Hello everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast. I am pleased to have J.R.D.H. section alongside

me, Nick Housman, your other co-host. To discuss a lot of things today, before I forget, though,

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has a fantastic discussion every day. And let's talk about today, which we have to discuss the

firing of the Bureau and Labor and Statistics Head over a bad jobs report by Donald Trump.

We also have a memo that was leit that says that they want to use more military on domestic soil.

And there's a Texas power grab going on as the GOP lawmakers are trying to change the district shapes in ways that would potentially limit or eliminate five

Democratic districts. So Jared, you're calling from the road, but I'm always glad to have you

with me. Thanks. I'm out in the middle of absolute nowhere. So I'm just glad we can make

this happen. You know, all these stories, they're always developing.

There's never any sort of escape from this stuff. You know, it's even weird, not really having access to the internet, not really being able to stay in touch with things. It's good to have this as like a touchstone. I'm glad to be doing it. Glad to be talking with you. All right. Well, I mean, I certainly hope that, you know, sometimes the decompression helps for everybody out there, but it also is important to be aware of what's going on.

And obviously, you could just dismiss this notion of the Trump just having a tantrum and firing

somebody just, you know, dismissing them because he doesn't like the jobs report.

But what I worry about is that it does

indicate something more nefarious and something we should expect going on in the future. So what's

your reaction to that, to the firing? Well, it starts with the economic report, Nick. And you know,

you and I've been on this for years talking about not only how these reports have been sort of, you know, you and I have been on this for years talking about not only how these reports

have been sort of, you know, massaged and changed and sort of like, you know, kind of made to be more

palatable, that there's something really, really rotten with this economy. And everybody knows it,

everybody feels it. Anytime you get a report that speaks otherwise, we know that something is a little bit of skew. When it comes with this economy and everybody knows it, everybody feels it. Anytime you get a report that

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