A new era of government censorship has begun.It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himselfwww.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2025-01-31T13:47:03.484Z

Trump unleashed his fury about weakness in the labor market.Claiming without evidence the data were “rigged”So he fired the Senate-confirmed Department of Labor official responsible for pulling together the numbers each month.www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b…

— Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine (@papootx.bsky.social) 2025-08-02T00:06:53.381Z

Good roundup of the reactions.

— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman.bsky.social) 2025-08-02T03:18:05.810Z

You're going to hear a lot from the MAGA crowd about how the BLS "manipulated" jobs numbers. It's a lie, and it's important to understand why.The President is pointing to data revisions as "proof." But revisions are a normal, healthy part of producing accurate statistics.

— Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) 2025-08-02T02:35:40.369Z

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy.Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information.This should alarm everyone. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-destroys-our-source-of-information

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-08-01T23:17:28.077502Z

Can’t do it. There’s just no substitute. We could get some useful info for sure, but BLS and rest of government stat infrastructure irreplaceable. For one, they make such info a public good. Who wants to pay for the unemployment rate? (I mean, I would, but u know what I mean.)

— Jared Bernstein (@jaredb-econ.bsky.social) 2025-08-01T23:21:35.117Z

This is a remarkable dispatch — an accessible and compressive round-up of how what’s been happening in court has transformed our system of government in ways that make it less stable, less efficacious, less representative, and less free — not just under Trump, but going forward.

— Noah Rosenblum (@narosenblum.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T13:49:31.815Z

NEW Economist/YouGov Jul 25-28: Jeffrey Epstein% who approve | disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling investigations into Jeffrey EpsteinU.S. adult citizens 21% | 61%Democrats 5% | 90%Republicans 49% | 28%today.yougov.com/politics/art…

— YouGov America (@today.yougov.com) 2025-07-29T20:13:19.933Z

— BeSeriousUSA 🐝 (@beserioususa.bsky.social) 2025-08-05T22:44:17.513Z

— blueinthesouth (@blueinthesouth.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T07:03:40.355Z

Amazing.

— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T03:24:26.732Z

Contrary to popular belief you don’t have to be a pedo to be an elected Republican, but it obviously doesn’t hurt

— Island Privilege Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T02:20:42.541Z

There’s a kind of expected tit for tat between partisans over who does more crimes, whose worse etc. on most things obvs turpitude isn’t clearly partisan but having observed these things for years, theres an exception. Sex with minors, child porn, overwhelmingly Republicans.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T16:05:20.844Z

Remember:Every GOP/MAGA accusation is actually & ALWAYS a confessionGOP=Guardians Of Pedophiles2018-Tim Nolan sentenced in 2018 for 20 yrs for Child Sex Trafficking The long sordid history of GOP PredatorsHere’s 800+1-dailykos.com/stories/202@…2-www.endslaverynow.org/act/action-l…

— Sue in Rockville 💙🦋💙🦋💙🦋 (@sueinrockville.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T13:16:38.387Z