Reminds me of 15 years ago.

• friend left phone unlocked
• post something insane to their facebook
• “I hacked you!”

a wave of departures

Way to gloss over the insanely evil, and massively disrespectful, harmful treatment of all federal civilian workers.

This country does not appreciate the work your average government workers does enough. Because when it’s done well, you don’t even notice. But your lives are constantly made better by the work that government civilians do.

Enjoy the garbage you deserve.

How many? Was it raining?

So the first amendment gives the right to infringe on the freedom of others?

We’re the bad guys. Get anally fucked to death, pedo protector.

Perfectly valid to feel that way. None of these numbers would ever explain away everything. People are suffering. Things are harder for most. Quantifying it is complicated.

When, uhhh, when WAS the US economy good for most? Has to be pre-pandemic at minimum.

I wish you the best of luck finding something that works well for you. You got this.

A quick proxy could be overall wage increases for the year. I’m sure average wages for new jobs may be findable somewhere, but BLS recently released this:

Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 3.4 percent, not seasonally adjusted, for the 12- month period ending in December 2025. Wages and salaries increased 3.3 percent and benefit costs increased 3.4 percent over the year.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/eci.pdf

From BLS report USDL-26-0184 on Feb 10, 2026.

Yes. She would have not been directly involved in the production, amd she was fairly new to the position anyway in the grand scope of the methodology and procedures behind this type of report (she was about a year and a half in), and statistical agencies and the civil servants who work there take methodology VERY seriously (I know, I’ve worked with these kinds of agencies) and they’d have a LOT of reviews and checks in place for something this high profile to ensure it’s as accurate as it can be.

If anything it was more a slap in the face of the non-political government workers who geek out on statistical methodology and just want to produce the most accurate stats they can.

Have no knowledge of this website, but here’s an article about her firing:

https://www.epi.org/policywatch/firing-bls-commissioner-erika-mcentarfer/

A large building with a lot of rentals would be taxed at a high total value, and this increased cost would be passed on to renters, thereby defeating the purpose. It should o ly apply to unrented properties.