Jobs Up, Federal Workers Down

Plus: Shifting goalposts on immigration and jobs, Netanyahu visits D.C., everything is fine in El Paso after all, and more...

Healthy jobs report: The federal government's jobs report released this morning shows unexpectedly healthy employment growth in January.

According to the report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the economy added 130,000 jobs over the past month. That was enough to keep the unemployment rate steady at 4.3 percent. The reported employment growth is far in excess of economists' anemic estimates that the economy added just 55,000 to 69,000 jobs last month.

The unemployment rate is still up from a year ago, when it sat at an even 4 percent, according to the BLS report. But an expected disastrous month of hiring did not materialize.

In even better news, the one sector of the economy undergoing an employment recession is the federal government. The BLS report states that federal payrolls shed another 34,000 jobs in January. The civilian federal workforce is down 10.9 percent from its peak in October 2024.

This is more evidence that the Trump administration's efforts to whittle down the federal bureaucracy are succeeding on at least one metric.

As I've covered before, the drive of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to radically shrink the federal government's spending was a huge flop. The savings promised by Elon Musk et al. did not materialize. We're on track to spend more money than ever.

But, when it comes to cutting federal jobs, DOGE has succeeded in its state-slashing mission. The 327,000 people who no longer work for the feds are now free to engage in productive activity in the private sector. That's a win for economy-wide efficiency.

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Moving the goalposts: In the run-up to the report's release, Trump administration officials made the rounds in the media to spin a bad jobs report as a good thing.

Hear President Donald Trump's trade adviser, Peter Navarro, argue yesterday on Fox Business that low job growth would be the result of the administration's mass deportation of illegal immigrants. Under Biden, the economy needed to add 200,000 jobs a month just to employ all the illegal immigrants entering the country, said Navarro. No longer.

Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like … Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market." pic.twitter.com/eat5SG59Px

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 10, 2026

On Monday, Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, possibly paraphrasing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, said "one shouldn't panic" at lower job growth, which he too chalked up to the administration's deportation drive and advances in AI.

This exercise in expectations management seems unnecessary now, given how good January's numbers are looking. Lest this spin be forgotten, it's worth pointing out how much immigration restrictionists are trying to move the goalposts on employment.

The argument from immigration hawks has long been that deporting foreign-born workers and preventing more of them from moving to the U.S. is a good thing for overall job growth.

The fewer foreigners working peacefully and productively means there are more employment opportunities for native-born Americans, the thinking goes. The Trump administration made this exact case last month in an article published on the White House website, which said, "mass deportations=more jobs."

In fact, mass deportations, by definition means fewer jobs and a less productive economy. One can imagine how much better the jobs report would look if America were embracing immigration right now, instead of trying to kick out as many people as possible.

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Scenes from D.C.: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in D.C. to meet with Trump, his seventh such visit in Trump's second term. Hardest hit are District-area motorists trying to navigate the Secret Service's road closures.

???? JUST IN: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Washington, DC for his meeting at the White House with President Trump

Netanyahu is in a large Secret Service motorcade, and security is INCREDIBLY tight, with I-695W being totally shut down, and two helicopters overhead.… pic.twitter.com/j5I4PGaj6e

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 10, 2026

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QUICK LINKS

• The Federal Aviation Administration has resumed normal operations at the El Paso airport. Flights were briefly paused there, causing lots of raised eyebrows this morning.

The temporary closure of airspace over El Paso has been lifted. There is no threat to commercial aviation. All flights will resume as normal.

— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) February 11, 2026

• Jon Stewart talks with protectionist noneconomist Oren Cass about how economists are wrong about everything.

Jon noticed some anger from economists in the comments last week. He gets into that and so much more with the Chief Economist of American Compass @oren_cass on a new episode tomorrow. #theweeklyshow #jonstewart #politics pic.twitter.com/fRrWRkjdKJ

— The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart (@weeklyshowpod) February 10, 2026

• Fringe Republican candidate for Florida governor, James Fishback, alleges an arsonist attempted to burn down his house, leading him to post this video.

