The economy is already priming his endโฆ all itโs gonna take is a push-like martial law-will push it over the cliff.
03.04.2025 10:41 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Iโve been feeling bad. Making excuses for not eating, not washing dishes, not walkingโฆ. This is gonna be a daily reminder.
03.04.2025 09:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
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Dear Canada, Hello
Please send this express to Canada.
17.03.2025 17:59 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. Itโs a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
19.03.2025 17:40 โ ๐ 68773 ๐ 23118 ๐ฌ 3292 ๐ 982
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Send Me a Signal
Send Me a Signal
25.03.2025 15:40 โ ๐ 38 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 5
Haha! Wish that Cowboy really took off for Spaceโฆ. He likes Mars so much, let him cowboy around in THAT climate.
22.03.2025 12:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Don't think there is anyone on this platform who will take that bet. I agree -- Miller is behind the worst of the worst immigration "ideas". ๐
22.03.2025 11:12 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Soโฆ IF trump didnโt sign it, did not order it signed via auto pen, or doesnโt REMEMBER signing itโฆ. Who is running the Government? All possibilities are unacceptable! If any of that is trueโฆ. Iโm betting Steve Miller.
22.03.2025 08:47 โ ๐ 31 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
'Obfuscation tactics': Trump moves to hide key data as economy careens 'toward a downturn'
All signs are pointing to a coming recession as U.S. President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on close trading partners, oversees mass firings of civil servants, and pushes for cuts to public servicesโbut by firing economists, advisers, and other experts tasked with advising federal agencies on economic shifts, the administration is working to ensure that the government and the public can't read those signs.
As Politico reported Friday, experts serving on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Technical Advisory Committee were informed this week that they were no longer needed, leaving the BLS without a panel that has long advised the Labor Department on how economic changes can impact data collection.
A page for the committee was removed from the Labor Department's website, along with one that had information about the Data Users Advisory Committee, which has advised on how businesses and policymakers can use the agency's economic reports.
"It would be a bad sign for a software company to cancel all beta testing if you expect to keep making better software," Michael Madowitz, an economist at the Roosevelt Institute who served on the data users committee, told Politico. "This feels like the same sort of thing."
The dismissal of the advisers follows the disbanding by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick of another advisory board that has worked for years to ensure the government produces accurate data on economic indicatorsโthe Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC), which worked under the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
"If laying off tens or hundreds of thousands of federal workers is going to drag down macroeconomic indicators in ways that are unhelpful to them, they're apparently quite willing to just rewrite definitions so they can insulate themselves to the extent possible from the fallout."
"Reduced transparency in official statistics is perhaps the most troubling aspect of disbanding FESAC," wrote Claudia Sahm, a former Federal Reserve economist, at Bloomberg on March 11. "Cutting off agency staff from external advisers creates an environment where political interference could occur much more easilyโand go undetected. With political officials such as Lutnick arguing publicly that GDP should exclude government spending, it is especially important to have external, independent experts."
On Wednesday, the Federal Housing Finance Authority also placed workers who helped compile its home price index on administrative leave.
The dismantling of much of the federal government's data analysis apparatus comes amid the illegal firing of the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission just after one called on FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson to take 10 steps to lower prices for U.S. consumers.
"This administration wants to write its own narrative," Stephanie Kelton, a professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University, toldThe Nation after the disbanding of FESAC. "If laying off tens or hundreds of thousands of federal workers is going to drag down macroeconomic indicators in ways that are unhelpful to them, they're apparently quite willing to just rewrite definitions so they can insulate themselves to the extent possible from the fallout."
The latest advisory committee firings this week came as the Federal Reserve projected higher unemployment, faster inflation, and slower growthโor "stagflation." Economic growth this year was projected to be 2.1% in the last weeks of former President Joe Biden's administration; the Fed now expects 1.7% growth, as well as the unemployment rate rising to 4.4%.
Other negative economic indicators include the largest manufacturing decline in nearly two years, according to the New York Federal Reserve's Manufacturing Index, and declining consumer confidence, with bars and restaurants reporting their largest sales decline last month since February 2023.
