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Trump thinks shooting the messenger will change the weak jobs numbers that came out today. It won't.
He should stop fueling economic chaos rather than attempt to cover up the harm he is causing.
He should stop fueling economic chaos rather than attempt to cover up the harm he is causing.
Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report
Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers "for political purposes."
www.nbcnews.com
August 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Trump thinks shooting the messenger will change the weak jobs numbers that came out today. It won't.
He should stop fueling economic chaos rather than attempt to cover up the harm he is causing.
He should stop fueling economic chaos rather than attempt to cover up the harm he is causing.
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And by the way — while many of us were there yesterday thanking these public servants, you know who didn’t have the guts to show his face?
Marco Rubio.
He didn’t even have the decency to be at the State Department as these American patriots were shown the door. Cowardice.
Marco Rubio.
He didn’t even have the decency to be at the State Department as these American patriots were shown the door. Cowardice.
Today I stood in solidarity with the over 1300 State Dept public servants who were fired by Trump and Rubio. These are American patriots who’ve dedicated their lives to advancing US interests & values.
This is America in Retreat. Our adversaries are smiling. A bad day for America.
This is America in Retreat. Our adversaries are smiling. A bad day for America.
Standing in solidarity with fired State Department employees
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
July 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
And by the way — while many of us were there yesterday thanking these public servants, you know who didn’t have the guts to show his face?
Marco Rubio.
He didn’t even have the decency to be at the State Department as these American patriots were shown the door. Cowardice.
Marco Rubio.
He didn’t even have the decency to be at the State Department as these American patriots were shown the door. Cowardice.
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The Epstein files are on Pam Bondi's desk right now but also they do not exist but also they do exist and were written by Obama and Hillary when Epstein died in 2019 when the president was Donald Trump.
July 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The Epstein files are on Pam Bondi's desk right now but also they do not exist but also they do exist and were written by Obama and Hillary when Epstein died in 2019 when the president was Donald Trump.
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I think it’s great that the main invention of the tech industry this decade is a climate killing automated nonsense machine that makes people cognitively stupider by using it and all of the corporate world is relying on it to eliminate jobs (while they kill off any remaining social safety net)
July 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I think it’s great that the main invention of the tech industry this decade is a climate killing automated nonsense machine that makes people cognitively stupider by using it and all of the corporate world is relying on it to eliminate jobs (while they kill off any remaining social safety net)
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What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
July 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
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Freedom Caucus is the biggest bunch of frauds in Congress. They talk a big game about debt on social media and Fox, then always vote to explode it followed by lame excuses.
June 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Freedom Caucus is the biggest bunch of frauds in Congress. They talk a big game about debt on social media and Fox, then always vote to explode it followed by lame excuses.
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Remember, this new normal -- in which gangs of masked armed gunmen are causing chaos in the streets, pulling weapons and assaulting innocent people, and no one can say if they're crooks or cops -- was all sold to Americans as a way to make us feel safer.
“In Pasadena last week, a man stepped out of his unmarked vehicle at an intersection, unholstered his pistol and aimed it at a group of pedestrians before returning to his car… That incident left the police chief of Pasadena resigned to figure out whether it was a crime or part of a federal raid.”
'Who are these people?' Masked immigration agents challenge local police, sow fear in L.A.
Local police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place. In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal agents, eroding years of work to have immig...
www.latimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Remember, this new normal -- in which gangs of masked armed gunmen are causing chaos in the streets, pulling weapons and assaulting innocent people, and no one can say if they're crooks or cops -- was all sold to Americans as a way to make us feel safer.
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It's becoming increasingly clear is that the right wing of this Supreme Court is extreme even among federal courts. The district courts and appellate courts keep appropriately halting this shit, expressing appropriate outrage, and trying to hold the line. Then SCOTUS blows it all up.
NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON
and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,
2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–
10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is
timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall
terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted,
the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala,
even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to
face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order,
it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical
personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreietxy2onxpw2fhgui4rl6cuor52zfdsq5dirhspuslk7tqxfq4rty@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It's becoming increasingly clear is that the right wing of this Supreme Court is extreme even among federal courts. The district courts and appellate courts keep appropriately halting this shit, expressing appropriate outrage, and trying to hold the line. Then SCOTUS blows it all up.