On Sunday, an arsonist tried to burn down my home where our staff was working.

If anyone attacks our staff or volunteers, we will not wait for the police.

We will shoot you dead.pic.twitter.com/7Bc0gWs3RN

— James Fishback (@j_fishback) February 10, 2026

• The crypto angle to the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping

BREAKING: TMZ's Harvey Levin says within the last 15 minutes, they've seen activity in the bitcoin account that was mentioned in the original alleged ransom note for Nancy Guthrie that TMZ received.

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) February 11, 2026

• Nine people have been killed, and 25 wounded, in a mass shooting in rural western Canada.
• A grand jury refuses to indict Democratic lawmakers who had said in a video that U.S. troops should resist illegal orders. Trump had said the video, made in the context of the Venezuelan boat bombings, was "seditious."

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The federal government's jobs report released this morning shows unexpectedly healthy employment growth in January.

Nobody ever expects the Trump economy (no matter which way it goes).

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Too many ripples, man.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Why cant you accept global managed trade deals under the false banner of Free Trade is better??

Export jobs, import welfare. The way god meant it to be.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

You forgot free weed and ass sex.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

I said welfare.

[Medulla Oblongata]

WSJ: Gains defy expectations, mark strongest growth in over a year
The job additions, concentrated in healthcare, are a sign the labor market may be shaking off its recent stagnation.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

How many of those jobs are fraud on medicaid programs?

[Spiritus Mundi]

Perhaps unironically, also included in the roundup is a discussion about how economists are always wrong.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

It’s worse than not expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

[Fist of Etiquette]

This is more evidence that the Trump administration's efforts to whittle down the federal bureaucracy are succeeding on at least one metric.

No one wants to work for Orange Hitler.

[mad.casual]

Except for the Jews slaves second generation immigrants deplorables who want to work in the Gestapo catch slaves leaving the reservation work for ICE.

[NealAppeal]

And those deplorables working for ICE are legal Latin Americans.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The 327,000 people who no longer work for the feds are now free to engage in productive activity in the private sector.

K Street's a-calling! Oh, wait, that's just for politicians who've lost their seats.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

It’s funny imagining a federal worker having to do actual work .

[Fist of Etiquette]

They could become journalists.

[Super Scary]

I was going to suggest they learn to code if they don't already.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Or mine coal?

[Idaho-Bob]

Looks like most journalists are federal employees

[Eeyore]

They could open learing centers.

[Marshal]

All K-street does is meet with legislators to trade donations for votes. It's no more work than calling your opponents fascist is work.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

DOGE was a huge flop tho, Reeeeason told me so

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

..Harvey Levin says within the last 15 minutes, they've seen activity in the bitcoin account ;

I thought bitcoin was supposed to be secret.

[Longtobefree]

Secure, not secret.

[mad.casual]

Mathematically secure. The way Anthony Weiner's phone or Microsoft's update process is mathematically secure.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The fewer foreigners working peacefully and productively means there are more employment opportunities for native-born Americans, the thinking goes.

Before Trump, Democrats certainly thought so.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Well, at least cheaper child care and lawn service.

[mad.casual]

What are the jobs created by foreigners working violently and subversively, bruised liver?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Netanyahu is in a large Secret Service motorcade, and security is INCREDIBLY tight, with I-695W being totally shut down, and two helicopters overhead.…

Whatever happened to Trump's first-term suggestion of moving federal agencies out of DC and into flyover country? One would think that could help alleviate Zionist-induced traffic woes.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Have you ever had a bagel in fly-over country?

[mad.casual]

Of course. Otherwise, you'd get steak, bacon, egg, and cheese all over your hands.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Salami on a breakfast sandwich is underrated.

[Ajsloss]

The 327,000 people who no longer work for the feds are now free to engage in productive activity in the private sector.

