Layoffs Already Higher Than for Any Full Year Since 2020 Announced US job cuts by quarter

It’s been harder than normal to get a grasp on the US labor market lately, with several agencies that produce key economic data, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, going dark during the government shutdown. Even before that, President Donald Trump’s efforts to downsize the US government left holes in the sprawling federal statistical system. But private datasets have helped fill in some of the gaps. A report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas showed almost 950,000 US job cuts this year through September, the highest year-to-date total since 2020—and that was before the heavy October run of announcements. (Excluding that first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, US job cuts in the first nine months have already surpassed full-year layoffs for every year since 2009.) When something is almost the worst since the Great Recession, North says, “that’s not a very encouraging number.”

Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
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This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

“Because COVID destabilizes the immune system, researchers are now beginning to see a link between repeat COVID infections and rising cancer rates in young people. One study recently found that a COVID infection can accelerate or increase cancer risk…”

Been thinking this all day

Every time Bezos smiles an Angel loses her wings.

Not only this is amazing because part of fascism is the destruction of joy but it also makes it look ridiculous that the military is being deployed to put a stop to this

Mountainhead (2025, w/d by Jesse Armstrong)

Jimmy Kimmel Said Nothing Wrong. Mostly Because He Didn’t Say What MAGAs Claim. The Kimmel scandal isn’t about Kimmel—it’s about Trump’s FCC capo Brendan Carr threatening Disney into axing an employee whose conduct Disney had no issue with. But it’s also not about Kimmel’s words.

We have gotten the whole Jimmy Kimmel imbroglio wrong.

Desperately wrong.

I’m gonna miss Hulu but not as much as I miss the 1st Amendment.

Has anyone seen any evidence Kirk had a moral compass? I've been watching clips of Kirk since he died—clips posted by people on the left and clips posted by people on the right—and I can't detect anything I'd refer to as a moral compass.

He sounds like a used car salesman for Christian nationalism.

It’s negative posturing and redneck macho bullshit on the highest order. “The War Department” implies aggression, which of course is exactly the point from this fascist regime. Eisenhower (not exactly a pacifist considering WWII) knew what he was doing when he changed the name.

As a big fan of the Willy Vlautin novel that is the source material, really looking forward to this

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

If we want to knock out crime in DC, we need to start at the Top.
#feloninchief

This isn’t about street crime (which in DC is at a 30 year low), or poor ole “Big Balls” getting “jumped” by 2 unarmed teenagers. This is to further insulate himself for when he calls off future elections and crowns himself King.
Open your eyes, do the math, follow the money. It’s getting dark.

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

they’re not wrong. lies and fearmongering literally led to this. it’s pizzagate all over again.

The grip tightens

Cancer and Covid must have given Trump and RFKjr gold bars.

Go ahead and call me a Liberal.

You get a grip. It’s just more misinformation being put out to an already stupid electorate and to call it “by accident” is a flat out lie. Wake up, our democracy is fading faster than an F1 racer.

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How the Sadistic Sex Games Trump and Epstein Played During a Seventeen-Year Friendship—As Told By Epstein Himself—Reveal the Epstein Secrets Trump Is Hiding WARNING: This report includes disturbing accounts of sexual misconduct from an eyewitness—namely, dead pedophile and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump’s best friend for over a decade.

(🚨) Maybe the most important report I have ever written. Please understand that this is a long and harrowing read—it is not aimed at instant enjoyment, but a genuine and substantive (terrifying) education. What I can promise you is that if you read it you are not going to be disappointed. Seriously.

Win Win

CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’ CBS said it planned to cancel Stephen Colbert's Late Show after next season, citing the weakening finances of late night

What a time for CBS to cancel Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” and blame it on a “purely financial decision”: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in “Network”

Let me tell you about another TV anchor who got to keep going on the air after he learned his show had been cancelled

Another one silenced.
F Paramount F CBS
Guess 60 Minutes & Stewart next.
#colbert

1975

DonOld tRump should’ve been arrested and held without bail, January 7th, 2021

Exactly this… 👇👇

Jessica Ramos basically admitted to Brian Lehrer that she thinks Trump will punish and single out NYC if Mamdani wins and that's her justification for backing Cuomo

First off, STOP MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON FEAR.

Second, stop giving that man more power by rewarding his racism with cowardice. FFS