BREAKING: Private-sector jobs report from ADP includes updated data for the past 28 months, confirming the dramatic slowdown in job creation under Trump.
Separate numbers from the Labor Dept. come out Friday.
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Bishop William J. Barber has called for #MoralMonday at Black Lives Matter plaza in Washington, D.C. every Monday at noon until we end the war with Iran.
Are you in the D.C. area? Can you show up for Moral Mondays from 12:00-1:00 PM?
Text MORAL to 32645 for events and updates.
NYT reporting: Some active-duty Marines are already calling Mr. Hegseth’s agency the “Department of War Crimes” rather than the “Department of War,” the president’s name for the Defense Department, said Representative Seth Moulton, Democrat of Massachusetts, who served in Iraq as a Marine.
"Rejection is not just an event. It is a trauma. It reshapes how young people understand safety, attachment, and worth. What troubled me most in those conversations was how rarely that trauma was addressed by the child welfare system charged with protecting them." https://www.texasobserver.org/foster-care-rejection-lgbtq-texans/
#children #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #HumanRights #Texas #politics #USpol #news
#Trump proposes to cut 9,400+ #TSA workers, $1.5+ billion from #budget
The White House is proposing to cut more than 9,400 workers & just over $1.5 billion from the 60,000-employee Transportation Security Administration that handles #airport security operations, according to budget documents.
The details were part of a budget document for the #DHS, which oversees TSA, that is part of the White House budget proposal for the next fiscal year.
#USpol #NationalSecurity
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-proposes-cut-9400-tsa-workers-15-billion-budget-2026-04-06/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
I hate the Atlantic (scroll by on principle) but this is a *story*
'fellow academics and foreign diplomats marvel at the doyen of Hungarian foreign policy who doesn’t speak Hungarian. But Pappin’s value is clear, and the government can hardly believe its luck—a flesh-and-blood member of the MAGA intelligentsia on its payroll. That’s part of the reason the stakes are so high in Hungary this election season, high enough that Vance will appear alongside Orbán during the final stretch of the campaign this week'
As #Trump🚨renews his threats to bomb “the entire C” of Iran, he's using religious terms to justify the costly, unpopular #IranWar that's killed 1000s of ppl, claiming that “God wants to see ppl taken care of.”
⚡"Across countless faiths & philosophies—from the Bible's "Blessed are the peacemakers" to similar calls in the Quran, Torah, Buddhist sutras, & humanist ethics -🕊️is held up as the ideal.🚨War➡️tragic last resort -failure of wisdom -human fallenness."
-Dr Cole
#USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/06/trump-iran-war-christianity/
The strongest argument for an upper age limit for the presidency is sitting in office right now. Not for dementia reasons, but so that they live long enough to be prosecuted and punished for their actions.
Grew up in a lily-white small town surrounded by entitled, mediocre, uneducated men born at their empire's glorious peak. Even as they tumbled out of Reagan's, and Clinton's, shrinking middle class, they were as certain of their destiny as future millionaires as they were certain of their deserving this birthright in their very essence.
I fled.
Made my way to the wicked city and found my tribe, that global cadre of thinkers, of scientists and artists. Those who expect no handouts, who wait for nothing and no one, who create and invent and enrich and ennoble by the sweat of their brow. Passed though the Olympus of Berkeley on the way to the bucolic Ivory Tower.
And had to watch as they settled themselves, with all of their accents and skin tones and creeds, into ignominy and servility as arrogant demagogues for the status quo, as fuck chimps for their billionaire patrons, as apologists for every crime, cosplaying the ruling class and blaming everyone but the ruling class when the ruling class pushed them down an elevator shaft.
For which of these two categories of willful slaves I have more contempt is a question that depends on my mood from moment to moment.
Florida attorney general says state can ignore its own constitution to fund religion
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/florida-attorney-general-says-state
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga #religion
"Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) announced he has filed articles of impeachment to remove Donald Trump from office as the President becomes more unhinged and risks the lives, safety, and security of the American people. Larson is also calling for the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment as Trump escalates his illegal war and threatens to annihilate an entire civilization."
h/t @kateiacy
They keep telling us what they are...
"The law was based on the flag and we are using rainbows, so and its not at all a flag, so I would say we are in full compliance of the law [...]"
Nice. ✊
"Put Trump in a rubber room and throw away the key!"
- Aure
Trump will be discussing possible US withdrawal from NATO with Secretary General Mark Rutte today.
He might make a statement following that meeting.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
More News at @Free_Press
Soon the King and Queen of the Netherlands are having a slumber party at the White House.. with Trump..