LOL. Are you going to be here all week, Britches?

[Longtobefree]

A humble reporter trying to move up to second assistant to the associate editor.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Saec get a headline writing job at axios?

Axios
@axios
If the Trump-back SAVE America Act passes, "millions of women whose married names aren't on their birth certificates or passports" would face extra barriers to voting.

Axios
@axios
Crime plunges in major cities despite Trump's crackdown rhetoric

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

I’m so sick of these fucking scare tactics over voter ID.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Chicks shouldn’t be voting anyway.

[Incunabulum]

That's funny - if their married names aren't on their passport its because they chose to not change their name after being married.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, having to put your "assigned" gender--and your name--on your passport is racist!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Democrats were on fire yesterday at the hearing.

Greg Price
@greg_price11
Swalwell: "Will you resign from ICE?"

Lyons: "No"

Swalwell: "Why not?"

Lyons: "Because that child that you're showing right there, the men and women of ICE took care of him when his father abandoned him and ran from law enforcement."

Julio Rosas
@Julio_Rosas11
Rep. Shri Thanedar asks CBP Commissioner Scott if he will get a pardon from President Trump:

Scott: "I signed up for this job to protect America and I'm very proud of the service that I provide and I don't need a pardon from anybody."

Thanedar: "You better hope so! You better hope you get been pardoned because you will be held accountable...That's why I introduced a bill in the United States Congress to abolish ICE."

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
WTF?! Rep. Delia Ramirez, whose parents are ILLEGALS from Guatemala, is now comparing ICE agents to the KKK

Democrats are BEGGING people to start kiIIing agents in the streets with this kind of rhetoric.

“I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol.”

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
WOW.

Just now, Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) who is facing federal charges for assaulting an ICE agent, asks ICE Director Todd Lyons "how do you think Judgement Day will go for you with so much blood on your hands" then asks "do you think you're going to hell Mr. Lyons?".

Groans from the audience in the room.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

But the rhetoric works to excite the insane foot soldiers of the party.

https://thepostmillennial.com/oregon-man-arrested-for-plot-to-decapitate-ice-agents-in-portland-take-their-heads-to-recruit-others-to-join-new-nation

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I like the idea of a new nation for our domestic socialists. Maybe give them half of Cuba?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Seeing a lot of FB about armed resistance and how "terrified MAGA is" about it. I keep saying on those "Glad to know you've finally learned WHY we have the 2nd Amendment, even if I disagree that this is the situation calling for exercising armed resistance. Will you be joining the NRA or continue to vote to disarm yourselves?"

[TrickyVic (old school)]

The NRA doesn't need members who don't know to NOT get in an altercation with federal agents while armed.

The left doesn't understand that while the 2A gives you an ability for armed revolution, it will not help you if you lose.

[Incunabulum]

The NRA is a 'NRA board enrichment' program. Nobody should be part of it.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Republicans should use this in campaign adds.

[mad.casual]

“I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol.”

Once again, as always, and so we're clear: You oppose ICE because you regard the people they're rounding up as slaves, correct?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, they pay Maria and Juan at least five bucks an hour for child care and lawn service.

[Fist of Etiquette]

If anyone attacks our staff or volunteers, we will not wait for the police. We will shoot you dead.

I mean, isn't this a given in Florida?

[Fist of Etiquette]

...a mass shooting in rural western Canada.

AKA North United States.

[Vernon Depner]

Another tranny school shooter.

https://www.junonews.com/p/juno-jump-start-rcmp-confirm-one

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

It seems like a pattern.

https://x.com/jennifersey/status/2021591862147231781?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA

A psychotic & probably always sadistic young man decides the answer to all of his problems and mental distress is that he's actually a woman.

He's pumped full of prescribed drugs based on a wide range of diagnoses none of which include batshit crazy.

He pumps himself full of street drugs on top of that.

The world sends him the message that he's being genocided because he's "trans."

