William Lai

Payroll growth plunged to 73K in July, undershooting expectations. Revisions also slashed estimates for May and June, from 144K to 19K and 133K to 14K.

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.

The Trump admin has enacted massive contract terminations for consulting giants and contractors like Accenture and Booz Allen.

Now Palantir is partnering with those companies—giving them a lifeline while consolidating its own power with the federal gov't. From @makenakelly.bsky.social

I’ve been in Melbourne for less than 24 hrs and already seeing alot more awareness and concerns about Gaza than in America. Our complete and willful face turn away is a disgrace no matter where you stand on this conflict.

This is like watching a movie, and within the first 5 mins you already know the main character, America, will die. You just don't know how yet.

Pretty sure he created a 12-Sided Die of Tariffs and just rolled it for every country.

Good luck America. You deserve it, for picking a fucking buffoon as your leader.

Then start fighting, Senator.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

I don't like it when people disappear and no explanation from the authorities are given. Stalin-esque arstechnica.com/security/202...

Can we still say America is no longer the leader of the “Free World”. The right adjective is either “Paid”, or “Fascist”

I sincerely think Obama and Biden made a big mistake of not prosecuting the crimes committed under W and Trump's terms. There is simply no reconciliation with the kinds and level of crime committed. It's as criminal as the law firms "settling" with Trump. Hi #MerrickGarland

Those doing the right thing, though it may well reduce the partners’ huge incomes temporarily, are Perkins Cole, Jenner & Block and WilmerHale, headquartered in Seattle, Chicago, and Boston & D.C. respectively. The two failures are Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps, both New York City-based firms…. 2/3

This is an historic character-test moment for Americans in many powerful and/or lucrative jobs—like partners at big law firms. Who as “officers of the court” have an ethical & legal responsibility to uphold the legal system’s integrity. So far three firms are passing the test and two have failed.1/3

Masked agents whisk away Tufts student from sidewalk, video shows The widely circulated video of Turkish doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk’s arrest in the Boston area has sent shock waves through the academic community.

"Whisk away" makes it sound as if she's on her way to Disneyland for a surprise vacation. No, #BrokenPost, she was abducted, kidnapped by masked agents.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Abu Ghraib is when it all started to go down hill. Once you lose the ethical justification for being world police, there is really no bottom to what is just imperialism and bullying

that Noem video reinforces my belief that there is a streak of sexualized sadism on the US right that goes back to lynching imagery but began in its most recent form with the enthusiasm for torture during the Bush years.

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.

Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

As a maximal pessimist about America under Trump, I haven’t been disappointed thus far

Trump is a fan of the outdated, the passé, the increasingly irrelevant. There isn't an outmoded industry that he wouldn't like to protect: Coal, Oil, Autos. I predict next he'll announce stiff tariffs on England and the Amish, for stealing away business in steam engines and horse-and-buggy.

Opinion | Trump Won’t Win a War Against the Courts The judiciary will never surrender to the president its constitutional role to interpret the Constitution.

Luttig is a MAJOR conservative legal figure, former judge on the 4th Circuit, often compared to Scalia. Easily could have been a Supreme.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

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Ironic that the “Republicans” are not so keen on a constitutional republic any more.

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

So at this point the president is openly defying court orders, threatening judges that don't go their way; legislature is controlled by a flaccid majority that abdicate their constitutional authority and let exec branch run wild. ..... Are we just livin in Venezuela or Pakistan, not offense?

I could not in good conscience suggest to any non-citizen that they shld be trying to transit in and out of the United States at the present moment.

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Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?

All this doom ain’t gonna scroll itself