Members of Trump's own administration are increasingly admitting that a recession could be in the near future, but as Lindsay Owens, executive director of progressive think tank Groundwork Collaborative, said Friday, "the Trump administration is testing whether you can prevent a recession with a disappearing act."
"Unfortunately tossing a scarf over the GDP numbers doesn't change the fact that their policies have us careening toward a downturn," said Owens. "The fact that they are ramping up their obfuscation tactics confirms it."
22.03.2025 08:19 โ ๐ 38 ๐ 23 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1
Love love LOVE that!
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21.03.2025 18:45 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Trump froze hundreds of millions in annual US funding to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The cuts are expected to deepen food insecurity in multiple regions, aid experts have warned. ๐ www.politico.eu/article/un-f...
13.03.2025 08:37 โ ๐ 70 ๐ 34 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 3
Protect American lives? From ? Such bullshittery!!! stupidity reigns supreme in Trump sycophants.
04.03.2025 18:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Yes please
29.01.2025 02:54 โ ๐ 10470 ๐ 2740 ๐ฌ 266 ๐ 134
Itโs disappointing to realize we just canโt get there. This stupid ass country wonโt let an intelligent qualified woman be president. Weโd rather have an unqualified treasonous criminal.
24.01.2025 14:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Costco takes stand against Donald Trump
Costco Wholesale shareholders overwhelmingly rejected the proposal.
24.01.2025 13:13 โ ๐ 277 ๐ 40 ๐ฌ 17 ๐ 12
Critical metals exploration and energy transition โ A perspective
The critical metals theme is well established, with long-run demand-side growth driven by cleaner energy and new technology applications. Delivering tโฆ
Exploration trends are influenced by geopolitics. Delivering renewable energy (& related infrastructure) requires new sources and higher metal-intensity than fossil fuel-led energy provisions. Greater uncertainties in land access favours established mining jurisdictions, and big mining firms ๐ชจ๐งช
24.01.2025 03:42 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Science is not just experiments and equationsโitโs a human story of inquiry. Listen to the voices of marginalized scientists. Learn how theyโre resisting, surviving, and thriving under oppression. Share their stories. Together, we rise. ๐ค๐ฑ #DecolonizeScience #ScienceSolidarity ๐งช โ
24.01.2025 04:05 โ ๐ 65 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
This is your reminder that discomfort is a catalyst for change. Science has never been apoliticalโitโs always been about power. If you care about the future, itโs time to disrupt. To resist. To fight. No neutrality in the face of oppression. #DecolonizeScience #ScienceSolidarity ๐งช๐ฑ
24.01.2025 04:06 โ ๐ 100 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Like water, we change states as neededโliquid to flow, gas to rise, solid to stand strong.
Together, we are unstoppable in every form.
Letโs keep adapting and fighting. ๐ง๐ฌ๏ธ๐ง #StatesOfResistance #DecolonizeScience #ScienceSolidarity ๐ฑ ๐งช
24.01.2025 04:32 โ ๐ 94 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Dems cannot run another woman. Hurts me to say that, but Hillary lost, Kamala lost, both extremely qualified. A bunch of Archie Bunkers have to die off before this country treats women as equal in all respects.
24.01.2025 10:13 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
NOW: More than 98% of #Costco shareholders have just rejected an anti-DEI measure
The attempt to force Costco to audit their #DEI work was by an anti-inclusion lobby group:
"The proponent's broader agenda is not reducing risk for the Company but abolition of diversity initiatives." - Costco Board
23.01.2025 22:21 โ ๐ 25523 ๐ 4164 ๐ฌ 456 ๐ 589
A House fascist republican named Andy Ogles introduced an amendment to the Constitution that would allow the orange felon to run for a third term. Yes, itโs a treasonous cult, what an embarrassment.
24.01.2025 04:02 โ ๐ 876 ๐ 172 ๐ฌ 75 ๐ 13
JUST IN: Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski will NOT vote to confirm Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense
23.01.2025 18:41 โ ๐ 13730 ๐ 1251 ๐ฌ 661 ๐ 139
At this point AOC @aoc.bsky.social is General Charles de Gaulle. She needs to start organizing her government in exile instead of bothering to try to work with the nazi collaborators.
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