It has always been about the data.
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It has always been about the data.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
π¨ Today: Mass firings just hit the CFPB. This is because Trump and Musk are trying to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau β the agency that protects regular people like you & me from being scammed by banks, credit card companies, and shady online platforms. 1/
A man in tactical gear and a baseball hat is taking an axe to a car window. He looks like heβs smiling.
This picture may haunt me to the end of my days.
It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man.
An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/
#MomSky
Trump announces that Elise Stefanik is staying in Congress
Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY.
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: βBone spurs.β
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Neroβs court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
Even before Zelenskyβs visit, Sec. Rubio had terminated vital USAID support to sustain Ukraineβs energy grid.
βThe USAID initiative had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in helping Ukraine's energy grid recover from attacks from Russia.β www.nbcnews.com/politics/sta...
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Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyoneβ¦
This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.
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World Pride 2025: when 3,000,000 #lgbtq people from around the globe, their families & allies converge on DC π³οΈβπ π³οΈββ§οΈ
Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Troye Sivan, RuPaul & more to headline events
June 8th Pride March/Rally & Concert
@worldpridedc.bsky.social
Details: worldpridedc.org
βthe University of Pittsburgh has put its Ph.D. admissions on ice. The school confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.β
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Medicare will "stop covering most #telehealth services (phone and video visits)" from the beginning of April.
Weβre going BACKWARDS, America!
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#healthpolicy #virtualcare #medsky
Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.
π¨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot.
REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
The co-presidents are dismantling the government at lightning speed but havenβt done a single thing to lower prices. In fact theyβre making it worse.
Why the rush?
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PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana.
For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5.
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#episky π§ͺ
CDC Measles web page has not updated since February 7 and will not update until March 7.
The Centers for Disease Control has officially stopped caring about infectious disease control.
This is obscene.
BREAKING: A plane has crashed in Arizona, leaving at least one person dead.
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
Doing great π
The CFPB has returned $21 billion to 205 million consumers who were scammed at the hands of predatory banks. You can root out waste, fraud, and abuse... or you can eliminate the CFPB. But you can't do both.
my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory
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Pete Hegseth wants $49,000 for emergency painting a condo. Not very DOGE, if you ask me.
Alt text: A box of βBlack History Flash Cards Volume 2: Womenβ from Urban Intellectuals is displayed on a wooden surface. The box features images of three women: Surya Bonaly, Nanny of the Maroons, and Dr. Dorothy Height. Next to the box is a flashcard featuring Dr. Dorothy Height, wearing a purple hat and a white outfit with purple accents. The card includes her name and lifespan: βMarch 24, 1912 β April 20, 2010,β and the Urban Intellectuals website at the bottom.
Black History Month Spotlight: Dr. Dorothy Height, a lifelong civil and womenβs rights activist, began speaking against lynching in high school. Inspired by Mary McLeod Bethune, she worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and co-organized the 1963 March on Washington. #BlackHistoryMonth #Blacksky π€
A research lab from Northwestern, chosen because it's generic and sort of zoomed out. Three scientists are visible in lab coats, and there are benches and shelving, with glass along one wall showing another high-rise building nearby. Overhead fluorescents provide light.
This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.