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More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents. https://to.pbs.org/46d1uiJ
Three-minute test helps identify people at greater risk of Alzheimer’s, trial finds
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic. https://to.pbs.org/4mHnt79
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
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.
REASON: “Trump's tariff regime is making everything from American-made steel weights, imported yarn, and Amazon's "everyday essentials" more expensive while his immigration crackdown is causing worker shortages in key industries.” reason.com/2025/08/29/t...
We agree, @robhuebel — seems Dems should be talking about this: “State Dept denied Trump intervened on Alexandrovich’s behalf, but that appears implausible. Trump, Israel, pedophilia, corruption… a gift unicorn grazing in Dems’ backyard — And yet?” zeteo.com/p/why-arent-...
Now they care about data privacy
O'Neill isn't an RFK Jr type of guy. He is a Thiel type of guy. So is Vance. This isn't MAGA, it's NRx. The Dark Enlightenment is a heartbeat away from taking power.
Here's what is going on in China. Folks, if these countries form a military alliance (Russia and China already have) and decide to take on the USA... we're screwed.
Trump plan to redevelop Gaza into a series of luxury resorts is slated to contain up to six “AI powered smart cities”, according to the “prospectus” reviewed by the Post. The plan assumes the “voluntary” departure of all now living in Gaza. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
"Our military would be obliterated without the tariffs." "LA wouldn't be standing today if Trump hadn't taken action." These people are just fucking insane.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Hi. I’m the executive director of the organization that had the honor of hosting the FEMA Katrina Declaration and I can confirm this is a lie. NICE TRY, KRISTI! @standupforscience.bsky.social @atrupar.com
The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Are all of your articles written by AI now? Seems like ChatGPT refused to shut down again.
Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
“Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight”
Two firefighters held at Washington ICE detention center amid wildfire, US representative says reut.rs/4gkZFUB
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
The U.S. is one of the world's biggest human rights violators under Trump. Well done, maga.
Republicans keep saying the $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts are only cutting “waste fraud and abuse”… and yet not a single arrest. Funny how that works!
Anne Applebaum: European leaders "understand the stakes of the war, but also the profound change in Washington. And none of them will say this publicly, and I understand why...But they’re horrified by the Alaska meeting and by domestic politics inside the United States." youtu.be/F8yzpfxOm6o?...
Trump supporters are very angry this morning about people making jokes on social media after many years of telling the rest of us to have a sense of humor and don't take everything so seriously.
“Don’t need no fascist rules / don’t want no fascist schools / don’t want soldiers walking on the streets,” “Got to get the fascists out / got to clean the White House out … no more money to the fascists, the billionaire fascists” www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
Senior Pentagon official had affair with ‘notorious’ astrologer who stalked him, lawsuit says
Bondi fires Justice Department employee for gesturing at National Guard reut.rs/3JDrwTp
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
Well this is sobering : “produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in” < fortune.com/2025/08/28/t... >
Trump wasn't seen yesterday by the White House press pool. He wasn't seen today. He has no public events scheduled this weekend. Trump hasn't been seen in public since Weds, and it's unclear if he'll be seen in public until Tues. That's pretty damn weird.
A resonant echo of the famous September 1939 headline: “How the Hitler-Stalin Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Poland.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
“These policies have horrifically impacted people in rural America that vote for them because they weaponize their faith and lure them in.” - @mizzwelch.bsky.social
A Texas Republican lawmaker who last week blocked Democrats’ effort to filibuster the state’s gerrymander made disturbing comments at a 2022 legislative hearing — suggesting a way to deal with immigrants might be: “shoot, shovel and shut up.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"Trump is pushing us over the cliff so we can land in Thiel's uncanny valley." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
US builds up forces in Caribbean as officials, experts, ask why reut.rs/424dRev
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
This father nails how silly this manufactured problem is compared to real problems.
TEXAS: “Would I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?” REP. ORR: “No. It protects biological females.” @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : “That’s what I am.” More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...
Trump cabinet officials told a federal appeals court that ruling president’s global tariffs illegal would seriously harm US foreign policy, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warning of “dangerous diplomatic embarrassment.”
They're not MAGA. They're not Qanon. They're much more dangerous than either. And they're a heartbeat away from taking power.
Denying Palestinian officials this same access breaks with that precedent. It isn’t just unusual, it’s a dangerous deviation from norms the United States has upheld for decades!
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
ICYMI — Republican Former State Senator just had his law license reinstated by the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee after getting pardoned by Trump for campaign finance crimes. He pled guilty, only did 2 weeks. www.fox13memphis.com/news/brian-k...
Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS. This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.
oh come on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
28 USC §454 expressly states that “any justice or judge appointed under the authority of the United States who engages in the practice of law is guilty of a high misdemeanor”
Far-flung powers trying to exert authority over Boston haven't fared well historically
I wonder why Bill Pulte didn’t send this case over to DOJ with a criminal referral along with his selective targeting of Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook? apnews.com/article/paxt...
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
Congressional Democrats Predict Shutdown After Trump WH & OMB Try to Illegally Snatch Congress’ Most Important Power, Over The Budget talkingpointsmemo.com/news/democra...
“[Bill] Pulte got his job in the administration about three years after his wife, Diana Pulte, donated $500,000 to a super PAC backing Trump. The donation was channeled through a Delaware shell company, ML Organization LLC, that Bill Pulte controlled.”
