Things have changed completely under President Donald Trump's second term.
The latest numbers are nothing short of phenomenal, especially if you're a fan of actual, you know, private sector job growth...
The contrast is stark.
The U.S. job market continues to defy expectations under President Trump. In May alone, the economy added 139,000 new jobs — which beat forecasts for the third month in a row — with every single net gain coming from the private sector. That’s right: zero new government bloat, just real jobs in real industries.
Leisure and hospitality led the way with 48,000 new hires, while
transportation and warehousing added 5,800 jobs.
Construction notched its fourth straight month of growth, tacking on another 4,000.
One more stat the media won’t highlight: native-born Americans now account for all job gains since January. Under Joe Biden, the trend was reversed. And unlike the Biden era, where one in four jobs created was in government, 99.8% of new jobs under Trump are in the private sector. This is what real economic leadership looks like...
But it's not just about job numbers; it's about what those jobs pay.
Amid the riots, Democratic leaders and politicians — including L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and Massachusetts Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey — directed their ire at the lawful rather than at the lawless. California Gov. Gavin Newsom not only condemned the president but sided once again with foreign nationals.
I just watched a Miracle Gro TV commercial starring Peter Straus (of old TV fame) touting the viagra-like effects on plants of MG.
But the really interesting thing was the attractive but very grey haired lady (wife?) who gazed adoringly at super-gardener Pete as he preened for the camera.
Quite a switch from the typical trim geezer with the 20 year younger trophy wife.
Maybe the MG kept the marriage vibrant or is this a HORRIBLE new trend?
Pleeese, no...... I want commercials that are REAL!
Maybe a Henry Kissinger inching around on his walker as an adoring Carmen Elecktra snips the buds off their daffodils and has him lick MiracleGro from her fingers.....hmmmm
Ten Graphs Tell the Story - Roger Pielke Jr.May 30, 2025 There has been no tropical cyclone of hurricane strength anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere so far in 2025.
If we get to June 5th — which looks quite possible if not probable — then 2025 will have the latest date on record (since 1970) for the first NH hurricane, breaking the record of Ava, which reached hurricane strength in the Eastern Pacific on June 4th, 1973 (thanks to Ryan Maue for confirming — Give his excellent weather Substack a follow).
What does breaking a long-standing record of annual-to-date hurricane inactivity that has stood for 52 years tell us about the detection and attribution of changes in hurricane climatology?
Well . . . nothing.
Motivated by a recent commentary in Nature on Atlantic hurricanes that was all opinion and no data, in advance of the official 2025 North Atlantic hurricane season I thought I’d do a post on hurricanes that was all data and no opinion.
The 2025 hurricane season begins on Sunday, June 1. Enjoy!
Twleve-month running average counts of global hurricanes (top) and major hurricanes (bottom), 1980 to March 10, 2025. Source: Ryan Maue.
About a month ago, this very column documented several narratives repeatedly trotted out by climate cultists that have met their demise.
There were updates on
the phony narrative surrounding collapsing bee populations,
the phony narrative that volcanos have no effect on the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere,
the phony narrative that populations around the world are clamoring for offshore wind power, and
the phony narrative that temperature stations built a hundred years ago produced a reliable temperature record even as modern cities grew up around them, no urban heat island effect to be seen.
One of the most consequential narratives revolves around the perpetual predictions of doom for the earth's polar ice caps, which should already have disappeared if Al Gore and the UN had any validity...
To cap that off, we have several other stories from the cult this week, including a
glowing review by a scientist about geoengineering projects to alter our atmosphere in the U.K.;
another week, another cargo ship full of EVs on fire;
the French government teams up with Brazil's communist president to call for more climate censorship;
Big Philanthropy lining up to replace government climate funding cuts; and
California's green utopia means $8 per gallon gas prices and regulating compost out of existence...
The city does not want protests to disturb residents and businesses.
While California officials are dealing with the ongoing rioting in Los Angeles, a suburban city announced that it will no longer house federal immigration detainees.
The decision was announced Sunday after days of rioting in nearby Los Angeles, where protesters attacked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents over deportation orders and demonstrations turned into violence.
And by violence, I would define that as throwing rocks at cars, torching cars, defacing government buildings, and attacking law enforcement. But here’s what’s interesting.
The mayor, Karen Bass, came down, in her public comments, on the side of the protesters who were protesting the idea of deportation at all.
And California Gov. Gavin Newsom then gave a series of editorializations that I think have ruined his chances ever to be a serious national candidate...
Newsom called for the judge to halt the order within two hours of filing.
Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom was dealt a judicial defeat after he requested an emergency motion to halt President Donald Trump's order to use the military to oppose the Los Angeles riots.
Newsom named the president, the Defense secretary, and the Department of Defense as defendants in the request, and a judge allowed the defendants 24 hours to file a response to the request.
One of the most shocking and horrifying scandals of the Biden administration was its botched handling of unaccompanied minor migrants who flooded into the country amid former President Joe Biden's open border chaos.
Government whistleblowers sounded the alarm that the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement, under the prior administration's leadership, failed to thoroughly vet sponsors, ushering children into unsafe homes.
The Clean Power Plan 2.0 was supported by a finding that carbon capture technology had been "adequately demonstrated."
The EPA sought and got comments from the DOE, which disputed that "demonstration."
Somehow those comments never made it into the administrative record.
Former President Joe Biden, as well as his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama, pledged to “follow the science”when it came to climate policies.
Since President Donald Trump assumed office — a man accused of waging a “war on science” — revelations have shown that, when it came to previous administrations, sometimes science was either
"Give those who wish to destroy space to do that as well..."
"Fiery but mostly peaceful..."
"It is not looting, it is a form of reparations..."
"It isn't arson, it is the only way the oppressed can vent their frustrations..."
"It is only a couple apartment complexes..."
"He's just a Maryland dad..."
"It's not a riot, it's a peaceful protest..."
Some of the preceding statements are paraphrased, some are verbatim - but all are accurate to the situation when they were spoken by Democrats or their enablers. In honor of the LA ICE riots and the predictable responses from Democrats and media, I'm adding #14 to Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: "If you can't deny, minimize. If you can't minimize, lie."
