This is,,,, not correct.

BEFORE the revision, the jobs numbers were inconsistent w/ the 1.2% avg growth we saw the first half of this year. It looked as though we had significantly higher job growth than our econ growth implied.

Now that the jobs numbers have been revised down, they’re consistent.

who told us about her? her VICTIMS, you disingenuous hack.

it takes a lot to gast my flabbers these days but even i can’t believe they’re seriously gonna try this revisionist history shit about a woman who aided and abetted in the rape of children.

Not very impressive for a country with Russia's vast resources. And even that came largely from huge stockpiles of Soviet weapons, that are now largely gone, and the willingness to sacrifice tens of thousands of soldiers in meat wave assaults. Backing Russia is backing a loser.

Even taking responsibility for appointing Powell? If he is, as they keep saying, the worst ever, why didn't Trump retain Janet Yellen?

No serious economist would advocate Trump's devastating economic policies:
1. High tariffs for no reason.
2. Complete uncertainty.
3. Massive overstimulation with rising budget deficit & public debt.
4. Hostility to the whole world.
No surprise the economy declines.

Thoughtful and disturbing. Columbia had shown what it was made of for some time, but seeing Brown do something similar is disturbing indeed.

This has, of course, a one-way ratchet: people contemptuous of the judicial function call in lots of threats, but people supportive of an independent judiciary do not call in support because that is inconsistent with respect for judicial independence.

My latest on a blatantly unconstitutional provision in the recent upper-income tax cut law.
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Contributor: Even Clarence Thomas agreed these kinds of Trump money moves are illegal The president can veto spending legislation he finds excessive, but he may not sign an appropriations act and then refuse to implement it.

My latest in the LA Times on why Trump's rescissions are irresponsible and his threatened "pocket rescissions" are illegal.
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Excellent 🧵 explaining just how dangerous the Administration's crypto legislation is for the economy. People are focused on a slow decline into a recession, but this could lead to a huge crash. Wildly irresponsible.

Pretty hard to make Steve Mnuchin look good by comparison, but he's managing.

#HappyBirthdayMedicaid!

For some reason, voters are not drawn to either a crooked Trump collaborator or an abusive authoritarian Trump collaborator. Who knew?

I Coulda Made a Better Deal What, exactly, did Trump get from Europe?

Very nice, accessible dissection of the phony "trade deal" with the EU. Slams key sectors of US manufacturing, and raises prices for us all. And signals Trump to keep on breaking treaties.
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Excellent, typically succinct 🧵 about how irresponsible industrial policies and trade wars are going to do lasting harm to economies across the globe. China and the U.S. are in denial, and everyone suffers.

How can anyone call this incidental when it has been happening for so long to do many people and has been actively celebrated by senior cabinet members, including a convicted terrorist? Action is clear. Intent is clear. The end.

Hmm. He says we need more idiot control but admits he doesn't know how to do it. But we do know how to legislate more firearms safety (some of which might even qualify as "idiot control"). So while he is pondering, let's act.

If you were running the state airline of a country occupying territory of several of its neighbors, and conducting a brutal eleven-year war against one of them, would YOU consider an operating system less than two decades old or perhaps occasionally changing your password?

Why is Trump's defense lawyer turned deputy AG talking to the perpetrator and ignoring the survivors? Why isn't survivor testimony infinitely more credible? And why is DOJ not releasing redacted survivor statements?

This👇🏻. I was a federal prosecutor for 15 years and never interviewed a witness without an agent present. It wasn’t allowed. Among other things, the agents are responsible for memorializing the interview and are themselves the witnesses to how the interview was conducted and what was said.

Indeed! The closer one looks, the more Vought's idea crumbles to dust. For starters, he cannot even point to statutory text allowing the President to withhold appropriated funds until they expire.
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Unclear what they mean by "delete". The EO, and the Musk/Ramaswammy WSJ piece, seemed to imply that they could just declare the regs gone. If that's all they are doing, it has no legal effect and they are all but conceding litigation before it even begins.

Putin contributed considerably to bolstering the Russian submarine corp, starting with the Moskva...

I wonder if leaders will ever admit that smearing all protests to stop the genocide actually contributed to the genocide. Will there ever be that level of self reflection and honesty or are we just going to get fake surprise like this after mass death.

Valuable 🧵 about the important work GAO does. Other countries place their GAO analogues on a pedestal, making their findings central to public policy debates. It reflects badly on us that so few people even know what GAO is, much less wield it's findings against those in power.

The Michigan @aclu.org is looking to hire a senior staff attorney. These jobs don't come around that often, and they've got a great team -- wanted to make sure folk saw it!
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A few more words than this, as a couple of people have posed questions. One of the most common drivers of change in an extremist movement's ideology is a legitimacy challenge, and that's what's happening in Trumpland right now. 1/x

New Yorkers should also tell their smart would-be Speaker to tune in.

No surprise here. As Trump routinely breaks laws and contracts that are legally binding, why should the Japanese bother converting this one to contractual form? Trump will follow it until he feels like breaking it, either way.

Why can't reporters mention the constitutional definition of treason when Trump accused others of committing it. He does it so often that reporters surely have had time to prepare.