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U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January, but labor market growth stalled in 2025 The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that U.S. employers added 181,000 jobs last year, far fewer than the 1.46 million jobs that were added in 2024.

US had almost *no* job growth in 2025.

Hiring numbers were revised down by over a million jobs.

Largest annual revision in over 20 years.

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.

The U.S. State Department has ordered non-profit public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on and that has run smoothly for years.

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Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)

This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

FOIA Documents Unmask the Sites of ICE’s Continued Detention Surge
Recent documents obtained by the ACLU reveal ICE's nationwide plan to reopen facilities, including shuttered prisons, for use as detention space. PROJECT SALT BOX

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It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms With only nine months before the midterm elections, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress.

"I’ve wanted Marc Elias to be wrong for seven years, or six years, for as long as he’s been coming on my show. I have wanted his warnings to be wrong, but every single one of them has been either affirmed or prescient."--Nicolle Wallace. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...

ICE is being sued for-among other things-using unconstitutional racial bias while detaining families and zip tying children during a raid in Idaho

After an @wired.com article listed a building owned by Freeman Webb among those leased to ICE, the @nashvillescene.com posts a statement from FW (their publisher) - now run by Rep. Bob Freeman (D) - saying they “actively concealed” that ICE is involved
www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

JAGs Shouldn’t Be Civilian Prosecutors The mass deportation policy is a legal mess—and reassigning military lawyers to support it would only create more problems.

Using military lawyers to prosecute or adjudicate cases because civilian lawyers are resigning over ethical or legal concerns crosses a line. That is the kindest, most restrained way to put it. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3O5lJZa

REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “It’s important to remember there’s more of us than them — every one of us can be sand in the gears of an injustice.”

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I am not suicidal; I don't drink or do drugs; my blood pressure and cholesterol are normal; I don't engage in high-risk activities; my vehicles are well kept and newly serviced.

If anything happens to me, please assume foul play and only let state agents—not federal—access my data and drafts.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

We can’t trust anything coming out of this administration. It’s getting tiresome.

So lying “economist” Peter Navarro is just as stupid as Pamela Jo Bondi? The Dow Jones is not “the stock market.” And it is indexed—the 50,000 doesn’t stand for $50,000.

This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 308 … A huge revelation in Epstein files documents unearthed by investigative reporter Roger Sollenberger: “Maybe the biggest story in the country here.

A major Epstein files revelation, the DOJ cover-up intensifies, bipartisan outrage, new election interference concerns, SAVE Act pushback, DHS midterm questions, and global backlash to Trump. Our weekend bulletin is up now — completely paywall free.

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Legal:
• You can film ICE - First Amendment.
• You can use profanity. Offensive speech is protected.

Illegal:
• ICE cannot detain based on race (4th & 5th Amendments).
• ICE cannot point weapons without an immediate threat (Graham v. Connor).

If we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

Yeah sure Storm the Capital, Change Laws of the Constitution, force Americans to get and pay for unobtainable requirements to vote..to weed out the (avg) of 4 illegal immigrant votes per Election

If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

None of this is normal

@govwesmoore.bsky.social Thank you so much for your thoughtful and forceful words on CBS tonight. You have given me some real hope.

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

This flew under the radar, but it shouldn’t have.

When senator Alex Padilla was tackled by DHS, Kristi Noem’s side piece, Corey Lewandowski, was orchestrating the situation in the hall.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

MINNESOTA Rep. @angiecraigmn.bsky.social : “They are still racially profiling… Dems need to hold the line. The senate needs to hold the line. I will not forgive anyone who doesn’t stand their ground at this moment in time, and I don’t think the 🇺🇸 people will either.”

(From @atrupar.com