STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'?

JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said.

S: Those are quotes

And most of them said they'd do it again

Donald Trump Shoots the Messenger Classic authoritarian move: When reality doesn’t go your way, deny reality.

Trump's move to fire the government’s statisticians over bad jobs numbers won’t make voters any happier with the economy, Jonathan Chait argues.

just a reminder that in the last election no significant swath of voters actually voted for this and/or wanted this

Trump destroys our source of information about jobs. This is beyond irresponsible. He hates facts. He rejects truth. He doesn't want the public to know what's really happening.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy.

Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information.

This should alarm everyone. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-destroys-our-source-of-information

prescient (from 3 months ago)

By all means, let the guy who told the secretary of state of Georgia "I just want to find 11,780 votes" make decisions about whose numbers are wrong.

Don't like the numbers? Just fire the person responsible for gathering them.

Trump's doing what every tyrannical regime has always done: wiping out the truth and replacing it with lies.

Before they remove her page, here is Dr. Erika McEntarfer's BLS bio page. She's a 20-year career official PhD labor economist.

“Unthinkable”

“Family members … of ten men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration … say their relatives have tattoos and believe that is why their loved ones were targeted. But they vigorously reject the idea that their sons, brothers, and husbands have anything to do with Tren de Aragua.”

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The USA’s two leading scholars of authoritarianism and fascism moved to Canada (one permanently, one on leave).

“Stanley writes he has been “very happy at Yale, with the department and the university,” but he wants “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship.”

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979. 

Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth. 

Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

They’re going after the weather

Just like they said they would in project 2025

Neither the mainstream press nor our political system seem to have digested the fact that the U.S. president is trying to illegally annex a NATO ally using economic coercion.

So casually deciding to take over another country just because he's decided he wants to. Hmmm where have we seen this before, rather recently, 🤔🤔 oh right, Russia deciding to take the Ukraine.

Not going to happen
#TeamCanada

@vickistone.bsky.social hi! This is Suzanne Young!

That's my fear as well.

Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).

1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic.

Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵

Most voters apparently have the memory of a chipmunk. I doubt they'll remember in 4 years and even if they do, meh. Really, after all the crappy stuff the other side does? Not something I'm upset about. Major shrug.

Trump pardoned his SILs father. That wasn't a politically motivated conviction. Family related pardon. Seriously, you know Trump is going to pardon himself. But it's ok to just leave Hunter out there. No, I'm ok with this.

Donations Improved Odds of Avoiding Trump Tariffs, Study Finds Public companies whose executives donated to Republican candidates had a higher chance of winning exclusions from President-elect Donald Trump’s first-term tariffs on China, while those that gave to…

A recent analysis found that when Trump imposed tariffs during his first term, companies who contributed to Republicans were more likely to be granted tariff exemptions.

Trump's corporate donors won't shoulder the cost of his trade wars.

It's crony capitalism at its worst.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.

The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

It's so very annoying!

Never forget this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.