a set of graphs of US jobs data
NEW US JOBS DATA:
Non-farm Payrolls: -92k
Unemployment Rate: 4.4% (+0.1%)
Prime Age (25-54) Employment-Population Ratio: 80.7% (-0.1%)
Average Hourly Earnings: +0.4%
a graph of year-on-year change in US tech employment
Brutal numbers for US tech sector jobs released today—overall, employment decreased by 12k last month and is down 57k over the last year
That's now nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020 recessions
a graph of year-on-year change in US manufacturing employment
The US continues to lose manufacturing jobs—payrolls are down 100k over the last year, & another 12k jobs were lost in February
Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), chemicals, & wood are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well
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Clyde Conway (D–as in Dog) wishes a Happy Ding Dong the Puppy Killer is Gone Day to his four-legged constituents and all humans who celebrate.
Our campaign is surging. And Donald Trump should be scared shitless.
Because when I’m in Congress, his presidency is over.
Barack Obama on the late Rev. Jesse Jackson: "He was talking about everyone who was left out. Everyone who was forgotten. Everyone who was unseen. Everyone who was unheard. And in that sense, he was expressing the very essence of what our democracy should be."
“War-a-Lago”
By Barry Blitt @newyorker.com
Hey Pam Bondi - Dow 47k (and go fuck yourself!)
Maybe this is just me, but I kind of think massive military operations, in which we're demanding unconditional surrender as the outcome, probably should be authorized by Congress.
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
I’m a hell no on funding for Trump’s illegal, disastrous Iran War.
True story: When I was a cub reporter at the Birmingham News in the early 1980s and had to do the weekend cop calls, there was a running newsroom joke that every rural lowlife criminal was named Dwayne or Wayne or 23 or so spelling variations thereof
So, yeah, Markwayne totally checks out
Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Ann Telnaes
John Deering, Arkansas Democrat Gazette
The competition for the dumbest member of the United States Senate has just heated up with the elimination of one its strongest contestants!!
Asked earlier today whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump said:
“I guess.”
“Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.”
He can’t even pretend to give a single fuck about human life. Truly a conscienceless sociopath.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
“.. Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran?” said Khalaf Al Habtoor, a Dubai billionaire .. “You have placed the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council .. at the heart of a danger they did not choose.”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Excellent piece by @saletan.bsky.social on all the false claims of an "imminent threat" from Iran.
"The U.S. didn’t launch this war because we had to. We launched it because we could...Trump all but admitted the truth to Jonathan Karl: 'We have become spoiled.'"
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Of course Putin did. Trump was too busy looking in the mirror to anticipate this.
Off the charts incompetency. 😳👇
The Mile High Club has lost its two most prominent members.
SAD!!!!
Michael de Adder, Globe and Mail
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons
> @thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Dave Whamond, Toronto Star
