Economist 'unsettled' by lack of an official jobs report amid Trump's shutdown

In the first quarter of 2025, farm bankruptcies increased by 95% Remember: the policies leading to bankruptcy are purposeful. Our food supply is in danger…there is no better way to bring a country to its knees than having control of its food supply.

Any law enforcement officer harming children in their pursuit of migrants here illegally should refuse the mission. How cruel can men and women be to frightened kids to be hand tied and pushed around by adults. How much hate does it take to commit atrocities against children?

"The focus on voter fraud in Pennsylvania is particularly ironic because it sure looks like, and a trail of documentation suggests, that Posobiec is living in Maryland but voting in Pennsylvania. If so, that would be a violation of voting laws, experts say." slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump promised an infrastructure bill for 4 years in his first term. Said it was coming in 2 weeks many times. Never delivered one. Democrats then delivered critically needed funding for crumbling infrastructure. Now Russ Vought is taking that away. But only in blue states.

Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens. They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon named in Epstein files released by Democrats

Trump’s Supremes took one more step toward making him king. The Court said Trump could fire a commissioner for any reason, stripping away Congressional protections that firings must be because a commissioner screwed up big. But the Supremes ignored their own precedent and let Trump have his way.

PubMed is in trouble This is beyond bad for medical research pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Hey, folks at the White House and the Council of Economic Advisers! You guys ready to issue a correction yet? This isn't controversial: It's arithmetic. Indeed, it's your arithmetic, but I fixed your errors.

Sure, the President of the United States of America posted a video of the Grim Reaper taking out prominent Democrats, but it’s not like he called them fascists, so it’s fine.

THE PURGE Polls show that Project 2025 didn’t resonate. Voters thought it wasn’t real. Well, now we’re living it and it’s already 47% implemented after only 9 months. Trump’s shutdown is a shortcut: gut the federal workforce, fire career experts, replace them with loyalists. Laid out in P2025. 🧵

Adelina Grijalva: Am I sworn in yet? No. Do I know when I will be sworn in? Because Johnson has left the building. Unfortunately what that means for us is that Southern Arizona doesn’t have a voice here to advocate for you. You also don’t have services in district. Reach out to Speaker Johnson.

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Hey America, job growth is stalling, groceries are way more expensive, small businesses are hurting bcuz of the uncertainty, he’s putting the military on our streets, and he has a secret police force ignoring the Constitution & terrorizing entire communities. MAGA, MAGA, huh?

Republicans: Biden was trying to buy votes with student loan forgiveness. Also Republicans: We need taxpayers to bail out farmers who vote for us since Trump put them out of business.

Republicans are happy to collect taxes from blue states, then Budget Dictator Russ Vought cuts off their funding approved by Congress. No cuts yet from the Dictator to red states. Vote out Susan Collins since she is powerless as Appropriations Chair & every R in blue states.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

More turmoil in the US attorney's office that brought the Comey indictment at Trump's explicit demand. Two longtime prosecutors who had risen to leadership positions in the Virginia office were fired in recent days, Salvador Rizzo reports. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Let me introduce you to my friend, TN State Rep Aftyn Behn. She is running in a special election for Congress in TN-07. She is the only woman running in a field of 14 men. She’s tough. She’s real. She knows what she’s doing. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

An administration of petulant toddlers. www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

Also Mike Johnson: That wasn't really a bipartisan bill that we came up w. In fact, we didn't even talk to the Democrats... didn't ask them a thing. We kept them completely out of it. But if I keep repeating my lies & talk over the journalists enough... the idiots who vote GOP always believe me.

GOLDMAN DESK: “.. our basket that’s levered to the middle income consumer has been stuck in the mud for the past five months. While one can be optimistic that tax season will help this part of the income distribution next year,” it points to ongoing challenges. [Pasquariello]

Totally unacceptable that Speaker Johnson won’t swear in Adelita Grijalva immediately. He refused to swear her in on Tuesday, and now he's refusing to swear her in tomorrow, though she is in Washington and stands ready.

They are all impersonators until THEY prove otherwise. It is not incumbent upon US to determine legitimacy. DEFEND YOURSELF DEFEND YOUR NEIGHBOR

"I promise to hurt the people you want to hurt" is perhaps the most primal political appeal that exists.

Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

My mother called Speaker Johnson’s office this afternoon to talk about the shutdown and to tell them that her healthcare costs went up 125% as of this week — she was excited because a staffer answered; then they hung up on her.

Explain, how the U.S. bailing out Argentina for $20B, while China buys soybeans from them instead of U.S. farmers, is putting "America-First?" Also, dissolving ACA Healthcare, raising health insurance for ALL Americans, but finding $200M for a ballroom and tax cuts for the rich.

“Kavanaugh stops” is a tremendous term term for cops racially profiling people and someone should start a crowdfunding effort to pay a bunch of SEC sorority influencers to popularize it on TikTok. We must fight fire with devastating trending topics slate.com/news-and-pol...

The awesome video team at the New York Times helped me make this video about the shutdown and Obamacare premiums.

I went to get my treat Coke zero single fat bottle for Thursdays and found that the price had gone up another 40 cents. It was 99 cents in 2023. $2.79 now. Totally not price gouging...

* Food inflation: 3.2% * Meat: 5.4% * Ground beef: 12.8% * Beef roasts: 13.6% * Steak: 16.6% @nypost.com www.foxbusiness.com/economy/beef...

🚨 Forcing members of the military to separate because of a shaving waiver. Where I come from it’s called racism. 1/2

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Our water bill was higher than it has ever been in August and I looked at the usage and we used significantly less water than we did last August. Water is more expensive. Electricity is more expensive. Insurance of all types is more expensive. This isn’t sustainable.

Yep, all our utilities are going up in saint louis county. No, real explanation for it.Other than rate increase.

Just got my monthly deduction (autopay) from NMBCBS Medicare sup. It started a year ago last Feb. at $65/month. Now it’s $216. WTF? I’m retired on a fixed income. We had to “tighten our belts” in order to retire, but if this shit continues, I’ll have to go look for work. I’m 67 and have had cancer.

I have lived in the same little town for the last eight years. I’ve consistently paid $80-$90 a month for water. I’m not on city sewer. In April, it jumped to $180. I called a plumber because I had thought I had a leak — nope. It just went up by $100 for everybody in town. The Trump effect?

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Should an FBI agent open an investigation that irks Trump, he or she would have to fear losing their job and more—possibly being harassed on social media by Trump and doxed by his MAGA army.