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Donald Trump Just Delivered The Worst Three Months Of Job Growth Since The Pandemic The last six months of Biden’s presidency saw twice as many jobs added as the first six months of Trump’s second term.

NEW -- Trump's economy in his first six months has produced fewer than half the number of jobs created in Biden's last six months.

Trump's solution? Fire the head of the office that compiles the statistics.

That ought to fix it.

With @delaneyrules.bsky.social

www.huffpost.com/entry/july-j...

Another wild week made sense by @delaneyrules.bsky.social Senior Political Reporter @huffpost.com, Maria Recio, Washington Correspondent for Austin American Statesman and @evanmcs.bsky.social, Reporter @notusreports.bsky.social

Donald Trump Just Delivered The Worst Three Months Of Job Growth Since The Pandemic The last six months of Biden’s presidency saw twice as many jobs added as the first six months of Trump’s second term.

Donald Trump just delivered the worst three months of job growth since the pandemic.

His solution? To fire the person in charge of tallying the jobs.

story w/ @svdate.bsky.social

www.huffpost.com/entry/july-j...

FCI Dublin, a CA federal prison, closed in 2024 amid allegations of rampant sexual abuse. 10 prison guards, including warden & chaplain, are charged w sexually abusing inmates; many weaponized immigration status to abuse inmates.

Now, Trump is reportedly looking to reopen Dublin as an ICE facility.

There’s A Whole Separate Batch Of Epstein Files Pam Bondi Doesn’t Control The Treasury Department has thousands of records reflecting potentially suspicious payments to Jeffrey Epstein.

There's a pile of Epstein files at the Treasury Department in addition to the stuff Pam Bondi's hiding at DOJ.

Ron Wyden sent his team in for a look www.huffpost.com/entry/epstei...

NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident.

She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

Trump's Shifting Explanations Are Prolonging The Epstein Scandal He Wants To End So when, exactly, did the president stop being friends with the convicted sex offender?

Trump's infamous praise of Jeffrey Epstein as someone who likes women "on the younger side" was two years AFTER Epstein poached Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago

www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...

House Republicans Didn’t Previously Hesitate To Release Sensitive Investigatory Files House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said it could be “dangerous” to publicize investigative material related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Mike Johnson said it would be reckless to release the DOJ's Epstein files since they likely contain unverified material.

There was no such reticence among House Republicans to put out uncorroborated DOJ information on Joe Biden in 2023

www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-j...

‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death "In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"

An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

Donald Trump’s Favorite Schtick Is Dead In The Water The outcome of this bill will be a net negative for everyone except the rich — and it’s time to throw Donald Trump’s populist working-class schtick in the trash.

Trump's punitive budget bill is just a Paul Ryan wet dream. Time to put the populist working class party lie in the trash. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Interesting (and enraging) tidbit from @delaneyrules.bsky.social on NPR yesterday: Murkowski negotiated her bribe because she believed that Rand Paul would likely get the debt limit changed to get his vote. She figured if the bill would pass anyways, she may as well get something. It's just a game.

The big bill gives ICE $45 billion for new jails, which is five times the annual budget for federal prisons, and $29 billion for new ICE agents as Trump openly muses about deporting native-born US citizens.

"They put in this whole formula to make it look even more obscure from what was their obvious intention." @delaneyrules.bsky.social joins @samsteindc.bsky.social to discuss the "big beautiful bill's" weird SNAP overhaul clearly crafted to win Lisa Murkowski's vote:

If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome.

And yet:

Republicans' Absurd Food Benefit Policy Could Reward States Who Waste Money A plan to make states share the cost of food benefits got warped by an apparent effort to win over Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska.).

there is a comical screwup in the Big Beautiful Bill that would reward states for making improper food benefit payments and punish states that don't.

it's a provision that got twisted around in an effort to get Lisa Murkowski's vote.

haste makes waste!

www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

Would guess there are a lot of West Virginians who disagree with this (via @delaneyrules.bsky.social)

The Supreme Court Made 1 Thing Clear In Its First Term Under Trump 2.0 The decisions so far show that the conservative court isn’t going to act as a resistance to an increasingly autocratic president.

