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

By a huge margin, Americans reject Trump's and Stephen Miller's ideas about immigration.

— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 2025-12-16T23:11:37.048Z

Gallup reports that Trump is at a net -22%(!) approval rating on immigration (38% approve, 60% disapprove).That is the second lowest rating they've ever recorded for him, just behind -23% in August 2018 (38% approve, 61% disapprove).

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-07-24T17:05:21.557Z

Polls show immigration is becoming less of a concern for all Americans even Republicans. More people in the U.S. are starting to view immigrants as a positive thing for the country. The tide is turning and I think the midterms will show it. #Pinks#ProudBluenews.gallup.com/poll/692522/…

— AnnieOakleyinGA (@annie1x.bsky.social) 2025-07-21T21:27:27.331Z

Trump approval on immigration even worse among independents in the new CNN poll: 35-65. Remarkable.

— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) 2025-07-16T15:59:02.643Z

Amazing. New CNN poll has Trump's approval on immigration absolutely tanking. It's down to 42-58. A 19-point net swing against him on this issue in just the last few months.Curious what those who keep saying we're in the midst of a huge societal backlash to 1965 immigration law think of this

— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) 2025-07-16T15:28:59.776Z

CNN: “Take a look at Trump's net approval rating on immigration… Bad to just downright terrible. The American people have turned against Trump on what was his best issue.”

— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-07-14T14:53:14.727Z

Wording matters: U.S. public support for mass deportation in surveys ranged from 33% to 62%, @aedwardslevy.bsky.social found. Results varied greatly, depending on how the question was asked. http://www.cnn.com/2024/11/17/p…

— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett.bsky.social) 2025-07-13T16:31:11.539Z

This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want most of them deported.That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office.On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!

— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T18:07:33.536Z

Ah, I see that the "discount egg shopper" and "economic anxiety" crowd still approve of this admin's immigration policies.91% of Trump voters approve of his immigration policies. 91%.And the majority of white US people, voters or not, 56%, approve of these immigration policies.Embarrassing.

— Mekka Okereke (@mekka.mekka-tech.com) 2025-06-05T00:32:10.251Z

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 2025-06-09T14:11:54.650Z

NEW — Trump's eroding immigration approval rating follows an iron law of ICE enforcement: the more Americans see what it looks like, the less they tend to support mass deportation http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc…

— Nick Miroff (@nickmiroff.bsky.social) 2025-05-12T19:55:15.911Z

Ceding an issue has never been a successful strategy. Immigration is not only good for America, it’s essential. Now that the rule of law and the Bill of Rights are in play, this is no time for timidity. It’s time to beat Trumpism on its own turf.

— T. J. Stiles (@tj-stiles.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T19:32:24.218Z