This is smart from the AFL-CIO

worker.gov and employer.gov are both down for maintenance. The rest of the DOL pages remain up as far as I can tell.

🚨NEWS: A temporary order has been issued blocking the Labor Dept. from sharing any data with DOGE, after a group of unions, including AFGE, sued DOGE and held a major protest outside DOL yesterday. Here's the union's email:

Trump's meeting w/ members still ongoing but Karoline Leavitt said he laid out tax priorities: -No tax on tips, Social Security, overtime pay -Renew 2017 tax cuts -Adjust SALT cap -Eliminate tax breaks for "billionaire sports team owners" -Close carried interest tax deduction loophole

When Irving walked out into the dark, I genuinely thought he might be going back to eat that diseased dead seal. Severence loves a twist.

BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs. He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Litigants in federal corut in DC right now, trying to block DOGE's access to student loan data, just cited this post in court:

JUST IN: USAID employees say the administration is not complying with Judge NICHOLS' order to prevent the immediate dismantling of the agency. They say employees he ordered reinstated have not been and other actions cut against his order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Waiting for eggs to get the CVS lock-up treatment.

This will put the rumors of government corruption to rest.

Possibly the most shocking housing stat I’ve seen recently: The median age of a renter in the United States was 42 years old as of 2024, up from 33 years old, just THREE YEARS PRIOR (Source: Zillow)

What will you do with your $2.12?

Continuing to lose the battle for Eric’s affections to my own cat.

I’ll miss the cfpb. For five years I was harassed by a debt collection agency for a debt I never owed. I told them they bought a fraudulent debt that never existed but they still pursued me for it. They even unilaterally dinged my credit score 40 points.

Gallup just registered Trump's worst economic approval rating ever, at -12 (42% approve/54% disapprove). Throughout Trump's first term it was a relative strength for him, and previously his lowest economic rating was -8 in June 2017.

NEW: Trump says they are considering James Fishback plan to give 20 percent of DOGE savings back to the American people. Remarkable adoption of a plan Fishback began pitching ... what, 48 hours ago? Less? Trump says this could be hundreds of billions of dollars which, to put it

I recently sat down with Anna Helhoski to discuss why traditional economic data may not accurately reflect the financial struggles of middle- and low-income Americans. Listen to the full podcast: nerdwallet.com/article/financ…

I wish people who distrust the media could see the lengths I just went to to confirm one phrase in a 3,000-word story

The fact that reporters are being forced to rely on laid-off workers and their union for basic information about the types/breakdown of employees who were let go from the Education Department last week is utterly ridiculous. This is not transparency; it's the opposite.

Excellent piece by tylercowen on all these tariffs. thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-…