I guess we are really going to get good labor numbers now-Duh, I don't know nothing about project 2025.
President Donald Trump has named a Project 2025 architect to replace the labor statistics chief he fired earlier this month after receiving a disappointing jobs report.
Trump is nominating E.J. Antoni, an economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to serve as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I guess we are really going to get good labor numbers now-Duh, I don't know nothing about project 2025.
President Donald Trump has named a Project 2025 architect to replace the labor statistics chief he fired earlier this month after receiving a disappointing jobs report.
Trump is nominating E.J. Antoni, an economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to serve as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Meanwhile as things like this and telling all law enforcement officials including the National Guard "can do anything the want" on the streets of D.C, Chuck Schumer has fake friends.
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The way things are going, the tariffs won't even be in effect by December #artofthedeal
That could be true for some, especially China. In those cases, we’d have to look out further to see when then-current stockpiles are depleted to see what the pricing does.
Others have already taken effect, though. For product lines replenishing now-depleted stocks, we’d have to look and see what follow on wholesale pricing impacts there are, because you would figure those costs then snowball into the retail unit costs for the end consumer.
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It’s still ticking up. I do hope that it doesn’t rise. Nobody wants that to happen.
That being said, from all the chatter coming from industry, it sounds like companies have been shuffling the cards as much as possible to minimize tariff impacts, but that won’t be inevitable into perpetuity.
P&G already talked about raising prices potentially 25% because companies can’t keep absorbing those without passing on the costs. That’s just common sense.
When Elon ranted against Trump in his June tirade, he predicted the tariffs would cause a recession in the second half of this year. I don’t know about full blown recession, but I do think we look toward December of this year to see if the proverbial chickens begin to come home to roost.
Our main equipment supplier just sent us a note that they've tried to hold out on price increases as much as possible but now are putting in a 10% price hike.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
So.... Trump gets to smooze and accept a plane for a nation that sponsors Hamas.And then the US administration is telling the UK:
US state department says Labour government ‘repeatedly intervened to chill speech’ online after Southport attack
This was during riots and preventing people on social media from telling others where to got and set fire to accomodation where asylum seekers were detained.
They sure do have an agenda and it sure is uncannily similar to project 2025
The more things change the more they stay the same.
I also called him out as the "Midway Barker at the annual county/state fair."
I've not changed my tune since then, back in 2025.
He's still the same huckster, rolling out the same scams. The only thing that confounds me is the longevity of his schtick upon his marks.
This man is not, and has never been presidential material.
He knows it, in his heart of hearts. You & I know it. 35% of America disbelieves what the rest of us know.
They cannot be reached- because they are the same folks who annually attend the county fair- and plunk down their hard-earned money on the same midway gags that sucked their parents' money, a generation before.
Professional politicians have let us down. Of that, there can be no denial. But this F#ng dude is not, and never shall be The Solution.
On a more serious note, the article does give a taste on how tough it is to clearly/simply quantify something like overall inflation. Ignoring any and all intentional misleading that's gone on with these numbers, it's not hard to look at snippets of the data or pay extra attention to certain metrics over others and get a bad read on what's going on in the economy.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
Yeah, this is a data point and we still need to get the whole picture. I do like to look at this stuff, though, because I think it's good to do our best to examine all points that may accumulate to a "trend." This may be a one-off and may not be.
I also like to dig into this because all the contractors I negotiate utilize the PPI for their escalation figures. We are somewhat exempt from the tariff effects because our acquisitions are duty-free (which obviously makes sense), but we are making a big drive for commercial item acquisition as well. Anything that we procure that is considered "commercial" would not be duty-free, which gives me anxiety about what kind of long-term agreements our contractors would be willing to sign up for at this point. Those are more of a staple in military acquisition than people realize. If we now have to negotiate major systems on a more annual basis - with staffing figures that have been "DOGE'd" - this will have major impacts to acquisition timelines in addition to costs.
