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They said they wanted cheaper eggs, but now they’re losing their weather service, disaster relief, food assistance and health insurance in exchange for a birthday parade, a bro-fight and a ballroom.

submitted 3 hours ago • 86 comments

Drilling down UNDER THE HOOD of the jobs numbers, what's there is NOT as good as people think: A million more people than last month flowed OUT of the labor force. NOT laid off. NOT unemployed. Just STOPPED participating in the work force. Guess who those folks likely are. IMMIGRANTS. #EconSky

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

“.. ‘For a president who is intent on building U.S. manufacturing, the tariff strategy he’s laid out is remarkably short-sighted. .. Even if you’re intent on reshoring parts of manufacturing, you can’t do it all. Steel and aluminum are part of that.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 13 hours ago • 55 comments

OMG watch this 👇👇👇👇👇

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Law Professor @rgoodlaw.bsky.social catches DOJ in a contradiction in the Abrego Garcia case. A major one.

submitted 4 hours ago • 113 comments

ICE raids hit across Los Angeles today—and locals are rising up. This is what resistance looks like. ✊🏾 This was about an hour ago…

submitted 4 hours ago • 452 comments

West Virginia is warning that women who have a miscarriage could be charged with a crime unless they contact local police. Every woman in WV should call 911 every time they have a period. Gum up the system with malicious compliance. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h...

submitted 5 hours ago • 571 comments

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1439 comments

There it is. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) says Republicans’ next goal is to kick seniors off Social Security: “Get off of Social Security. Get back into the workforce.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 1214 comments

Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up. "Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons" Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

submitted 7 hours ago • 586 comments

Now that SCOTUS handed over the keys to the SS Kingdom to DOGE I'm going to suggest that everyone purchase Home Title Lock & some kind of CC protection company like LifeLock to monitor your accounts Who knows who they are going to sell our info to

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The unrounded unemployment rate has risen every month so far in 2025. “.. At that slow but steady pace you are at ~4.7 percent unemployment at the end of year, consistent with some forecasts on tariff impact." @dailychartbook.bsky.social

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When people think of Social Security, they typically think of monthly benefits. But efforts by DOGE this year to access the Social Security Administration’s data systems should conjure up thoughts of data on hundreds of millions of people. cnn.it/4kVt8Fz

submitted 7 hours ago • 24 comments

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

submitted 7 hours ago • 541 comments

This is nightmare fuel www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 12 hours ago • 129 comments

This is horrible. This is not who we are. Thread.👇

submitted 12 hours ago • 52 comments

". . . and 'My Mother the Car' is considered the best written drama in television history."

submitted 13 hours ago • 1129 comments

RFK Jr and his MAHA Report say modern society is making kids sick. But how many of kids are only sick because they're also still alive? And with RFK Jr working to undermine decades of progress in child mortality, will they call it a win if higher death rates mean chronic disease rates drop?

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Jessica Tarlov: “How can you actually sit here in comforts of our air conditioned studio or in your big nice house and be comfortable knowing that there are people not convicted of anything left to rot in a foreign prison?” Gutfeld: “He has been convicted.” Tarlov: “He has not.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 311 comments

ICYMI - What could go wrong? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 17 hours ago • 143 comments

This should be a national debate, not an executive power grab. 📌 The Posse Comitatus Act prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force.

submitted 16 hours ago • 202 comments

The government is returning Abrego Garcia to the US where he will face criminal charges. In other words, due process, including an opportunity to defend himself in court. abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

submitted 10 hours ago • 652 comments

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 12 hours ago • 874 comments

Meanwhile the Chancellor of Germany is here. This is not normal America. We deserve better

submitted 1 day ago • 488 comments

Kennedy's claim that vaccines given to kids haven't been tested in placebo-controlled trials is "demonstrably false" said @jakescottmd.bsky.social. Thanks to Dr. Scott and his colleagues, we now have a round-up of placebo-controlled trials of vaccines. www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/h...

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

submitted 1 day ago • 755 comments

Don’t let Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Twitter war distract you from what’s at stake: 16 million people will lose their health care if Trump’s “beautiful” bill gets to his desk. While they continue to fight, I am focused on protecting your health care.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Did they even say “Thank you?” 🤡 #OligarchEra

submitted 1 day ago • 490 comments

Dean: When did we have a trade surplus? Lutnick: About 100 years ago Dean: It was the Great Depression.

submitted 1 day ago • 362 comments

Melon: time to drop the really big bomb - was Starlink used to manipulate the 2024 election?

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submitted 19 hours ago • 202 comments

How do famous right-wing influencers actually poll with young men in 2025? Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...

submitted 9 days ago • 125 comments

When I feel powerless amidst all the crazy, it's helpful to me to just do something. My something was taking the time to talk to NPR about why we should not cut federal data collection. I realize it won't change many minds. But it was something: www.marketplace.org/episode/2025... #econsky #dataecon

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

WSJ reporting economists are questioning the quality of U.S. inflation data, after the Bureau of Labor Statistics was forced to use a less accurate method for guessing price changes, given staffing cuts and a hiring freeze limited the number of companies that were surveyed. How convenient.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

The Vice-President’s first comment on the drama.

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

The infection usually occurs after recreational water activities, but cleaning one's sinuses with non-distilled water is also a risk factor for developing primary amebic meningoencephalitis. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I wish we had a Ministry of Health that was willing to teach the public about COVID as a multi-system disease rather than just another cold: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

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Hey NYC Mayoral candidates: COVID is still around causing chronic illness and death. It’s ridiculous to brag about how you handled COVID (especially since NY handled COVID poorly at the start of the pandemic), if you have no plans to address the ongoing harm that COVID continues to cause.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Are we great yet?

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Secretary Kennedy, a lawyer and political appointee with no medical experience, is carrying out some of the duties of the director of the CDC that for 70 years has been led by someone with a medical degree. apnews.com/article/trum...

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These two psychos have access to all your personal data, by the way.

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'Prove you matter': Dr. Oz slammed for 'grotesque' attack on Medicaid users www.rawstory.com/prove-you-ma...

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Trump: "You know, Ukraine had the most beautiful turrets. They call them turrets. The little towers. Beautiful towers. The most beautiful in the world. They're all now laying on their side."

submitted 1 day ago • 185 comments

For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?