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THE WORST ECONOMIC JOBS REPORT SINCE THE END OF THE PANDEMIC.

Trump and Republicans are seriously screwing up the economy.

May and June jobs data dramatically revised downwards.

Unemployment increased.

You deserve better.

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"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

"When it comes to health care, the United States is an anomaly on the international stage — and it doesn’t appear to be paying off for the country." Read the full Op-Ed:

“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.”

-Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Please don't just assume I don't need a video of a red panda eating sweetcorn on the very day I hear there are no Epstein files.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Picture of the anthology Echoes, on sale on kindle for only $1.99

Look what's on sale for a whole month!

From redde states and blue, at all levels of governmente, so manye politicians yn the US are committed to turninge public higher ed ynto glorified corporate job traininge. To eliminating the hearte and soul of higher ed. Ther must be a waye to defende the educacioun of citizens as a public good.

Math is hard!

Rev. William Barber arrested in Capitol Rotunda after praying against Republican-led budget (RNS) — While arrests of protesters at the Capitol is not unusual, the response to Barber’s prayer was unusually dramatic: After issuing verbal warnings, dozens of officers expelled everyone in the Ro...

Full story: religionnews.com/2025/04/28/w...

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.

Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.

I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.”

- Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein drags Trump-led Kennedy Center, reveals he was banned The Tony Award-winning actor and writer shared an emotional statement criticizing Donald Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center.

Playwright, actor, and live performer Harvey Fierstein revealed that he's been banned from the Kennedy Center.

And the website is fab! ❤️ oursubversivevoice.com I may be a while...

Social Security has never missed a payment. DOGE actions threaten 'interruption of benefits,' ex-agency head says New changes at the U.S. Social Security Administration may put its ability to deliver monthly benefit checks at risk, former agency head says.

This was a march 1st story (by Lorie Konish) here but - www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d... now more professionals in a position to know are coming out to say they expect DOGE will cause payment interruptions & service problems with Social Security…

Learning from an awe-inspiring immense ecosystem that has returned to life Rewilding ecologist and author Eoghan Daltun visited Costa Rica to see first-hand how the country has managed over the last 30 years to reverse one of the worst deforestation rates in all Latin Americ...

Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing?

Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

NYT v. Sullivan: Will the Landmark Defamation Ruling Survive? (Gift Article) New York Times v. Sullivan and other landmark Supreme Court decisions protect the press’s ability to investigate public figures. But a growing right-wing movement seeks to overturn them.

NEW: A growing right-wing movement is trying to overturn Supreme Court precedents that protect the media’s ability to investigate politicians and other powerful people. It might succeed.

An inside look, adapted from my forthcoming book MURDER THE TRUTH. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/m...

Trump story about a ‘secret’ gender transition needs context In President Donald Trump’s March 4 address to Congress, he referenced the story of one of his invited guests to illustr

Littlejohn claims that her child's school transitioned them without parental permission. Bullshit.

Here is the truth 👇

In emails with the school, Littlejohn stated, "Whatever you think is best or [redacted] can handle it herself," and "I’m going to let her take the lead on this."

#Silence=Erasure

Video: Musk’s Cost-Saving Claims Are Wrong in So Many Ways We found huge errors in the “wall of receipts” for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, where the group lists what it has saved by canceling federal contracts. After The New York...

DOGE has quietly deleted the biggest “savings” it once celebrated — but its list of savings is still full of errors. Why DOGE’s data is so wrong, and why it matters. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

... My friend learned the truth when he was a teenager & tried to use SSN for a job. This is one of many reasons why nobody uses SSN as a primary key in a database, & why you should never allow anyone to use your SSN as an identitifier, and never even see it (limited exceptions, e.g. your employer).

SSNs have been assigned to multiple people by mistake, but it usually is cleared up eventually. I know someone with a fairly common name, and there was another person with the same first name, middle initial, and last name, born on the same day in the same city, but different hospitals. ...

Our Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly Musk is moving fast and breaking important things

Government does important work — but not if DOGE can prevent it paulkrugman.substack.com/p/our-govern...

Chaos Is Bad for Business Ignorance, megalomania and the economic future

Trump inherited a Goldilocks economy. But he may destroy it faster than even pessimists imagined paulkrugman.substack.com/p/surprise-c...

The Economics of Left-Behind Regions There are doom loops everywhere you look

I'll write about Ukraine tomorrow, but today another primer on an important economic issue paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-econom...

Oh, look, the Heritage Foundation wants to know what we think of DOGE and budget cutting!

secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...

For your Friday fun.

Union email just came through. Acting commissioner Dudek is rumored to have requested a plan to reduce SSA staff by 50%. While this is unconfirmed, I cannot stress enough how devastating this would be for the millions of people who depend on us. This would cripple our ability to serve the public. 💔

Bears repeating that social security is incredibly INCREDIBLY efficient to run. Its overhead costs are basically zero when you consider the size of the undertaking and the genuine benefits delivered. If anyone was interested in improving govt efficiency, the SSA would be their model not their target