Tom Fishburne cartoon from https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html aptly describing how AI creates messages from three bullet points into expanded text ... which is fed at the other end into AI to extract three bullet points. Lossly, one assumes.

A massive regressive national sales tax imposed upon every American by a president with no constitutional authority to impose a national sales tax. The reason why the founders gave this power to Congress is because this would never pass any Congress- even this one.

News article titled "Trump orders firing of BLS commissioner, after large summer revision" by Andrew Ackerman. It reports that President Donald Trump ordered the firing of Erika McEntarfer, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the agency released major downward revisions to May and June jobs data. Trump announced the decision on social media, stating she would be replaced with someone "much more competent and qualified." The revisions removed 258,000 jobs from earlier counts, marking the largest two-month downward adjustment since the pandemic.

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor statisti s. This is the end of being able to trust the data from the federal government on employment, GDP, or any other critical information. They will only want to produce information that pleases Trump, not the truth. This is how you get a failed state.

Trump Shoots the Messenger Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory

New, from me:
Trump just fired the head of the BLS, accusing her of rigging data.
The reality is that by shooting the messenger reporting on the negative effects of his economic policies, Trump pushed America further into banana republic territory.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-shoo...

Trump tariffs could amount to ‘largest tax increase in at least a generation’, thinktank warns – live Trump’s tariffs could force households to pay $1,200 annually; commerce chief says tariffs on Canada and Mexico might not be 25% as Trump has been threatening

@us.theguardian.com

It's easy to see why Trump has had so many business failures has strategies are always in conflict with his stated objectives.

"...harming economic growth and leading to higher import costs that would be passed on to American households."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Donald Trump has always and continues to be motivated by one thing: personal gain.

American citizens will suffer with higher costs and less freedoms because Trump will focus his power on hunting his enemies in both politics and business.

The totally groundless firing of Dr. Erika McEntarfer, my successor as Commissioner of Labor Statistics at BLS, sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the statistical mission of the Bureau. For a full statement opposing this move, read:

Trump’s first BLS Commissioner, Bill Beach, calls today’s firing groundless and dangerous.
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

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Y'all my dad wrote a book. And if you are a law/politics nerd like me, promise it will be fire. This man taught me the non lawyer con law. My aunt knows her shit. If you are into these things please give it a go! a.co/d/3dA0SE3

I know a lot of y'all have been worried about this, you can breathe a little easier now.

so when you…

• force this tech on most everyone

• block it from acknowledging trans people even exist

• remove lgbtq people from human rights reporting & allow ICE to conceal info on trans people in custody

…it seems like a good time for cis folks to stop considering political “compromises.”

It's simply amazing to me that the U.S. spent 70 years (1945-2015) constructing a post-WW2 military, economic, and social world order to its liking, only to turn around and decide it was actually the victim of this order the entire time.

Hundreds of thousands of people being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons IS "cancel culture".

The way you square low party favorables with an okay generic ballot and very strong special election performance is that the Democratic base is ready to crawl over broken glass to oppose Republicans and furious at party leadership for not feeling the same.

What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.

The President is taking approx $1B of taxpayer funds from a military project to refurbish a plane given to him by a foreign nation, which he plans on taking with him when he leaves office.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

Andry Hernández Romero, the innocent make-up artist imprisoned without trial for 4 months in El Salvador by the Trump admin, is FREE.

He was wrongfully accused of being a gang member because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, and illegally sent to El Salvador without due process.

Our sources are telling us it is in fact marco rubio 🤔

Stephen Colbert: ‘South Park’s’ Naked Trump Is a ‘Message of Hope’ Stephen Colbert praised South Park for its provocative season 27 premiere as his own show faces the axe for criticizing President Donald Trump. The show’s episode featured an AI clip of President Dona...

Stephen Colbert praised South Park’s uncensored Trump episode as a “message of hope” while his own show faces cancellation. Comedy Central hosts the full clip online. Colbert’s firing sparks fears Paramount may pressure satire to ease up on Trump—South Park proved otherwise.

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Now that a fascist government is attempting mass purges of workers, we’re not calling it cancel culture, right?

The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship.

That's just a true statement about the world!

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It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!

All my sensible liberal mutuals should bookmark this fantastic thread for the next time some know nothing is saying the Democrats would be a right wing party in Europe & there’s no difference between them & the GOP:

This sounds batsh*t crazy but it's, quite literally, a straightforward & purely factual description of what's going on here

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In areas hit by Texas floods, officials were sent over $5 million in federal ARPA funds in 2021.

They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."

Fake NYT headline: "Zohran Mamdani is Popular on TikTok. Can These GOP Donors Fix It?"

Fake NYT headline: "Mamdani Accepted iTunes Terms and Conditions Without Reading"

Fake NYT headline: "In Mamdani, Some Democrats Recoil at Sight of Popularity"

Fake NYT headline: "Mamdani's Economic Message Failed to Move These Trump Voters in Rural Tenneessee Diner"

Lol. Someone made a website that churns out fake NYT headlines about Zohran Mamdani mamdanitimes.com

Hey @repwesleybellmo.bsky.social, what will it take for you to stop using Xitter?

You posted there _today_ on at least 2 accounts. Why are you enabling explicit fascism?

It's not "badass" to prioritize an app that spews literal Nazi propaganda. You're either a fool or complicit if you stay.

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky.

So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