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Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, much more than expected
Wonder if any MAGA posters van find some rando twitter post to tell us this is Biden's fault or maybe its not happening at all? Maybe we need to fire anyone who calculates or reports the inflationary numbers.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
If I'm looking at the right thing, these indices have steadily risen over the past 5 years.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
Do you mean when the entire globe was suffering from global inflation? I had no idea that trump's intentional tariffs could be compared to a global pandemic. But then I never actually thought about trump as a disease. Maybe I should have.
BTW- Inflation was heading significantly downward in 2023. And continued downward long after that.
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‘UNACCEPTABLE’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Shares Video of Woman in Tears Over Financial Stress Jennifer Bowers Bahney Aug 16th, 2025, 7:50 pm Share 556 comments
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MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), whose Republican allegiance has shown signs of slipping recently, re-posted a heart-wrenching video Saturday of a woman crying while recounting the financial stresses she’s been facing.
Although Greene didn’t mention congressional Republicans in her post, she did deride the current plight of the working class in 2025 America.
The video made by “diannaallen5” for TikTok was shared on X by @WallStreetApes to their 1 million X followers, writing, “Americans are breaking down, a grown woman crying because she can’t afford to live anymore.”
The woman in the video, who said she is from Illinois, was distraught and in tears as she spoke, saying that “gas prices and the electric bills and the prices of food is just so overwhelming.”
“I’m wondering if anybody else is feeling like they’re drowning and they can’t get out,” she said. “I work overtime, and I cannot get above water. I mean, I literally have no gas for next week.”
“I’m just wondering if anybody else feels like they’re drowning,” she said is despair.
MTG expressed fury in her retweet of the video, writing, “I’m seeing videos like this routinely. The hard working middle class is becoming the working poor.”
“This is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE,” Greene wrote.
Earlier this month, Greene threatened to leave the Republican party altogether, claiming that it’s working against average Americans who are trying to make ends meet.
“I don’t know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I’m kind of not relating to [it] as much anymore,” Greene told the Daily Mail. “I think the Republican Party has turned its back on America First and the workers and just regular Americans.”
Greene continued on about the much-touted DOGE cost-cutting initiatives and other campaign promises that she felt weren’t being met.
“Like what happened to all those issues?” she asked. “You know that I don’t know what the hell happened with the Republican Party. I really don’t.”
She added: “But I’ll tell you one thing, the course that it’s on, I don’t want to have anything to do with it, and I, I just don’t care anymore.”
There is a paragraph below about the cost of electricity is rising because of natural gas exports-in almost every one of trumps tariff agreements so far-part of the deal is the foreign country will buy our energy-which is good for the natural gas companies that export-but it is not good for our electricity rates-he has already promised more nat gas exports in the first few trade deals than we normally export in a typical year. Between the nat gas exports and the data centers, our electricity rates are set to really go up.
I saw a tik tok video from a gas and oil guy that "his take" was that we would be paying more for the nat gas and electric in 10 years to power our homes than our mortgage payments if this trend keeps up
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Ken Thomas Ken Thomas woke up this past Wednesday to find the power had gone out at his house in Boca Raton. A text message from his utility said a piece of equipment had failed at 2 a.m. By the time a repair crew showed up eight hours later, the hot, sticky Florida summer was already taking a toll.
"You just don't realize how important your power is until you don't have it," says Thomas, a retired air traffic controller. "In Florida's heat, you just can't live without air conditioning. And this time of year particularly."
Thomas has invested in energy-saving windows and insulation to keep his house comfortable. But in the heat of the summer, his power bills still top $400 a month.
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"It's painful to see that bill when it comes in," he says.
Across the country, electricity prices have jumped more than twice as fast as the overall cost of living in the last year. That's especially painful during the dog days of summer, when air conditioners are working overtime.
