"The US MFG sector
is under serious pressure:
The Richmond Fed MFG index dropped to -20 pts in July -2nd-lowest since the 2020 pandemic. This marks its 19th consec neg reading.
Concerningly, 6-mo CapEx outlook fell to: 19 pts -lowest since 2008.
Signals a continued slowdown in bus invest & economic activity within the MFG sector.
The CapEx Exp Index: downtrend for 4 yrs.
US MFGs need help (+sm bus')."
-Kobeissi L
Trump's #tariffs & #deportations: killing the #economy.
#Trumpcession #USPol
At just >4%, UE appears good -BUT it’s not. If the labor force had increased this year at the pace it did last year, the UE rate would be headed toward 5%.
Labor force: incl all those working & looking for work: is sounding the recession alarm bell. It has flatlined so far this year. Comp: with last year *grew by well over 1M wkrs, or the year before, when it increased by almost 2.5M. W/o more workers:recession is more likely.
#Trumpcession #Tariffs #Deportations #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/15/labor-force-recession-indicator/
ICE arrested a woman they accused of drug trafficking & entering illegally -photographed her, weeping/cuffed *WH’s X acct made a cartoon illus of her crying & handcuffed *viewed 76M times.
Voice of the USG: a mix of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, & crass jokes re the human suffering they’re creating.Joking memes re imprisonment, #deportations, & death by alligator are DESIGNED TO RADICALIZE & DESENSITIZE.
Illegal arrests, #detention facs patterned after CECOT...
#USPol
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/trump-administration-propaganda/
#Tariffs & #deportations are contributors to rising prices & fewer immigrant workers: Higher wholesale vegetable costs & an economic slowdown in TX could be signs that Trump's immigration policies are hurting INDs.
BLS reported Thurs a 38.9% increase in wholesale dry & fresh vegetable prices from June to July, the biggest since Mar 2022.
#Immigrants #Economy #Protest #Trumpcession #Stagflation #TrumpRegime #USPol
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-tariffs-deportations-rising-prices-rcna225295
The #TrumpRegime is set to spend up to $50M on a wave of taxpayer-funded PR amid negative coverage dogging his #DHS Sec Noem.
The DHSpledges $20M to $50M as an “INTL Campaign Follow-on” to the “Stronger Border/ America” ads that've starred Noem.
PR campaign: funded from Sept-Mar, listing Ppl Who Think LLC w ties to C Lewandowski. Fed data shows the co: awarded $26.5M.
Waste, fraud, #corruption, propaganda... while #immigrants are terrorized.
#Deportations #ICE #USPol https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-set-to-blow-millions-on-ice-barbie-kristi-noem-pr-blitz-as-her-roasting-spirals/
"Judge Ho
has granted a #HabeasCorpus challenge to the lawfulness of #ICE #detention by finding that "treating attendance in immigration court as a game of #detention roulette isn't consistent with the constitutional guarantee of #DueProcess."
-A Vanderpool
Thankfully, many lawsuits will ensue, but it's doubtful the #TrumpRegime's gestapo will curtail its lawlessness. We must support law firms, orgs eg ACLU... to hold this regime resp for illegal detn & #deportations of #immigrants.
#DHS #USPol
"DC Police Chief issues new EOsallowing police to notify ICE about subjects not in custody, including during traffic stops & to help ICE in the transportation of detained suspects."
"It always always comes back to immigrants with these insufferable nativists."
-D Bier
Local LE officials aid & abet the #ICE Gestapo.
#Immigrants #Betrayal #Protest #Nazis #TrumpRegime #DHS #PoliceState #Sadism #Fascism #Detention #Deportations #USPol https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-police-now-allowed-to-notify-ice-of-people-not-in-custody-police-chief-says/3975078/
"The number of detained people has jumped since January, when about 39,000 people were in immigration detention, reflecting efforts by the Trump administration to quickly ramp up arrests and deportations. According to ICE records obtained by The New York Times, more than 1,100 people had been detained since Friday, about 380 people a day."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations
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"The number of people in immigration detention reached a new high of more than 60,000 on Monday, breaking a modern record set during the first Trump administration, according to internal records from Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
~ Chris Cameron and Hamed Aleaziz
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations
/1
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/immigration-detention-numbers.html
“More transport busesleaving AA today, escorted by FLHP vehicles."
