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Maggie R. Jones
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California Policy Lab/Center for Studies in Higher Education, U.C. Berkeley
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And his friend who made it happen.
Frances Perkins, FDR’s Sec of Labor, inventor of social security, among other things.
October 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Hip-averse.
October 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Brown tail moths are assholes, especially the young uns. Apple and oak trees agree with me.
This motherfucker is a brown tail moth caterpillar, and it will give you a poison-ivy-like rash while it and its uncountable brethren consume your fruit and oak trees.
September 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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🔥BLS Staff: "We will publish reliable data, no matter how inconvenient the results... Acting Commissioner is a respected career professional. There are no other political appointees at BLS... will remain accurate & nonpartisan... if that ever changes, the professionals will tell you." #StandWithBLS
“The Bureau of Labor Statistics must remain above politics. Our job is to deliver economic data guided by law and statistical practice — not partisan whim. That’s why the firing of Commissioner Erika McEntarfer is so alarming. Dr. McEntarfer did nothing wrong. No serious observer claims otherwise. Commissioners don’t “cook” the numbers; they don’t even see them until after the estimates are complete. Dr. McEntarfer’s dismissal was unprecedented and she should be reinstated. For decades, BLS Commissioners — Republican and Democrat alike — have been respected professionals. BLS data has been trusted because its methods are public, vetted, and transparent. BLS publishes its sources, publishes its methods, and its data revisions follow a set schedule. The public doesn’t have to *guess* whether the jobs numbers are real. So why was Dr. McEntarfer forced out? Not because of misconduct. Not because of bad data. The only people making that claim are President Trump and his allies, who offer no evidence — only lies, character assassination, and intimidation. Their real goal is clear: to discredit independent statistics, slash budgets, and bully federal workers into silence. But BLS staff will not be intimidated. We will publish reliable data, no matter how inconvenient the results. Our now-Acting Commissioner is a respected career professional. There are no other political appointees at BLS. The numbers will remain accurate and nonpartisan. And if that ever changes, the professionals will tell you.”
September 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I heard someone say “We have poverty not because we cannot care for the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.” And if that ain’t the TRUTH
August 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Our fault: my husband and I went to see Interstellar in the IMAX theater in the Air and Space Museum, back row, raked seating, full theater. When the cameo happened, we looked at each other and shouted “MATT DAMON!” in our best Team America voices. All eyes on us.
August 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM