{"id":18915,"date":"2025-08-06T17:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18915"},"modified":"2025-08-06T17:52:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:52:39","slug":"democrats-flee-texas-trumps-bls-firing-raises-alarms-ghislaine-maxwell-moved-the-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18915","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Flee Texas, Trump\u2019s BLS Firing Raises Alarms, Ghislaine Maxwell Moved | The Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having independent professionals in parts of the government who provide key statistics is important for having a better idea of what&#8217;s going on in the country. We need these professionals to be independent so we can have a level of trust in the numbers. Trump fires such professionals just because he doesn&#8217;t like their outcomes, not because he has a fundamental disagreement with their methods. This is how we go dark in understanding our economy; with our main source of data being&nbsp;controlled by the leader.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Democrats Flee Texas, Trump\u2019s BLS Firing Raises Alarms, Ghislaine Maxwell Moved | The Headlines\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8F7RXXlUM4Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having independent professionals in parts of the government who provide key statistics is important for having a better idea of what&#8217;s going on in the country. We need these professionals to be independent so we can have a level of trust in the numbers. Trump fires such professionals just because he doesn&#8217;t like their outcomes, not because he has a fundamental disagreement with their methods. This is how we go dark in understanding our economy; with our main source of data being controlled by the leader. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8F7RXXlUM4Y<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[431,198,1606,509,1052,21],"class_list":["post-18915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-gerrymander","tag-politics","tag-redistricting","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18916,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18915\/revisions\/18916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}