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You can argue as an intellectual exercise about whether this would be the right course of action for some hypothetical competent administration with a coherent strategy. But if you're trying to answer a practical question about what should happen in our actual universe, that's not really relevant.
June 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
You can argue as an intellectual exercise about whether this would be the right course of action for some hypothetical competent administration with a coherent strategy. But if you're trying to answer a practical question about what should happen in our actual universe, that's not really relevant.
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“I may do it,” he told reporters on the White House lawn. “I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.”
This is just the President of the US casually teasing whether or not he'll join Israel in a war with Iran.
We are the dumbest country on Earth.
This is just the President of the US casually teasing whether or not he'll join Israel in a war with Iran.
We are the dumbest country on Earth.
June 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“I may do it,” he told reporters on the White House lawn. “I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.”
This is just the President of the US casually teasing whether or not he'll join Israel in a war with Iran.
We are the dumbest country on Earth.
This is just the President of the US casually teasing whether or not he'll join Israel in a war with Iran.
We are the dumbest country on Earth.
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Hard to overstate the degree to which there appears to be literally no one in the president's current circle who has any experience, even at a low level, managing ANY kind of national security crisis or even situation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thoug...
Thoughts on Israel’s Iran Campaign and Donald Trump
I haven’t had a lot to say about Israel and Iran because...
talkingpointsmemo.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Hard to overstate the degree to which there appears to be literally no one in the president's current circle who has any experience, even at a low level, managing ANY kind of national security crisis or even situation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thoug...
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a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
June 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
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The current scene outside 26 Federal Plaza where Democratic mayoral candidate and City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested by ICE agents earlier for asking to see a judicial warrant.
The crowd supporting Lander is growing - and includes other elected officials.
(🎥 Annie McDonough)
The crowd supporting Lander is growing - and includes other elected officials.
(🎥 Annie McDonough)
June 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The current scene outside 26 Federal Plaza where Democratic mayoral candidate and City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested by ICE agents earlier for asking to see a judicial warrant.
The crowd supporting Lander is growing - and includes other elected officials.
(🎥 Annie McDonough)
The crowd supporting Lander is growing - and includes other elected officials.
(🎥 Annie McDonough)
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It would be great if America’s pundits would pause this entire genre. “Burning down my house means I don’t need to take out the trash!” Your cleverness is not winning the day right now.
June 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It would be great if America’s pundits would pause this entire genre. “Burning down my house means I don’t need to take out the trash!” Your cleverness is not winning the day right now.
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i just watched a clip of stephen miller talking to hannity from a few days ago and my god is that guy a stone cold freak. like, everything about him is profoundly off-putting, like a bug in an eggar suit
June 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
i just watched a clip of stephen miller talking to hannity from a few days ago and my god is that guy a stone cold freak. like, everything about him is profoundly off-putting, like a bug in an eggar suit
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Ask yourself: If the President so easily falls for photoshopped pictures he sees on Truth Social, what other complete falsehoods is he relying on when he makes decisions? How else is he being manipulated?
That wasn’t funny. It was scary.
That wasn’t funny. It was scary.
April 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Ask yourself: If the President so easily falls for photoshopped pictures he sees on Truth Social, what other complete falsehoods is he relying on when he makes decisions? How else is he being manipulated?
That wasn’t funny. It was scary.
That wasn’t funny. It was scary.
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I would like for stupid people to stop making important decisions that affect my life
April 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I would like for stupid people to stop making important decisions that affect my life
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
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Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want.
April 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want.
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This is injecting bleach for the entire global economy. And he's not just floating the idea: he's holding the syringe.
April 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This is injecting bleach for the entire global economy. And he's not just floating the idea: he's holding the syringe.
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I keep hearing pundits saying that various Trump crimes & follies "aren't landing with the American people." I can't believe we're still talking like this.
The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
March 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I keep hearing pundits saying that various Trump crimes & follies "aren't landing with the American people." I can't believe we're still talking like this.
The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.