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Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report The president implied that the BLS commissioner, longtime federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

What happens when we start fudging critical economic data? www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Attorneys baffled by federal court order with factual errors - Mississippi Today U.S. District Judge Henry .T. Wingate filed a corrected order after attorneys raised concerns about factual errors in the first one.

We're descending into AI slop chaos mississippitoday.org/2025/07/28/a...

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The Two Movements While Trump wants to break apart everything decent about America, the people are rebelling—and giving powerful opponents to Trump the will to resist.

"The task at hand is to reassure elites who oppose Trump that the public is behind them, and instill in them the will to fight."
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The Last Abundance Agenda In the 1980s, Wall Street vowed to make housing more affordable through deregulation of housing finance. The result was the 2008 crisis.

@ddayen.bsky.social with a fair and compelling critique of Abundance. "The Klein-Thompson view is that Democrats clogged the building channel with unnecessary or just burdensome rules. My view is that powerful forces profit off choke points and want them to remain" prospect.org/infrastructu...

Nice remembrance of Kevin Drum in the form of Friday catblogging with a cameo from Taco Cat (my sister's cat, I am allergic). prospect.org/politics/202...

Sad news about my former Mother Jones colleague. Rest in peace, Kevin. jabberwocking.com/health-updat...

Social Security Administration Could Cut Half Its Workforce Sources tell the Prospect that a meeting called for a 50 percent reduction in an agency that millions rely on for benefit implementation.

“’Not touching Social Security’ is not the reality of this administration,” said a source familiar with the discussions at SSA in a message obtained by the Prospect. “Looking for government to fail and be replaced by private industry appears to be the goal.”

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it was me

It might not be live for every reader just at this moment, the changes we pushed to fix the error take a little time to impact all readers. Let me know if you still have issues.

This was my fault. Sorry Prospect readers, I will do better next time.

From the Quetico this summer with Sam. Best fishing I've ever done, you and Max should make a trip one of these years.

I love how into fishing you've gotten. Nice one!

The Trump Administration’s Plan to Seize Control of Spending Trump and his advisers want to bring back impoundment, enabling them to cancel spending appropriated by Congress.

We've known about Trump's plans to unlawfully suspend federal spending for months and somehow the Dems are caught flat footed? Who is running the party? prospect.org/politics/202...

We're hiring over at @theprospect.bsky.social. Two writing fellow positions are open. Those are perfect for early career journalists. We're also hiring a managing editor. Take a look over at prospect.org/careers. DM me if you have any questions or interested candidates.

Read @timothypmurphy.bsky.social on Billionaires’ Row: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Government Is Shutting Down Because Elon Musk Has Factories in China There’s a mundane reason for the late-term chaos, and it’s called a conflict of interest.

"This is going to be a constant theme of the next four years. Personal business interests are going to constantly take precedence over governance in the Trump/Musk White House. The word for this is oligarchy, and oligarchs don’t think about the country first."

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Journalist request !!

I'm looking to speak to folks who are making plans to protect themselves/their undocumented loved ones before Trump takes office. Specifically hoping to hear from couples considering marriage to get documentation for their partners.

(312) 989-2992 or ejanssen@prospect.org

What We Have Here Is a Rudderless Ship Thoughts on the Democratic post-election drift

The leadership is too damn old prospect.org/politics/202...

Remembering Janie Ekere 1998–2024

This is a post I never thought I'd have to write. One of our writing fellows, Janie Ekere, suddenly passed away last week. Everyone on staff is devastated. Read @ddayen.bsky.social on Janie's impact on our organization. Give your loved ones a hug or a call today. prospect.org/culture/2024...

We will miss you @rickperlstein.bsky.social!

I wonder how much of the Wall Street/Main Street disconnect is directly attributable to gambling etc, which is positive for Wall Street in the aggregate and negative for Main Street

Seems like there will be a lot more of this coming in the next 4 years. qz.com/hawk-tuah-me...

Recall campaign targets SF supervisor over Great Highway backlash Joel Engardio led an effort to close part of the Upper Great Highway to cars. Now, his constituents are trying to oust him from office.

This is insane. The people/business by the new park will benefit more than anyone from it. Total time added to commutes to Daily City, 3 min. Not 30, *3*.

Just retrograde thinking. sfstandard.com/2024/12/03/r...

The N.Carolina state Senate overrode Gov. Cooper's veto of the bill stripping power from incoming Democrats. It comes down to the House, where 3 Republicans from the western part of the state voted against the original bill because of its fake promise of hurricane relief
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Michigan Democrats Deliver Lame-Duck Disappointment The first Democratic trifecta in 40 years is ending with internal dissent, stalled legislation, and up to $10 billion in corporate subsidies.

Michigan organizers have worked for decades for a democratic trifecta, finally won one, and now in the final months of their trifecta what are they doing with it?

Giving handouts to corporations.

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If you need a podcast for a drive or flight today, I'm sharing my favorite This American Life story about a turkey named Tom that terrorized the residents of Martha's Vineyard for two weeks in 2011. www.thisamericanlife.org/452/poultry-...

Analysis | Musk admits X throttles links as ‘news influencers’ take over Hard times for the humble hyperlink and those who depend on it.

Musk admitted X throttles links, and Threads is only a little better. But social media's quiet war on links has been going on for years. I wrote about how big tech has been draining the open web's lifeblood and giving us "news influencers" instead of the news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...