Stephanie Lindsey

This is nonsense

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****

Supreme Court poised to permanently entrench Republican rule The latest move by SCOTUS is a "five alarm fire"

"If SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act, the prospect of Republicans stealing only 5 seats in Texas will feel quaint. While California must counteract what the GOP is doing in Texas, we don’t have enough seats to counteract what they could do if the VRA if gutted. It cement permanent GOP rule."

Supreme Court poised to permanently entrench Republican rule The latest move by SCOTUS is a "five alarm fire"

“The Chief Justice made a point of saying that Section 2 continues to apply nationwide, and he and the other justices are going to be held to keep that promise,” Marc Elias explained. “So don’t count out the courts, don’t count out the lawyers arguing in the courts, and don’t count out the voters.”

The recent discussion of DOJ “burn bags” should be a warning to everyone calling for the release of the Epstein files: They may no longer exist. This is, after all, a very ham-fisted cover-up.

Trump says the -818k 2024 benchmark payroll revisions show BLS commissioner McEntarfer was political and incompetent. Let’s look at the facts.
1. The revisions were released in Aug 2024, not Nov 15 as the president said. So the BLS release showing far less job growth came 3 mos. BEFORE the election

also, this is very Soviet, except that Stalin then arrested and executed the statisticians

Timeline cleanse

YouTube video by scaredketchup Scotland Hates Trump - The Music Video

I love my heritage Scotland 💥🤣

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“Both of them.”

man this is grim

Turkey's Erdogan Fires Statistics Chief After Record Inflation President also appoints another member of ruling party as justice minister Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has moved to install loyalists in key positions while weakening institutions. PHOTO: FLORION GOGA/REUTERS By Jared Malsin Updated Jan 29, 2022 12:07 p.m. ET

Hmm….sounds familiar!

From now on, all jobs numbers will be coming from the guy who says he’s 6’3 and weighs 215.

How to know if you’re living in a dictatorship We're already seeing signs of creeping fascism, and it could get much worse.

On Inauguration Day, I listed 12 signs that would indicate we were living in a dictatorship. One of them was: "Fictional government statistics." Today Trump fired the commissioner of labor statistics because her bureau's numbers didn't match his lies.

Might be a good time to point out that, despite variations within particular months, the ADP payroll data for the past year is remarkably similar to the BLS payroll data for the past year.

BLS on top, ADP on bottom:

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

fumbling in a cloud of vibes and misinformation is good enough for the president and it ought to be good enough for the economy as a whole!

Trump fires data statistics chief after large revision to jobs report Trump orders firing of top government economist after release of large revisions to employment data

This should end any doubt whether we’ve entered some N Korea-style dictatorship where facts don’t exist. This is a truly sick person.

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Worth remembering: The Constitution explicitly gives the power to set tariffs to Congress. They could stop this nonsense by the end of the day.

As if things weren’t already bad enough.

The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today.

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GOP Quickly Moves to Expand Latest Ruling Weakening VRA Read more here.

Only a day after a federal appeals court ruled that voters in seven states can no longer enforce a key voting rights protection, the Republican National Committee (RNC) moved to spread that decision further.
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Totally agree

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Nice of Nevada to give a man with repeated mental problems a fucking machine gun.

US taxpayers just paid $10M for Trump’s trip to Scotland so he could cut a ribbon on his new golf course, but we “can’t afford” pediatric cancer research.

“The Musk head, which is apparently 12 ft tall, has been hanging out in crowded parking lots and in long lines by Arches National Park, Yosemite National Park & Mt Rainier National Park. A sign attached to the giant head reads, “Make America Wait Again” & “Now With Longer Lines Thanks To Doge Cuts!”

Little white dog in car seat.

Maggie in her car seat during a summer road trip.