Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam markets

a year ago by DrunkEngineer to c/news

President Donald Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt.

In a Truth Social post that also directed even more fire at Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Trump accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of being a political appointee who was manipulating jobs data.

“I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s [Harris’] chances of Victory,” Trump wrote.

“We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,” he added.

masterofn001 172 points a year ago

Next week: there were 134 million new jobs

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phoenixz 50 points a year ago

134 BILLION NEW JOBS!!!

FTFY

I mean, it's Trump. Do you really think he'd use a number that could be even remotely realistic? It has to be something truly stupid

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Lemminary 16 points a year ago

Fair, he did say he'd bring down the cost of drugs by 1000%. Chronic illnesses about to make BANK.

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Pronell 8 points a year ago

Woo-cough-hoo!

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masterofn001 11 points a year ago

I was thinking about a number greater than the population of the US, but decided on a number that was equally impossible yet somehow believable by maga.

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AbidanYre 7 points a year ago

Doesn't matter. If he says it, they'll believe it.

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hume_lemmy 4 points a year ago

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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CatDogL0ver 2 points a year ago

Yeah, he would say, "1234 Billions New Jobs!"

Easier to remember.

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OpenStars 6 points a year ago

12345 is even easier, it being the same as the combination on all of their luggage. :-P

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RustyEarthfire 12 points a year ago

Well they saved "258 million" people from fentanyl overdose in 100 days; finding half of them jobs in a week should be no problem.
https://www.snopes.com/...

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Zron 4 points a year ago

2/3rds of Americans OD’d in 100 days?

Where the fuck was I, someone must have been handing out the good shit for free.

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Reverendender 115 points a year ago

Let me know when y’all want to march on Washington and physically remove these asshats from power. I can fit 4 other people in my truck.

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Serinus 49 points a year ago

The thing is, we don't need you to march on Washington. We need you to march against your neighbor who's so full of OAN that they still support the asshat in chief.

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SoleInvictus 25 points a year ago

We can do both. Why not both?

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killea 22 points a year ago

That's just it though. These folks seem IMPOSSIBLE to get through to. Though admittedly my experience may draw from some of the lead-alzheimer's cadre of boomers. I mean they spent fuckin decades making sure they had a poorly educated group that would VOTE, with the added bonus that so many of them were surreptitiously ending up brain damaged as well.

I really wish I knew how to help these people. I've been compassionate, patient, understanding; and I've also brow beat the shit out of em, gotten in screaming matches (not too often, but they tend to respect a level of violence). And it tends to have little effect. It's the part of this that vexes and hurts me the most, and why I can't help but feel this will only be rectified with chilling violence that none of us want and are ill-suited to execute. Ugh.

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Lyrl 14 points a year ago

Their belief in MAGA is filling some deep psychological need. Logical reasoning around the belief is irrelevant because logic can't activate whatever social buttons are being satisfied by their engagement with the MAGA movement.

Research trying to figure out what makes humans susceptible to this kind of stuff and how to protect each other was a hot topic, but then Congressional Republicans launched harassing investigations into everyone in the field and the institutions that supported their work, and of course the current executive branch has entrenched that fear. Gotta keep the victims coming to the grifter trough.

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Serinus 10 points a year ago

So far we've been screaming that the meteors are coming. They haven't really hit yet. When they start landing next to them and on them, then most of them will start to believe it.

But one, how close the meteor needs to hit varies. And two, a few won't even get it when their wife gets deported.

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Vupware 7 points a year ago

No! Ant poison works because the workers take the poison to the queen. The same cannot be said for this circumstance.

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Witchfire 3 points a year ago

We need both

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Fredselfish 3 points a year ago

Maybe we help each other get elected to local positions in our communities and state. Only way we can truly make some difference. Anyone in Oklahoma area won't join the resistance?

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Reverendender 2 points a year ago

Assuming there are still elections this time, I’m definitely running for something in Maine

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nymnympseudonym 1 point a year ago

Maine is civilized. They have legal weed.

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Reverendender 1 point a year ago

I moved here on purpose

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Yawweee877h444 104 points a year ago

He wants people who will lie for him, like bondi, bongino, kash, hegseth, tulsi, etc.

He wants people who will lie, break the law, or support/hide/ignore illegal activities. He's a fucking mobster. Organized crime is at the executive branch. Arguably the judiciary and Senate as well.

Watching fascism play out in real time... What a time to be alive.

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IhaveCrabs111 17 points a year ago

So when this is all over. These enablers will go to jail right?

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humorlessrepost 17 points a year ago

Depends on timing. We’re in a small window between them showing their intent, and a first-for-humanity inability to organize against them. Once ORNL gets their nuke-powered AI up and running, and fed all the Palantir data and the decades of mass surveillance data the NSA has but hasn’t been able to use at scale, the regime will be able to have a constantly-updated list of the people most likely to instigate an uprising, and can just MLK them or blackmail them before their movement gets off the ground. All that will remain are easily-dealt-with and easily-discredited lone wolves.

