#ej-antoni — Public Fediverse posts
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Wired has unearthed a deleted #Twitter account that bears the name of #EJAntoni, #Trump nominee to run the #BureauofLaborStatistics #BLS. The account, which was active at least between September 2019 and January 2021, trafficked heavily in the #BigLie but also embraced a host of other #MAGA #conspiracy #theories https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-ej-antoni-trump-bls-conspiracy-theories-epstein-covid-election-denial/
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"It never fails. You maintain one Twitter account that posts COVID conspiracy theories, attacks on the Black Lives Matter movement, and misogynistic cracks that Kamala Harris got where she is through a combination of blowjobs and more blowjobs, and the woke Left says you shouldn’t run a hugely important federal agency that you were already in no way qualified to run."
~ Gary Legum
#Trump #EJAntoni #BLS #Jan6
/4https://www.wonkette.com/p/how-dare-you-say-i-ej-antoni-am-unqualified
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"Last week, an NBC investigation uncovered video footage showing Antoni near the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The White House confirmed to NBC that it was Antoni, adding that he was merely a 'bystander' who was in Washington, DC, for meetings and had wandered over after seeing coverage of the incident on the news."
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"One of the final posts on the now deleted account used violent religious rhetoric in the hours before the assault on the Capitol began.
'Samson has his arms around the temple pillars, and though he may not survive, he will bring it all down on his enemies,' the account posted late on January 5, 2021, in response to a Twitter post from Trump calling on Republicans to 'FIGHT.'“
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"In the months leading up to the January 6 Capitol riot, a now deleted Twitter account bearing the full name of E. J. Antoni, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), betrayed a seeming obsession with promoting election denial conspiracy theories while talking about violent threats to those who stood in Trump’s way."
~ David Gilbert
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"The Trump Administration is populated by the world’s most mediocre conservative Affirmative Action hires who would rather burn America down than share the country with the rest of us."
#EJAntoni #Trump #mediocrity #MaleEntitlement #WhiteSupremacy
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Wajahat Ali says that through his appointments, Trump fosters "mediocracy," "the combination of white supremacy and greed, the two original sins of America, that explain the nation’s commitment to self-destruction by elevating the world’s most fragile, mediocre men to positions of power."
#EJAntoni #Trump #mediocrity #MaleEntitlement #WhiteSupremacy
/2https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-mediocre-white-men-and-their
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"Antoni’s meteoric rise is an inverse measure of the swift decline of American state capacity under Trump."
~ Don Moynihan
#EJAntoni #Trump #mediocrity #MaleEntitlement #WhiteSupremacy
/1https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-nominates-jan-6-bystander-to
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"'It is safe. It is safe forever, and for the everlasting benefit of the people of the United States.'"
Yet the unqualified partisan Trump wants to make head of BLS has stated publicly that he regards Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme" and he thinks it should be "sunset."
#SocialSecurity #FDR #Trump #EJAntoni
/5https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-pick-social-security-cola-sunset-program-ej-antoni-2112825
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Richardson notes that FDR’s secretary of labor, Frances Perkins, the driving force behind the Social Security Act, said in a 1962 speech,
'One thing I know: Social Security is so firmly embedded in the American psychology today that no politician, no political party, no political group could possibly destroy this Act and still maintain our democratic system.'" -
"The Social Security Act established a federal system of old-age benefits; unemployment insurance; aid to homeless, dependent, and neglected children; funds to promote maternal and child welfare; and public health services. It was a sweeping reworking of the relationship between the government and its citizens, using the power of taxation to pool funds to provide a basic social safety net."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
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"'Most had no access to private pension plans and the limited state-run programs that existed had paltry benefits and stringent age and residence requirements.'
Passage of the Social Security Act also laid the foundation for future government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid 30 years later."
#SocialSecurity #FDR #Trump #EJAntoni #Medicare #Medicaid
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Noting that FDR signed the Social Security Act 90 years ago today, historian Frederic J. Frommer says,
"[Social Security} offered a lifeline for countless elderly Americans at the height of the Great Depression, when nearly half of the country’s seniors couldn’t support themselves, the FDR Library observed: 'Millions lived in poverty.'"
#SocialSecurity #FDR #Trump #EJAntoni #Medicare #Medicaid
/1https://contrarian.substack.com/p/90-years-ago-fdr-created-social-security
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In addition to Epstein, we shouldn't let this go.
Footage Shows Trump’s Pick for Labor Statistics Head in January 6 Mob
https://truthout.org/articles/footage-shows-trumps-pick-for-labor-statistics-head-in-january-6-mob/#EJAntoni #BLS #TrumpDidThis #NoNazis #RepublicansOwnThis #USPol
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"NBC News reported that E.J. Antoni, President Trump’s egregiously unqualified nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, can be seen in multiple videos on the grounds of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, before leaving the area. The White House says Antoni was merely a curious 'bystander.'…"
~ David Kurtz
#EJAntoni #Trump #BLS #SocialSecurity #statistics #data #economy
/11https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/the-courts-cant-and-wont-save-us
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"As we endeavor to survive a regime based on barrages of lies, truth should be even dearer to us; facts are part of our arsenal and what we are defending; accuracy and honesty and carefulness are essential ways of being the opposition."
