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Think of BLS data as the economy’s highway system: invisible, vital, taken for granted. Corrupt it, and every decision—from Fed policy to plant openings—crashes.

Good stats → Good choices → Higher living standards.
Bad stats → Bad choices → Lower living standards.

And don’t give me a bs argument about how it’s legal and both sides do it - what Abbott and the republicans are trying to do in Texas is wrong and they should be ashamed.

How embarrassing it must be to be so incredibly unpopular that the only way you can win an election is to redraw the maps (mid-cycle!) in such a way as to disenfranchise a large portion of the voters.

It’s Not Budget Reconciliation. It’s the MAGA Murder Budget. Let's call Trump's bill what it is.

Let’s call it what it is: the MAGA Murder Budget — a calculated assault on the most vulnerable Americans under the guise of fiscal responsibility.
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Cases of measles, salmonella, listeria, and hepatitis A and C have spread throughout the country.

But since Trump's inauguration, CDC newsletters, health alerts about disease outbreaks, and other communications have largely stopped.

"Make American Healthy Again."

STAND UP on April 5th!

See: Proof GOP/MAGA knows they have no mandate! Trump/Musk are running scared on many fronts. Elon thinks his money can buy him everything. Our votes are not for sale.

#ProudBlue
#DemVoice1
#ResistanceUnited

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Just to be clear Mexico and Canada both sent firefighters to so Cal to help. They are good neighbors and they deserve our respect.

Sign of the day…

Opinion | This Never Happened With an American President Before Trump’s behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky was an unparalleled break with American foreign policy.

Tom Friedman: "This is a total perversion of U.S. foreign policy practiced by every president since World War I. My fellow Americans, we are in completely uncharted waters, led by a president, who — well, I cannot believe he is a Russian agent, but he sure plays one on TV.​"

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago.

But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.

He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

To President Zelensky, From an Embarrassed American Dear President Zelensky,

Dear President Zelensky,

As it is likely that our paths will never cross in person, I could not let this day go by without trying to reach you here.

I come to you humbly as an American citizen who is thoroughly and completely embarrassed of our leaders.

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Trump is an international disgrace. The way he treated Zelensky was un-American. Only a traitor who is Putin's puppet would be this horrible. Unforgivable.

The Birth of the Trump Doctrine Lies in the 1987 Recruitment of Donald Trump By the KGB During His Trip to Moscow That Year How Trump responded to his recruitment remains unclear. What is clear, however, is that it shaped his entrance into politics and his foreign policy in a way the world now ignores at its peril.

This is one of the most shameful days in U.S. history. A weak, corrupt, deceitful, compromised Kremlinist U.S. president recruited his Yarvinist VP to gang up on a heroic ally on live TV. It devolved into a shouting match.

Why? This report explains _exactly_ why:

Five former US defense secretaries assail Trump's military firings as reckless Five former U.S. defense secretaries on Thursday condemned President Donald Trump's "reckless" firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior officers and called on Congress to halt any confirmation of their successors.

Five former defense secretaries condemned Trump's "reckless" firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior officers, and called on Congress to halt any confirmation of their successors.
They accused Trump of seeking to make the U.S. military an instrument of partisan politics.

RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.

NEW:

“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”

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Commerce Secretary Lutnick is still out there claiming that he wants to replace income taxes with tariffs.

My response: "The problem with that is that it's quite simply impossible." The only other problem is that it's also a bad idea.

Let me explain.

Disgusting!

Tim Kaine on Fox News Sunday: Why isn't Trump getting the Republican leaders down in the White House and saying, 'here's what we're gonna do'? He's making all these cuts without Congress because he doesn't even think the Republican leadership will go along with him

Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at https://buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.

Ohio Reaches $1 Billion in NIH Funding Discover how Ohio's healthcare research achieved a landmark $1 billion in NIH funding, driving innovation and economic growth in the life sciences sector

NIH funding generated close to $3 BILLION last year in economic activity per JobsOhio 1/2 www.jobsohio.com/blog/ohio-re...

More Costly Steel Tariffs on the Horizon Sixty-plus years of American steel protectionism—and nearly seven since the first Trump administration’s “national security” tariffs—have not succeeded at reversing the industry’s long-term decline. Y...

The “liberal” @CatoInstitute explains how harmful Trump’s steel tariffs will be for our workers and economy. www.cato.org/blog/more-co...

Trump just dumped over 2.2 billion gallons of Calif. reservoir water Donald Trumps' Army Corps of Engineers abruptly released more than 2.2 billion gallons of water from California's Lake Kaweah and Lake Success.

Trump just needlessly dumped over 2.2 billion gallons of California reservoir water. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Let’s be clear. This isn’t DEFENDING women. It’s ERASING women. The latest OPM memo:

The White House has suddenly removed this page.

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"The buck stops here"- Harry Truman

"I don't take any responsibility at all."- DJT

After D.C. air collision, Transportation’s Duffy vows reforms as Trump dictates Facing his first crisis just two days into the job, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy touted reforms sought by the president, who has lambasted DEI policies.

Facing his first crisis just two days into the job, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy touted reforms sought by the president, who has lambasted DEI policies.

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Using the tragic plane collision over the Potomac that cost 67 human souls as an occasion to slam DEI hiring was obscene. There’s zero evidence at this point that an underqualified air traffic controller or pilot had any role in this crash.