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theangryseal 4 points a year ago

Goddamn man. Depressing. This is exactly what I expected though, and nearly lost my mind over 20 years ago.

I was so excited about technology, and then it occurred to me that it would definitely have been used by Hitler 1.0 if he’d had it, and it definitely will be used by Hitler 2.0 when the time comes.

The next big authoritarian movement will not need neighbors informing on each other. People have unwittingly prepared a dossier on themselves and handed it to the Stasi.

Man, oh man.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife 3 points a year ago

What Hitler 1.0 actually had available to him was adequate to maintain complete control over Germany despite the German people going through much worse than what we've experienced (so far, at least). Germany had clearly lost WWII, her cities had been bombed into complete rubble (so much so that there really wasn't anything left to bomb), and the Allied armies were rapidly closing in on all sides. And yet Hitler and his cronies didn't lose their grip on power, not until the Russians were literally overhead and Hitler put a bullet in his brain. The German people never rose up and overthrew fascism on their own.

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JeeBaiChow 5 points a year ago

Which ones? The ones actively helping him, or the ones simply letting it happen?

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d00phy 4 points a year ago

Whatever helps you sleep at night!

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limelight79 3 points a year ago

I would like someone to create a website where we can list the enablers. All of them. Make a list. Start with Trump. Add everyone in his cabinet. Add all of his enablers, down to the people that voted for him.

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danny801 7 points a year ago

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limelight79 0 points a year ago

Unfortunately my knowledge of running an anonymous website is very limited.

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Furbag 1 point a year ago

Why waste the space putting the crooks who willingly sold out the country on ice when there's a perfectly good gallows?

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WanderingThoughts 12 points a year ago

That's how Putin got stuck in year 4 of the 3 day special military operations. Everybody lied to him about the state of his military forces. It's inevitable with these "strong man" leader types.

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limelight79 74 points a year ago

Ever hear the expression, "Hitler made the trains run on time“?

Thing is, he didn't. But everyone was afraid to report that they weren't running on time, so officially they always met their schedules.

That's where this is heading.

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 45 points a year ago

It was actually Mussolini who failed to make the trains run on time. I mean, I haven't heard of them being especially punctual under Hitler, either, but the phase is about Mussolini.

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AngryRobot 13 points a year ago

Hitler's more known for a different kind of train.

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 5 points a year ago

Mussolini made the trains carrying journalists run on time.

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NauticalNoodle 4 points a year ago

I only ever heard that Kruschev “made the trains run on time.” AFAIK, he did.

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zarathustra0 2 points a year ago

But he made them run on thyme, right?

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Gammelfisch 1 point a year ago

Spot on and Krasnov is copying the lunatic Austrian motherfucker.

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NauticalNoodle 0 points a year ago

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DaddleDew 71 points a year ago

The administration equivalent of putting a piece of tape on your dash to cover a blinking check engine light.

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Rhaedas 12 points a year ago

Thanks for including blinking, as this means severe engine damage, not a pesky code to clear. And it's exactly what's going on here.

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Regna 8 points a year ago

This is so surreal, such a parody.

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pfc_hudson 59 points a year ago

Makes sense - if you don't like the numbers just fire the messenger.

Foxtrot Delta Taco.

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ksigley 5 points a year ago

Tango but I see what you did there.

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AlecSadler 6 points a year ago

Took me a second. Clever.

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squirrel 55 points a year ago

Since the first messenger who told Tigranes that Lucullus was coming had his head cut off for his pains, no one else would tell him anything, and so he sat in ignorance while the fires of war were blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him.

Plutarch, ~ 100 A.D.

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Rhaedas 14 points a year ago

History rhymes.

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limelight79 55 points a year ago

We're fucked. It's all over but the fighting.

Until a few months ago, I was a statistician for the US government. 25 years. I'm so fucking glad I'm out, though I'm making far less than I used to, honestly not enough yet. But I'm glad I'm not under his thumb.

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Witchfire 22 points a year ago

I cut my salary in half to get out. Wtf is money worth if you can't even afford anything?

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WanderingThoughts 40 points a year ago

Any second now they'll announce the new government branch: the Ministry of Truth.

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rottingleaf 10 points a year ago

They'd be fine with ministry of alternative facts

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zarathustra0 4 points a year ago

They're not alternative anymore.

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l_isqof 1 point a year ago

Ministry of i-searched-it-on-google

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derry 37 points a year ago

That ought to fix it

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hitmyspot 15 points a year ago

The idea is to make sure others don't release damaging data, and that they fudge the numbers or lose their job. It's a warning as much as revenge.

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derry 6 points a year ago

Yup. And my comment was sarcasm.

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hitmyspot 4 points a year ago

Really?

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derry 2 points a year ago

Hahaha I c what you did there

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Vupware 2 points a year ago

I had no idea.

