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Imagine if Steve Bannon and Stephen Moore had a little econo-baby, and they taught it how to misrepresent economic statistics.

That's our new nominee for BLS commissioner.

(Bannon and Moore will likely endorse EJ Antoni, proving my point.)

clearly calling out trumps blatant racism is something that should happen more often tbh

i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.

An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me

Latest CBO analysis of the full distributional effects of the Trump budget (the "One Big Bill") just landed. They blew out the budget, see how big of a slice you got.
www.cbo.gov/interactive/...

A rambling and incoherent Trump wants to turn DC into his personal police state despite a 30-year low in crime.

He's a pathetic wannabe dictator who wants to distract you from his connection to the Epstein files, skyrocketing costs, and his weak job numbers.

Don't let him.

The crime is so bad in DC that you can take a nap at twilight and stretch out on the well manicured grass of our Capitol while other people enjoy picnics and each others company.

WHAT THE HECK IS IN THOSE FILES?!

Trump: "You shouldn't have medians falling down into the roadway. Median. You know, the metal things that are always."

At least the Reichstag actually was on fire

Trump has been president for less than 5 years – about 2% of the history of this country. He's responsible for 22% of the national debt. The budget issue is a Republican long con that has worked spectacularly with people who don't believe in facts.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Republican Party’s policy positions can hardly be described as pro-life The test of a society’s character is how it treats those with the least power. By that measure, the Trump administration and its Republican allies are failing spectacularly.

Searing from the Las Vegas Sun:

"For decades, the Republican Party has insisted that it is the defender of innocent life. Yet after those lives draw their first breath, that supposed moral clarity collapses. In the womb, they are props in a morality play. Once born, they are costs to be contained."

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.

Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter.

Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵
x.com/andrewcuomo/...

Judge Boardman certifies a class of every baby in the country subject to Trump’s citizenship-stripping EO and blocks the unconstitutional order nationwide.

Look how she throws Alito’s words back at him as the CASA case heads back up towards SCOTUS.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We’ve already been over this. I’ve got the degrees, the credentials, and the receipts. If you’re looking for “low IQ,” try looking in the mirror—or at your own Cabinet. (2/2)

Newsflash, Wannabe Dictator:

I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing.

I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

‘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

President Dementia, reporting for duty

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton will try to arrest us.

So we’re traveling to Illinois for safe harbor.

We’ll be in the Land of Lincoln — the state where Abraham Lincoln broke quorum as a state senator in 1840 by jumping out of the window at the Illinois State Capitol.

YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett Gerrymandering Gone Wild: Rep. Jasmine Crockett Calls Out Republicans' Redistricting Scam!

Great explanations here from @repjasmine.bsky.social of the packing and cracking that racist Republicans are forcing on an increasingly majority-minority Texas. I will be drawn out of her district if this bullshit goes through.

Soviet poster titled "The enemy is full of guile and evil" - espionage, sabotage, slander, provocations, lies

1/ Donald Trump's reasons for his firing of the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics are an ominous echo of a notorious concept from Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany: that of scapegoating individuals or groups as economic "wreckers" or "saboteurs". ⬇️

The economy is so good that I'm firing the BLS Commissioner for reporting numbers so grim I refuse to believe them, and also demanding the Fed cut rates typically seen during a recession.

of course, now conservatism is practically defined by a profound victim mentality, in which everyone else is to blame for your own shortcomings and failures

Motherfucking wind farms…

The federal government *was* the largest employer of Black women, and the guy who fired shit tons of federal employees is a literal sieg heiling Nazi freak hired by a Nazi pedophile. Who also hired a team of 19 year old Nazi pedophiles to do so.

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.

It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

a fundamental problem with the conservative movement is that because they do not know how literally anything works and resent being asked to learn, they see absolutely everything as a conspiracy *they* need to capture and use like the libs obviously are