“This is the worst economic jobs report since the end of the pandemic.” - CNN

CORDER LIST: 606 U.S.) FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025 24-109 24-110 ORDER IN PENDING CASES LOUISIANA V. CALLAIS, PHILLIP, ET AL. ROBINSON, PRESS, ET AL. V. CALLAIS, PHILLIP, ET AL. The parties are directed to file supplemental briefs addressing the following question raised on pages 36-38 of the Brief for Appellees: Whether the State's intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution. Supplemental briefs for appellants are due on or before Wednesday, August 27, 2025. Supplemental brief for appellees is due on or before Wednesday, September 17, 2025. Reply briefs are due on or before 2 p.m., Friday, October 3, 2025. The time to file amicus curiae briefs is as provided for by this Court's Rule 37.3. Word limits and cover colors for the briefs should correspond to the provisions of this Court's Rule 33.1(g) pertaining to briefs on the merits rather than to the provision pertaining to supplemental

😬The Supreme Court will consider whether the intentional creation of a majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments.

If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

Stock Market Posts Worst Week in Months on Renewed Economic Fears

After months of rallying and periods of relative calm, stocks tumble as fresh economic data reflect unexpected signs of weakness in the labor market and Trump announces steep new tariffs against some of America’s largest trading partners. @danielledkaye.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

Ain’t that the truth. Lying 🤥 POS!

Drought in Utah.

Nothing says climate policy like skipping brunch and hoping the sky notices.

So... He's in the Epstein files?

Having flashbacks to Trump’s 2021 demand that a state official “find” missing votes, because the numbers weren’t in his favor.
This is what he expects of the BLS commissioner too: “find” missing jobs. He will try to appoint someone who does this bidding, unless GOP senators miraculously grow spines

If anyone knows of a time when Nichols has blamed the GOP for Trump please let me know. Ive seen him blame MAGA (making a distinction ) frequently and Clinton on the old site.

Has he ever held the GOP responsible?

‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored

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This is,,,, not correct.

BEFORE the revision, the jobs numbers were inconsistent w/ the 1.2% avg growth we saw the first half of this year. It looked as though we had significantly higher job growth than our econ growth implied.

Now that the jobs numbers have been revised down, they’re consistent.

Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

We elect presidents by reputable polling, to serve single 3 month terms till November 2026, then go back to normal.

All current registered Republicans are ineligible to be part of the new government.

Just do it. Start from scratch. Trumpism must be eliminated. We form a much better government.

Other nations will recognize us as the legitimate government for a nation of decent Americans that finally rejected the unethical, incompetent, destructive Trump.

It'll be messy at 1st. We need to write a constitution, but Bluesky stars can easily do that (Ben-Ghiat, Sisters in Law, HCR, Kruse, &c.

Great idea. It won't work under Trumpism.

It's time for a new American Declaration. Our current form of government is inadequate to deal with Trumpism.

Let's form a new government; keep an awful lot of what's already here, and just move forward, doing what we can, ignoring Trump and his enablers.

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

NYT's Peter Baker: "History is filled with examples of leaders seeking to stifle unwelcome information. The Soviets falsified data to make their economy look stronger than it was. The Chinese have long been suspected of doing the same..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Texas Democrats to Leave State to Block G.O.P. From Redrawing Political Map

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
BRAVO TEXAS

Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives said they are leaving today
This means they will be able not have a quorum to vote on the Texas Redistricting Maps

The vote was set for tomorrow

White House economist calls for 'fresh set of eyes at the BLS' after weak jobs report | Fox Business Video National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett discusses the latest jobs report, the firing of the labor statistics chief and the consumer impact of tariffs on 'Fox News Sunday.'

Hassett went on TV and claimed you can’t trust the economic data anymore because all the recent revisions are partisan.
A bald-faced lie.
Every serious economist still in this administration should resign. They are actively underminding the US economy by lending their credibility to this horse****

We need a new American Declaration.

And Constitution. Now. Just do it. Trumpism is proof our current form of government isn't adequate.

Just form a new government; declare the current one null, and start going about business as normal as possible. Trump is out. Who's the new president?

Graduate of my high school kidnapped by ICE after routine visa hearing.

Andrew Ross Sorkin is also an alum of Scarsdale High School.

Abolish ICE Gestapo.

Leavenworth was forged by westward expansion — named for Henry Leavenworth, founder of Fort Leavenworth. Fort’s location on bluffs overlooking the Missouri River was key terrain. You can still see wagon ruts made from those who crossed the Big Mo and picked up the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails there.

Just-out-smarted people can be so unpleasant.

Callais, like Shelby County, is an effort to launder white racial grievances against Black voters into the law of the land. The white voters don’t want Black voters to have the political power, and the political opportunities, the VRA provides. To that end, their brief refers to the Black opportunity districts as “odious racial gerrymander[s]” and “a racial quota.” But it treats white opportunity districts as normal, legal, and something they are entitled to. They urge the Court to say that “Section 2 should no longer supply a compelling interest for racial gerrymanders”; in plain English, they are asking the Court to declare that it is unconstitutional for the Voting Rights Act to try to ensure Black voters have political opportunities to elect the candidates of their choice. The white voters’ arguments in the case parrot a recent executive order from the Trump administration that says that civil rights laws that require entities to avoid policies with detrimental effects on racial minorities are themselves racial discrimination.

w/ SCOTUS's reargument order in Callais, reupping my piece in Sharon McMahon's The Preamble: "The Court's Next Big Decision on Race."

tl;dr: "Callais, like Shelby County, is an effort to launder white racial grievances against Black voters into the law of the land."

thepreamble.com/p/the-courts...

So... the director of a right wing conservative think tank which has pushed ideas that force adherents to give up decency and good faith, is for some reason aware that firing the head of the BLS is not only illogical but also unethical, is calling on the people he has corrupted to speak up?

From a director at the … American Enterprise Institute

A woman who pretends to care for young vulnerable women, while trying to fill the needs of her sexual predator boyfriend, is worse than the rapist. She used her position of protector to lure girls to be raped. Ghislaine Maxwell needs to serve her 20 years. No pardon. No deal. She deserved 30+ yrs

I don't think enough good things can be said about the people who worked hard to build the political pressure for his and everyone else's release, including senator van hollen. otoh there is no bottom to my contempt for the people who were urging the opposite course of action