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Why Federal Gov’t Unions Saw a More Than 6% Increase in Membership in 2025 As President Donald Trump’s actions targeting federal government unions and employees make...

By August 2025, Trump had moved to eliminate union protections from nearly 400k federal workers.

But by the end of 2025, the number and rate of federal workers in unions jumped compared to 2024, even as the government shed employees

NEW: The Supreme Court just overturned Trump's IEEPA tariffs in a complicated 6-3 split decision. More TK on @talkingpointsmemo.com

The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.

Every state where less than 1/3 of residents have a passport -- West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Oklahoma -- went for Trump in the 2024 election. hello? idk maybe I'm missing something. (info from this CAP report) www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

I'm so confused about why congressional Republicans don't seem to understand? care about? how the SAVE Act will disenfranchise wide swaths of their own base -- primarily lower income, rural, middle America, working class voters.

Citywides at 86 is nuts lolol

Carr Tries To Wash His Hands Of the Colbert Matter This is your TPM evening briefing.

It appears Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is attempting to evade responsibility for the situation that unfolded this week on “The Late Show."

“Each person who visits the President’s House and does not learn of the realities of founding-era slavery receives a false account of this country’s history.” — U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe

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so, the funding was not cut to decreased the deficit...

Ending our 34-year run The Richmond Free Press will cease publication this week, a bittersweet conclusion to a landmark publication that has served the Richmond community for 34 years.

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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

How Trump’s Immigration Crusade Is Endangering Black Americans From what began as a routine traffic stop in Georgia, U.S. Army...

How Black Americans whose families have been here for generations, especially those who have been convicted of crimes or participate in political dissent, risk being swept up in Trump’s immigration dragnet:

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How Trump’s Immigration Crusade Is Endangering Black Americans From what began as a routine traffic stop in Georgia, U.S. Army...

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January Jobs Report Shows Trump Is Failing On Campaign Promises to Blue Collar Workers After the first full year of President Donald Trump’s economic policies, which...

Trump's first year in office brought the smallest growth in U.S. jobs since 2013, outside of the 2020 pandemic. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/january...

January Jobs Report Shows Trump Is Failing On Campaign Promises to Blue Collar Workers After the first full year of President Donald Trump’s economic policies, which...

At the same time, productivity went up. That means a single person was producing more, but more people weren't hired to produce. Economist Lonnie Golden said this could point to automation and AI. What it doesn't point to is Trump's promise to usher America into its manufacturing Golden Age.

In a preliminary analysis, it looks like tariff-sensitive industries like trade, warehousing and truck transportation took some of the biggest hits. Also manufacturing, especially for certain tariff-sensitive sectors, saw some big drops in jobs.

January Jobs Report Shows Trump Is Failing On Campaign Promises to Blue Collar Workers After the first full year of President Donald Trump’s economic policies, which...

The job market under Trump's 1st year saw the smallest increase in job creation in 10 years, outside of the 2020 pandemic unemployment spike.

U.S. industries haven’t added fewer jobs than were added under Trump since 2013-2014.
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Economic Experts Skeptical Trump Fed Chair Pick Will Be Free from Political Influence President Donald Trump last Friday announced his intent to nominate former Federal...

GOP Sen. Tillis said he'll still BLOCK Trump's Fed pick until the DOJ stops investigating Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski initially said she'd block Trump's pick, too, but hasn't commented since Warsh's nom. Her office didn't respond to my inquiry. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kevin-w...

After getting beat up by some teenage girls no less.

Trump DOJ Files 9/11-Era Charges Against Leftists Across the Country Across the country, federal prosecutors are upgrading what would have been routine...

The DOJ is charging Black Lives Matter activists and members of a supposed "Antifa cell" with material support for terrorism

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Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs The layoffs are slated to shrink the newsroom by hundreds of journalists, cutting into The Post’s local, international and sports coverage.

Breaking News: The Washington Post began sweeping layoffs that were slated to shrink the scope of the publication.

Emmanuel Felton @emmanuelfelton X.com I'm among the hundreds of people laid off by The Post. This comes six months after hearing in a national meeting that race coverage drives subscriptions. This wasn't a financial decision, it was an ideological one. 8:27 AM • 2/4/26 • 23K Views

Former race and ethnicity reporter for WaPo:

“This wasn't a financial decision, it was an ideological one.”

He also says “hundreds of people” were laid off today, and I’ve seen it reported elsewhere that layoffs affected one third of the staff.

Economic Experts Skeptical Trump Fed Chair Pick Will Be Free from Political Influence President Donald Trump last Friday announced his intent to nominate former Federal...

Tillis has said he will oppose Warsh’s nomination until the DOJ drops or concludes its bogus investigation into Chairman Powell. Warsh can’t be confirmed without Tillis’ support.
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Judge orders release of 5-year-old detained by ICE in Minnesota The judge accused the Trump administration of inhumanity in its approach to deportations.

“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious LUST FOR UNBRIDLED POWER and the IMPOSITION OF CRUELTY IN ITS QUEST know no bounds and ARE BEREFT OF HUMAN DECENCY”

~ The Federal Judge

Judge Calls DOJ's Statements On Slavery Exhibit Display 'Dangerous' And 'Horrifying' Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe told the Justice Department's attorneys, "“You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way.”

A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying."

"You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"

As Congress Begins to Grapple With Restrictions on ICE, States Take Matters Into Their Own Hands On Thursday, a Michigan State Senate committee held a hearing on a...

States are stepping in with legislation to combat Trump's ICE overreach.

How the bills fare in places like Michigan -- which will see a number of competitive races in 2026 -- could help predict the impact of Trump's violent immigration enforcement on midterms
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Graham Brings Senate Deal on Government Funding to a Halt The Senate Thursday evening struck a deal with the White House to...

Lindsey Graham is holding up the Dem-White House deal over DHS funding bc of a provision that repeals a law allowing senators to receive cash payouts if their phone records were seized during Jack Smith’s investigation.

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Last post. The panel ended on a somewhat hopeful note. Attorney Kyle Freeny left attendees with this quote when an audience member asked what gave the panelists hope:

Another withering norm: You almost never see federal booking photos because there’s a norm against it, said Lawfare’s Bower. There’s a policy in the Justice Manual, the DOJ attorney “Bible,” against releasing booking photos…

AG Pam Bondi just tweeted a slate of photos “for no apparent reason”