He takes up arms, because his thinks the world wants him dead. A lie fed to him by the entire culture and media machine.

He kills his family and school children in one of the worst massacres in Canada's history.

The media calls him "woman in a brown dress" then stops talking about him then shifts to "gunperson" because we need to respect his pronouns, in death.

This is the state of things. Now Canadians will blame his actions on all the awful anti-trans-ness in the world. Not the fact that he was a drug addicted psycho unleashed and made worse by the trans/medical/industrial complex.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

It’s because of the gun kulture in America!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Can we wish that the next trans-psycho murders a bunch of trans activists?

[Vernon Depner]

Within a few months, no one will admit to having ever been a trans activist.

[mad.casual]

The media calls him "woman in a brown dress" then stops talking about him then shifts to "gunperson" because we need to respect his pronouns, in death.

To be fair, they need all the help they can get bringing the female murder and arrest numbers into parity.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

And have pity on the media. They reflexively want to blame shootings on men, but now struggle with dead-naming.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Came to ask the question. Saw it was claimed to be a woman doing the shooting, but given recent trendlines did wonder if "she" was trans.

[NealAppeal]

The mental health worker didn't promote MAID enough.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Given the perp, that is all we will hear about that issue.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

But but a noble inferior court judge said differently!

https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/10/9th-circuit-rules-dhs-can-ax-temporary-protected-status-for-60k-foreign-nationals/

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Free expression group who defends threats from terrorists withdrawals statement defending Israeli comic against cancelations.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/02/free-expression-group-retracts-statement-in-support-of-cancelled-israeli-comedian/

[Minadin]

Federal Employees. Not workers.

[Ajsloss]

"They're the same as everybody else, only better." -MollyTony

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

So brave.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Dedicated public servants.

[Eeyore]

Self servants.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

The Federal Aviation Administration has resumed normal operations at the El Paso airport. Flights were briefly paused there, causing lots of raised eyebrows this morning.

If it saves one life…..

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

As I've covered before, the drive of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to radically shrink the federal government's spending was a huge flop. The savings promised by Elon Musk et al. did not materialize. We're on track to spend more money than ever.

As I've covered before, reason raged against DOGE and cheered every judge demanding dispersements and stopping audits.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

This exercise in expectations management seems unnecessary now, given how good January's numbers are looking. Lest this spin be forgotten, it's worth pointing out how much immigration restrictionists are trying to move the goalposts on employment.

No they aren't. It is you and Cato who keep finding ways to lie about all profit, no downside.

Restrictionists have consistently discussed costs on both ends, illegal welfare and pushing citizens to welfare.

Youre also ignoring welfare reforms under the BBB causing an increase to job seekers, which is why the percentage is unchanged.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

In fact, mass deportations, by definition means fewer jobs and a less productive economy. One can imagine how much better the jobs report would look if America were embracing immigration right now, instead of trying to kick out as many people as possible.</i

You've had your way for almost 3 decades. What was the outcome? Record welfare and record debts. Youre an idiot.

[HorseConch]

The fact that we shed the population of Arkansas last year and GDP and federal tax revenue increased is a good indication of how profitable all of them were.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What? Everyone left Arkansas?

[Vernon Depner]

They all committed suicide.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Where was hillary??

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'unexpectedly healthy employment growth in January'

Unexpected or unwanted?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'The civilian federal workforce is down 10.9 percent from its peak in October 2024.'

Just like fascists and Nazis would do.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'In fact, mass deportations, by definition means fewer jobs and a less productive economy. One can imagine how much better the jobs report would look if America were embracing immigration right now, instead of trying to kick out as many people as possible.'

Oh, you stupid globalist cunt.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

I'm amazed at the people who either ignore or can't seem to get the concept of legal immigration vs illegal immigration. And many of them have a passport. The irony.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

It's like a religion.

[NealAppeal]

I mean...if they're really globalists then they would be fine with those jobs being somewhere else now. Deporting jobs around the world!

