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A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive. threads.com/@unapologeticallyzae

Q: “Are you going to make sure that all the [immigrants detained]…have due process"

Indiana Lt. Gov. Beckwith: “They don't have a right to see a judge…When the Japanese were bombing Pearl Harbor, did we give them due process?”

Read more about it in Morning Shots: www.thebulwark.com/p/drinks-app...

As an Israeli political scientist, I resisted thinking this war was a genocide. Here's what changed my mind The incitement for genocide in the Israeli public sphere is undeniable. So why are so many of us liberal Jews so reluctant?

"The more I learn about genocide, the more shocked and embarrassed I am by my own ignorance. Once I actively tried to be better informed about genocide, the picture in Gaza became terrifyingly clear."

A graph of manufacturing growth broken down by subsector

America has lost 116k manufacturing jobs over the last year—that's the fastest pace of job loss since the early COVID era and worse than any period from 2011-2019.

Big drops in the transportation (-49k) & electronics (-32k) industries drive most of the decline

a man in a blue shirt stands in front of a career vac logo Alt: a man in a blue shirt stands in front of a career vac logo, asking, "you sure about that? Tim Robinson Asking "Are You Sure About That?" refers to a clip from the Netflix sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson in which Robinson incredulously asks the camera the title question. The clip became popularized on TikTok via memes, where it was used in videos humorously depicting doubt. In I Think You Should Leave season two, episode three, Robinson plays a spokesperson for a fictional company Carber Vac.[1] While telling a story about how he got fired from his job, he incredulously asks, "Are you sure about that? Are you sure about that?"

Our dear leaders, journos, economists, etc.: "The economy continues to show surprising resilience..."

People getting their 10,000th job application rejection email:

Bar chart titled “Revisions to nonfarm payroll estimates,” showing monthly U.S. job growth estimates from January to July 2025. Each month has two bars: light brown for the initial estimate and dark brown for the most recent revision. January to April 2025 show moderate differences between initial and final job numbers, with revisions generally higher. March shows the largest gain, revised from around 180k to over 220k jobs. May shows a dramatic downward revision, from 139k to just 19k jobs (highlighted with a note). June shows no final revision yet. July has only an initial estimate, the lowest of the period. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Chart by Axios Visuals. Context note: The chart illustrates how initial job growth estimates often differ from later revisions, highlighting the uncertainty in early labor market data reporting.

Source: www.axios.com/2025/08/01/j...

Payroll estimates are revised downwards to show what anyone in this economy could have told ya - rough

Part of the increasing elite / proletariat disconnect is we live a reality that elites refuse to acknowledge until it charts for them. And even then...

Mamdani: We are reminded no matter how strong our gun laws are in this state, we are only as safe as the weakest laws in this nation.

**Alt text (optimized for accessibility and search):** Line chart titled “U.S. adults who say they approve of Israel's military action in Gaza,” showing declining approval from November 2023 to July 2025. Approval starts at 50% in late 2023, drops to 36% in early 2024, briefly rebounds to 42% in mid-2024, then declines steadily to 32% by July 2025. Based on Gallup surveys conducted at irregular intervals, with the most recent data from a July 7–21, 2025 poll of 1,002 U.S. adults. Chart created by Axios Visuals.

#Gallup poll that a record number of Americans do not support #Israel doing #Genocide in #Gaza

Source: www.axios.com/2025/07/29/i...

Enough Genocide apologia from leaders in DC or anywhere else.

🟡 Semafor Principals: No interest | Semafor In today’s edition: Republicans won’t echo Trump’s call for the Fed to slash rates.

Sen. Hawley (pos) wants cash for normal folks. But Sen. Moreno (pos): “Oh God, no, insane. Two reasons. 1 we have a $37 trillion debt. 2 it’s extraordinarily inflationary. It’s fiscal stimulus.”

They just did $4T in new debt for stimulus for the 1%. Absolute tools.

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This is really disturbing.

