Monique Morrissey

A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump

This story leaves unexplained just why it is that Loomer has the crazily outsized pull with Trump that she does. She's been around for years. But there's not much pre-2024 that wld point to her having THIS much pull. Does not add up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

screenshot of the Wikipedia entry for the Nixon Jew count, which reads as follows: The "Nixon Jew count" of July 1971 is the name given to then-President of the United States Richard Nixon's attempts to demote and remove Jews from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

54 years ago...

If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized.

If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.

Oof, these two headlines juxtaposed…

This half Canadian agrees, and for the record poutine is a relatively modern invention.

Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor for D.C. - we have an election denier and January 6th enthusiast as our top crime fighter. She is a liar and conspiracy theorist & is in charge of prosecution in my community. And we couldn’t get the US Senate to stop someone so unqualified.

Donald Trump has fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a rambling Truth Social post where he put his own name in quotation marks, raising new questions about Biden's mental fortitude.

Yes, Firing the Commissioner at the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a Five Alarm Fire We got some really bad economic news this week.

Yes, Firing the Commissioner at the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a Five Alarm Fire
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Well, to be fair, the numbers are Arabic.

The Bureau Labor Statistics Jobs Numbers Are Right, We Can Check There is zero reason to question the integrity of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) jobs numbers.

Just in case anyone was inclined to give Donald Trump's whines about the jobs data any credibility, we can check the BLS data from an independent source substack.com/home/post/p-... We get the same numbers.

*Yoakam

Aww man… This (Yoakum/Jimenez) Buck Owens cover is one of my favorite songs for walking around the neighborhood. The accordion is downright liquid.

I’m at my mom’s home village in rural Quebec and yesterday we went to get ice cream in the nearest big-ish town and happened to catch the Pride parade going by. Small but mighty! Kudos to being out and proud outside of big cities. ❤️🏳️‍🌈Fierte Hautes-Laurentides!🏳️‍⚧️❤️

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?

Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

Trump’s firing of BLS commissioner is undemocratic and economically dangerous Today, Trump directed his team to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) because he didn’t like the jobs numbers they released. This is a move straight out of an autocratic play...

Today, President Trump directed his team to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) because he didn’t like the jobs numbers they released. This is a move straight out of an autocratic playbook, says EPI President ‪@hshierholz.bsky.social‬
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Former BLS Commissioner Groshen
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BLS does amazing work to create timely, accurate info about America's working families, a huge public good.

They are there for us & we need to show up for them.

If you are a labor economist or care about workers & employment, follow & join Friends of BLS.
www.friendsofbls.org/join

Workers Denied: How to Diagnose and Prevent Improper Unemployment Insurance Denials - National Employment Law Project Each year many workers who apply for unemployment insurance benefits are improperly denied.

Check out this super helpful brief on improper denials in unemployment insurance by @nelp.org's Flannery O'Rourke: www.nelp.org/insights-res...

Thank you! I’ll give my niece the go-ahead!

#birds I know you’re not supposed to feed birds in fall/winter unless you’re committed to keep it up over the cold months, but is it unethical to feed birds for a couple of weeks in the summer (while on vacation) in a northern climate? Asking for my niece…

Democrats Assail Bessent on ‘Privatizing’ Social Security Remark Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is coming under fire for remarks about so-called “Trump accounts” being a “backdoor for privatizing Social Security,” with Democrats characterizing his comments as rep...

Good, but Democrats need to stop proposing backdoor privatizations as well....

Trump’s deportation agenda will cause 6 million workers to lose their jobs—both immigrants AND US-born workers.
But how, exactly, does this work? Let's dig into it.
www.epi.org/publication/...

The real reason we tip …and why it needs to change.

“[Tipped] workers, who are disproportionately women, people of color, & immigrants, who are often living below the poverty line, are forced to rely on the kindness of strangers to pay their wages," said EPI's Nina Mast on @vox.com podcast Explain It to Me.

Listen here: www.vox.com/explain-it-t...

Trump Administration Plans to Force Millions More Seniors and People With Disabilities to Travel to Social Security’s Overburdened Field Offices | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Social Security Administration (SSA) is overwhelming its local offices by forcing millions more people to seek in-person service while cutting thousands of staff who provide that help. These...

Starting in less than 3 weeks, the Trump Admin plans to force millions more seniors, people with disabilities & bereaved families to travel to local Social Security offices to receive service--even as they cut thousands of the frontline staff who provide that help. www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

If you read one thing today, it should be this new maternal mortality report by @commonwealthfund.org. Maternal mortality was as much as 49% higher in states not expanding Medicaid. Reminder: BBB undercuts Medicaid expansion through CA & rolls back the insurance critical to addressing this problem.

very cool that the same chuds screaming about “unqualified DEI hires” are giving ignorant 23-year-olds the power to destroy federal agencies

Driving with my MIL we passed a similar incident and she didn’t miss a beat saying “people shouldn’t take things so literally.” RIP Rosemary.

D.C. lawmakers strike a new compromise on tipped minimum wage with final budget vote The D.C. Council approved capping planned increases to the tipped minimum wage after a lengthy debate on the matter. This was the most controversial part of the 2026 budget.

DC residents have TWICE passed a measure eliminating the tipped wage and yet the council has yet again undone their votes wamu.org/story/25/07/...

Trump’s legal team is playing with fire by saying Murdoch needs to be deposed immediately as an elderly man with health issues and by insinuating that he is a flight risk. I trust Murdoch’s team will respond in kind. This is a cage match to watch!

Thank you for speaking up.