This is some of the most closely held data because anyone with any functioning braincells knows that it moves markets. The efforts that are normally gone through to make sure it is kept secret are legendary. And Trump just tweeted it out. Absolutely insane.

2025 is now, officially, the worst year for job creation outside of recession since 2003. @byheatherlong.bsky.social

Don’t stop talking about the Epstein files—the U.S. Justice Department has released less than 1%.

Right after Renée Good’s disgusting murder, a ICE goon was filmed kicking her memorial candles. Absolutely vile.

This is Renee Good. She was a mother of a six-year-old child. She was an American citizen. She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.” And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

The number of times I like a post because it’s close to a round number (99, 149, etc.) is astounding.

Even this wasn’t planned out and if this wasn’t then nothing was.

Actually, it turns out that getting vaccines has some wonderful side effects. Like lowering the risk of dementia, Alzheimer’s, heart disease and stroke

This from @booker.senate.gov

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

New wrinkle. Is #Venezuela connected to #Ukraine...?

James Talarico Exposes Insane Bill to Replace School Counsellors with Untrained Religious Chaplains in Texas

One of his prosecutors was Emil Bove, who Trump appointed to the DOJ and then the federal judiciary.

Intriguing and worth keeping in mind: Fiona Hill noting in 2019 that Moscow was "signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap agreement between Venezuela and Ukraine" […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

I’m guessing this speech is starting late because they have to pump His (Ass)Holiness full of Diet Coke so he can stay awake through it.

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

Extremely insane story involving Goodreads sleuthing, the guy steering policy on women in the military being into a lot of weird/dark/unfaithful sex stuff, AND Jack Posobiac apparently threatening the journalist reporting it

Here's Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) raging about Missouri's elections being "decided in California" in response to an article about Missourians protesting a gerrymandering petition in California -- except the article is about the town of California in Missouri.

Doesn’t this guy have a day job?

This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal. This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.

“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!” --Megyn R. Kelly “Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!” --Also Megyn R. Kelly

Of course they did.

Dear #LosAngelesDodgers, I hope there are meaningful consequences for your pitcher #BlakeTreinen, for his outrageous disrespect, not only for the team, and the uniform, but for tainting sports with politics.

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.” Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols. @radiofreetom.bsky.social

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

The Evil Clown Posse must be distributing different versions of their "How we're going to screw ppl over with #TrumpsShutdown" memo to its members. Thune and Johnson show an example of the effect: (more examples of their dysfunction within)

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Narrator: This is fascism.

NEW: The plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration's holiday weekend effort to send children to Guatemala have filed their motion for a preliminary injunction in the case, along with many declarations from the children who are involved. It is as horrifying as it appeared over the weekend.

laura loomer serving as president along with stephen miller and russell vought

Trump's Department of Homeland Security is posting 14 words, double H's, and other explicit white power propaganda in their social media hiring outreach for new ICE agents. We're far beyond the benefit of the doubt. It's time to acknowledge the reality of what we're seeing. youtu.be/z5GtCnJ_O6c?...

A not-insignificant number of people hire an attorney when what they need is a psychiatrist.

“Families across California told the Guardian they were exploring options to stockpile hormones, researching how to get care outside the US, growing increasingly fearful that parents could face government investigations or prosecutions, and discussing options to permanently flee the country.”

“There is no clear precedent for what DeSantis and the president are doing." Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges.

I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset. I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.

A new quilt commemorating survivors of forced sterilization in California prisons exposes a long, ongoing history of reproductive and medical violence against incarcerated and marginalized women.

@campbeasleywood.bsky.social on what it’s like to be a Native woman in America right now.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

13-yr-old Camarria Williams made a remarkable discovery when she found a compound with potential cancer-fighting properties in goose poop from Garfield Park, Chicago. This surprising find happened while participating in the Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab, a STEM program in collaboration with the

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

I was riding in the car to school in suburban Philly listening to this on the radio as it went down. Horrifying.

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Wow - I knew cutting Medicaid is unpopular. I didn't know it is *this* unpopular.