-T Kennedy
"There're pplwho are losing breath -walking around coughing on one another.
Their requests for masks from the guards are denied -only are allowed to shower 1X or 2X/ wk."
"An outbreak of a respiratory disease, possibly #Covid, is running rampant thru #AlligatorAuschwitz.
Vehicles: UK dest.: ENVIR lawsuit, another lawsuit, unsan & dangerous conds, disease, #deportations?
#DHS #Florida #USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/12/attorney-covid-outbreak-alligator-alcatraz
"Trump's people at #DHS are referencing here "Which Way, Western Man," a book by white supremacist William Gayley Simpson that was published by an American Neo-Nazi org, the National Alliance."
In the book,Simpson argued that Hitler was right and Jews must be killed."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
"Notice"cultural decline" at the top of the sign, as what they're fighting against."
-Jack's House
#DHS X acct, 8/11:
#Nazis #ChristianNationalism #Antisemitism #TrumpRegime #ICE #Deportations #Racism #USPol
"DC Circuitdenies emergency bid by advocates for immigrants to block a newly enforced requirement that undocumented people register with the fed govt or risk a criminal sanction."
-K Cheney
It's unfathomable how fearful undocumented #immigrants must feel. This is a ployby the #TrumpRegime for them to self-deport, or if they don't register, for pos immed #deportations. Trump has promised "some" bus' & farms won't be raided. But there's no guarantee.
#DHS #Protest #USPol
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.42003/gov.uscourts.cadc.42003.01208765633.1.pdf
"The possibility of a$50K signing bonus is a big draw to a lot of cash-strapped Americans, it turns out."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
Nothing in the #TrumpRegime can be trusted, esp stats & data.
All #ICE LE recruits will be required to go through med screening, drug screening, & complete a physical fitness test, the agency clarified.
A warm body,with MAGA instincts, esp xenophobia & amorality, are surely sought by this inhumane regime.
#DHS #PoliceState #Deportations #USPol
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/over-100k-americans-rush-to-join-trumps-massive-ice-hiring-spree-nationwide-dhs-says/ar-AA1KmFU8
The #TrumpRegime isstripping protections of some #asylum applicants who filed as far back as 2019.
Dozens of #immigrants across the US have received letters notifying them that their asylum cases have been dismissed by USCIS *under the #DHS.
The reason, acc to the letters: These asylum-seekers, many of whom entered btw 2019-22, didn't receive a mandatory screening, known as a "credible fear" interview, at the border.
#Lawless #DueProcess #Deportations #Protest #USPol
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/10/nx-s1-5487598/asylum-seekers
I believe we need to know about the lies, fearmongering, gaslighting, disinformation, & propaganda that the WH official acct
disseminates on social media.
Today’s X acct, is esp disturbing,Border Czar Homan is the face of the sun rising over the US-MX border wall.It’s so hateful, dystopian, & xenophobic, I thought it was from the Onion.
Screenshot:
#TrumpRegime #Immigrants #Constitution #DueProcess #DHS #ICE #Deportations #Detention #TomHoman #StephenMiller #Fascism #Racism #Protest #USPol
“Urgent:Luis MR Velasquez, Venezuelan who collapsed in Alligator Alcatraz & then incommunicado since Thurs, just called me from El Paso. Said his health is deteriorating & guards denying pleas 4 med help. Call cut off after 3 min.”Help! I don't want to die here.”
-E Lee, his ATTY
#TrumpRegime #DOJ #DHS #ICE… are resp for the atrocities occurring in #AlligatorAuschwitz (+FL), & other #detention facs, e.g. El Paso.
#HumanRights violations…
#Sadism #Deportations #immigrants #Protest #USPol
“Trump's immigration policies have already shrunk US population growth, shrinking US production and making the US a smaller, weaker, and less prosperous country.”
-D Bier
#Trumpcession #Immigrants #Economy #DHS #TrumpRegime #Deportations #USPol
Miller's
article: "Andry's remarkable -sense of humor & unshakable faith in God in light of all that's happened, & his empathy & mercy for those: resp. 252 strangers
brothers.
