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god forbid reality should intrude
iirc, the enabling law requires a monthly report
but Trump's new BLS toady prefers the less timely but more accurate quarterly figures
he's there to help Trump hide the damage his hasty and ill-conceived tariff scheme is doing to the US economy, so temporizing makes sense
a statistic from Trump's government shamed the great man...that can't be allowed to happen again
god forbid reality should intrude
DHS/ICE is the incipient police state
in mid-2000s subforum I was considered a bug eyed uberliberal for even suggesting
it could lead to something really bad if we elect somebody really bad
The Bismarck was laid down by the Nazi government in 1936, christened by Hitler himself on Valentine’s Day 1939, and damaged so badly in battle by the Royal Navy in 1941 that the Nazis scuttled her. The ship never saw any other government of Germany.
Trump purports to fire Lisa Cook
this was just a month or two ago
Trump was released on cash free bonds three times in 2023
Trump was released on cash free bonds three times in 2023
CDC bloodbath over RFK Jr's antivax woo-woo
Trump is extorting US corporations
I wonder where the money goes
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g-s1-...l-trump-oracleThe exact template has varied. In the case of TikTok, the administration is seeking a fee for service. With Intel, the federal government is acquiring an equity stake. For chipmakers Nvidia and AMD, meanwhile, the demand was for a slice of future profits. And with the network television settlements, the payouts arose after personal legal disputes.
"There is no consistent principle at play, just the exercise of Trump's personal power over other people's money," said Dael Norwood, associate professor of history at the University of Delaware, who notes that the winners and losers are clear.
"All Americans — taxpayers, investors, customers, and workers — lose with crony capitalism," he said. "It increases everyone's costs, makes everyone more vulnerable to extortion (or worse), and profoundly degrades our expectations for honesty and fair dealing, society-wide."
In public, corporate executives show support to the president and appear to back such deals, but behind closed doors, some business leaders are expressing deep concern.
Yale School of Management professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld recently helped organize a gathering of more than 100 top CEOs, and he said there was near-unanimous consensus in surveys conducted at the event that Trump's interventions in private business are undermining America's free market principles.
"These are shakedown schemes. It's a gross violation of what capitalism is supposed to stand for. I'd even call it extortion," Sonnenfeld said. "Privately, CEOs are horrified."
Bail reform
Trump was released on cash free bonds three times in 2023
Trump defunds the police
Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
Republican MoCs supported these appropriations, and Vaught promised not to touch them
Then he just stole them
https://www.politico.com/live-update...gress-00588358The White House is canceling food research funding popular with the GOP despite budget chief Russell Vought's promise to leave that money untouched.
Executive contempt of court orders is per se impeachable
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/0...tates-00588438
Trumplandia just retracted the nomination of this bigoted, incompetent loser as head of BLS
"Academic study of oyster slime"
Apparently not a waste of time or money
Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
Russ Vaught stealing more appropriations, for ideological streamlining purposes
"subway stops in black and latino neighborhoods are illegal DEI, in violation of the equal protection provisions of the 14th Amendment"
Russ Vaught stealing more appropriations, for ideological streamlining purposes
Okay I was just looking into this for a laugh basically but Phase I of the Second Avenue Subway (complete) serves exclusively majority-white neighborhoods, and Phase II (under attack by Trump) would open three more stops in Latine and Black neighborhoods.
apparently equal protection under Trump means brown and black people shouldn't receive any public goods that white folks automatically qualify for -- the outlines of herrenvolk democracy were clear from the beginning, Trumplandia is eagerly filling them in
The US government doesn't belong to Donald Trump
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/polit...red-comey-caseWorse and worse. A single false tweet from a low-rent MAGA influencer is now enough to get a senior career prosecutor fired.
the Hatch Act is a dead letter, but Trump's contempt for law stands out again
US agencies are spouting an ideological line in unison
https://osc.gov/Do ents/Outreach%2...0Employees.pdfFederal employees "May not use any e-mail account or social media to distribute, send, or forward content that advocates for or against a partisan political party, candidate for partisan political office, or partisan political group."
Trump reversed DHS on this, he didn't like that protection for Trump Tower in Manhattan might be compromisedDHS defunds the police
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“Justice for Americans killed and injured by our enemies should not be contingent on what someone in the Department of Justice sees in their social media feed that day,” Ben’Ary wrote.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/1...rence-00593426
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