It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.

I will say it again; the Democrats need openly create a list of civil servants called the Dirty Dozen that will be subject to impeachment in 2026, The Constitution provides that “… all civil Officers of the United States” are subject to removal from office upon impeachment.”

Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you want more on wage boards and how they can achieve what Dani was referring to, check out my book The Wage Standard - now available for pre-order. www.thewagestandard.com

Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry. The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand

Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry. The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

The statistical agencies all sustained damage from DOGE but they are strong institutions and can recover if they are supported instead of further sabotaged

All of BLS has been furloughed since October 1st. That means no one was collecting data in Oct. You can’t just walk into a Costco in mid-November and find out what the price of a good was in October. That’s why an October CPI isn’t possible.

This is false. The shutdown is the reason October employment data wasn't collected -- that's why it's not going to be released.

There is no pathway to upward wage mobility as an Amazon driver, as opposed to drivers at a unionized workplace like UPS Stark figure from @dschneider.bsky.social @profsheenalives.bsky.social @juliesulabor.bsky.social Kevin Bruey

Actually Trump's firings disproportionately harm veterans and their families, since the federal government is their single largest employer.

here's hoping this unwinds gradually and sooner rather than later

*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings *Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap *Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

So immigration agents drove off in a citizen’s car with a toddler in the back. **Then DHS refused to answer questions about it.** www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

"With ICE inmates, you can see that I’m making a profit." - Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott www.ky3.com/2025/09/17/g...

When federal data is suppressed EPI's @elisegould.bsky.social turns to state-level information for the latest read on jobs. See the latest →

There's private sector + state-reported data to give us a general idea of the labor market's trajectory ... But the unemployment rate for Black workers, young people, women, immigrants? There is no replacement for government data.

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

ICE-loving sheriff loses his election in Bucks County, PA, to a young progressive candidate. Apparently, people really don't like it when their neighbors get kidnapped and disappear. buckscountybeacon.com/2025/11/buck...

previous increases in immigration enforcement caused child care centers to simply shut down

The fact that Democrats won both elections yesterday for the Georgia Public Service Commission is remarkable enough (no Democrat had won a non-federal statewide race in GA since 2006). But both won by a margin of 63% to 37%. In Georgia. results.sos.ga.gov/results/publ...

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

Another way the Trump administration has made the government less efficient, raising the cost of living, this time to suck up to corporate parasites like Intuit

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers? New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL #EconSky papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

good fall day

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Lots of wrong information coming from the Trump administration on SNAP "running out of money November 1" and the SNAP contingency fund. The truth is: 1) It *can* be used to cover SNAP benefits during a shutdown. 2) It actually *must* be used to cover SNAP benefits during a shutdown. Let's dig in.

I can confirm that Willian Giménez González, beloved day laborer leader and advocate for his fellow workers, has been freed from ICE detention and is back in Chicago! For those interested in supporting him and his family, here is a GoFundMe.

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

AL, AR, & MS have no state agencies to enforce nondiscrimination laws. As Trump dismantles the federal agencies that enforce nondiscrimination laws, workers in these states are at serious risk.

A thought I never expected to have: House of Windsor currently beating the US government on transparency and accountability.

Thanks to the shutdown, we didn't get the first estimate of Q3 GDP today. And private-sector data offer no good substitute for official GDP. The shutdown offers lots of lessons about what private sector data can and can't do. New at @piie.com : www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

The Trump administration is pushing the US onto a low-productivity, low-growth path

BEA website may be breaking... the API seems to be up but this is not a good sign.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

BEA website may be breaking... the API seems to be up but this is not a good sign.

Python foundation withdraws federal proposal because its commitment to a diverse community of programmers would put the grant and *all prior funding* at risk Just another way in which the Trump administration is making the United States less productive

Let's also please see some fur babies and pumpkins

when your dog is on so many meds that he gets a plate of ham+pills nigiri

New research from @aaronsojourner.org (Upjohn Inst.) and Joseph Pickens (USNA) finds that NYC’s Fair Workweek Law gave fast-food workers more predictable schedules without costing jobs. #LaborLaws #NYC #FairWorkWeek #EconSKy

Normally this week the Census would interview households for the Current Population Survey which underlies the unemployment rate, employment-to-population ratio, etc. Due to the shutdown it's not clear if we're ever going to have these data for October, perhaps the first missed month of data ever?

Trump represents the overlap between the criminal underworld and the 'respectable' bourgeoisie.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-scum-m...

A bold new economic program for America, by Martin Carnoy, Michael Reich, and Derek Shearer irle.berkeley.edu/publications...

excited to read this new book from the great historian and organizer @dskamper.bsky.social