A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Dear Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, Alabama, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana and South Carolina Republicans:

Are your families as excited about spending $1.2 billion of taxpayer money on a gold-ornamented ballroom and luxury jet as the Trump family is?

🚨 The Trump admin wants you to think everyone in “Alligator Alcatraz” is a criminal.

But many detained there have legal residency and don’t know why they’re locked up.

Maggot-infested food. No showers. No meds. No basic human rights.

This is happening 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙎.

REP. @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Texas Dems are fighting back— we’re leaving the state, breaking quorum, preventing Republicans from silencing our voices & rigging the election… we’re not fighting for the Democratic Party, we’re fighting for the Democratic process.”

it’s almost like Trump was just lying about a bunch of shit to see what resonated with the rubes and the plan was to do project 2025 stuff all along

if only it had been possible for news orgs to do something other than take his bullshit at face value during the campaign

alas

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A Texas House committee — led by Republicans — just voted to advance the highly-gerrymandered, Trump-demanded congressional map specifically drawn to flip five Democratic House districts in favor of Republicans.

The full House will likely vote this coming week on the map.

In China, the projected GDP-growth rate, and province-by-province output rates, always proved to be exactly correct!

The party would forecast 11.3% annual growth for a given province, and—surprise!—the provincial officials would report 11.3% at year's end.

Somehow this comes to mind today.

Fed Governor Kugler is resigning, giving Trump a nominee on committee that sets interest rates Her resignation now paves the way for Trump to put his own nominee in for the Board of Governors.

From T Snyder:

>>Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given... Individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.<<

This is how they managed statistics in the old USSR.

Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged,’ Fires Labor Official

For months, people have been asking me whether I still trusted gov’t data. My answer was always the same: The stats agencies faced longstanding challenges, some of which Trump was making worse. But there was no sign of political meddling.
I can’t say that anymore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass med school so you better start eating healthy.

Yikes those employment number revisions.

Definitely more in line with what one would expect in an economy being driven by a racist crime clown.

Where does the climate movement go from here? In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.

“California, the fourth largest economy on planet Earth, is this summer using 40 percent less natural gas than it did two years ago to generate electricity.

If you wanna know why the fossil fuel industry is freaking out and sponsoring every bad politician on Earth, that's why.”

#Pritzker signed legislation into law that acknowledged the importance of mental health in overall student well-being and academic success.

This law aims to identify students struggling with issues such as anxiety or depression at an early stage which sadly I saw teaching 1st grade.

#SheShed

"Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already."

-Donald Trump, 4/2/25

Arson On a Planetary Scale The new push to overturn greenhouse gas limits and yet again reject science is criminal and profoundly reckless

“It’s hard to overstate the scale of recklessness involved in cutting limits on greenhouse gas emissions. This is criminal…we’ll all pay for this hostile rejection of reality.”

www.americaamerica.news/p/arson-on-a...

CNN: An auto parts maker in Detroit just had to layoff 100 workers and shut down a warehouse. The owner specifically blamed tariffs.

STEPHEN MIRAN: It's always convenient to blame political changes when your business fails

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Wall Street opens lower as Trump tariffs and weak jobs report hit global markets – business live Just 73,000 jobs created in July, and employment in May and June was 258,000 lower than previously reported

Why does Trump keep going after Jerome Powell? Because Trump bears the blame for our faltering economy, and he desperately wants a scapegoat. So besides Trump’s Epstein connection and history of raping kids, he also is uniquely terrible at his job.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Holy shit, I just saw the jobs report. The U.S. economy only added 73,000 jobs, and May and June were revised down by 258,000. That's insane, and it honestly makes me think they cooked the books for the PR bounce to make Trump look good.

No wonder most Americans say they're worse off since January.

Last month's report said there were 147k new jobs in June. Today's "revision" brought that down to 14k. So it was off by 90%.

For May, it went from 144k to 19k. Again, not just a little off, but WAY off.

The only conclusion is that the numbers we're getting from Trump's DOL are complete lies.

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

There is a conspiracy to cover up Donald Trump’s sexual deviance.

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

“Trump’s name is in the Epstein Files but Kash Patel had FBI agents go through them and black out his name” is the kind of statement that will surely put out this fire

"Of course, Trump could agree to let his name out or sign a privacy waiver."

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Chart showing downward revision in job numbers.

Biden-Harris’ Artificial Job Numbers Exposed Following Largest Jobs Revision In 15 Years Aug 21, 2024 1 min read Copied WASHINGTON— The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its preliminary annual benchmark report for nonfarm payrolls, showing a decline of 818,000, the most substantial revision since 2009 and equal to about 30% of the job growth for the 12-month period ending in March 2024. E.J. Antoni, research fellow and public finance economist at the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation, issued the following statement reacting to this abnormally large decrease in the jobs numbers. “For month after month, this administration has released overly optimistic jobs figures, which are later revised down. The labor market is nowhere near as strong as is being portrayed. Today’s negative benchmark is the second largest in history after 2009, when the labor market was bottoming out in the Great Recession. “It’s important to remember that this benchmark is on top of the existing downward revisions to the monthly jobs reports. Comparing the initial estimates to the latest data shows that nonfarm payrolls were grossly overestimated by almost 1.2 million for a 12-month. That’s more than a third of the alleged job growth during that time. “Something is clearly wrong at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, given how consistently the number of jobs has been overestimated. The Bureau owes Congress and the American people an explanation as to how their statistical models have been so wildly off the mark and why they have done nothing to correct them.”

I assume the Heritage foundation will be all over this.

Gentle reminder