A bearded man wearing a baseball cap, glasses and a "Frontline Solidarity" T-shirt sits on a wooden bench outdoors. Business Factories from GE to Kraft Heinz lose immigrant workers, stressing those who remain More and more women are embarking on the journey of single parenthood. Economy Are you a single mom? We want to hear from you about your life experiences In Pembroke Pines, Fla., Al Salvi's power bill can reach $500 a month.
"There's a lot of seniors down here that are living check to check. They can barely afford prescriptions such as myself," says Salvi, who's 63 and uses a wheelchair. "Now we got to decide whether we're going to pay the electric bill or are we going to buy medication. And it's not fair to us. You're squeezing us between a rock and a hard place."
Al Salvi Earlier this year, the utility that serves both Thomas and Salvi, Florida Power & Light, applied for a rate increase that would have boosted bills for a typical South Florida resident by about 13% over the next four years.
The AARP launched a petition drive to oppose the rate hike, and quickly gathered tens of thousands of signatures.
"Our members are pretty upset," says Zayne Smith, AARP Florida's director of advocacy. "That's just another way people are getting nickel and dimed out of being able to afford to live here in Florida."
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Last week, Florida Power & Light announced a tentative agreement on rates with commercial and industrial customers. CEO Armando Pimentel said the deal would ensure, "we can continue to provide reliable electricity to power our fast-growing state while keeping customer bills low."
Details of the new rate proposal have not been made public.
It's not just Florida that's wrestling with high-priced power. Electricity prices have been rising rapidly across the country — thanks to a combination of factors tied to both demand and supply.
Power-hungry AI data centers are one factor driving high prices Power-hungry data centers have been popping up all over, to serve the boom in artificial intelligence. The Energy Department projects data centers and other commercial customers will use more electricity than households for the first time ever next year. That's a challenge for policymakers, who have to decide how to accommodate that extra demand and who should foot the bill.
"Regulators always play catchup," says John Quigley, senior fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. "The growth of data centers is far outpacing the response by grid managers, public utility commissions across the country, and they're racing to catch up."
Natural gas exports also push prices higher The soaring price of natural gas is also pushing power prices higher. More than 40% of electricity is generated using natural gas. As more gas is exported as liquid natural gas, the competition from foreign customers is driving up the price utilities have to pay here at home.
In this February 3, 2025, photo, many rows of new German cars are parked in the lot of a logistics center in Essen, Germany. A city skyline rises in the background. Business Automakers are eating the cost of tariffs — for now The Energy Department says the cost of gas used to generate power jumped more than 40% in the first half of this year compared to 2024. Another 17% increase is expected next year.
"Any way you look at it, gas-fired power is expensive," Quigley says. "It's going to be increasingly expensive as natural gas exports increase. The future is to make electricity cheaper and the way to do it is clean energy."
One in six households already struggles to pay for power Solar and wind power can be cheaper than gas-fired plants, even without government subsidies. But building new power supplies and the wires to carry it will cost money. And one out of six households already have trouble paying their current electric bills.
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"We're not questioning whether the grid needs to be rebuilt," says Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, which advocates for low-income energy customers. "We're not questioning whether there needs to be new data centers built. But the problem is, for low income families and people living in poverty, they don't have the ability to pay any more than they're currently paying, without falling even further behind and getting into shut-off situations."
The federal government currently spends about $4 billion a year to help low-income families with energy bills. But Wolfe says that's not enough to cover rising cooling costs in the summer. And President Trump's proposed budget would end the assistance altogether.
In Boca Raton, Ken Thomas was grateful to have his power restored this week, after about ten hours with no air conditioning. At the same time, he's bracing for his August electric bill.
"I value my utility that I need to stay cool in the summer and warm in the winter," he says. "But I also know that there is a limit to what we can afford to pay."
I think she's beginning to act out now because POTUS declined to endorse her for Senate in Georgia...an admittedly wise decision on his part. My supposition is that she's trying to change her tune in order to be more electable statewide and perhaps "go rogue."