The Supreme Court confirmed what has been obvious since Trump v US. It won't stop him. Instead it expanded its line of Caesarist cases by giving Trump exactly what he wanted -- again. www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

Here's Who Could Stop Trump's Tax Bill In The House They probably won’t stop the bill, of course, but these are the guys who supposedly don’t like it.

Will House Republicans block the big bill? Signs don’t point to yes.

“If the Senate passes it, the House will too,” per Thomas Massie, who has seen his Republican colleagues fold a few times before

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Supreme Court Decision On Birthright Citizenship Could Cause Social Security Number 'Chaos' Trump's order would require Social Security to change its automatic system for issuing Social Security numbers to newborns.

Supreme Court decision on birthright could lead to Social Security number “chaos”

www.huffpost.com/entry/birthr...

Why Donald Trump Is Trying To Make An Example Out Of This One House Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) isn’t an anti-Trumper, but he won’t set aside his dislike of deficits to vote for the so-called Big Beautiful Bill.

Thomas Massie told me Trump's making an example of him to scare other Republicans.

“He’s doing this publicly and very flagrantly and notoriously in order to keep all of those people in line"

www.huffpost.com/entry/thomas...

Today’s ruling on birthright citizenship has the potential to cause chaos at the Social Security Administration, which assigns Social Security numbers to over 99% of all babies born in the US in an automatic data exchange with states.

Senate Parliamentarian Deals Huge Blow To Critical Part Of Trump's Bill The Senate’s rules referee said key Medicaid cuts aren’t allowed under the special process the GOP is using to deliver Donald Trump’s agenda.

Senate parliamentarian deals huge blow to critical part of GOP's/Trump's tax-and-spending package www.huffpost.com/entry/parlia... via @delaneyrules.bsky.social @igorbobic.bsky.social

'Big Balls' Is At The Social Security Administration The 19-year-old acolyte of Elon Musk has moved from DOGE to the federal agency responsible for sending out monthly checks to 70 million Americans.

“Big Balls” is at the Social Security Administration www.huffpost.com/entry/big-ba...

Republicans Consider Adding Tiny Band-Aid To Giant Medicaid Cut Rather than reduce the severity of the Medicaid cuts, Republicans are considering a "stabilization fund" for rural hospitals.

Republicans are working on a tiny bandaid to go with their giant Medicaid cut

story 2/ @igorbobic.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/medica...

Trump Court Pick For Lifetime Seat Refuses To Say If Biden Won 2020 Election The U.S. appeals court nominee claimed it is “political” to say Biden got the majority of votes and Electoral College votes to become president.

In his hearing today, Emil Bove:

*refused to say Biden won the 2020 election

*disputed or refused to discuss 1) his quid pro quo deal with Eric Adams 2) telling DOJ attys to violate court orders 3) firing DOJ prosecutors tied to J6 cases.

*may have lied under oath www.huffpost.com/entry/emil-b...

The Congressional Republicans Who Could Have To Get Their Hands Dirty Implementing Benefit Cuts The so-called Big Beautiful Bill will pinch state budgets, leaving governors to pick up the slack.

Some Republicans in Congress could wind up implementing their social program cuts as governors www.huffpost.com/entry/one-bi...

No proclamation, celebration or commemoration of any kind at the White House for Juneteenth this year t.co/9M2Djro4Aw

Former Trump Aide Steve Bannon Says Fox News Is Pushing 'Pure Propaganda' On Iran There is an intensifying dispute among President Donald Trump's supporters over whether the U.S. should join Israel in its ongoing attacks on Iran.

Fox News is "pure propaganda"

Netanyahu is "inappropriate" & shouldn't push claims about Iran after "the biggest intelligence failure since 9/11"

“The Pentagon['s] CENTCOM mentality" must "break"

Iran="Persia"

I had an illuminating breakfast with Steve Bannon:
www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-...

Does anyone remember if we’ve ever gone to war in the Middle East based on dubious intelligence?

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Democratic Crypto Supporters To Offer Belated Push For Presidential Crypto Ban Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) plans to introduce a new bill banning presidents from issuing crypto, but not before the Senate passes a crypto bill that omitted similar language.

NEW: Democratic Genius Act supporters will push a presidential crypto ban ... AFTER the Senate passes the Genius Act www.huffpost.com/entry/adam-s...