David Hemler

Nearly 2 million Americans on unemployment, highest since pandemic era Continuing unemployment claims jumped to 1.97 million in late July, according to a Labor Department report, highlighting a weakening labor market.

The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.

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From this month's edition of The Onion.

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

The new Director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, John Barron, has revised the jobs numbers for the last three months up from 106,000 jobs to "seventy trillion billion jobs."

Wyoming’s Largest County Finds No Evidence of Noncitizen Voting, Undermining State’s Anti-Voting Law Read more here.

A newly completed investigation by Wyoming’s largest county found no evidence of noncitizen voting in the 2024 elections, undercutting claims used to justify the state’s controversial proof of citizenship law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

It's telling that Donald Trump's takeaway from Jeffrey Epstein hiring Virginia Giuffre away from Mar-a-Lago is to feel sorry for Donald Trump because he lost an employee, not to feel sorry for Virginia Giuffre because she was trafficked and raped.

Carney says Canada plans to recognise a Palestinian state in September The move would make Canada the third G7 state to do so, after the UK and France said they will make a similar move.

Carney says Canada plans to recognise a Palestinian state.
#cdnpoli
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Oh Boy

How is it that we believe hundreds of WOMEN are lying
and that one MAN is telling the truth?😢

Virginia Giuffre didn’t kill herself.

Her choice to fight for herself killed her.

A fight that rages on even after her death.

Everyone involved in the Epstein case should hang themselves in shame.

They failed to give Virginia her life back.

Release that damn list & lock Trump
up!

🕊️💙🦋

Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago staff role President says pair fell out because Epstein poached staffers, including Epstein accuser who died in April

Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago staff role www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“She’s worse than Epstein. She’s a monster… Epstein was Pinocchio, she was Geppetto.”

Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants Even without subsidies, renewable energy is staying competitive with power from gas and coal

Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants

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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action

Israel-based human rights groups say that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

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Ghislaine Maxwell will be released before the full Epstein files are.

If they were to start their own network, I would definitely watch it

#USDemocracy

If I was the President and the whole world was calling me a pedophile, I would release every page of The Epstein files to prove I wasn’t there. Unless I was there.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Who Else Agrees ????

#Pinks
#ProudBlue

You can even tear up my degree from Clinton University—because I’m not in a cult.

I feel badly for Scotland and England but while he’s out of the country, can someone please change the locks?

DOJ slides into DMs of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell They're gonna make her an offer she can't refuse.

"In 2020, the government pointed to Maxwell’s 'willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct' as a reason to deny her bail. Now, with her entire life in the government’s control, it turns to her as a source of truth. Or, if not truth, a story that can help the president out of this jam."

Scotland's The National welcomes Trump!