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Trump, Seeking Friendlier Economic Data, Names New Statistics Chief President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief earlier this month after a downbeat jobs report. The move has raised concerns about the credibility of economic data going forward.

Friendlier data? COME ON. Trump is looking for economic data that is FALSE. Say that.
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Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.

you can't say (correctly) "Vote Blue no matter who" and then desert the idea when a left-winger wins, and party leaders even encouraging or winking at opposition to Mamdani at this point are fools

I remember reading an old book from the 1920s, where a woman was startled to realize that she was driving almost 25 miles per hour, and slowed down immediately. I'd love to see that normalized again, at least in cities.

Ozma, black and white cat with one green eye, sits inside a cardboard box glaring at me, ready to attack. Her puffy catnip toy is beside her.

Behold, the face of evil! (And her catnip toy.)

I'm not sure how people don't get that on city streets, a rapid burst of acceleration is a highly rash action even if it gets you out of an approaching car's way. Reduces risk on you by transferring to someone else

True! I hadn't even thought of that.

I agree 100%.

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

This one is exceptionally cool!

Local Champaign Urbana folks - come join us!

Remember this image every time someone tells you that protesters are "hurting their cause."

Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.

I don't know why all the bad news is hitting me so hard today. But I had my little meltdown, didn't break anything, and I've got cake to eat later. So tomorrow's definitely going to be better.

Just 5 hours left to raise funds for this amazing magazine! Stories are essential in these awful times; please support if you can.

WTAF???

I just don't get it. I think it would be so much fun to do things like giving away cool bikes, or books like Dolly Parton does. It would be so easy to do good things with that much money. Why do they choose to be cartoonishly evil bad guys?!

People on bikes in a protected bike-lane in downtown Vancouver.

Never forget, when you’re being asked to prove that safe bike-lanes or pedestrian crossings across currently unsafe conditions are ‘needed,’ it's hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a raging river.

#TheTruthAboutTraffic

Evergreen post.

Imagine in another country a corrupt president was trying to change the election laws.

Then that president's political ally threatened to remove all the legislators of the other party to get it done.

That's what's happening in Texas right now.

I object to this Champaign erasure! (Except we're only a real city if you add Urbana but dammit, give us downstaters something.)

Okay, but I've been trying to buy a new subscription to O365 for a nonprofit for 2 weeks, and their interface is making it impossible! If I could get by with gsuite I absolutely would. What I desperately want at this point is a disk install rather than a subscription, but those days are long gone.

This is absolutely disgusting!

More detail:

Thread. I've often heard and quoted Niemöller's poem ("First they came for..."), but this adds context that makes it even more chilling.

I hate this so much, but I can't disagree. It's going to take a ton of work to make up what ground we can.

WOW. What an absolute asshole Dershowitz is!

That's how you can tell human authors from AI.

AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.

Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

Kai Winn, OTOH, would absolutely have voted Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

I disagree. She's deeply religious, and therefore does her best to live up to the actual teachings of the prophets. Watching Trump bully, lie, and make fun of a disabled reporter would be deal-breakers for her.

Kira would *never*.