It is actually way worse than you should think reading those numbers - because “functional unemployment“ numbers also surged 0.2 points in September - which makes you dangerously close of hitting 25% of your working population being functional unemployed - I don’t think a first world country has ever been remotely close of that milestone - and functional unemployment numbers are more important to look at if you want to conclude in which direction your country is heading
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May YOU enjoy a fine Holiday Season! 
"Merry Christmas! and a Happy New Year!"
Fubah MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, ALONG WITH ALL THE FINE FOLKS YOU JUST LISTED.
Hope you all have a great, safe and blessed day
CD
FOX NEWS' dumbass MAGA host, Tomi Lahren,
openly mocked President Biden for his end-of-year trip, noting:
"And you will NEVER believe where Joe Biden
was spotted! Spoiler alert. He's on vacation!"
The irony of Lahren’s [ultra-partisan DUMBASS] comments weren’t lost on social media users, who pointed out that the [ultra-partisan DUMBASS] conservative [idiot] commentator was covering for Sean Hannity — who was reportedly absent for being on vacation.
NOTE: Biden is retired and has withdrawn significantly from public life amid his cancer battle.
Inevitable that bad things happen from hiring bad people in massive ICE recruitment that seem to favor aggressive MAGA extremists. Also masked and inexperienced ICE agents aren't being held accountable for wrongdoing while under pressure to achieve arrest quotas. So no fluke that controversial immigration raids have made US less safe.
Exactly!
And as usual, the MAGA crowd on social media are blaming the victim.
Typical.
Some are saying that YES, placing one's car in a roadway that PARTIALLY obstructs trump's MASKED GESTAPO from easily harrassing and arresting "people-of-color" SHOULD BE A DEATH SENTENCE.
Meanwhile,
HEADLINES today . . .
China says they are the calm, dependable leader the world needs,
amid trump sowing chaos and division
Meanwhile, HEADLINES today . . .
China says they are the calm, dependable leader the world needs,
amid trump sowing chaos and division
HEADLINES today . . .
China’s trade surplus hits record $1.2 TRILLION in 2025
thats the republican leader
who is still angry he didnt get the nobel peace prize
EU freezes work on US trade deal ‘indefinitely’
after Trump’s Greenland and tariff threats
Strasbourg, France —
A key group of European Parliament members blocked a vote to ratify a US-European trade deal Wednesday after [the fascist republican US leader] threatened a military take over of Greenland [Denmark territory; NATO ally] and charge as much as an additional 35% tariff on all countries opposed to his fascist ambitions.
“EU-US Deal on ice indefinitely!”
Bernd Lange, chair of Parliament’s trade committee, said in a post on X.
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until today to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview.
Deficit Donnie's revenge tour reaches far & wide even involving a Mom/Pop toy store.
This feeble old man needs to replaced & introduced to Amendment 25.
I can hear Slick Willie paint Homer Comer into a corner if he appears before the committee ..
CLINTON: When Epstein invited me to his island I heard many people say Trump was the most notorious rapist of underage girls on the island.
COMER: NOW THAT'S A DAMN LIE
CLINTON: Is it? I guess you could release the Epstein files un-redacted to show it's a lie. Then you could get me for lying to your committee. How about it?
COMER: THIS HEARING IS ON HOLD UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Saturday evening that Democrats won’t provide the votes needed to pass the key Government funding package if it includes the current DHS funding measure, which he called “woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement).”
Calls for a boycott of the World Cup grow.........
Time article
As the Trump Administration prepares for the U.S. to co-host the World Cup this summer, easing travel rules for sporting events amid otherwise tightening immigration policy, some members of the global soccer community are saying: “Stay away from the U.S.A.!”
That particular phrasing came from Mark Pieth, a Swiss attorney who chaired the Independent Governance Committee’s oversight of FIFA reform between 2011 and 2013, in an interview with Swiss newspaper Der Bund last week. But calls for a boycott of the world’s biggest international soccer competition have gained traction among other prominent soccer figures, lawmakers, and fans.
The U.S. is co-hosting the tournament with Canada and Mexico from June 11 to July 19, with the final match set to take place at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
On Monday, former FIFA President Sepp Blatter posted Pieth’s comment on X, adding “I think Mark Pieth is right to question this World Cup.” Blatter was suspended by FIFA in 2015 for a controversial $2 million payment to former French soccer player and president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Michel Platini; both men were later acquitted by Swiss courts of criminal charges related to the payment.