[Medulla Oblongata]

Missed yesterday, aren't colonoscopies fun?

Anyway, I don't think I've seen this mentioned, but could have missed it.

https://dsa-la.org/democratic-socialist-program-for-los-angeles/

The Democratic Socialists of America’s LA chapter wants to straight-up seize private property through a “creative use of eminent domain,” take control of your neighborhood grocery store, and replace cops with unarmed social workers while shutting down jails.

Their Communist fever dream wishlist includes banning Airbnbs, grabbing golf courses for public housing, allowing noncitizen immigrants to vote in local elections, enforce a school curriculum that supports social justice, and eliminating all fossil fuel use by 2035.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Imagine how many homeless could be housed in all those Beverly Hills and Hollywood mansions..

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Just like in Cuba.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Over/under for number of polyps starts at 2.5. Any takers?

[Medulla Oblongata]

I'll take the under! I happen to know it was only 1.

Doc said I'm good for at least another 10 years before I need to come back for a repeat.

[Ajsloss]

"But you can still come visit for fun," added the doctor, as he snapped his rubber glove.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Wait... they didnt invite you back next month followed by a dinner and a movie...

Hold on. Have to cancel my followup.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Not everyone looks like a tall handsome cop.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Fair.

[Eeyore]

I think maybe he doesn't love you. If he loved you he would have said 5 years.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...and eliminating all fossil fuel use by 2035."

Simply not possible, period.

[mad.casual]

Not possible and even in the impossible scenarios, outcomes for public housing dwellers, anti-tribalism, and global (re)distribution of free shit is not good.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Every time it is tried, it delivers poverty and a dictatorship. EVERY TIME!

[damikesc]

We should not notice that "moderates" like Spanberger govern the same as radicals like Mamdani also.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Then how would we get our libertarian moments?

[damikesc]

Well, Marxists cannot ruin the country.

Only Trump can.

Don't you even Reason?

[Vernon Depner]

eliminating all fossil fuel use by 2035.

They could get that wish if almost everyone has left.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Expect to see the fireworks on both sides of this one...my own anti-COVID jab was, at the time, not based on being anti-vax, but not trusting big pharma to NOT cut corners to push out a vaccine in months rather than years/decades.

https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/02/11/1219230/moderna-says-fda-refuses-to-review-its-application-for-experimental-flu-shot

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

100% safe and effective with no downsides!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in D.C. to meet with Trump, his seventh such visit in Trump's second term. Hardest hit are District-area motorists trying to navigate the Secret Service's road closures.'

How is keeping more bureaucrats away from work and annoying them a bad thing?

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

What's the identity of the shooter?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Genital identity?

[Spiritus Mundi]

Was/were

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Currently, trans-living.

[NealAppeal]

Woman with an outie.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'The Federal Aviation Administration has resumed normal operations at the El Paso airport. Flights were briefly paused there, causing lots of raised eyebrows this morning.'

But it was fun watching the media report (invent?) a "ten day closure", and then blame it on Trump.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

It was apparently cartel linked drones and they needed the designation to legally shoot them down if needed.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Sullum article incoming praising a district judge stopping the administration from shooting down cartel drones.

[Dillinger]

Root follows with a twice-overturned case he believes should take precedent

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

I see you guys have played Reason before.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Fringe Republican candidate for Florida governor, James Fishback, alleges an arsonist attempted to burn down his house, leading him to post this video. "If anyone attacks our staff or volunteers, we will not wait for the police. We will shoot you dead."'

Um, does "attack" include mean words?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Scenes from Chicago:

“He is not,” Johnson replied, accusing Trump of increasing “instability” in the country. “Where ICE and federal agents were present, we actually saw an increase in violence. In other words, the tension and the chaos that federal agents bring to cities in America, it actually is counter-productive,” he claimed.