Really wtf
Dutch gov, please stop sucking up to a dictator
Bored with the war he started, mean judge made him stop his ballroom, plans for the descecration of some other american sacred places ;
#uspol #photoshop #joke #art ish #noai #thistimelinesucks
"I spent several days in Berlin, Germany asking locals one simple question: What do you think about Donald Trump?
The response was consistent—and blunt."
Fascism treats women as mere breeders. "Children, kitchen, and church" was the Nazi slogan for women.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
The Guardian: US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/pentagon-ai-xai-emil-michael
Peter Oborne talks about his book: "Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza"
"A fearless & forensic indictment of British complicity in the destruction of Gaza"
A masterclass in truth-telling essential to bring about justice for the Palestinian people" Jeremy Corbyn
“Very readable, this remarkable book deserves the widest possible readership among policymakers & the general public" Avi Shlaim
Columnist: I'm standing up for what I believe in! Protecting women's sport! And I'll keep standing up for it, no matter how much those snowflakes try to silence me and my right to free speech!
Citizen: That's fantastic! You know, female athletes have to put up with so much vicious misogyny and abuse, especially on social media. Some men really can be snowflakes when it comes to women's sport.
Columnist: No! I'm raising the big issue in women's sport, and I'm being /attacked/ for it!
Citizen: Really?! People are attacking you for saying female athletes deserve equal pay for equal work?
Columnist: Not that one! I'm talking about something far more serious, affecting the health and wellbeing of female athletes. And even the very integrity of women's sport itself!
Citizen: Do you mean how sports science focuses almost exclusively on male athletes, leading to women suffering anterior cruciate ligament injuries at six times the rate of men (citation: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/magazine/acl-tear-women-girl-sports.html )?
Citizen: Or do you mean how elite women's sport is routinely relegated to worse venues and TV coverage, with less sponsorship and promotion?
Columnist: No! I'm talking about protecting women's sport from the scourge of men transitioning for the sole purpose of winning at women's sport!
Citizen: Why would a professional male athlete who's not trans want to go through all the challenges and discrimination of transitioning for less pay, less TV coverage, fewer sponsorships, smaller crowds, less promotion, higher injury risk, worse venue, online abuse, and rampant misogyny, just to win at women's sport?
Columnist: Because *winning*!
Citizen: Can you give an example of where this has actually happened?
Columnist: ...
Citizen: And what do you propose to do about it?
Columnist: Totally dismantle democracy, install a totalitarian dictatorship, arrest or kill anyone who disagrees with said despot, and deport ethnic minorities en masse. Also we'll use it to justify rolling back all healthcare and civil rights to trans people, establishing that human rights exist at the arbitrary will of our overload, which the despot will use arbitrarily against all women and any other individuals or groups he disagrees with.
Citizen: That seems a bit... extreme.
Columnist: It's all to protect women's sport.
Citizen: And what will you do about the other issues I raised?
Columnist: Well, if any of them, such as research into sports medicine for women or facilities for women's sport, require public funding, then we'll cut the funding and give the money back to rich supporters of our despot as a tax cut.
Citizen: I see. Say, just out of curiosity, who do you think will win the grand final in the AFLW this year?
Columnist: I honestly don't care. I'm not into women's sport, sorry.
#AFLW #womenssport #transrights #auspol #ukpol #uspol #politics #feminism #terf #terfs #trans
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Arrests Tripled.🚨Warrants Didn't. Now #DHS Is Being Sued.
8 Latino New Yorkers & a Syracuse wkrs' center say DHS agents🚨are stopping & arresting people w/o warrants or probable cause — targeting brown skin, not criminal conduct.
“#ICE is profiling & arresting Black & Brown New Yorkers based solely on their appearance -this lawlessness must come to an end, & the fed govt must be held accountable for its abuse of authority.”
#RacialProfiling #Detention #PoliceState #USPol
https://migrantinsider.com/p/arrests-tripled-warrants-didnt-now
Some good news:🚨Trump's "Board of Peace"⁉️ has received:⚡a tiny fraction of the $17B pledged for Gaza, preventing the him from pushing ahead with his plan for the shattered Palestinian enclave's future, sources told R.
The funding pledges🚨were also meant to pay for the activities of NCAG, a US-backed group of Palestinian technocrats intended to assume control of Gaza from Hamas.
Souce:🚨out of 10 Cs that pledged funds➡️only #UAE/MA/US: contributed funding.
#ETTD #USPol
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trumps-peace-board-faces-cash-crunch-stalling-gaza-plan-sources-say-2026-04-10/
