Nathan Becker

You know, I’m not surprised that the people who have been bringing us “alternative facts” for like a decade now are planning to share fake jobs numbers and tariffs numbers and Smithsonian museum exhibits but it does scare the shit out of me how much they’re intent on destroying our shared reality

In The Wire they call this “juking the stats.”

The climate data was fine

The labor data was fine

The crime data was fine

They just didn't like the answers (hot, not, not)

I’m really struggling with the norms of polite debate when it comes to people who want to force me and my friends and communities into religious, cultural, or ethnic belief systems that have no claim to our allegiance.

🎯 CUPP: “One of the first things Russia did after it invaded Ukraine illegally was have the ministry of culture review all the museums… This stuff happens all the time in totalitarian and authoritarian countries that want to whitewash history for propaganda.”

a man in a top hat is stirring a pot and says that 's gourmet cooking for you .. Alt: a man in a top hat is stirring a pot and says that 's gourmet cooking for you ..

Shocking that the guy who's been cooking the books for decades, was convicted of cooking the books, now gets into office and immediately begins to cook the books.

1. Get bad jobs numbers
2. Fire person who counted
3. Stop counting

‘1984’ is upon us 🇺🇸

If you live in DC and are active on normie social media sites, you should be flooding the zone with videos of boring peaceful life in the city.

Rep. Adam Smith: "Look, it's pretty clear the president wants his own domestic police force and step by step he's trying to create it. We should be deeply alarmed by that regardless of how you feel about crime in DC or any other city ... it's a huge step toward an autocratic government."

The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

Everyone needs to read this

This is extremely bad

Never forget that homelessness is a policy choice.

They would rather send in the National Guard to arrest and remove unhoused people than provide affordable housing and a living wage.

Suffering as policy.

The cruelty is the point.

Since we passed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried over and over to repeal it. And over and over, they’ve failed — in part because millions of people now depend on the ACA for quality, affordable health care.

Replacing the head of Bureau of Labor Statistics with a stooge, proclaiming that crime is up when it’s down, and taking over the Smithsonian are all about trying to take over facts.

But facts are facts whether or not Trumpists agree.

BREAKING: U.S. layoffs have surged to their highest level since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The man convicted of 34 felonies is trying to educate us about crime? Did we get that right?

Can someone explain how banning gay marriage will fund schools and lower rent and make groceries affordable?

REMINDER:

CPI is computed and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Talerico: When Democrats had a majority in congress, they voted to ban gerrymandering Do you know how many Republicans joined Democrats to ban gerrymandering? Zero. You can spare me both sides rhetoric.

JB Pritzker: Blocking arms sales sends Israel ‘the right kind of message’ The Illinois Democrat said he backed the Senate bid to halt Israel arms sales to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu over Gaza crisis.

Governor Pritzker is right. No more blank checks for Netanyahu’s right-wing government and its military. No more blank checks for war crimes against Palestinians.

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Funny how that works.

I haven't looked yet and I'm willing to have egg on my face if I'm wrong: I'll bet Representative Crockett is Black.

Medication abortions drove up number of US procedures after Roe’s repeal, study shows Abortion pill provision rates were more than three times higher in states that ban abortion compared with those that do not

“To the shock of experts, the number of abortions performed in the US rose in the three years since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and paved the way for more than a dozen states to ban virtually all abortions.”

FWIW: This, in part, is why I decided to describe this accurately and explain that it's not a takeover. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-take...

US BUDGET DEFICIT SOARS

The deficit jumped 19% to $291B in July. This is despite $21B collected from Americans due to higher import taxes, which led to higher costs on goods like furniture, footwear, and auto parts.

The deficit for 2025 is already $1.63 trillion, up 7% from the last year.

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New poll shows Kathy Hochul would beat Elise Stefanik by double digits. If the election were held today:
-Hochul 45%
-Stefanik 31%
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It's not perfect, but it's better than any alternative we've got, and better than most countries do.

Think of data as a lighthouse: once it’s there, everyone can use it, and your use doesn’t diminish mine. That’s why we don’t leave lighthouse-building to the market — and why government collects & shares economic data.