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Trump blasts 'out of control' museums for teaching 'how bad Slavery was' in wild rant Sarah K. Burris August 19, 2025 3:10PM ET BeLoud Share Trump blasts 'out of control' museums for teaching 'how bad Slavery was' in wild rant U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (not pictured) and European leaders amid negotiations to end the Russian war in Ukraine, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 18, 2025. REUTERS/Al Drago
President Donald Trump ranted on Truth Social that teaching about America's history of slaverery is unacceptable.
"The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of 'WOKE.' The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future," claimed Trump.
The Smithsonian Museum of African American History walks through the struggles of those who were kidnapped and brought to the United States to work as slaves. However, as one ascends the floors, the exhibits hold up the abolitionist movement, the successes of civil rights, and celebrate those who continue to fight for equal rights.
The GOP president went on to promise, "We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities, where tremendous progress has been made. This Country cannot be WOKE, because WOKE IS BROKE. We have the 'HOTTEST' Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our Museums," he closes.
Trump's own campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again," suggests that there was a time when America was not great.
lol Raw Story is about 20% more extreme than those who think Fox News is extreme or about 8% more left leaning that MSNBC. Basically, the website is a temper tantrum.
lol Raw Story is about 20% more extreme than those who think Fox News is extreme or about 8% more left leaning that MSNBC. Basically, the website is a temper tantrum.
lol Raw Story is about 20% more extreme than those who think Fox News is extreme or about 8% more left leaning that MSNBC. Basically, the website is a temper tantrum.
lol Raw Story is about 20% more extreme than those who think Fox News is extreme or about 8% more left leaning that MSNBC. Basically, the website is a temper tantrum.
Trump administration revokes security clearances of 37 current and former government officials
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it was revoking the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials in the latest act of retribution targeting public servants from the federal government’s intelligence community.
A memo from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accuses the singled-out individuals of having engaged in the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence” to advance personal or partisan goals, failing to safeguard classified information, failing to “adhere to professional analytic tradecraft standards” and other unspecified “detrimental” conduct.
The memo did not offer evidence to back up the accusations.
Many of the officials who were targeted left the government years ago after serving in both senior national security positions and lower-profile roles far from the public eye. Some worked on matters that have long infuriated Trump, like the intelligence community assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election on his behalf. And several signaled their concerns about Trump by signing a critical letter in 2019 that was highlighted on social media last month by right-wing provocateur and close Trump ally Laura Loomer.
The action is part of a broader Trump administration campaign to wield the levers of government against perceived adversaries, and reflects the president’s continued distrust of career intelligence officials he has long seen as working against his interests. The revocation of clearances has emerged as a go-to tactic for the administration, a strategy critics say risks chilling dissenting voices from an intelligence community accustomed to drawing on a range of viewpoints before formulating an assessment.
“These are unlawful and unconstitutional decisions that deviate from well-settled, decades-old laws and policies that sought to protect against just this type of action,” Mark Zaid, a national security lawyer whose own clearance was revoked by the Trump administration, said in a statement.
He called it hypocritical for the administration to “claim these individuals politicized or weaponized intelligence.”
Gabbard on Tuesday sought to defend the move, which she said had been directed by Trump.
“Being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right,” she wrote on X. “Those in the Intelligence Community who betray their oath to the Constitution and put their own interests ahead of the American people have broken the sacred trust they promised to uphold.”
The security clearance suspension comes amid a broader effort by Gabbard and other Trump administration officials to revisit the intelligence community assessment published in 2017 on Russian election interference, including by declassifying a series of years-old documents meant to cast doubt on the legitimacy of its findings.
Multiple government investigations have reached the same conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election in sweeping fashion, including through a hack-and-leak operation of Democratic emails and a social media campaign aimed at sowing discord and swaying public opinion.
But Trump has long resisted the assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in his favor, and his Justice Department has authorized a grand jury investigation that could bring fresh scrutiny to Obama-era officials.
Security clearances are important not only for current government workers but also former ones whose private-sector jobs require them to retain access to sensitive information. Stripping clearances from such employees could make it hard for them to do their jobs, though it’s unclear how many of the former officials still have or require one.
