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sorry, I don't make the rules, but isn't this a 350% reduction?
gregdoucette.bsky.social T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 5d
"U.S. employers added just 181,000 jobs last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday. That was 69 percent fewer jobs than its initial estimate of 584,000. The agency also lowered its estimate of job growth in 2024 by nearly 28 percent."

🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/b...
Screenshot of a graph from the linked article, showing US job growth over time since 2023. The curve goes up and to the right until 2025, when it becomes essentially flat.
February 13, 2026 at 2:37 PM
by skyrockets, he means incrementally grows, but still stays well below what it was even at the height of covid...
February 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I know several prominent facilities nearby that can be adorned with President Donald J. Trump's name, for posterity.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
it will be a fun park to visit...
park museon in Moscow, where a large number of Soviet era monuments is dumped.
February 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
obvioisly, the UIUC (and perhaps all of @uofilsystem.bsky.social) should remove the RSO status from this extremist group, so they cannot use campus resources to spread their violent messages.
February 2, 2026 at 3:07 PM
I think it shows increasing sophistication of Trump's coalition: 24% of them want to militarily attack Taiwan (matching the numbers for PRC), and 16% have Iceland in their sights.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 29, 2026 at 8:33 AM
proved him wrong
January 25, 2026 at 1:42 AM
he is a master of his metaphor.
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 27d
Vance on the economy:

"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
January 22, 2026 at 7:57 PM
China’s solar and onshore wind capacity reaches new heights, while offshore wind shows promise - Global Energy Monitor https://share.google/oivueppImwtr9GC3h
January 21, 2026 at 2:08 PM
jeez, at least Putin considered role in the US for Trump without announcing it publicly.
January 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM
"nobody will touch this sacred piece of land"
January 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I think Vatican and Monaco should be the nest easy targets. just think about property the US can sell to up those accounts in Qatar...
mollyploofkins.bsky.social Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · Jan 17
Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…
January 17, 2026 at 3:29 PM
in a polite society someone whom a rapist attacks is forced to talk about "fundamental disagreement"

www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
Danish minister says 'fundamental disagreement' remains after 'frank' Greenland talks with US - live updates
US Vice-President JD Vance hosted ministers from Denmark and Greenland to discuss the Arctic territory's future.
www.bbc.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
as usual, Trump aims to severely underpay - the lump sum they discuss starts at $10K per person, that is what Denmark provides Greenland with *each year*

www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US
U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources famil...
www.reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:55 PM
"all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us," - obviously, by the other Assets they mean our precious bodily fluids.
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
cannot wait till they declare woke Marxism a WMD.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
DESIGNATING FENTANYL AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
December 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
apropos of nothing, in February 1982, CPSU General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev was awarded Gold Medal by the World Federation of Trade Unions.

apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...
apps.dtic.mil
December 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
in the end it's just who can pay the crime family more. right now Hamas & Co are underdogs, but everything is open for renevotiations.
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
oh! guillotines re-entered political lexicon...
is that smart on their part though?
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
50-ies poster style, showing a front yard of a suburban home, blue skies. father is throwing a transparent bag with various medical supplies inside into the trash bin. mother holds 3 years old daughter, 7 years old son stands nearby. all smiling. slogan reads: "Make America Healthy Again"
November 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Party at the helm!
November 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
a poster in the style of 50-ies, showing white male american worker, huggoing a masked ICE officer, smiling, with american flag on the background, and the slogan reading "unbreakable unity of the Army and the people"
November 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
all this rhymes with 1925-35 period of Soviet Union: deviations of all kinds, always summoning quotes from Marx and Lenin to support their ideas, but in the end it turned L+M's ideas supported Stalin's way.

just wait till deep analysis of RR's corpus reveals he was deep MAGA before MAGA...
October 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
not sure we should assume agency here. like with Binance Zhao pardon - "people told me... I reveverse a lot of Biden's rules..."
October 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
WWTO, we will raize that outdated White House South and erect a magnificent public library on its ruins.
October 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM