David Rollert

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From this month's edition of The Onion.

But I was told that both parties are the same 🤷‍♂️

August 1, 2025 AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations Statement from the American Economic Association on the Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today. The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day. Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias. The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity. Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions. We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure. Lawrence Katz President, American Economic Association Katharine Abraham President-Elect, American Economic Association Karen Dynan Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics Kenneth Troske Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing

As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements

This is a big deal

CNN points out that June turned out to be the weakest month of jobs growth since December 2020 -- the last full month of Trump's first term

In China, the projected GDP-growth rate, and province-by-province output rates, always proved to be exactly correct!

The party would forecast 11.3% annual growth for a given province, and—surprise!—the provincial officials would report 11.3% at year's end.

Somehow this comes to mind today.

We *can* do this everywhere ❤️

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Conservatives would rather demolish the entire country at great expense than spend a single dollar to help people in poverty

The total loss of Republicans’ self-respect is mortifying to watch

Opinion | Mike Johnson Would Like You to Know About His Subservience

Mike Johnson Would Like You to Know About His Subservience www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...

I have never understood this, not even at the time.

What a horrible disappointment Roberts turns out to be

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

the basic message of the republican party is “fuck you, you’re on your own.”

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The hard truth

Rolling up in the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle from STRIPES, masked and armed to the teeth, all to snatch some roofer who probably rode there on a dirt bike just looking to do a day’s work.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

I was chilled to the bone when I saw this at the convention. All these nice people with cheerful Nazi signs

On 6/12, DHS Sec’y Kristi Noem said “We are staying here to liberate [LA] from the socialists and the burdensome leadership this governor and mayor have placed on this country and this city.” This use of military force to displace a democratically elected is the very definition of a coup.

Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.

Why sheriff Taylor doesn't carry a gun.
Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23.
Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.

By Jake Tapper

Opinion | Our porous borders have allowed too many thieves and drug addicts to infiltrate our country.

by Elon Musk

I’ll say this as many times as I have to.

No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.

The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

For years before I understood that Musk was so depraved, I was already very worried about privatizing NASA. I mean, that’s the plot of old Bond movies

Man Feared to Be Cognitively Slipping After Writing Book About Wrong President

Let’s keep saying it: the problem is it just Trump, but the conservative movement. There are conservatives that I have admired, and still do, but I note that every single one of them has opposed Trump almost from the beginning. The rest are showing us who they are, and who they always have been

Thank you for this. You gracefully explain what I’ve been feeling for a while now.