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Dear Democrats: Courage is courageous. When you fight, we fight WITH you!

This is the moment where Democrats need to say enough is enough.

#MessWithTexas

Firing a labor statistician for giving a weak jobs report is like firing your cardiologist because you have high cholesterol.

Once again, this is nonsense.

Worse, actually.

White House economist calls for 'fresh set of eyes at the BLS' after weak jobs report | Fox Business Video National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett discusses the latest jobs report, the firing of the labor statistics chief and the consumer impact of tariffs on 'Fox News Sunday.'

Hassett went on TV and claimed you can’t trust the economic data anymore because all the recent revisions are partisan.
A bald-faced lie.
Every serious economist still in this administration should resign. They are actively underminding the US economy by lending their credibility to this horse****

“.. This is the kind of thing you would only expect to see in a banana republic,” Ms. Yellen said.

@bencasselman.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

The man who just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because their numbers supposedly weren’t accurate just claimed that he lowered drug prices in America by 1500%.

Also and while I’m at it — if you don’t say tariffs are taxes on US importers and consumers when citing the revenue the government celebrates that hey’ve brought in, you’re not credible.

It's no longer a question of if authoritarianism comes to America; now it's just a question of how bad it gets, and how long it lasts.

It's here. We can get rid of it if we fight together.

🚨 Ken Paxton wants Dems arrested for refusing to help rig an election.

That’s rich coming from a guy indicted on three felony counts of securities fraud, accused by his top deputies of bribery, abuse of office, while allegedly using burner phones, secret emails & fake names to dodge accountability.

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

Trump’s Tariffs Are Kleptocracy in Action Very little of what you’ve heard about presidential ‘deals’ is true. It’s really a shakedown on behalf of Trump’s desires and corporate whims.

"But what’s more dangerous, and more of a throwback to the past, is that trade is just a cover for corporate-driven demands on the rest of the world." prospect.org/economy/2025...

Perhaps unpopular opinion — if you’ve been covering business and the economy for 25 years, you don’t have to cite “economists say” to state the truth — that firing the commissioner of the BLS is a bad thing.

still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs

Right wing propaganda offers status rather than solutions - you get to be the righteous victim and complain about everything

The GOP had the House for 4 years out of 64 between 1931 and 1995
(80th, 83rd) but it did sent them into the wilderness until they realized you could use facism's tools to attack your opponents rather than having actual plans for the country(See Newt, RW propaganda networks on AM radio, Fox, et al)

They’re eating the lists They’re eating the files

Downtown LA, August 2nd, 2025.

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social has never met a billionaire that he can't suck up to

just some cat pisc for #caturday #cats #dogs #cat #dog

Germany’s new willingness to lead Europe’s anti-immigration front removes one key obstacle preventing European countries from enacting policy proposals that were until recently deemed beyond the pale. Those include plans to deport migrants to third countries and to process asylum claims outside the EU, copying the U.K.’s failed Rwanda scheme, which Merz previously praised as “something we could emulate.”

Absolutely revolting that this is becoming normalized as a policy
www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

Having flashbacks to Trump’s 2021 demand that a state official “find” missing votes, because the numbers weren’t in his favor.
This is what he expects of the BLS commissioner too: “find” missing jobs. He will try to appoint someone who does this bidding, unless GOP senators miraculously grow spines

the real question is, did he use the autopen to do it?

Wow. Who could’ve guessed the party that’s led to country to a recession every time they’ve been in charge in the last 40 years would lead the country to a recession again?

There is no bottom

Republicans thought they were getting people who would expose the Deep State pedophiles with Trump, Bongino and Patel. Instead, they got their protectors. Maxwell just got rewarded with a nicer prison, and in exchange, the pedophiles stay concealed. Hell of a legacy, fellas.

Businesses, policy makers, other stakeholders have no idea wtf is going on and have to rely on conflicting private estimates to plan. More chaos. All because one guy has been empowered by Congress and SCOTUS to do whatever the fuck he wants

Elizabeth Spiers with the crystal ball, from three months ago...