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I'm on your side that they are illegal immigrants. There is a full spectrum on this board on how to deal with that, ranging from invite more to come to deport them without even bothering to let anyone know we scooped them off of the street. Speaking on behalf of others, without their consent, my guess is most are along the lines that they are already here, mostly good people trying to make a living, and unless they do something additional to warrant deportation, give them a path to citizenship. Where the push back from most of the people on this board, including myself, is how far the pendulum swung from an administration that seemingly invited folks to come in (I know some will reject that statement) to the current administration that is fine diverting money away from tracking down tax cheats, white collar criminals, and even many of your basic governmental services in order to find people that are trying to become citizens and abiding by the rest of our laws. Additionally, when we see legitimate stories about actual citizens or others here legally that are detained (even deported) for days, even weeks at a time, it doesn't make me feel confident that this administration cares about making mistakes as long as the deportation numbers look 'bigly'. If you lean towards the conservative side and hated voting for Kamala (just like me), I would expect you to hate the idea of the government detaining/deporting citizens because of their incompetence.

I have no issue not citing sources, especially if you think it's common knowledge. But getting mad because someone requests a source and telling them to find it?!?! As Biden would say "C'mon man".

Galaga, you're not entirely wrong that many of the reports have been blown out of proportion, but if the base of your party makes fun of 'face diapers', but celebrate and defend when their law enforcement is wearing masks, maybe you should reassess your position.

Gavin has been hilarious all week. I hate the idea off what he’s calling for in California to combat Texas, but it’s clear his gloves are off and he’s willing to fight any style Trump wants to go with.

Rumors are he had to OK any decision with Bessent and he didn't like it. Bessent was the one that put him in the position as well. Guessing Bessent just wanted a puppet.

https://archive.ph/YrFmr#selection-1705.137-1725.287 I know I'm in the minority, but I think it would be good for Ukraine to stop this war, even if they lose land. They just upped their conscription age to 60 years old. I'm not even 50 and what a joke it would be to put me in combat. Still, it's too late and Trump can't force Zelensky to abide by a deal he makes with Putin. Guess you could argue that our mineral rights deal would help protect, but that's overhyped crap from Trump already. He probably believes those numbers, but once he finds out its not panning out like he was told, there is nothing preventing Trump from tossing it away. Still, it might give Zelensky and Europe a few years to regroup.

The other part Todd mentioned, and I do agree with, is ultimately everyone is looking for the next big scandal that can bring Trump down and he doesn't think even this Epstein stuff can do that, which I'm all for keeping up the heat on him over Epstein, but probably think Todd is right. What he did say and this was right as he was asked about BLS and how can we trust any numbers out of them, is that it really doesn't matter what the numbers say for your average person. Time has proven again and again that if your average American has trouble paying bills, it doesn't matter what the stock market or economist are saying, they will revolt.

Looks like Southpark is going to find a way to get Trump's tiny weiner in every episode! How they portrayed Vance was fantastic.

I spend most of my day trying to find a way to clean up data and you're not wrong (although I would offer pause on the less accurate data), even small changes to our process requires various verification checks making it a tedious project. But overall, compared to reports that were auto generated once a day and then had to be processed by a person and moved to another system, just for another report to be generated for the next day, so on and so forth... it's been worth it to my company to find better ways to get data to a useful endpoint quicker. In doing this, we've found different ways to spot patterns in near real time, instead of finding the patterns in hindsight when upper mgmt wants to know what changed a couple of months down the line and we've had to go back and do an analysis. Overall my point on this BLS stuff though is Trump didn't like the numbers and used the revisions as 'proof' the numbers were cooked. Yet his own demands to cut federal spending appears to have shut down efforts by BLS to improve on their ability to give more timely and accurate reports to the administration.

They were giving examples of the steps that data goes through from the Survey until it hits the Jobs report or the revision and how it could be automated to provide real time data right to the BLS commish.

Still very leery of AI generated reports regarding news, but I was listening a podcast talking about the BLS numbers, in which they agreed that it's ridiculous that in 2025, that wide swing of numbers can be discovered in a revision. Point being that BLS has some antiquated systems in place to obtain these numbers. And with that, here's Google Gemini talking DOGE: Based on recent news reports, it appears that Howard Lutnick, the current Secretary of Commerce, has taken actions that have impacted efforts to modernize and improve the reliability of government economic data, including some that were relevant to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Specifically: Disbanding Advisory Committees: Lutnick disbanded two expert committees, including the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC), which advised on economic statistics, including those related to inflation, employment, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Concerns over Data Quality: Reports suggest that the disbandment of these committees, combined with previously existing budget cuts at the BLS, could negatively affect the accuracy and quality of future economic data. Criticism of Economic Metrics: Lutnick has also floated the idea of changing how GDP is calculated, suggesting the exclusion of government spending, which has raised concerns about potential political interference with official data. While the exact nature of any specific "project to modernize BLS numbers" that may have been canceled or impacted is not detailed in the provided search results, Lutnick's actions with the advisory committees and public comments on data collection have raised concerns about the future of such modernization efforts and the independence of economic data gathering at the BLS.

