After years of struggling to find enough workers for some of the nation’s toughest lockups, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a new challenge: Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at ICE.
By @keribla.bsky.social
One woman said her father called in June to say he was going to be paroled after serving 20 years for car theft.
Then in September, she got another call: He was instead being transferred to await deportation.
It was the last time she heard from him.
With @veritenews.org
This letter, signed by over 450 economists, myself included, explains Trump's tariffs are a national catastrophe, despite the presidency's laughable claim that they are a response to one. 9 of the signatories are Nobel laureates. www.ntu.org/publications...
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Gone are the days of “no” and “slow.”
We need to be the state of “yes” and “now.”
We’re moving fast to build new homes, make housing more affordable, and create a more competitive housing market.
@hopkinsheart.bsky.social
Penn-Wharton estimates that mass deportation will cut hundreds of billions in Social Security's income, increasing the program's long-term shortfall and causing its trust fund reserves to deplete 6 months sooner.
budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...
The latest in our series:
Excellent framing by @mattyglesias.bsky.social: "Medicaid savings" = denied medical care
So thrilled! Our paper is out in Nature Cardiovascular Research! We developed #multimodal #AI to predict #cardiacarrest in hyperthrophic #cardiomyopathy. The algorithm significantly outperformed clinical guidelines!
@hopkinsengineer.bsky.social
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Thank you Nature Cardiovascular Research for publishing our paper on #multimodal #Al risk prediction of #cardiacarrest in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and thank you Johns Hopkins Hub for the press release!
👉https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/02/ai-predicts-patients-likely-to-die-of-sudden-cardiac-arrest/
Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent (0.0018%)
Meanwhile the new DOGE-implemented system slowed retirement claim processing by 25%
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
Heartbroken by the loss of two of Maryland’s finest heroes. Lt. Mark Dranbauer and Charles Mudra served their community for years — putting themselves on the line to keep Marylanders safe.
My prayers are with their loved ones and with the entire Baltimore City Fire Dept.
Praying for the family and loved ones of Lt. Mark Dranbauer and Charles Mudra - both brave Maryland firefighters who lost their lives.
We can never repay them for their service to our state and unwavering commitment to keeping our Baltimore community safe.
Trump’s EPA is planning to roll back rules that limit the amount of “forever chemicals” allowed in drinking water.
This comes after chemical companies donated generously to his inauguration fund.
See how this works?
In today's @nytimes.com
"If they're hawking a supplement, I would kick them off the list of being credible."
Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/w...
House Republicans have spent days working to advance a massive tax cut for the wealthiest Americans. They’re deciding which essential services — like Medicaid — they’ll slash to pay for it. We must keep speaking out and centering the voices of those who would be hurt most: working-class Americans.
American leadership matters. We must continue to stand with Ukraine and stand up to President Putin's attacks on democracy.
I spoke with Major Garrett about why the U.S. must continue our support for Ukraine and hold Russia accountable.
Cannot recommend highly enough. While I am no gun violence expert, I feel reasonably well informed about gun violence and appropriate solutions. In this book, Prof. Ludwig has convinced me I was wrong.
www.amazon.com/Unforgiving-...
#ICYMI, we reported on dozens of emails sent from staff at VA hospitals across the U.S. warning agency officials how cuts imperil the VA’s ability to provide for the roughly 9 million veterans who rely on it.
…Now they’re all on administrative leave getting paid their full salaries but unable to do their jobs.
Also: remember how some HHS leaders were told they either had to accept job transfers to faraway Indian Health Service locations or quit? Well, a number of them said ok, send me to Alaska, but HHS never prepared IHS so there are no jobs for high level people at these places…
First they forced pro-democracy activists into exile, now Hong Kong is locking up their relatives — including the father of US-based activist Anna Kwok, who was denied bail.
President Trump should sanction those involved by applying my bipartisan Hong Kong Autonomy Act.
I join in celebrating the election of Pope Leo XIV.
As Catholics in Maryland and across the globe gathered today to watch for white smoke, let us also come together in prayer that Pope Leo XIV leads in Christ’s footsteps, advocating for peace in our world.
No, President Trump: Less traffic at our ports means less work for the men and women who run them, like the thousands of Marylanders who power the Port of Baltimore.
That's not a good thing. These tariffs will tear apart our economy and hurt our communities — and it's entirely Trump-inflicted.
It doesn’t make any sense for Trump and Musk to get rid of Direct File—unless they want to do a big favor for giant tax prep companies, by squeezing more Americans into paying up for those products.
The Trump administration is crippling tax enforcement and going to make it dramatically easier for business owners to cheat.
www.slowboring.com/p/trump-is-c...
I think the Trump budget which is a political and substantive disaster, keeps getting way less attention than it deserves.
www.slowboring.com/p/dont-ignor...
As part of their plan to GUT the science mission at NASA, Trump and Musk want to cancel the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — a critical project that is on time, under budget, and nearly finished.
They want to flush those taxpayer dollars down the drain. How is THAT efficient?