However, Johnson then acknowledged a sharp decline in violent crime. “Yes, we saw a 30 percent reduction in homicides, shooting, shooting victims, all down,” he said.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Instability is reducing violence.

[mad.casual]

Funny thing is, despite Reason and TDS-sufferer's retardation, it's still true. ICE went in, violence *didn't* skyrocket. This is not the allegory for Weimar Germany you're looking for.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Just now, Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) who is facing federal charges for assaulting an ICE agent, asks ICE Director Todd Lyons "how do you think Judgement Day will go for you with so much blood on your hands" then asks "do you think you're going to hell Mr. Lyons?".'

How to say "I'm a dumb cunt" without saying "I'm a dumb cunt".

[Spiritus Mundi]

The savings promised by Elon Musk et al. did not materialize. We're on track to spend more money than ever.

Musk could have cut previous spending to zero. That would not stop congress from spending more in the next budget. You are either an idiot or being disingenuous.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Has reason even applauded a single recission?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'You are either an idiot or being disingenuous."

Why not both?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

Actually more destructive:

It is easy to get a man to understand (i.e. believe) something, when it costs him absolutely nothing.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

The reported employment growth is far in excess of *TDS-addled steaming piles of lying shit* anemic estimates that the economy added just 55,000 to 69,000 jobs last month.

[Incunabulum]

>In fact, mass deportations, by definition means fewer jobs and a less productive economy.

Is unemployment being reduced? Because if the illegals are going and Americans are moving into those jobs its entirely possible for there to be zero job growth.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Unemployment stayed flat because labor participation went up since BBB required work regulations for welfare programs. So citizens did get jobs. In the private sector. Unlike during the booming Biden economy.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Was this the first Quality Learing Center?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/report-school-praised-by-michelle-obama-exposed-as-a-scam/ar-AA1VZz4h

First Lady Michelle Obama praised the Landrys' efforts, and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres invited their students onto her program. Landry was lauded as a savior, his students nothing short of 'miracles.'

If this all sounds too good to be true it's because it was.

As details revealed in a new book Miracle Children, the school was reportedly a sham. Grades were inflated, transcripts were faked and physical and mental abuse ran rife.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Sounds lime the Teacher's Union charter school in NYC.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

So, were Michelle and DeGeneres idiots, partisan shills, or in on the scam?

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Yes

[Medulla Oblongata]

California just keeps getting worse.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/locals-outraged-as-court-oks-california-skunk-train-s-eminent-domain-request/ar-AA1W51M1

A yearslong saga involving the Skunk Train - an excursion that takes visitors on tours through the redwood forests of Mendocino County along a historic logging railroad - came to a head last month when a California appeals court gave the company that owns it the authority to condemn private property.

The ruling came as a reversal of a 2022 trial court decision that landed in favor of Mendocino County local John Meyer. Mendocino Railway, the company that operates the Skunk Train, filed an action in 2020 to acquire Meyer's 20-acre property in the town of Willits in order to expand railway operations. The company argued that it had the right to acquire the parcel via eminent domain, which grants government agencies and public utilities, such as railroads, the right to seize private property.

On Jan. 7, Division One of the First Appellate District of California published a ruling that reversed the trial court's 2022 decision, stating that "our supreme court long ago recognized that a public utility retains its status even if it does not directly serve the public."

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Public utility that doesn't serve the public huh? That's some lawyer logic that might even baffle a lawyer.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"Public utility that does not serve the public" sounds like the core ethic for our modern government-NGO-bureaucratic-industrial complex.

[Marshal]

A chance to overturn Kelo.

[damikesc]

I am betting Greenhut nor Reason will be discussing that too much.

[See.More]

Too local.

[Marshal]

It'll be hard to ignore it if it's appealed. But certainly they will downplay Trump's role in remaking the court to align with the constitution.

[damikesc]

Reason has been amazingly good at doing so thus far.

[JFree]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in D.C. to meet with Trump, his seventh such visit in Trump's second term. Hardest hit are District-area motorists trying to navigate the Secret Service's road closures.

