Joshua Failé

To put this is into further context, this overall decrease in violent crime, especially in urban areas—a trend that began in the late 1990s, but has accelerated in recent years—is also coming at a time when efforts to aggregate, measure, and analyse crime data has increased exponentially.

Statement from Senator Susan Collins to be released imminently:

“I am concerned that I feel deceived as I clutch my pearls, but I think he has learned his lesson, so I don’t believe any further action is necessary at this time.”

The only voters that will believe the parties are the same at this point are the voters that want to believe the parties are the same, regardless of what the Democrats do.

And the “gerrymander war” has been waged by Republicans for decades, and is one of the main reasons they still exist at all.

I want to avoid going straight to conspiracy at the highest echelons of government, and ask this of my Bluesky friends that are more learned and up-to-date on this particular situation:

Did Judge Cannon actually seal the records?

If so, is there a legitimate reason for sealing the records?

There are so many horrific layers to just this single 60 second clip, much less the rest of the frighteningly unhinged and despotic @cnbc.com Trump interview, it’s difficult to decide which to focus on.

But another reminder that the regime does not value human life is perhaps the most important.

Debilitating existential dread, with a side of bacon, and coffee-flavoured milk.

At the extremes, such contempt can devolve into what the international democracy activist Srdja Popovic has called the "Maduro model" of governance, after the current leader of Venezuela. Autocrats who adopt it are willing to see their country enter the category of failed states," he says-accepting economic collapse, endemic violence, mass poverty, and international isolation if that's what it takes to stay in power. Like Maduro, Presidents Bashir al-Assad in Syria and Lukashenko Belarus seem entirely comfortable ruling over collapsed economies and societies. These kinds of regimes can be hard for the inhabitants of democracies to understand, because their primary goal is not to create prosperity or enhance the well-being of citizens. Their primary goal is to stay in power, and to do so, they are willing to destabilize their neighbors and destroy the lives of ordinary people.

Oh no! This paragraph in Autocracy, Inc. is prescient AF.

Anne Applebaum writes about the "Maduro model" of autocracy:

When an autocrat is perfectly willing to destabilize & rule over a failed state with economic collapse - if it means he can stay in power.

They will destroy to maintain control.

Miller went on to say: “if you ignore literally everything we’re doing right now, which, as you know, is actually much worse and will lead to the end of the democratic republic. But, other than that, the “Russia hoax” was the worst assault on democracy ever. Except our assault—our assault is worse.”

“That is something that needs to be fixed and needs to be fixed fast”, as the Trump regime sacks the director of the bureau that produced the jobs report to send a clear message to the remaining career bureau staff of what will happen to them if they don’t “fix” the data moving forward.

If you believe this economic report from the Trump regime’s Commerce Department than I have a ground-level, foolproof investment opportunity into a piece of major infrastructure in New York City that I would like to offer to you.

With this sacking and the likely wave of resignations and/or forced removals in its wake, as Trump and his regime ramps up pressure for the data underlying the reports to be manipulated so as to indicate economic conditions that do not exist, the full faith and credit of the US will be destroyed.

Accusing the BLS director he sacked of “manipulating the numbers” signals that is exactly what Trump wants to happen, and the director was likely fired for refusing to do that on command (as this report was been developed).

More dedicated civil servants are going to quit or be fired in protest.

Trump fires BLS commissioner after weak jobs report Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers "for political purposes."

Every accusation Trump makes is actually a confession, and I have predicted since before the election that the regime would move to gain full control of the OMB, CBO, and BLS so it can manipulate or outright fabricate official economic data to try to hide the economic destruction it is causing.

The biggest takeaway from the horrible US economic indicators that lead to the Trump regime unceremoniously sacking the BLS director this week in a bid to strengthen its ability to manipulate and fabricate official economic data is that Donald Trump is a paedophile and child sex trafficker.

I have had apts that could could have been cut in half, allowing for nearly double the units in the building, if they were laid out properly, and they would have actually been nicer to live in.

My house now is actually a poster child for this, but reno to correct this is not financially feasible.

It is very small, yes, but properly laid out, it will feel like almost double the square footage.

One of the problems with American homes and apts is that they are much larger than they need to be (thus each take up more space then is necessary), which is largely down to suboptimal layouts.

Quid Pro Paedo.

I have been called an “alarmist”, “know nothing”, and “idiot” for predicting that the Trump regime would attempt to—and unfortunately likely be successful in—commandeering the public economic data production apparatus to manipulate and/or fabricate economic info to serve its aims and narrative.

“ChatGPT is great for rational analysis and ideation.”

No, not it is not. It is not even AI. ChatGPT exhibits no tenets of “intelligence”. It is a (fairly sophisticated) LLM predictive text chatbot. Clue is in the name.

And the avarice and insatiable thirst for power of the technofascist kleptoligarchs backing the Trump regime, who want to expand and intensify the subjugation and exploitation of not only most people residing in the US, but also everywhere else we have externalised the costs of our affluence.

We’re witnessing the real-time obliteration of any and all reputable journalism outfits with the resources to actually standup to the unconstitutional “regulatory” and “lawfare” tactics of the Trump regime, by the technofascist kleptoligarchical backers of the Trump regime.

Replaced by sycophancy.

We’re witnessing the real-time obliteration of any and all reputable journalism outfits with the resources to actually standup to the unconstitutional “regulatory” and “lawfare” tactics of the Trump regime, by the technofascist kleptoligarchical backers of the Trump regime.

Replaced by sycophancy.

The markets are taking Trump’s ludicrously moronic and destructive tariffs well.

My son is going to be officially not-a-toddler next month and I honestly have no idea where the time has gone.

It feels like just yesterday I was bicycling his tiny legs to expel gas.

But now he is consoling his mum and I when we are frustrated by saying “well, you know, often things just happen.”

TIMELINE CLEANSE: Maine summer sunset at Bangor International Airport.

The accuracy of the statement “the US economy is on fire” really depends on which meaning of “on fire” is intended.

The accuracy of the statement “the US economy is on fire” really depends on which meaning of “on fire” is intended.

And even worse state of affairs that I have definitely considered and would assign a probability of 0.50.

We are a nation lead by utterly contemptible morons.

This is a man who supposedly holds a BA in Political Science who actually has negative understanding of basic economic concepts.

That is, his “understanding” actively undermines his constituents’ understanding of good economic policy and action.

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