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Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.

NEW: Extraordinary footage has emerged of the huge tsunami that hit Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsula after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30th.

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You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.

Hoo boy, I bet. I had forgotten you lived there!

I also saw this the other day - sounds like folks are not a fan of economic chaos. Which makes sense!

Deals are generally reached between two parties who each want something. When one of the parties' desire is "to not be arbitrarily punished by the power of the state" that is not a deal, that is extortion.

Seeking to quell the backlash, the Justice Department dispatched a top official to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, Mr. Epstein’s longtime associate who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking. On Friday, Ms. Maxwell was moved to a lower-security facility. That fueled speculation that Mr. Trump might commute her sentence or even pardon her in return for her cooperation.

Here's how NYT explained that TRUMP'S FUCKING DEFENSE ATTORNEY went to meet the sex trafficker who "stole" his spa girls, turning one into a sex slave.

No mention of his name, no mention of his role as defense attorney, no mention that sex traffickers don't go to prison camps.

A stock trading ban for Congress is a no-brainer. And yet. You can have their brokerage accounts when you pry them from their cold dead hands.

New in PN: A stock trading ban for Congress is a no-brainer. And yet.

"It’s important for Democrats to remember that regardless of the fact that one can find MAGA bros cheering on whatever latest crypto scam the president and his family have engineered, as a general rule, *voters hate corruption*"

OVERNIGHT: DOJ confirms that the Epstein grand jury transcripts it is seeking to unseal were largely already made public during court proceedings and public victim/witness statements. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is complete fantasy. Just an absurd made up lie. The EU is not giving Trump “$600 billion to invest anyway I want.” They aren’t giving him 1 dollar to invest. It is just astonishing that a president can go on a financial network and lie like this & it barely registers. bsky.app/profile/atru...

a post which says "Bush wasn't taking rights away nor was he trying to cheat elections. The most harm caused under him was the Great Recession."

it must be hard to run a country when the whole population gets hit with the men in black memory erasing device every 4 years

Wanna see a crazy chart? Of course you do.

Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.

This is so important. The focus on job numbers ignores the fact that the BLS computes inflation (the CPI) which is directly linked to many government and non-government benefits. Any attempt at politicizing inflation numbers is very, very, very bad…

Some of my colleagues who are currently crying online about TX Democrats leaving the state are the same ones who left D.C. early so they wouldn’t have to vote on releasing the Epstein Files.

Kind of interesting how that works, huh?

so who is getting fired today

I'm never get over the fact that this administration's war on trans people is being carried out with the pretext of "protecting women and girls" while the president is a pedophile rapist.

That Kamala interview was heart breaking because it's one of the few times that I've ever seen a national political figure say the system is broken and that trying to work within it to change things probably wont work.

Obviously I don't speak for everyone who was talking about it, but.

In Parable of the Sower, the protagonist gets on a prepper evangelism kick of her own, and her dad gives her a lecture.

He explains that she is gonna freak everyone out and needs to slow her roll.

Not because she's wrong...

Parable of the Sower really messed with me, but one of the ways it MOST messed with me (in a good way) was its insistence on the inevitability and persistence of change.

We're never going back, but also we never WERE going back.

This rollercoaster never had a reverse button. Time never does

remember that we have an entirely predictable time bomb waiting in the jobs report when federal severance runs out this fall

The only things 80+% of Republicans, Democrats, and independents agree on are that everything is too expensive and the government should release all of the unredacted Epstein files.

Brett Meiselas: I’m against gerrymandering, but that doesn’t mean we unilaterally disarm. Governors like Newsom and Hochul are right to fight back. Democrats tried to ban partisan gerrymandering in the Freedom to Vote Act, which also included voter ID—but not one Republican voted for it.

This is my great-grandfather. With 8 kids to feed..he lost his farm during the depression. The banker, through connivery sold the farm… personally..and no doubt illegally…for personal profit.

We all have ancestors who came before us…who worked very hard. Remember them..as we fight for freedom.

I was thinking with a friend about how to describe the harms of AI, especially in a teaching and labor context, and came up with calling it a “coordinated campaign of mass deskilling” and I feel like that succinctly describes a lot of the problem.

New cure for cancer just dropped.
(Death. The cure is death.)

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people might say if you jail one president for crimes youll end up jailing all presidents for crimes to which i would say rad

Hi, former Foreign Service Officer here

The Secretary of State might be interested to learn that visa requirements and terms are generally reciprocal. We do it to them, they do it to us.

Whenever I see any framing that is like “This used to be America, what happened?” I think about how I was in my thirties before I learned George Washington’s “wooden teeth” were actually dentures made of gold, ivory, and teeth forcibly pried from the mouths of his slaves. That’s the FIRST GUY.

LISTEN. Tell your MAGA family.

From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/

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