Read up and down this thread from a lawyer in Minneapolis

All the various kinds of revisions add up -- by the end of the year, there were more than a million fewer people employed than previously estimated.

Solid number January 2026 (+130k). However, the change in total nonfarm employment for 2025 was revised from +584,000 to +181,000 (seasonally adjusted). So much weaker than initially estimated

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Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.

Epstein Class

If this doesn’t remind you of a prior sorting, conducted on rail sidings…

Incredible update: "This article was updated to note that CNN reports there were at least four party balloons shot down by DOD, not just one." gizmodo.com/one-mexican-...

Platforms limiting or halting withdrawals is reminiscient of the 2022 crypto crash, when falling crypto prices exposed crypto firms that had been engaging in highly risky or sometimes illegal behavior.

This is crazy. Why the fuck did she have a list of the Epstein files that Jayapal accessed?

5-year-old twins were denied bond because lack of assets and property. Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me. 😡

A refusal that’s as good as an admission

"If you bet, you’re a rube for these people."

Nice example of her inability to consider the feelings and humanity of others

Think proving citizenship is simple? Ask any of the 21M+ married women if her birth name does not match her current name. No match. No vote. This is voter supression. #HandsOffHerVote

Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.

This does mean that the whole economy added only 180K jobs last year. Not a lot.

Since Trump was re-elected, @forbes.com estimates— 💰His net worth is up $2 billion, to $6.3 billion 💰Eric’s has increased tenfold, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s has increased sixfold, to $300 million 💰19-year-old Barron Trump is worth $150 million

Seems bad

AOC on Trump’s oil embargo of Cuba: “What has transpired is that now it’s kind of become acceptable that the entire Western world will look the other way as they starve & deprive a people because they find political actors or political regimes in that country to be objectionable”

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Men can't find decent blue-collar jobs in Trump's economy but at least they can use racial slurs again, right?

GOP: Pedophile Protectors

It’s 1853 & people are in hiding from slave catchers. It’s 2026 & people are in hiding from slave catchers.

“What we’re witnessing is the express repetition of a project on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, and Chinese labor camps in the People’s Republic of China.”

you can quite famously buy a rotisserie chicken for five dollars at costco

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

There are several throughlines in the Epstein saga. One is the community of elite child rapists and sex pests. Another is the weak narcissistic thirst for proximity to power and influence and celebrity. But another is official hubris: how offended Top People are that we question how they Do Things.

Nothing says crime is a pretext for terrorizing, imprisoning, and deporting people more loudly than these stats

NEW via me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: Cardinal Blase Cupich, who runs the Archdiocese of Chicago, says that DHS has stopped priests under his purview and demanded proof of citizenship “because of their color.” religionnews.com/2026/02/10/c...

Key point

But our media does 10 "we found one Republican who doesn't reject climate science!" stories for every 1 story about how they're the political wing of Big Oil And Dems will put out yet another "clean energy is bipartisan" press release tomorrow

Thread includes locations of purchases and impact on those communities

Important article and summarizing thread

maybe California should stop throwing tax dollars at a scammer who won't shut up about how much he hates the state, just a thought

An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University

Consider: when CBP and ICE agents can shoot and kill and kidnap people with no warrants and no consequences, the lesson sent to anyone who could be profiled as undocumented (basically all racialized people) becomes "if you go to court to defend yourself, you might never see your family again."

Yeah @jamellebouie.net keeps saying this, too I believe you both I also suspect they’ll try something, just not sure what

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Our very own Gulag Archipelago

Before Jim Crow. Straight back to the 1850s.

Pardoned insurrectionists commit crimes at a higher rate than immigrants.

Republicans have literally taken money that previously provided VA care and used it to pay thugs to murder a VA nurse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3U...

Sure, Jan

Recommended: actual facts about declining affordability open.substack.com/pub/mikekonc...

Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

Absolutely true

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

I remember when I learned that credit default swaps were like buying home insurance except you could buy it on somebody else’s house, and then learning they could bundle and securitize CDS just like they did regular mortgages, and like…goddamn. Anything to keep from just calling it gambling.