#truth #facts #data #Smithsonian #Trump #history #RevisionistHistory #EJAntoni #fascism
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"Love of truth is an important love. Precision is as beautiful in language as it is in dance. Getting our facts right is an important form of respect, even love, for what matters in our public conversations and political, cultural, intellectual (and personal) lives."
~ Rebecca Solnit
#truth #facts #data #Smithsonian #Trump #history #RevisionistHistory #EJAntoni #fascism
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"Unlike other commissioners of the BLS, Antoni, the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025, has no background in labor economics, and his social media forays into macroeconomic debates show vanishingly little knowledge there as well."
~ Chris Lehmann
#EJAntoni #Trump #BLS #SocialSecurity #statistics #data #economy
/10https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ej-antoni-bls-trump-jobs/
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We don’t need an unqualified Jan 6 rioter who’s also a Nazi Stan controlling the numbers!!! Flood your members of Congress in 30 seconds:
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See the man circled here? That's E.J. Antoni, Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee, walking through a crowd of Capitol rioters.
We've got an archive of 500+ Parler videos taken during Jan. 6. You can spot Antoni starting at around 1:41 here: https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/?id=nkL4Fpk5C8U1
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#EJAntoni, circled on the bottom right, is seen on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on #Jan6, 2021.
Parler video archived by ProPublica:
https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/#Trump #criminal #law #insurrection #SeditiousConspiracy #Coup #TrumpCoup2
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JFC
#Trump pick to run the #BLS was among the crowd at the Capitol on #Jan6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news.
#EJAntoni, an economist from the #HeritageFoundation nominated by Trump this week, after the president fired the previous BLS head, appears in numerous videos posted on social media of the crowd on the Capitol grounds.
#law #insurrection #SeditiousConspiracy #Coup #TrumpCoup2
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-bureau-labor-statistics-nominee-ej-antoni-jan-6-bystander-rcna224645 -
Antoni's 2020 dissertation at Northern Illinois University was dedicated to "my spiritual patrons: Our Lady of Victory, St. Joseph, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Jude, St. Joseph of Cupertino, and Sts. Peter and Paul. Thank you, most especially, to Our Lord, with whom anything is possible."
#EJAntoni #Trump #BLS #SocialSecurity #statistics #data #economy
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"Trump’s nominee for head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, EJ Antoni, was present outside the Capitol during the January 6, 2021 riot."
~ Aaron Parnas
#EJAntoni #Trump #BLS #SocialSecurity #statistics #data #economy #Jan6
/8https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-washington-dc-residents-protest
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"E.J. Antoni, Trump’s pick for BLS Commissioner, has actually said that we should define a recession not on the basis of things like employment data or GDP but by how people 'feel.' =...
We’re clearly entering an era of policy driven by feelings rather than facts. But facts always win in the end."
#EJAntoni #Trump #BLS #SocialSecurity #statistics #data #economy
/7~ Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/magas-feelings-dont-care-about-your
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Jonathan V. Last takes a close look at Antoni's c.v. and says,
"That’s it. That’s the full CV. He wrote some pieces for Townhall, Breitbart, and the Federalist, went on Fox News, and now he’ll be running an organization of 2,000 economic specialists."
#EJAntoni #Trump #BLS #SocialSecurity #statistics #data #economy
/6https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-ministry-of-truth-is-real-now-ej-antoni-bls-labor-statistics
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"Economists said they found Dr. Antoni’s history of distorting economic statistics to support partisan positions more concerning.
They cited numerous examples of Dr. Antoni’s appearing to misunderstand the same government data that he will now, if confirmed, be in charge of."
~ Ben Casselman, Alan Rappeport and Lydia DePillis
#EJAntoni #Trump #BLS #SocialSecurity #statistics #data #economy
/5https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/business/trump-bls-ej-antoni.html
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"He is utterly unqualified and as partisan as it gets.”
~ Stan Veuger of American Enterprise Institute quoted by Jason Furman
#EJAntoni #Trump #BLS #SocialSecurity #statistics #data #economy
/4https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/opinion/trump-bls-nominee-antoni.html
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"I don't think I have ever publicly criticized any Presidential nominee before. But E.J. Antoni is completely unqualified to be BLS Commissioner."
~ Economics professor Jason Furman quoted by Hugh Cameron#EJAntoni #Trump #BLS #SocialSecurity #statistics #data #economy
/3https://www.newsweek.com/trump-bls-appointment-ej-antoni-alarms-economists-2112440