Pat Stack

Explain it once more and it will become so funny

Think about all the tech bros who caved immediately

(seeing the president wandering around on the roof while the economy adds 3 jobs per month amid weekly pedophilia revelations) time to sign a billion dollar settlement with this man

Pointing at abstract statistics and telling struggling people the economy was actually roaring didn’t work for Biden when the numbers were real, it’s going to be even harder for Trump when the numbers are fake

Corrupt. Dangerous. Deeply deeply damaging.

The very clear message is that the BLS head will be fired if they do not produce numbers that meet Trump's approval. In related news, these are the last set of BLS job numbers we can assume have not been doctored.

The person he appoints is gong to announce, tomorrow, that we are going to add 89.8 million jobs in September and then in September he will revise that number upwards by 440 million jobs

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

Been wondering when this would happen, and I even had a feeling it would be BLS. If the numbers suck, just make some up. Of course that fucks with all manner of important things that rely on government data, but it's not like these guys give a shit www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

I don't think Trump cares anywhere near as much about his poll numbers as he cares about being mocked. His ego can't handle it.

For months pundits have been theorizing about what institution might finally keep the Trump agenda in check. The courts? GOP leaders? Donors? IGs? Wall Street? Nope. Correct answer is QAnon

the Dem base right now is flailing and angry and they will latch onto whoever most convinces them that they will fight back and stop playing by the normal rules that seems more likely to be someone on the left but the lane is wide open, ideology will matter less than fighting instinct

“Woke Socialist Rupert Murdoch”

Here’s your free link to the Trump/ Epstein story www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Colbert at CBS wasn't long for this world after that disgusting $16 million bribe from Paramount, but still, it sucks!

*jerking off motion until the end of time*

Found this @jasonkoebler.bsky.social story about why AI isn’t a viable business model for journalism to be extremely well done and oddly hopeful www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.

Can only hope that hiding these reports makes more people want to read them apnews.com/article/clim...

I’m sure if Joe Biden had threatened to strip James Woods of his citizenship it’d have been no big deal

Barbarity in full swing at the Court apnews.com/article/supr...

The Trump administration is not solely responsible for this, but they are actively trying to limit progress in alternative energy innovation. The Senate bill replaces wind and solar grants with taxes. Forget the MAGA rhetoric - this is just one of many areas the US is ceding the field to China.

A PUBLICLY NEGOTIATED BRIBE IS STILL A BRIBE www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

It’s hard to overstate how angry rank and file Dems are at the Dem establishment right now. And if I were a self-preservationist incumbent I would take note.

It’s been hard to explain to the world how we feel about Vance but this will help a lot.

The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

Very much seems like the US is entering a war with Iran because Nethanyahu started it. No broader discussion about the US national interest here from the America first guys

The World's Greatest Dealmaker being outmaneuvered at every turn by the leader of one of the world's tiniest countries.

I can't believe I learned about America bombing Iran via a Donald Trump Instagram post, a screencap of a Truth Social update. I hate the future.

I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment

Homan is definitely testing the waters to arrest more elected Dems very soon. his job will be all the easier considering how national party leaders still aren't treating our democratic crisis like a democratic crisis

What's it like to be a woman in America......?

This survey on where people get their news doesn't offer much hope if you're a legacy outlet www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-...

Remember, we *had* a diplomatic resolution to the Iran nuclear issue, thanks to the JCPOA that Obama put in place after years of hard work, but then President Spiteful Shithead withdrew the U.S. from the pact in 2018 and everything fell apart. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

The Dems really, really, *really* need to make Miller the face of the administration, the way Musk was until recently. He’s hugely unlikeable and has the potential to create major drag if he is out front and center.

Everyone who collaborated with the Trump administration deserves the kind of public humiliation that Vichy collaborators got. But instead they will probably all get CNN gigs like Scott Jennings.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.