Having engaged a bit in this discourse it's gone like this:

Them: y'all overreacting and don't like boobs!
Me: uh, just watch the video.
Them: I'm tired of content police!!
Me: seriously just watch the video.
Them: it's a pun!
Me: did you watch the video?
Them: no, hang on... Oh... Oh... Ohhhhh...

Public Progress Solutions and Zenith Research polling breakdown between Zohran Mamdani, Curtis Sliwa, Eric Adams, Jim Walden, and Andrew Cuomo

85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani.
79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani.
67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.

Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?

Line chart titled “How Americans view Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu” showing approval, disapproval, and no opinion from 1997 to July 2025. The disapproval line (dark blue) rises sharply after 2021, reaching 52% in 2025. The approval line (green) declines to 29%, and “no opinion” (light green) drops to 6%. The chart is based on a Gallup survey of 1,002 U.S. adults conducted July 7–21, 2025, with a margin of error of ±4 points. Respondents who had never heard of Netanyahu are excluded. The headline above reads, “Dam starts to break on Netanyahu.” Chart created by Marta Biino for Semafor using Gallup data.

source: www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

Thank fucking god - "Dam starts to break on Netanyahu." Send #Bibi #Netanyahu to the #Hague #ICJ #Warcrimes #Genocide

Get gone Bibi, go to prison, bye 💅

Two Israeli human rights groups say their country is committing genocide in Gaza It is the first time that Jewish-led organizations in Israel have made such accusations against the country during nearly 22 months of war.

It is the first time that Jewish-led organizations in Israel have made such accusations against the country during nearly 22 months of war.

But for a lot of our leaders, this isn't *really* about fixing things that are broken so people can have the families they want. Instead, they see an exploitable opportunity to push reactionary blood-and-soil, christofacist, white supremacist politics.

In survey responses, many people say they would have more kids, but there are lots of reasons to not do that right now. Leaders should look at those reasons cited and fix them. Housing affordability? Food insecurity? Retirement? Wage Stagnation? Climate change? Bros, that's your punch list.

Long term we need to fix our busted ass society. It's telling that the filthy rich plutocrat / oligarch overlords think $5,000 will get the unwashed masses to make more soldiers and workers for them. Our leaders are completely out of touch with the struggles of normal-ass, median, working people.

The short-term fix is immigration. We can see a clear demographic impact on the countries that allow more immigration and those that don't. Japan fought it hardest, and they are most hurt by the collapse in birthrates because for a long time they paired it with restrictive immigration policies.

What’s weird about the birthrate panic is it’s a far-right ploy to sneak 14-words politics mainstream. Solutions are obvious:

(1) Short term - more immigration.
(2) Long term - fix inequality, instability, climate change, so people can have the families they say they want.

Line chart titled "US Fertility Rate Reached A Record Low In 2024" showing total fertility rates (births per woman) from 1950 to 2024 for the US, China, South Korea, and the world. The chart includes a horizontal dotted line marking the replacement rate at 2.1 births per woman. All four regions show a general decline over time. As of 2024, the US fertility rate is below 1.7, China is around 1.5, South Korea has the lowest at under 1.0, and the world average is just above 2.0. The steepest declines occurred in China during the 1970s-1990s and South Korea from the 1980s onward. Source: United Nations Population Division and government figures, via Chartr and Sherwood News.

A lot of hay has been made about the fall in #birthrates, or more icky, #fertility. But hay is for horses.

One reason $5k baby bonuses fall short: average hospital delivery now costs $12k. Say nothing of the estimated $300k+ to get the kid to age 18 and out the door.

As I just said on CNN, my father's parents were Nakba survivors. I don't want Israeli children to live in fear and I don't want Palestinian children to starve to death. There is nothing anyone could do to make me put nationalistic talking points above basic human rights.

There you go!

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Florida capitol protest 7/19/2025.

#nokings #fiftyfiftyone 50501 #protest #goodtrouble

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Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv

They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

WATCH: House Republicans block a vote to release the Epstein files

This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and it’s important that it’s published in the NYT.