WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR |
- "The statue, spray-painted bronze, appeared fully restored today, with only minor damage still apparent and Trump and Epstein's hands once again clasped together…"
Trump-Epstein statue returns to National Mall
(Washington Post)
- "Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people's wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people."
- "AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look… "
(Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shares Acyn's clip of her recent appearance on All In with Chris Hayes)
- "Former BLS employees have told Warren's office the September labor data has been collected and is likely ready to be released"
- "The monthly jobs report, compiled and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is arguably the most critical piece of US economic data released each month. Its importance is even greater now, given concerns about weakness in the job market and the rising unemployment rate.
Former BLS employees have told Warren's office the September labor data has been collected and is likely ready to be released, the Senate Banking Committee aide said."
(Aaron Sojourner in a thread citing CNN's reporting on the September jobs report)
- "Other labor market indicators generated by the private sector have been downbeat. The payroll processor ADP estimated that nongovernmental employers shed 32,000 jobs in September, while the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found that companies' announced hiring plans so far this year were at the lowest level since 2009.
"Labor market weakness is evident and it's accelerating, and what counts as a good jobs report is going to increasingly get revised down," said Andrew Flowers, chief economist at Appcast, a recruiting technology firm. "The main driver of that is labor supply contracting, particularly with immigration restrictions. But there's also evidence that demand is also weakening.""
The Jobs Report That Wasn't Leaves Economists Guessing
(New York Times)
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