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When first reported, 2025’s jobs reports added up to 1.2 million new jobs. After revisions, the economy added just 116,000 — 90% less.

Average hourly earnings, adjusted for inflation, fell 0.5 percent in September and are now back to where they were in January, 2025. That means that Americans, on average, have experienced zero real wage growth since Trump returned to office.

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

CARTOON OF THE DAY…

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

Trump administration tells Congress it will admit 17,500 white South African refugees

We tallied 75 cases in which federal district court judges ruled against the Trump administration's actions on the grounds that it was violating the plaintiffs' First Amendment rights.

Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

How many times has Trump promised us a dividend, rebate or check???? 15 times so far!!!!

CBS Miami got the actual grand jury report implicating Ashely Moody and Ron DeSantis in stealing Medicaid funds to put into political campaign. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...

Another "voter fraud" allegation collapses: Trump claimed three states had more than 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote, but months later, the Department of Homeland Security is claiming only 185 such cases exist. It hasn't provided what basis it has for accusing them to Nevada:

When Trump took office, most of the people ICE arrested were convicted criminals. Today, only about 1 in 5 are. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-summe...

News: The U.S. economy grew at a disappointing 1.5% in the 2nd quarter of 2026. Congratulations to @sarahbca.bsky.social for her “Bookmark this” comment last December when Howard Lutnick said 2Q of 2026 would be “amazing.” @atrupar.com

I cross-referenced my database of candidates against credible voter fraud cases. GOP politicians are implicated at 50x–38,000x the general public's rate. Yet even if every American voted with the integrity of a GOP candidate, it still wouldn't come close to justifying making voting one iota harder.

"Fox News has not seen the evidence yet and is not in a position to evaluate the accuracy of the president's statement and claims"

NEW: Law enforcement experts reviewed available footage in the Houston ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo last week. What they saw was troubling, appearing to violate longstanding best practice, possibly even the law. "Professionally incompetent.” www.texastribune.org/2026/07/15/t...

Marco Rubio on 23 June: "No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That's existing international law."

Here's the Iran-US MoU, and it's pretty much a severe strategic defeat and capitulation for the US and a massive strategic and economic victory for Iran. Really an utter humiliation for the US thanks to Trump's naked incompetence. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/17/m...

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

What in the actual fuck. The receiver of the trophy is now probably going to be the DNI? Of the US? What the actual fuck.

I notice that American officials aren't telling this to AMERICANS. 😡 #WakeUpMAGA #Iran #PromotionalPresident #TrumpLies

Will progressives realize the truth? Voters reward the GOP when Democrats succeed. The problem is whiteness, not economics. A thread.

“True Christianity is represented by the party, and the German people are now called by the party and especially by the Fuehrer to a real Christianity…The Fuehrer is the herald of a new revelation.” - Nazi politician Hans Kerrl, quoted in Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 392.

Based on the history of the US, why do people think we aren't headed to some level of national violence? Are we trying to pretend that's not where we are headed becaue it's uncomfortable to think about? Something will break and it won't be pretty. Change through voting is being removed from us.

We’re getting there.

This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

28 April 1945, Benito Mussolini is executed by Italian partisans. This (long!) thread recounts the events surrounding the flight, capture & execution of Mussolini (Photo: last known photo of Mussolini alive, as he leaves Milan on the evening of 25 April 1945) [Thread] >> 1

Just another reason to continue to boycott Target. Fuck them. I hope they go completely out of business.

there were 1,600 murders in New York City in 1975 there were 303 murders in New York City in 2025 New York City's population increased by about 30% over that time period

This Reddit post is formatted like a joke but it’s actually a very dry recitation - at times, direct quotes - of America’s public war strategy over the last month. This can’t go on. This is deranged. Impeach and imprison.

It’s the dog for me

Yankees have a new statue for Monument Park

Stable genius.

someone in AI fucked up and actually told the truth

CATO: “.. In short, seven independent research teams have now examined the “who’s paying” question and have reached essentially the same answer: We are.” @cato.org @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cato.org/blog/white-h...

1. The president is burning up the American middle class with the largest tax increase since the early 1990s, which itself is snowballing the price of everything from coffee to clothes to carpets to car parts. Yet this isn’t a major, ongoing, attention-grabbing story.

Tonight's #TimelineCleanse is an amazing feat of skill by this brilliant border collie. Border collies are the smartest breed of dog, but they are veryyyy high energy & need lots of mental stimulation. I hope you enjoy this video. I'm under the weather & really needed a dose of cuteness.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

"No I'm fine, you just make sure you get your fucking video first"

Having trouble feeling sad for the WashPost. We knew this was coming from day one (pick which day 1--bezos buying or Trump pt. 2) and instead of fighting against it they went along with it hoping the leopard wouldn't eat their faces. Democracy dies in full light because billionaires don't care.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"