Warning signs have been flashing for months that the US job market has been losing steam. That became starkly clearer in July, and the early data for August isn't looking much better. New metrics released Thursday showed that first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose to an 11-week high; that private-sector businesses sharply reined in their hiring last month; and that last month was the worst August for layoff announcements since the Great Recession. Read more
There has been some excitement in Maine as a man named Graham Platner, a 40-year-old oyster farmer, has announced that he is running for U.S. Senate against incumbent Susan Collins next year. In the week or two since Platner announced his candidacy he has drawn raves from crowds for his impassioned and forceful approach, his clear-eyed denunciations of Trump and Trumpism, and his advocacy for popular, progressive policies. He's been attracting both donors and positive media attention in a race to displace a senator who has historically thrived when facing cautious, institutional Democrats who fail to energize the electorate. So of course the leaders of the Democratic Party are trying to stop him Read more
What the hell does it say about America right now that all levels of government are either unable or unwilling to provide basic services, requiring a gambling website to cover things so that people can get to a football game? Read more
.S. private sector hiring rose less than expected in August, data released Thursday shows, offering the latest indication of trouble in the labor market. Private payrolls increased by just 54,000 in August, according to data from processing firm ADP published Thursday morning. That's below the consensus forecast of 75,000 from economists polled by Dow Jones and marks a significant slowdown from the revised gain of 106,000 seen in the prior month. "The year started with strong job growth, but that momentum has been whipsawed by uncertainty," said Nela Richardson, ADP's chief economist, in a press release.
Retired US Army Green Beret LTC Anthony Aguilar was escorted from a hearing after admonishing US Senators that America was complicit in genocide. Aguilar was a "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" subcontractor who was fired after he was accused of creating "a hostile work environment" and was "disruptive and confrontational." LTC Aguilar was in the Gaza Strip when IDF and private security thugs regularly opened fire on starving Palestinians approaching food distribution sites. The SF veteran stated the "genocide was part of a plot from the beginning, that it was always the plan, it's premeditated, it's designed." Nearly 1,400 Palestinians were killed at these sites. Links: SF Veteran Manhandled; IDF Butchery.
House Republican Ronny "Dr Feelgood" Jackson posted on social media that the US Navy has restored his retired rank of Rear Admiral. This overturns his 2022 demotion that followed a scathing investigation that uncovered appalling conduct while he was the top White House physician. Jackson joined the White House Medical Unit in the mid-2000s under George W. Bush, and served as physician to the president from 2013 to 2018 under Barack Obama and Dummkopf Trumpf. The mountebank whined that the DODIG investigation of him was politically motivated by Democrats.
On Monday in Washington, DC, a man was shot dead. Two women were injured in a separate shooting. People reported dozens of other crimes to the police. The next day, in both public remarks and an interview, President Donald Trump claimed that Washington now has "no crime." He said Wednesday that "there is none," making clear that he has been making a literal assertion that crime in the capital has completely vanished. It hasn't. Read more
A US federal court has overturned billions in funding cuts by President Donald Trump's administration to Harvard University. Judge Allison Burroughs ruled the government violated the Ivy League college's free speech rights when it revoked around $2bn (1.5bn) in research funding. The ruling is a major legal victory for Harvard, but is likely to be appealed. The Trump administration accused the college of antisemitism, "radical left" ideologies and racial bias when it froze the funding in April.
SEATTLE (AP) " The Democratic governors of Washington state, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they have created an alliance to establish their own recommendations for who should receive vaccines because they believe the Trump administration is putting Americans' health at risk by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The announcement came the same day that Florida said it will phase out all childhood vaccine mandates. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to curb vaccine requirements and other health mandates that evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic in his state. Read more
The US president's team is also said to be considering extending a job offer to Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa to clear the crowded field and allow Andrew Cuomo to be the sole candidate running against socialist Zohran Mamdani.
Mr Trump's advisers have been speaking with Mr Adams's allies about the possibility of the incumbent mayor dropping out of the race, with the discussions going "in several different directions", sources told The New York Times.
The world's largest iceberg is "rapidly breaking up" into several large "very large chunks," scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have said. Previously weighing nearly a trillion metric tonnes (1.1 trillion tons) and spanning an area of 3,672 square kilometers (1,418 square miles) " slightly bigger than Rhode Island " the A23a iceberg has been closely tracked by scientists ever since it calved from the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in Antarctica in 1986. Read more
Florida is moving to "end all vaccine mandates" in the state, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced at a press conference on Wednesday. Ladapo said the Florida Department of Health would be working with Gov. Ron DeSantis' office to end all mandates in Florida law, at the event at Grace Christian School in Valrico, located just east of Tampa. "Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Ladapo said of vaccine mandates.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) accused President Donald Trump of having dementia because he keeps repeating the same lie over and over again.
Trump labeled the Epstein files a 'Democrat hoax' that never ends as he met in the White House with the President of Poland. Read more
At the time, Bondi claimed the security cameras automatically cut out for one minute as part of a system reset each night. However, MAGA erupted after forensic analysis showed the video was edited repeatedly. The new surveillance footage, which was part of the bulk online drop at 6 p.m. Tuesday, fills in that missing minute between 11:59 p.m. on August 9, 2019, and midnight on August 10, 2019.
WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturing contracted for a sixth straight month in August as factories dealt with the fallout from the Trump administration's import tariffs, with some manufacturers describing the current business environment as "much worse than the Great Recession." The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) survey on Tuesday also showed some manufacturers complaining that the sweeping import duties were making it difficult to manufacture goods in the United States. President Donald Trump has defended his protectionist trade policy, which has raised the nation's average tariff rate to the highest in a century, as necessary to revive a long-declining U.S. industrial base. Read more