If you look at my posts, you'll find me rooting on the Cheney/Kinzinger's and hoping for more folks that will push back and attempt to make that party better, rather then just falling in line. The left wants people on the right to 'stand up for their principles' and 'speak their truth' if it's against the republican party, but when folks like El-Sayed have a major concern with the democratic party, 'shut the f up and get back in line'. If we got Biden, you actually believe there is any difference in terms of Gaza right now? El-Sayed didn't tihnk so and he spoke up. He apparently got enough assurances and endorsed Kamala. Honestly, forcing Kamala to defend her position on Gaza to El-Sayed in a stronger fashion might have actually helped her more. The fact that El-Sayed caved might have cost her Michigan (didn't matter, she still would have fallen way short).

That's the democratic party that I've grown to love (slash hate). Unless you shut the hell up and fall in line, you are not good enough to be a democrat worthy of our vote, not then, not now, not ever. Having any disagreement with your party only helps your opponent. Meanwhile when the opposing party falls in line to their parties leader, make sure to point out that's a fascist theme.

Exactly, remember back to the Drew and Mike days (for the Detroit area folks)? It was a big deal that they got to come back for a week after it was announced the show was over and in hind sight, half of the folks already agreed to jump over to the new sports radio station the company was launching. At the time though, that wasn't known and it was kind of shocking they were allowed to come on the air and say goodbyes. If CBS really was trying to shut Colbert up, they could have done it a lot easier, and like you say chasfh, they could have probably saved some money too. I get Trump sucks, but not every bad (or good) decision being made by a corporation is because of him.

Colbert was contracted out for 9 months, guessing most of the senior folks on the staff are on contract too, so cutting it immediately may not have really saved them a ton of money. But again, if the late show is still valuable to them and they simply wanted to please Trump to get rid of Colbert, you get rid of Colbert immediately and you find a replacement for the supposed lucrative late night slot.

I'm bouncing between MCS and Edman's thought process here. I definitely would have loved to add at least 1 lights out reliever, for whatever reason that didn't happen. Harris definitely didn't stand pat though. Outside of Skubal, every position on this team is upgradable, yet there weren't that many clear upgrades that appeared to be on the block. We have some depth, let's hope we get and stay healthy now.

This Colbert thing makes about as much sense as the WNBA players demanding NBA salaries. 40 million dollar loss is bull****? Because sources state that if they continued it past it's current contract, it may have lost around 40 million dollars a year, but it only lost probably 25-28 million this year, so the excuse that it was losing money is not fair?!?!?! If it was about Colbert and Colbert only 1) they send him packing immediately and pay out the rest of his contract and 2) they announce a new (cheaper) person to replace him. They immediately came out and said there would be no show going forward.

I feel like our lineup would welcome a 'maddeningly inconsistent' .900 OPS guy. Granted, I feel our defense is a bigger reason for our 1st place position then just about anything else, and we'd take a hit there.

He doesn't need the money and it's worth to Bezos is far beyond what someone would be willing to pay. The hope is, once Trump is gone, it's use will drop to nothing. Rather it's restored or just curls up and dies at that point is probably the real question.

Wasn't the funniest episode they've done, but holy crap, they went scorched earth. I want the meeting with secret service televised. Good news for Cheney/Kinzinger/Obama because they all moved down the priority list for Trump.

Crap, sorry, just reread Chasfh's statement. I thought it was reported that Bondi was informed Trump was in the file in May. I see Chasfh asked who the source would be Bondi told Trump he was in the files. I apologize for the trouble, I see I was incorrect. Back to my original statement, Trump surrounds himself with vile humans that will do anything to get ahead. I wouldn't be surprised if Vance, Bondi, Patel...heck Bongino already did a 'either Bondi or I go', any of them could be the source. Regardless it goes back to what I said previously, it shouldn't be surprising to anyone he's in the files. It still doesn't mean he's guilty of anything, but if he was, I certainly would understand the insistence on trying to change the subject or claiming it's not a real issue.

Seems like you're missing my point. The fact that Pam Bondi was informed that Trump was in the files IS technically news. But, as you say, they were best friends for years, associated together, were on each others planes, etc. Anyone that hasn't had their head buried in sand since Epstein was first arrested knows this and already knew Trump was in the files.

Honestly, I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if Maureen Comey was used to verify it. Don't get me wrong, this is new information, I get that. But it's just confirmation of information that everyone already knew which is all I was saying. My mom spent most of her life as a house wife in the middle of Michigan, but her brother was in the Secret Service on the presidential detail. Do I know if there is an FBI file on my mom, nope, but I'm pretty confident there is. Honestly I hope there is, I hope the secret service dug into my uncle and his direct relatives enough to know that he could be trusted. So if 'news' came out today that my mom had an FBI file on her, it technically would be 'new' information, but it's also a 'nothing burger' in the sense the file means nothing. What's inside the file is the real question.

Honestly, I think this is the left's play against the Russiagate crap Trump is throwing out like it's brand new. There is nothing new regarding Russiagate, there really hasn't been anything new about Epstein. Well played by those that are ensuring the Epstein story stays in the spotlight.

This is the part that most conspiracy theorist are so easy to get past when they claim secret cabal's control everything. Too many people would need to be involved in order to erase it. Of those involved, every one would not only need to be MAGA, they would need to be willing to do break the law for MAGA. It took Trump 10 years to cultivate an admin of 20-30 people that are willing to lie on his behalf and get ~270 that talk behind his back but for his sake at least don't have a backbone to push back on him. How many previous Trumpers now talk crap about him once they stop working for him too? Yet somehow, everyone right down to a random records mgmt employee giving someone access to a room is going to not only be willing to break rules to help Trump, he's not going to tell a single person about it.