Critics have cited the Trump Administration’s violent immigration crackdown, which has resulted in the killing of two Americans by federal agents in Minneapolis; its expansionist foreign policy towards Greenland and Venezuela; travel bans; and broad-based tariffs on the rest of the world.
“What we are seeing domestically—the marginalization of political opponents, abuses by immigration services—doesn’t exactly encourage fans to go there,” Pieth said. “You’ll see it better on TV anyway. And upon arrival, fans should expect that if they don’t please the officials, they’ll be put straight on the next flight home. If they’re lucky.”
Trump’s preparations for the U.S. to host the tournament, including the formation of a federal task force last March and the creation of a fast-tracked visa system for ticket holders, has not fully assuaged international concern.
Oke Göttlich, a vice president of the German soccer federation, said in an interview last week with newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost that it was time to “seriously consider and discuss” a boycott. He compared the current situation to Olympic boycotts during the Cold War.
“What were the justifications for the boycotts of the Olympic Games in the 1980s?” Göttlich said. “By my reckoning, the potential threat is greater now than it was then. We need to have this discussion.”
European lawmakers have also raised concerns with the U.S. hosting the tournament, particularly amid Trump’s push to gain greater control of Greenland, which is currently an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark.
Earlier this month, German Member of Parliament Jürgen Hardt told tabloid Bild that Germany’s national football team might consider skipping the tournament “as a last resort” to bring Trump “to his senses.” The German team has historically been one of the top teams, having won four World Cups in 1954, 1974, 1990, and 2014. Another MP of the same center-right party, the Christian Democratic Union, Roderich Kiesewetter, echoed Hardt, telling newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine that considering Trump’s Greenland-related tariff threats, “I have a hard time imagining that European countries would take part in the World Cup.”
The German government said on Jan. 20 that the decision on whether or not to participate would be left up to the country’s soccer federation.
In the U.K., Conservative MP Simon Hoare said in an address to the House of Commons that the English, Scottish, and Welsh teams should consider boycotting the tournament in order to “embarrass” him. England and Scotland have already qualified for the World Cup, while Wales will compete in the qualification playoffs in March.
“We need to fight fire with fire,” Hoare said.
Liberal Democrat MP Luke Taylor added, of Trump: “The only thing he responds to is his own pride.”
French MP Eric Coquerel, of the left-wing La France Insoumise, called on France to consider a boycott and suggested the tournament be moved out of the U.S. and instead played only in Canada and Mexico.
“Seriously, can we really imagine going to play the footie World Cup in a country that attacks its ‘neighbors,’ threatens to invade Greenland, undermines international law, wants to torpedo the UN,” Coquerel posted on X.
Some fans have also considered boycotting the event. A poll in Bild earlier this month found that 47% of around 1,000 German respondents said they would support a boycott if Trump moved to annex Greenland. Meanwhile, more than 150,000 people signed onto a petition in the Netherlands calling on the Dutch national team to boycott the event in protest of “aggressive U.S. military intervention.”
Many fans from around the world have little choice in the matter. The Trump Administration has announced a range of travel restrictions on dozens of countries, including Senegal, Ivory Coast, Iran, and Haiti, which all have qualifying teams.
“Qatar was too political for everyone, and now we’re completely apolitical?” Göttlich said, referring to the German national team’s protest of FIFA’s ban on pro-LGBTQ armbands.
“The life of a professional player is not worth more than the lives of countless people in various regions who are being directly or indirectly attacked or threatened by the World Cup host,” he added.
It would come as a surprise if any boycott takes hold, considering that uproar over human rights abuses in Qatar including what has been described as “modern slavery” of migrant workers did not translate into any large-scale or institutional action. All 32 federations that qualified for the 2022 World Cup participated. And while Russia was suspended from all FIFA and UEFA competitions after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, calls since 2023 for Israel to be banned over its bombardment of Gaza have not been met.
France’s Sports Minister Marina Ferrari said as of now there is “no desire for a boycott of this great competition.”“Now, I will not anticipate what could happen,” she told reporters last week. “I am one who believes in keeping sport separate. The World Cup is an extremely important moment for those who love sport.”
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