Well maybe DC motorists should suck it up and realize that when the boss comes to town to tell his subordinate to get the fucking war against Iran started already that it will cause traffic jams.

Hell - maybe the American media could do something other than a)act surprised when the war starts in a few days and b)spread whatever propaganda serves the war.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Maybe JFucked could be other than the antisemitic piece of shit he is.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Not possible.

[Dillinger]

>>Nine people have been killed, and 25 wounded, in a mass shooting in rural western Canada.

dedication being a northeast BC tranny & still showing up in a dress mid-February

[Dillinger]

>>The savings promised by Elon Musk et al. did not materialize. We're on track to spend more money than ever.

mutually exclusive.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

We were on track to spend 10% more. Now we're spending 1% more

[Dillinger]

even better.

[mad.casual]

One can imagine how much better the jobs report would look if America were embracing immigration right now, instead of trying to kick out as many people as possible.

Before we launch off down the "one can imagine" path to the ends of getting rid of people, or not, in order to improve jobs numbers... are we sticking to the confines of "Someone born with a Y chromosome and a penis is a male." or no? Asking for a friend.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

This is where we are:

Feds Implore Sanctuary Authorities To Hand Over Illegal Charged With The Rape Of Three Kids

https://x.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/2021407169002840215

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

This is how we know the dems claims they want to deport criminals is just a lie.

[Dillinger]

>>Hardest hit are District-area motorists trying to navigate the Secret Service's road closures.

stop whining the hardest hit are the slaughtered Iranians

[Marshal]

In fact, mass deportations, by definition means fewer jobs and a less productive economy.

There are two problems with this. The first and most obvious is the assertion itself is simply not true. If a job comes open because of a deportation and is filled by a citizen or legal resident there is no job change at all. It's ridiculous people who make their living writing about economic make such obviously wrong assertions, but that's what happens when people allow their wishes to control them rather than develop the discipline to critically evaluate even their own assertions.

But the bigger failure in this analysis is treating [America] as the relevant unit instead of recognizing it as an accumulation of the relevant analysis units, [Americans]. The best way to understand America is as a pass-through entity consisting of some 325 million Americans. Our focus should be on how this group is effected which is hidden by the focus on America large. This is not a mistake a libertarian should be making, it shows their allegiance to the group and not the individual. But only by making this mistake can Britschgi substitute foreigners for Americans and claim America is better off. Further it seems clear this is an intentional choice since it is common to focus on Americans in economic analysis.

Ultimately this error allows benefits to foreigners to be misrepresented as benefits to Americans, which shows us the fundamental problem that left wingers and their faux-libertarian allies believe that the US government should not be run for the benefit of Americans.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Reason is primarily an open borders propaganda publication. Britschgi is just doing his job.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

The domestic trucking industry is looking at it's best year since post Covid specifically due to immigration enforcement. Removal of illegal drivers, enforcement of English Language Proficiency, shutting down chameleon carriers operating out of foreign countries etc. are solving the over capacity that has led to a multi year recession in the industry. Rates are rising, native born and legal drivers are getting raises and legal carriers large and small are crawling out of bankruptcy. This is not speculation. The numbers are coming in right now. 2026 is projected to be the best year in the business since 2021 and it's entirely due to immigration enforcement.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Nuh uh!

— All open borders advocates

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But those American citizen drivers are too lazy to do the crashes that immigrants will do.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

When the unemployment rates of illegals and even legal immigrants came out under Biden, higher than US citizen unemployment rate, I brought this up.

They literally think illegals import a full job with every one that comes in, despite the data. If even 90% get a job, it means 500k have no job based on the lowest estimates of illegals under Biden. On top of that they ignore the employment shift away from citizens, as seen in increased welfare recipients.

Immigration does not increase jobs at a 1 to 1 level. For reasons claim to be true it would have to increase it at more than a 1 to 1 level.

