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Moneywise: The US now has more unemployed workers than job openings for the 1st time since April 2021 — why this single ‘turning point’ signals trouble ahead
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Axios notes that just three years ago, Americans revelled in a job market that offered a greater than 2:1 ratio of jobs to unemployed people. “As of July, that ratio has fallen to 0.99”.
According to Reuters, many economists blame the Trump tariffs for cooling the labor market, with Wells Fargo senior economist Sarah House telling the outlet that her firm expects “the slower pace of consumer spending and cost pressures related to tariffs will keep the pressure on businesses to look for cost savings where they can, including their workforce”.
(Moneywise more…)
NY Times: Trump Threatens to Cancel Meeting With China’s Xi and Impose New Tariffs
Sarah Jones & Jason Easley: JB Pritzker Urges Trump’s Family To Get Him Medical Help For Dementia
Forbes: Trump And RFK Jr. Double Down On Unproven Tylenol-Autism Link: ‘We’re Doing The Studies To Make The Proof’
MedCity News: Why Healthcare Leaders Are Worried About the New H-1B Visa Fee
Experts warn that the Trump administration’s new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications could worsen healthcare’s workforce crisis, especially in rural areas, by making it prohibitively expensive for hospitals to hire international clinicians.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – October 10, 2025
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That Trump and his loyalists are standing with the autocrat Putin rather than democracy is clearer every day.
…Today, masked border patrol agents pinned WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman to the ground and arrested her after she recorded agents detaining a Latino man. …
…Yesterday a second Republican governor, Phil Scott of Vermont, opposed the administration’s deployment of federalized National Guard troops to Chicago and to Portland, Oregon. “I don’t think our guard should be used against our own people. I don’t think the military should be used against our own people. In fact, it’s unconstitutional,” Scott said. “Unless, of course, there’s an insurrection, much like we saw January 6 a few years ago.”
…Josh Dawsey reported in the Wall Street Journal today that administrative officials joke about ruling Congress with an “iron fist” and that Trump ally Steve Bannon has compared Congress to Russia’s largely ceremonial Duma.
Today House speaker Johnson announced he would cancel another week’s session, making four weeks he has kept House members from their jobs. Johnson first sent the members home on September 19. Staying out of session means not working on the budget that is overdue or hammering out the necessary appropriations bills. It means not working on figuring out a way to extend the healthcare premium tax credits that Democrats are demanding.
It also means not swearing in Representative Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), who won election on September 23 and who will provide the 218th vote on a discharge petition to trigger a vote on a measure requiring the release of the files the government has on the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)Adam Kinzinger: Trump’s “Enemy Within”: How Fascist Rhetoric Became U.S. Policy
Jason Easley: House Republicans Have A Full Shutdown Meltdown And Call Upcoming No Kings Protest Terrorism
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Jack Hopkins: We’re Letting Foreign Armies Build Bases on U.S. Soil…And America Is Sleeping
Qatar Is Building a Military Facility in Idaho. Yes, That Qatar. And Nobody’s Raising Hell.
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ProPublica: Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it.
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Jennifer Rubin: Undaunted
Jane Goodall reminds us that we all matter
…I want to make sure that you all understand that each and every one of you has a role to play. You may not know it, you may not find it, but your life matters, and you are here for a reason.
(Jennifer Rubin more…)
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Marisa Kabas: DHS top lawyer says ‘no legal barrier’ to actions officers can take to defend federal property
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AXIOS: How Trump made Gaza deal
As negotiations for a Gaza peace deal approached the finish line, President Trump provided a personal guarantee he wouldn’t let Israel abandon it and resume the war, Axios’ Barak Ravid writes.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Trump Wants to Use the Insurrection Act to Deploy Troops in the U.S. & Trump Posts Approval Rating that Doesn’t Exist
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Oregon’s GOP bolstered Trump’s claims that Portland was a war zone—by posting old photos from South America. How are voters still okay with them being in office?
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Christina Pagel: England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
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Bulwark: Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Triumph of Faux Balance
The record of the Free Press shows her journey from independent to MAGA fellow traveler.
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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