grand juries over a month to indict her…” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived. They’re simply fucking vile.
Haberman not even bothering to go with the "Trump moves" or "Trump says" qualifier. "Trump dismissed" Cook, in an "aggressive" move. Never mind the law.
If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...
GUN CRAZY (1950)
Major media once thought a Trump dictatorship was impossible, so they didn't warn the public about it. Major media now see the dictatorship arriving, so they're afraid to warn the public about it.
Red state cities w/ higher violent crime rates than DC & Baltimore DC’s violent-crime rate: ≈ 949 / 100k. Kansas City, MO: 1,724 Indianapolis, IN: 1,334 New Orleans, LA: 1,121 Wichita, KS: 1,022 Baton Rouge, LA: 1,027 We know why Trump is targeting DC & Baltimore.
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are steps you can take to evade it.
If Trump wants to throw the book at people who commit “violent crime” while desecrating the American flag, why did he pardon people who on Jan. 6, 2021 violently assaulted our cops with American flags-on-poles, calling them heroes and rewarding their bloody flag desecration?
He should have known. Either he’s a liar or incompetent (or both )
Trump falsely said he, i.e., the government, “paid zero for Intel.” In fact, the government paid approximately $9 billion for its stake in the struggling company.
His cult will still support him because of white nationalism
I think Trump knows what the consequences are and his billionaire friends will be fine.