On his first day of office, Trump said he would revoke the security clearances of the more than four dozen former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop saga bore the hallmarks of a “Russian information operation.”
He’s also revoked the clearances of former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, and he attempted to do the same for lawyers at a spate of prominent law firms but was rebuffed by federal judges.
Some of those who were targeted in the latest action were part of Biden’s national security team. Many only learned of the Gabbard action from news reports Tuesday, said two former government officials who were on the list. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity as they ponder whether to take legal action.
"After finding that Trump engaged in fraud by flagrantly padding financial statements that went to lenders and insurers,"
And being a found libel for rape.
And bragging about grabbing under age girls P***ies.
And being a pathological liar. And and and..... Its never ending all the clown stuff he has been found guilty of. All of which you and MAGA will continue to give a free pass to.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
He's still found guilty of long-term/systemic fraud.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
Trump again calls for release of ex-clerk guilty of Colorado election data breach
President threatened ‘harsh measures’ if Tina Peters – sentenced to nine years – isn’t released from prison
Thu 21 Aug 2025 10.40 EDT
Donald Trump again called for the release of a former election clerk in Colorado who was convicted for her role in breaching election data in a quest to find fraud, threatening he would take “harsh measures” if she was not let out of prison.
“FREE TINA PETERS, a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians, including the big Mail-In Ballot supporting the governor of the State,” Trump said on Truth Social. “Let Tina Peters out of jail, RIGHT NOW. She did nothing wrong, except catching the Democrats cheat in the Election. She is an old woman, and very sick. If she is not released, I am going to take harsh measures!!!”
Peters did not find evidence of Democrats cheating in the election.
She was charged for allowing access to county voting equipment by an outside election activist, who was given security credentials under a different name. Materials and passwords were then published online on Telegram and on the rightwing outlet the Gateway Pundit.
She was found guilty by a jury in Mesa county in 2024 of seven counts related to misconduct, conspiracy and impersonation, four of which were felony charges. She was sentenced later that year to nine years in prison. Her attorneys had argued for probation instead of prison time.
In her sentencing, Judge Matthew Barrett said Peters had no’t shown remorse for her actions. He said she was “as defiant as a defendant that the court has ever seen” and that he was “convinced you’d do it all over again if you could”.
Peters’ release has become a rallying cry on the right, especially among election deniers. Voice messages from her have appeared on rightwing podcasts in which she continues to advance election conspiracies.
Peters’ attorneys have filed an appeal of her conviction and are seeking to get her out on bond while the appeal plays out, arguing in a federal habeas corpus petition that her bond denial stems from her exercise of first amendment rights. Her lawyer told Colorado Newsline that she “has been made to stay in prison because people are afraid of what she would say”.
Trump has previously called for Peters’ release, in May saying in social media posts that she was an “innocent Political Prisoner” who was part of a “Communist persecution by the Radical Left Democrats to cover up their Election crimes and misdeeds in 2020”.
Because Peters is convicted of state-level crimes, Trump cannot pardon her; the Colorado governor, Democrat Jared Polis, could. Trump’s justice department submitted a court filing in March saying it would be reviewing the case for potential “abuses of the criminal justice process”.
Dan Rubinstein, the Republican district attorney in Mesa county who prosecuted the case, noted in a statement to the Guardian that the county is one of Colorado’s most conservative, with an all-Republican board of county commissioners who requested to prosecute Peters.
“It is a gross mischaracterization of the facts of the case to claim Ms Peters did nothing wrong, after she cost the citizens of Mesa county, Colorado, more than a million dollars as a result of her criminal acts,” Rubinstein said. “Ms Peters was indicted by a grand jury of her peers, and convicted unanimously, with a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, at a trial by a jury of her peers that she selected.”
Trump yet once again using the power of the presidency to support his criminal allies by threatening punishment to those holding them accountable. Same old same old.
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