Reason doesnt understand math.

[Mickey Rat]

Importing fireign workers creates a job, that is, increased demand for workers. However, a supply of unemployed native born workers does not create new jobs.

I am sorry, but I do not follow the logic of how foreign workers are magic and bring their own jobs into being by their mere presence in the country, while the availability native workers does nothing.

Also, how does that help the native unemployed find a job?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Food trucks. They bring food trucks.

[Dillinger]

>>In fact, mass deportations, by definition means fewer jobs and a less productive economy.

laughably not axiom. if you're going to opine "by definition" show the fucking definition ...

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

It is, by the definition of definition, not the definition.

[Dillinger]

lol exactly.

[Mickey Rat]

It's a kind of magic!

[Dillinger]

sadly required at a place called Reason.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Every dog walking and dishwashing job adds to the economy. As does a 3rd grader who runs a lemonade stand a couple pf afternoons in the summer.

It does not, however, increase the standard of living and actually lowers per capita GDP if it involves importing people to do it.

[Dillinger]

even the lemonade stand job remains after we deport the kids ... we don't deport the jobs

[Medulla Oblongata]

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
 “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
 “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that's all.”

[Dillinger]

^^ this is one of my favorite parts of all the books.

[Ajsloss]

Hardest hit are District-area motorists trying to navigate the Secret Service's road closures.

All roads should be closed on stolen land.

[Dillinger]

the stolen land thing lands every time.

[Vernon Depner]

I'm in luck—the road my house is on predates European settlement.

[damikesc]

What is up with citing Aaron Fucking Rupar?

Is there, literally, nobody else?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

What is Matty Yglesias, chopped tofu?

[damikesc]

Yglesias isn't an Urban Dictionary word.

...yet.

[See.More]

In fact, mass deportations, by definition means fewer jobs . . .

Bullshit. It means fewer (illegal) workers.

[damikesc]

Democrat U-turn has started:

Jayapal is now condemning Bondi for releasing TOO MUCH of the Epstein files.

This was ALWAYS a political ploy to attack Trump and it is only showing him to be the most clean person involved.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Yep. It massively backfired on the Democrats.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Democrats have also 180'd on ICE body cameras.

https://civildeadline.com/dems-comments-on-dhs-using-body-cameras/

Once it became clear that body cameras would actually be deployed, and deployed quickly, the narrative shifted almost overnight. Suddenly, according to reporting from Politico, Democrats discovered a serious concern they hadn’t mentioned before: too much transparency. The same cameras they demanded were now being framed as tools of “mass surveillance,” particularly of protesters. Privacy advocates raised alarms, and Democratic lawmakers followed suit, insisting on restrictions on how the footage could be used.

The irony is difficult to miss. Congressional Democrats had made universal body camera use a prime demand for ICE accountability, especially after two fatal shootings in Minneapolis. But once critics warned that those cameras could capture protests and potentially feed into license plate readers or facial recognition systems, enthusiasm evaporated. The fear wasn’t abstract. Lawmakers openly worried that footage might be used to identify and track protesters.

Translated into plain language, the concern is not that the cameras will lie, but that they will tell the truth. Body cameras don’t curate narratives; they record events as they happen. And that’s a problem if the footage undermines the carefully maintained image of “mostly peaceful protesters.” Video has a way of revealing harassment, assaults, and escalation that press releases conveniently omit.

[MWAocdoc]

"One can imagine how much better the jobs report would look if America were embracing immigration"

This entire article and all of the spins being floated by the Administration - and jobs reports in general - are based on wildly false premises and serve false narratives from the get-go. There IS NO "right" number of jobs. There IS NO way to even track jobs or unemployment in America. There IS NO way to link "the economy" to job growth or even define what "the economy" IS in the first place, let alone say whether it's good or not. These are private and governmental bureaucrats fabricating data and metrics to suit their narratives and justify their own lucrative jobs.