Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post on 08.01.25 02:09 PM EST: I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Instead of helping people get good jobs, Donald Trump just fired the statistician who reported bad jobs data that the wanna-be king doesn't like.

Gaza is being starved. Fuck anyone that says differently

this week's post talks about what it means to build a better world by failing to build a better world

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Aug. 1, 1952: Sarah Keys Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus Sarah Keys refused to give up her seat on a state-to-state charter bus, prompting the landmark court case, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company.

#tdih 1952 22-yr-old WAC Sarah Louise Keys Evans from NC bravely refused to give up her seat for a white man on charter bus from NJ to NC.

She was arrested, filed suit (with lawyer Dovey J. Roundtree), & won in Keys v. Carolina Coach Co. #TeachTruth

Read ⬇️. 🧵
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Trump shrugged off today’s disappointing job numbers by calling them “phony” and accusing the Bureau of Labor Statistics of manipulating data to hurt him politically. His solution? Fire whoever gave him numbers he didn’t like.

We asked Americans if six different types of online scams or attacks had happened to them. Overall, about three-quarters (73%) say at least one has, with 32% saying it’s happened in the past year. 🧵👇

Legend has it this salamander came from hell. We’re about to send it back. Climate disasters, human sprawl, and now Trump: This is how extinctions happen.

How climate disasters, human sprawl—and now Trump—are coming for the Eastern hellbender, America’s largest salamander

Yesssss! Ditto to lots of what other folks have replied. It’s wild to watch it all.

Many people in power are not offering an honest assessment of where we are politically in this country because that assessment would call on them to do things they simply refuse to do. That's where we are right now.

Photo featuring three Black women in an outdoor space by trees, two subjects stand either side of the third who sits in the center with a quilt on her knee, to the sides are more colourful quilts

Tradition of quilt-making of Gee's Bend community, Alabama, classed as creating some of the finest US folk art #WomensArt

Weeks-old baby dies of starvation in Gaza hospital during ongoing blockade Medical sources also report 116 killed across Gaza, including 38 desperate residents seeking food at GHF site.

Medical sources also report 116 killed across Gaza, including 38 desperate residents seeking food at GHF site.

Same!

Crowd-Sourced Gentle TV List

Taskmaster. My version of emotional support is no emotional content for me to have feelings over.

And here's the Gentle TV spreadsheet w/ crowdsourced content warnings for people looking for new emotional support TV outlets.

This is brilliant. Thanks for sharing!

US House votes to yank funding for NPR, PBS, foreign aid, sending bill to Trump’s desk • NC Newsline U.S. House cleared legislation that will cancel $9 billion in previously approved spending for public broadcasting and foreign aid

NEW: The U.S. House cleared legislation just after midnight Friday that will cancel $9 billion in previously approved spending for public broadcasting and foreign aid ncnewsline.com/2025/07/18/r... @jennifershutt.bsky.social #ncpol #NPR #PBS

Inside America’s Quiet Safety Revolution: How Local Leaders Are Cutting Crime Without More Cops While national rhetoric leans on fear and force, mayors in cities like Chicago, Baltimore, and Birmingham are reducing homicides through data, community investment, and strategic prevention—not just p...

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Americans’ Views on Who Influences Health Policy and Which Health Issues To Prioritize About seven-in-ten Americans say insurance companies have too much health policy influence, but partisans disagree on the CDC’s role.

Majorities of Americans say it’s extremely important for the federal government to test drugs for safety (63%) and track the spread of contagious diseases around the country (54%).
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Hundreds of the detainees at the so-called "Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail in Florida have no criminal record, according to an investigation by the Miami Herald.

Summer reading recs from local bookstores + libraries Keep the summer reading going by finding your next page-turner, including recommendations from local bookstores.

Local librarians and booksellers (including us) weigh in on what you should be reading this summer!

(Spoiler: we suggested @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social, @shanehawk.com, @tvayyyy.bsky.social, and #MargePiercy 🔥📚)

What do you bring to the fight? What have you been fighting for years? What are the skills that your needs versus wants bring to the fore?

What makes you dangerous? Not the one-time danger of an assassin with bad aim but the daily danger that drives the engine of revolution?

Essay: Exhaling Photograph: Robert E.

And moreover: there is no such thing as a revolution that requires one single hero or one single action that overwhelms the fuckery into defeat.

Embrace the long haul. Embrace the discomfort. And fight hard as hell to make the fascists even more uncomfortable. www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-exha...

Resist while resisting the idea that through one action we can take right now everything will go back to normal. First, there is no “going back to normal.”

Kill the fascist within you.

a group of people standing in front of a sign that says countdown on it ALT: a group of people standing in front of a sign that says countdown on it

"Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes."

BREAKING: At least 56 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn, sources at Gaza hospitals have told Al Jazeera.

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