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Wolf 36 points a year ago

This is satire right? Jesus H. Christ. We are so far into clown world that you couldn't even make fun of it. No matter how ridiculous you make it sound- they will outdo you with reality.

How is this any different from admitting that whoever Trump replaces them with is going to report inaccurate numbers to make Trump look good?

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Eldritch 9 points a year ago

In the era of global fascism, satire is dead. These aren't bad ideas when you don't care about anything passed your self image, and no one that matters will stand up to you.

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9tr6gyp3 29 points a year ago

Dude shot the messenger instead of facing the issue at hand.

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OneWomanCreamTeam 20 points a year ago

He wants to replace them with someone who will fudge numbers to whatever is useful for Trump.

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frezik 15 points a year ago

For a good 25 years now, the Republican party has treated reality as a messaging problem, not something to grapple with and use in planning. The only surprise is that it took this long to fire people in the federal government who didn't give the "right" message.

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Tja 5 points a year ago

He doesn't care about the issue, he just wants to have good numbers.

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culprit 28 points a year ago

The firings will continue until the job numbers improve.

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KumaSudosa 26 points a year ago

This guy is gonna be the end of all of us. I feel sorry for Americans with an IQ above.. 70 for having to watch this in real-time and live through the age of stupidity

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frunch 23 points a year ago

This carries similar vibes to altering the weather map with a sharpie

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kibiz0r 21 points a year ago

Release the full Epstein files, you asshat

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panda_abyss 18 points a year ago

How do I short the entire US economy?

Normally I’d say this is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve heard, but I don’t even know if it makes the top 10 this week.

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obviouspornalt 3 points a year ago

Buy euros, euro-denominated bonds, short USD.

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npdean 1 point a year ago

Not Euros, Euros will crash with the dollar. Buy something of real value, like commodities or real estate.

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KumaSudosa 3 points a year ago

Real estate definitely gonna crash as well alongside the economy

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npdean 4 points a year ago

Everything will crash as a panic knee jerk reaction but the real assets will recover much quicker.

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obviouspornalt 1 point a year ago

Really?

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npdean 1 point a year ago

Yes, when a major economy crashes, it drags the sentiment down by a lot. Everything panic sells.

Europe is dependent on US for its economy in some ways, so a crash in US economy dents the Euro too.

On top of that, some major European countries are struggling right now, like Germany. Greece is also in a bad shape.

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RedGreenBlue 0 points a year ago

USA is emulating Russia and will be just as dysfunctional. China is at least producing results.

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KumaSudosa 3 points a year ago

The Chinese economy is not doing well.. and they're gonna be fucked too when USA sinks itself

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npdean 2 points a year ago

Chinese economy is the absolute shitter with no signs of improvement

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AtHeartEngineer 18 points a year ago

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Xatolos 9 points a year ago

And we've only just reached the 8th month of this 4 year term.

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AtHeartEngineer 2 points a year ago

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nulluser 12 points a year ago

to try and boost Kamala’s [Harris’] chances

Will everyone that needed CNBC to clarify which Kamala he was talking about, please raise your hand.

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WoodScientist 3 points a year ago

They obviously don't want anyone confusing her with the Brazilian thrash metal band.

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ChaoticEntropy 9 points a year ago

sniff sniff A bad smell...? CUT OFF MY NOSE IMMEDIATELY!

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Pacattack57 8 points a year ago

Conservative media was working overtime to spin those jobs numbers as positive😂😂

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MrSilkworm 7 points a year ago

Because this is going to solve the problem

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rhvg 7 points a year ago

China has been providing false numbers, so here is a move to leveling the playing field by making USA numbers untrustworthy as well. One step closer to beat China.

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pyre 6 points a year ago

adding one more to the number of unemployed isn't gonna help

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dutchkimble 6 points a year ago

Gonna be pretty awkward when he realises this isn’t the next season of the apprentice

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henfredemars 6 points a year ago

Cook those books!

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alvyn 5 points a year ago

We knows the same practice from the Soviet era. Also Putin does same. Good luck #usa

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Rhaedas 4 points a year ago

I know they'll just put in a yes man, but it would be hilarious to have the new appointee say, "yeah, she was right on point."

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dtlm 3 points a year ago

At this rate the US will be just like North Korea.

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Kurious84 3 points a year ago

Next job numbers are gonna sky rocket. Who will replace her? Another no neck crooked eye lackey?

This is why russias military was shit. Because dictators scare everyone into telling them there is only good news and then it rots from the inside out.

And guess what. It's alll caused by a single micro-mushroom penis asshole at the top with no balls and a childlike ego.

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Hobbes_Dent 2 points a year ago

Pee hacking the stats

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burgerpocalyse 1 point a year ago

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someguy3 0 points a year ago

Slams.

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No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, blogs, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.

7. No duplicate posts.

If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.

8. Misinformation is prohibited.

Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.

9. No link shorteners or news aggregators.

All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.

10. Don't copy entire article in your post body

For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

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