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Im gonna suggest that it was the BLS that shot the Kennedys.

White House searches for a new BLS chief with 'credibility' and 'experience' Trump fired the previous head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after he was unhappy with a weaker-than-expected July jobs report.

"Flood the zone with shit" strategist Steve Bannon has thrown his support behind a candidate.

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Inflation signal: "Longtime social service workers said they’ve been struck by families whose salaries have risen, yet are struggling more than ever."

Earning More but in Worse Shape: Hardship Overwhelms Many American Families Nearly half of kids in the U.S. live in households below the middle class as inflation and the end of Covid relief hit working parents.

Gift link:
“For every one child below the poverty line, there are two to three more above it but still too close for comfort.”
They’re in “families whose lives are a constant grind of working hard but never making it. The gains we made during the pandemic were lost.”

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Another point here is: what private corporation will want to step in as the substitute for the BLS (even if it were possible) if doing so means reporting bad news will make them a Trump target?

What Finland is doing...

The trouble with lying about the jobs report and other govt stats. ⬇️

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

As a former WSJ reporter it’s hard for me to express how disturbing this one-two of shattering Fed independence and creating room for doubt on economic data feels

Text excerpt: But the agency has investigated industrial explosions, fires and chemical accidents across dozens of states from Pennsylvania and New Jersey to Illinois, Wisconsin and New Mexico. The CSB has investigated six incidents in California, including the 2012 fire at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond that sent 15,000 people to the hospital and a 2015 explosion at a refinery in Torrance it called a “serious near miss” that could have caused a catastrophic release of a deadly, ground-hugging cloud and brought “serious injury or death to many community members.”

Chemical safety board: Not just a Texas story.
Guardrails coming off everywhere.

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Comic where two people discuss how to get popular and one character says to appeal to a niche. His is a single man named Cody who loves him.

In short, find your Cody.

Yep. Not on Goodreads, not on Twitter, don't do video formats (BookTok or YouTube). If I'm listening to anything on audio it's a book not a podcast.

There may be some structural issues due to Bluesky's newness.
I considered becoming a reviewer for one of the ARC services. As of about a month ago, there was no option on the signup page to indicate you publish reviews on Bluesky.
I find authors here all the time I wouldn't have found otherwise.

TBR if they publish a CD audio book.
Melville's Confidence Man is already sitting here in my hard copy TBR pile. My physical book reading time is limited. I'd prioritize reading Melville before this, but I'd spend the extra money for a CD to be able to listen to this now.

Hotter summers could be making us sicker in unexpected ways While scientists have spent decades covering how extreme heat and cold lead to death, new research using data from California emergency departments shows that the heat may be making us sicker too.

Free link.

"...the data ends in 2017, which means it missed many large, extreme heat waves over the last 7½ years that could have altered the way we respond to heat exposure."

I hope there's still money for new research on this, but I doubt it.

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Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).

This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

US economic data quality a worry, authorities not acting urgently enough, experts say Risks to the quality of official U.S. economic data - long seen as the gold standard - are worrying 89 of 100 top policy experts polled by Reuters, with most also concerned that the authorities are not addressing the issue urgently enough.

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Mads Mikkelsen the hit man fights real world baddies, conflated with little girl's battle with fairytale monsters.

Also Sigourney Weaver (love anywhere in anything).

It's got Pan's Labyrinth vibes.

"The emergency is 100% of the time at this point.”
-- Jocelyn Jackson, People’s Kitchen Collective

Like North Korea abducting South Koreans, the Trump administration will start claiming the kidnap victims defected.

You may want to tell me you are self publishing and won't need comparables for a query letter to an agent.

Sorry, no escape. If anything, knowing your correct genre and placement becomes more important. You are ALWAYS concerned with finding your future readers.

#writingcommunity #booksky #comps

Rump will likely use a sharpened stick on the blue states during the Medicaid apocalypse.

It’s an interesting indictment of themselves that basically South Park was able to make an episode saying “the problem with Trump is that he’s too South Park”

So Amazon had a delisting of "Erotica" books in ~2013, which led to erotica authors having to use "Romance" genre+subgenre tags to remain in business, and subsequent bans have forced authors into self-censoring+Code Phrases. Now the ppl who want further censorship are punching holes into Romance

I'm not sure how to phrase it exactly bc I'm Very Peeved, but there is No way to simply excise the "Bad Genre". Delisting nsfw AT BEST makes it Really Fuckin Annoying to navigate browsing, at worst it gives them license to hunt every other genre for any signs of degeneracy + force compliency

So even if you don't care about the creators and queer folks who have already been affected for years before this point, if you care about Your Games and not having to sherlock out which ones are the dehomed erotic VNs wearing a SciFi Gunboy disguise or w/e, please yell at the credit card people

Put it on my TBR list.

I think Josh Shapiro has left far too much space for people to claim that he fucks dogs and thinks fucking dogs is cool. Has he ever said anything about the issue? No! And his silence allows pro-dog fucking extremists to count him as one of their own!

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