Even conservative economists are saying that Trump’s pick to lead BLS is essentially a partisan ideological hack whose work is clearly biased and riddled with mistakes.
Trump fired the former BLS leader because he didn’t like the poor job numbers.
Economic data helps us know what’s going on in the country. If hacks lead the agencies that produce the data, we won’t be able to trust the data, and leaders and citizens won’t have this basic information to help them make decisions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXUFZhAzsl0
Trump used ICE for political purposes. This is not the action of a democracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ku08PQqrvs
“Alabama can’t seem to decide whether it wants to discourage porn consumption or profit from it. Starting in September, it will levy a 10 percent tax on adult website proceeds from any porn produced or sold in the state.
Adult websites are reportedly being told to create their “Material Harmful to Minors tax accounts” now.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/04/alabamas-porn-tax-starts-soon/
“the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit largely affirmed a lower court ruling that found that the Trump administration was likely guilty of conducting illegal immigration raids in the greater Los Angeles area that violated the Fourth Amendment rights of multiple U.S. citizens.
Generally speaking, Fourth Amendment caselaw requires that an officer must have reasonable suspicion of criminal activity in order to stop someone. In the immigration context, a federal officer must have reasonable suspicion that a person is in violation of immigration law in order to detain them.
In this case, Perdomo v. Noem, the lower court held, and the appellate court agreed, that the Trump administration was apparently carrying out immigration raids and arrests without any semblance of reasonable suspicion, which invariably meant that U.S. citizens were also getting caught up in the federal dragnet.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/05/trumps-immigration-crackdown-imperils-the-fourth-amendment-rights-of-u-s-citizens/
Popular pundit appears to contradict himself in real time and not have a solid foundation to his ideas and complaints.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGR65TnWOhM
Companies are worried about quarterly earnings. The U.S. does not have a plan B for long-term research. We need to maintain the funding and focus on research in universities. Many technologies that are changing the world today are based on university research from decades ago.
Trump’s trade agreements are not trade agreements. They are not even trade deals. They are more press releases. It’s likely that many of Trump’s tariffs won’t even be legal under U.S. law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-HvpdbtJSA
The Israel-Hamas conflict is surrounded by so much misinformation, and people latch on to the misinformation and propaganda so unquestionably, that it makes it hard to tell what’s going on and many professionals don’t want to even touch the story. Everything is so he-said-she-said and stories always change after bad information has already spread, that it is difficult to know what the truth is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaOOi-d-bOU
“Sex offenders are supposed to be ineligible for minimum-security federal prison camps, but the rule was waived for Maxwell.
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“Maxwell’s transfer raised eyebrows not only because it appeared to be part of an obvious quid pro quo between a rather infamous public figure and a president trying to downplay his connections to Epstein, but because it’s practically unheard of for a federal inmate with Maxwell’s record to get transferred to a minimum-security camp after serving only a fraction of their sentence.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/06/why-ghislaine-maxwells-transfer-to-a-minimum-security-prison-camp-stinks/
A First Amendment Lawsuit Highlights the Chilling Impact of Speech-Based Deportation on Student Journalists
https://reason.com/2025/08/06/a-first-amendment-lawsuit-highlights-the-chilling-impact-of-speech-based-deportation-on-student-journalists/
https://reason.com/2025/08/07/how-overregulation-burned-out-competition-in-the-fire-retardant-industry/