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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · 8d

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How many federal employees live in your state? | Economic Policy Institute

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you, @epi.org for the number of workers in each state and district page! I've been using it all day helping to explain the shutdown and unemployment for federal workers. (Link in replies.)

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · 9d

I hate that this is always relevant, but here it is: tcf.org/content/comm...

Unemployment Compensation for Furloughed Federal Employees and Contractors: A Guide to the Shutdown

As budget negotiations break down and a federal government shutdown appears likely, unemployment insurance (UI) benefits and Unemployment Compensation for

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · 9d

Tomorrow is going to be a big day for unemployment agencies even if the government doesn't shut down, because all the deferred resignation people will be trying to figure out if they are eligble.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 21d

This article ran one day ago.

POLITICO
Carr splits from the GOP's social media crackdown after Kirk killing Amid anger over Charlie Kirk posts, a key Trump ally said the First Amendment protects online speech.

By JOHN HENDEL and BRENDAN BORDELON
09/16/2025 10:09 AM EDT

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21d

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.

that fox news host still has his job.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · 21d

Be careful! Accepting her questline locks you out of the golden age ending.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24d

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.

The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d

Stephen Miller: "The last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven was he said that we have to dismantle and take on the radical left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence. That was the last message that he sent me ... we are gonna do that."

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The Century Foundation @tcfdotorg.bsky.social · 28d

Today, The Century Foundation published a new report from three of the nation's leading experts on unemployment insurance: Sec. @juliesulabor.bsky.social, and @aimstettner.bsky.social and @micheleevermore.bsky.social—leaders of DOL’s Office of UI Modernization during the pandemic: go.tcf.org/ui

A graphic pointing to a tcf.org commentary, "Our Unemployment System Needs Modernizing: Trump is Doing the Opposite," written by former acting Sec. of Labor Julie Su, Andrew Stettner, and Michele Evermore, featuring a photo of construction workers and grayscale headshots of the authors.

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Economic Speakers Bureau @econspeakers.bsky.social · Sep 7

Trump's Labor Dept. wants to create a national database of unemployment insurance claims. Expert @micheleevermore.bsky.social warns this will drain state budgets, expose workers' private wage data, and make fraud easier by centralizing all records in one system. news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/punching...

Punching In: Trump’s Crackdown on UI Fraud Brings New Fraud Risk

The Department of Labor is creating a national database of unemployment insurance claims to crack down on fraud in the jobless aid system and a group is continuing its challenge of the EEOC’s pregnanc...

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · Sep 5

All of the alarm numbers that I look for in a jobs report are flashing red right now: Black unemployment is up nearly a point and a half from last year, marginally attached is up, U6 climbing, youth unemployment is 10.6% and Black youth unemployment is a stunning 24.8%. RAGE and tariffs are bad.

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Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info · Sep 1

🚨 Join our next rally on September 5, the 143rd anniversary of Labor Day, to stand up for workers!

Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · Sep 1

Did you know the first #LaborDay celebration in the US took place on September 5? Join the Stop DOL Cuts coalition at the Department of Labor this Friday -- which also happens to be #JobsDay -- to fight back against the Trump regime's attacks on workers. 200 Constitution Ave. NW, 8am. Share widely!

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · Aug 19

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

White House sending social media teams with FBI on some arrests in D.C., sources say

The White House has dispatched social media teams alongside FBI agents executing arrest warrants in the nation's capital to generate videos that promote U.S. President Donald Trump's crackdown on crime in the District of Columbia, according to two people briefed on the matter.

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · Aug 19

Why is the White House embedding social media teams with FBI arrest teams? They wouldn't do that to go after undocumented cooks or teenage hooligans. (Link to story in comments.) Who are they going to arrest with the social media teams in tow?

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · Aug 17

West Virginia is sending 300-400 national guard to DC, South Carolina is sending 200, Ohio is sending 150. What's the plan here? Is there a resistance or what?

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · Aug 12

Justice for sandwich bro!

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · Aug 6

Tech friends: What kind of coding issue conveniently deletes parts of the Constitution that the current president is trying to work around? I'm not a coder, I need some help here.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Aug 6

Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.

Sections of the U.S. Constitution Missing from Government Website

Articles I, Sections 9 and 10 are inaccessible on Congress-run portal, raising concerns over transparency and public access.

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · Aug 4

Would we still be talking about past month's revisions in the monthly jobs report if he hadn't fired Commissioner McEntarfer? He Streisand Effect-ed the jobs numbers.

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · Aug 3

The number of finance and tech bros online asking AI to do what BLS does is honestly tripping me out

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · Aug 2

24 hours later, what I think the normal people are missing about what's happening at BLS is that they think this is about numbers. Behind those numbers are human beings who lost their jobs. The president isn't just trying to demand fudged numbers, it is actually the erasure of unemployed people.

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · Aug 2

This is the thread I am sending to people in my life who don't do this for a living to help them understand the enormity of what happened today.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Aug 1

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?

Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · Aug 1

In addition to everything everyone else is saying about firing Commissioner McEntarfer, if we start cooking unemployment numbers, what happens in the red states with less than 26 weeks of UI until the unemployment rate increases? How about extended benefits?

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · Aug 1

Elon's departure has not changed the pace of the data grab in this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...

States Have More Data About You Than the Feds Do. Trump Wants to See It.

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Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · Aug 1

Check out this super helpful brief on improper denials in unemployment insurance by @nelp.org's Flannery O'Rourke: www.nelp.org/insights-res...

Workers Denied: How to Diagnose and Prevent Improper Unemployment Insurance Denials - National Employment Law Project

Each year many workers who apply for unemployment insurance benefits are improperly denied.

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