Third-to-Last Biden Jobs Report: November 2024
• Economy added 227K jobs in November
• Wages up 4% over past year, outpacing inflation
• 36th straight month of low, sub-4.5% unemployment (4.2%)
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As we enter a new phase in American politics, we’re reaffirming our commitment to facts, journalism and open discourse. Our values have not changed.
Our managing editor @csullivan explains more.
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I have a lot of insight as to what it's like to be homeless in this country because I was for four years due to mental health issues, addiction as a result, as well as from an accident where I nearly died.
It's absolute hell, and the resources are pathetic. "Just get a job!" Many say; being homeless is harder than any job you will EVER fucking do.
It's about to get worse because of Trump's plans for support systems the poor need.
We should be ashamed.
I wonder what Republicans have planned for the massive wave of homeless people they are probably going to generate when they start gutting things like medicare.
A whole lot of people need medicine to function normally and work. I am one of these people.
If I have no insurance I cannot afford the medications I need to take.
Then I no longer have access to the housing I once had because I need insurance for it.
I won't be the only one.
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The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?
https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.
He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
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Tech companies and CEO's who contributed $1 million or more to Trump’s inauguration.
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"The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritising free speech," said Mark Zuckerberg.
Doublespeak.
As I wrote the other day:
pleased to hear the penguins have won the trade bargains
Highlights from December Employment Report:
• Wages rising faster than inflation
• 16 million jobs added since Biden took office
• 37 straight months of low unemployment (at or below 4.2%)
• Prime-working-age employment rate higher than any point under Trump
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The #SCOTUS ruling on #TikTok was really unfortunate because it was based on the justices not understanding the technology, the facts of the situation.
You could see in the oral arguments that they didn't understand how the platform was engineered, they got multiple things very wrong about it. And that's really a shame.
The role of the Supreme Court in the US is to interpret laws and review lower court rulings, but in this case the issue wasn't either of those, it was a matter of fact that they struggled with, not law.
This legal proceeding was rushed. The two sides did not have time to hammer out their factual disagreement through the normal course of the normal process. And so when it got to the Supreme Court, the Court was presented with a record with inconsistencies.
And this is why we should never try to rush these legal processes.
The justices seemed to think that a shutdown wasn't even on the table. Well, the platform shut down. The justices were proven wrong. Unfortunately, as far as I know there is no procedure for the Court to fix a factual error like this. We are stuck with this ruling until who knows when some future case might provide the opportunity to fix it.
It's legally tragic.
I’m not sure people quite grasp how much of the crypto world is reacting to the Trump memecoin launches.
What could contribute more to government efficiency than securing lucrative contracts for your crypto donors to implement inefficient technology that is uniquely suited to solving problems you don’t have?
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The people who are now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two have links to the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025.
Noah Peters is the author of the OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell’s January 27 memo (archive) providing guidance on the “Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce” executive order, which is being described as the “Schedule F” order because it effectively reinstates that policy under a new name (“Schedule Policy/Career”). Peters also authored the January 20 memo (archive) from Ezell, which exploits loopholes to bypass limits on political appointments. Both of these memos are clear steps towards achieving a primary goal of Project 2025: to expand President Trump’s power, and to replace career civil servants with Trump loyalists.
As far back as 2023, The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 was recommending Peters for a position in Trump’s second administration. Peters had previously been appointed by Trump in 2019 as the Solicitor at the Federal Labor Relations Authority, where he “aided and defended Trump appointees’ anti-union FLRA policies that went against decades of the agency’s own precedents” according to Court Accountability Action and State Democracy Defenders Action.4 Peters returned to private practice in 2022, but recently quietly updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect a new title of “Senior Advisor” to the Office of Personnel Management. This appointment does not appear to have been announced anywhere else.
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"They want to destroy the federal government," Gov. Tim Walz on #Maddow tonight, responding to this week's events in Trump's administration.
That is:
- Freezing government funding
- Threatening to fire the entire federal workforce
- Firing NLRB and EEOC staff
- Firing 12 Inspectors General
These are attacks on the Constitutional order. Most of us did not vote for the dismantling of the entire government.
Support legal defense funds if you are able.
I know that the federal employees that are on Reddit aren't necessarily representative of the entire federal workforce.
But damn, I am loving the "I will die at my desk, you fascist fucks" vibe in response to the quit-or-get-fired offer.
Latest comic: What's the point of an economy that no longer serves the interests of human beings?
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After years of the crypto industry claiming to fight for liberty, privacy, and free and open information and tech, I'm very excited for our new "pro-crypto Congress" to get to work protecting access to medical care (including reproductive and gender-affirming care), data privacy, press freedom, freedom of expression, net neutrality, and the right to private and secure communications.
The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations.
“We don’t have much, but what we do have is important.”
“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
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Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” one doctor said.
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Coinbase says that the SEC has agreed to drop the enforcement case against the company. It only cost them $75 million in political contributions.
If #Trump is declaring a trade war, #Canada's #unions want to give him one.
The Canadian Labour Congress is demanding that electricity, oil, gas and critical mineral shipments be cut-off to the #US
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