Contrast Andry’s mercy & forbearance with the small, sad grievances that dom America’s pol life today. Current regime:anger -too many brown ppl at Harvard; a book with gay penguins; a swimmer who didn’t get the 4th-place trophy -felt she deserved; having less than the Joneses.
#Deportations #USPol https://www.thebulwark.com/p/can-we-ever-repair-this-moral-rot-andry-romero-salvador-cecot-venezuela-deportation
"With Kamala Harris officially out of the race, Katie #Porter has emerged as the Democratic frontrunner,
increasing her support from 12% to 18% since the April Emerson poll,”
Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said.
“Steve #Hilton, who was not in the race in April, has jumped to 12%,
while the share of undecided voters has dropped from 54% to 38% over the summer.
Porter leads among voters over 50 (22%),
those with a postgraduate degree (35%),
and white voters (23%).”
Looking ahead to the 2028 presidential nomination contest,
Governor Gavin #Newsom leads the Democratic primary with 23%,
followed by former Secretary of Transportation Pete #Buttigieg at 17%,
Vice President Kamala #Harris at 11%,
and Representative Alexandria #Ocasio-#Cortez at 9%.
In the Republican primary,
40% support Vice President JD #Vance,
10% support Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. #Kennedy,
and 9% Florida Governor Ron #DeSantis.
Governor Gavin Newsom holds a 44% job approval rating, and 38% disapproval.
President Trump holds a 30% job approval among California voters, and 58% disapproval.
On the generic congressional ballot, #Democrats have a 22-point advantage:
54% support the Democratic candidate while 32% support the #Republican; 15% are undecided.
A third of voters (33%) support the proposal to redraw California’s congressional map ahead of the 2026 Midterm Elections, while a quarter (25%) oppose; 42% are unsure.
“Support to redraw the state’s congressional map ahead of the Midterm Elections is strongest among Democrats by a 23-point margin, 42% to 19%,
and opposed by an eight-point margin among Republicans, 36% to 28%.
A majority of independent voters are unsure, while 25% oppose and 23% support,” Kimball said.
The #economy is the top issue for 30% of California voters,
down from 40% in April,
followed by #housing affordability at 19%,
#immigration at 15% (up from 7% in April),
threats to democracy at 13%,
and #healthcare at 8%.
Housing affordability is 14 points higher for California voters compared to U.S. voters overall,
while concern for threats to #democracy is ten points lower than the national poll.
A majority (61%) of California voters view #tariffs as more of a tax on U.S. consumers,
while 26% view tariffs as a tax on the foreign country.
Democrats view tariffs as a tax on the consumer, 79% to 11%, while Republicans see tariffs as a tax on the foreign country, 54% to 32%.
A majority of California voters (60%) think mass deportations of undocumented/illegal #immigrants in California are a bad thing,
consistent with the April Emerson poll;
40% think mass #deportations are a good thing.
Forty-nine percent of voters think the California government should spend more on #firefighter staffing and equipment,
knowing that increased funding may require a tax increase, down from 62% in February;
43% think the government should spend the same, up eight points from February, and 8% think it should spend less.
Just over half of California voters (51%) agree that Los Angeles is an ideal host city for the 2028 Summer #Olympic Games, while 27% disagree. Twenty-three percent are unsure.
Black voters (64%), voters aged 30-39 (57%), male voters (54%), and college-educated voters (54%) most agree that Los Angeles is an ideal host city for the Olympics.
Republican voters (42%) and voters aged 50-59 (33%) are most likely to disagree that Los Angeles is an ideal host city for the 2028 Summer Olympic Games.
"The Trump admin detained & is attempting to quickly deport a Syrian Druze woman, paroled into the US in 2022 while seeking asylum.
A judgetoday ordered her released from custody."
-K Cheney
Welcome news, butother #immigrants will be deported soon -some have been sent to Cs they've few, or no ties at all, & others: dumped in 3rd Cs *imperiled. Most of the IMMs in detndidn't commit felonies -entered: US illegally: misdemeanor, overstayed a visa...
#Deportations #USPol https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.469074/gov.uscourts.caed.469074.13.0_1.pdf