In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.
"The mainstream press is still in self-flagellation mode over how they purportedly 'ignored' Biden’s decline. (In reality, they never stopped talking about.) But this soul-searching is apparently only backward looking and exclusive to Democratic presidents." — @playtyperguy.com
A court gave Trump the green light to start canceling federal workers' union contracts. Millions of public servants will have fewer rights and protections at work. Trump's Republican Party is anti-worker — period.
🔥 @mizzwelch.bsky.social : “It’s the complete moral collapse of the 🇺🇸 government… the cabinet meeting with 3.5 hours of superficial praise is so cringeworthy… he redecorated the Oval Office like Marie Antoinette and built himself a ballroom because he has zero intention of leaving…”
Detainees report alleged uprising at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘A lot of people have bled’
This is not how we make American healthy "Quitlines in some states may disappear altogether; in others, services are being cut back from several calls to just one, and nicotine replacement therapy that used to be available for all callers may only be given to a few" www.cbsnews.com/news/tips-fr...
If you watch the MSM 30 minutes a day, drop it for today and utilize that 30 minutes and listen to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social on the Mark Thompson Show. On second thought, don't watch the MSM at all.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
I really value @willsommer.bsky.social continued tracking of right wing meltdowns. MAGA’s Newest Meltdown With Trump www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-meltd...
Buying anything from overseas is about to get more expensive, more logistically complicated, slower, and overall more annoying. Film photography community, retro games community, people into skincare already seeing chaos on eBay. eBay sellers locking US buyers out. www.404media.co/trump-tariff...
At a profound level, MAGA's immigration policies are simply a way to transfer taxpayer dollars to private contractors whose job is to terrorize the American people. Fundamentally, leaders are using our own money to destroy our democracy.
"Detainees must navigate the plane’s stairway with their ankles chained together. Their wrists are also chained, and those cuffs are connected to a chain around their waist, so they can’t raise their arms, hold the railing or take big steps." apnews.com/article/ice-...
Karoline Leavitt on the CDC: "One of those individuals wrote in his departure statement that he identifies pregnant women as 'pregnant people,' so that is not someone who we want in this administration anyway."
Maybe one of them should actually run against Johnson instead of letting him slide into his seat unopposed.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Elementary school children are having to navigate thru a standing clutch of masked…who are they? “This is ridiculous,” a woman can be heard saying. Yes. And insanely dangerous.
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I'm tired of this theater where Donald Trump asks Republicans to do something, they seem to push bank and then cave. The only two factions of the current GOP are proud MAGA and scared MAGA. Anyone who thinks Republicans are acting in good faith is delusional.
Q: “Are you worried all this pushback could provoke Trump to follow-through with sending the National Guard?” MAYOR @brandon4chicago.bsky.social Johnson: “As a descendant of slaves, can you imagine if my ancestors had that same rationale?“
I have found a lot of use for Melinda Cooper’s concept of the anti-social state: a government that exists only to extract wealth and inflict violence, and dismantles all its pro-social and life-enabling functions. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Whoa. *needle scratch*
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Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
Reup: One thing many are missing abt Social Security whistleblower complaint is this: DOGE--including Big Balls, who has ties to criminal hackers--put ALL American Social Security data on an insecure AWS site AFTER SCOTUS GOPers intervened and let them do that. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
Reuters examined more than 500 criminal cases filed since August 11, when Trump declared a crime emergency in Washington. Trump's anti-crime task force was involved in at least 69 local cases of which nearly half were comparatively minor offenses reut.rs/45P8mBp
The political appointment, first reported by Democracy Docket, shows how self-styled election investigators who have thrown themselves into election conspiracy theories since 2020 are now being celebrated by a presidential administration that indulges their false claims.
ICYMI: Trump has just about decimated the federal workforce, with more than 199,000 people pushed out since Jan, per a new report. Nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce gone. “The services that Americans have come to expect are not going to be there.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
After all the fancy constitutional arguments & faux historical glosses, this is the practical endpoint of the unitary executive theory. Because when presidential power is effectively unchecked, the only thing preventing it from devolving into authoritarianism is the decency of the officeholder.
Yellen not at all pulling her punches in this op-ed for the FT www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
More than half the states have passed new reading laws since Sold a Story. We just updated our article and map. www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
Another great summation of where we are & how we got here, by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/sara...
1/5 🧵 Once again, this admin makes us all sick to our stomachs - This time... literally. 😷💩 CDC had to drastically cut back FoodNet surveillance because of funding cuts. Deadly outbreaks from Listeria, Campylobacter & others are now harder to spot, putting millions at risk.
This is an excellent piece by @stevevladeck.bsky.social. Not only does he lay out the case in a way that's easy to understand, but he talks about why the Trump administration feels like it can improperly run straight to SCOTUS. Definitely worth the read.
Republicans: Mass shootings: “it’s the price of freedom. Send thoughts and prayers” Homelessness: “Deploy the National Guard”
After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Pope Leo retweeted this from Senator Chris Murphy: “Your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.”
Communist regimes: Own companies Control their central banks Use tariffs to insulate their economies Use armies, false charges, home raids & arrests to intimidate the opposition Idolize their leaders with posters & praise Sound familiar?
"'People don’t want to reach this conclusion: This is authoritarianism."
DOT secretary said the transportation agency will better "manage" Washington's Union Station, including exploring private sector involvement.