Adria Quiñones
@adriaq.bsky.social
Award-winning Nuyorican kidlit writer. Published poet. Author of MI TIERRA, an early-reader-in-verse, available NOW from Reycraft!
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Adria Quiñones
@adriaq.bsky.social
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Mi Tierra - (Amaya Nuñez) by Adria Quinones
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Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation
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It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
April 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
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“A president ordering investigations of specific individuals whom he considers to be his political enemies is a remarkable breach of the traditional wall of separation between the White House and the Justice Department.”
Trump wants to be a dictator.
We must stop him.
Trump wants to be a dictator.
We must stop him.
Trump orders investigation of two first-term administration aides who criticized him
The president signed executive orders targeting Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor, an escalation of his retribution campaign.
www.politico.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
“A president ordering investigations of specific individuals whom he considers to be his political enemies is a remarkable breach of the traditional wall of separation between the White House and the Justice Department.”
Trump wants to be a dictator.
We must stop him.
Trump wants to be a dictator.
We must stop him.
Bad Bunny’s Tiny Desk Concert on @npr.org: come for the music, stay for anti-colonization messaging 🇵🇷 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuP...
Bad Bunny: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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April 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Bad Bunny’s Tiny Desk Concert on @npr.org: come for the music, stay for anti-colonization messaging 🇵🇷 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuP...
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TODAY: The House Energy & Commerce Committee will mark up the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a bill with major implications for online privacy and free expression. energycommerce.house...
Full Committee: Markup
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing committee.
energycommerce.house.gov
April 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one
The ability of people to access federal programs should not be a function of whether federal administrators personally like or dislike a state's governor. www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-...
Emails Confirm Social Security Administration Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Payback
Acting commissioner Leland Dudek called Maine Gov. Janet Mills a “petulant child” for defying Donald Trump.
www.huffpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one
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There's something about seeing it visually over time that chills the blood. It's hard to process that when we made the jump from 2022 to 2023, it still wasn't enough to convince people this was serious. Before Trump was re-inaugurated gender-affirming care was banned in more than 50% of the country.
April 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
There's something about seeing it visually over time that chills the blood. It's hard to process that when we made the jump from 2022 to 2023, it still wasn't enough to convince people this was serious. Before Trump was re-inaugurated gender-affirming care was banned in more than 50% of the country.
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"Our Laura Bush Planning grant for $150K for 2024-26 is likely to cease without funding. It would have developed a model five-year strategic plan to restore school librarians to Philadelphia's 218 public schools—only 5 of which currently have any librarians."
www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...
www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...
April 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"Our Laura Bush Planning grant for $150K for 2024-26 is likely to cease without funding. It would have developed a model five-year strategic plan to restore school librarians to Philadelphia's 218 public schools—only 5 of which currently have any librarians."
www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...
www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...
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There he is.
Pete Hegseth in 2016: "The people we rely on to do dangerous and difficult things for us rely on one thing from us: That we will not... be reckless with the dangerous things they are doing for us. That's the national security implications of a private server that's unsecured."
March 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
There he is.
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“You are meant to feel powerless. That is what a strongman wants: to make you feel as if nothing can stop the takeover of your country.”
But we are not helpless — unless we act that way, as too many of us are sadly doing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...
But we are not helpless — unless we act that way, as too many of us are sadly doing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...
Opinion | Democrats Can Stop Trump and Save America
The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it stands for.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
“You are meant to feel powerless. That is what a strongman wants: to make you feel as if nothing can stop the takeover of your country.”
But we are not helpless — unless we act that way, as too many of us are sadly doing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...
But we are not helpless — unless we act that way, as too many of us are sadly doing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...
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House Republicans don’t have the votes to impeach any federal judges.
The reality has prompted GOP hard-liners to back-channel with Trump allies on alternatives they could push across the House floor.
The reality has prompted GOP hard-liners to back-channel with Trump allies on alternatives they could push across the House floor.
It’s not just impeachments. Republicans are eyeing other ways to rein in federal judges.
GOP leaders are seeking a release valve for the fury building over recent court rulings.
www.politico.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
House Republicans don’t have the votes to impeach any federal judges.
The reality has prompted GOP hard-liners to back-channel with Trump allies on alternatives they could push across the House floor.
The reality has prompted GOP hard-liners to back-channel with Trump allies on alternatives they could push across the House floor.
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What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!
"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'"
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope
Some of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institutions are swiftly bending to President Donald Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive.
www.politico.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!
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-Layoffs through ‘volunteer retirement’
-Shipping costs increase
-30 day notice
-Reduction of services in rural areas
-Closing of post offices in rural communities
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgDV...
-Shipping costs increase
-30 day notice
-Reduction of services in rural areas
-Closing of post offices in rural communities
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgDV...
USPS announces workforce cuts of about 10,000 workers
YouTube video by KVUE
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March 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
-Layoffs through ‘volunteer retirement’
-Shipping costs increase
-30 day notice
-Reduction of services in rural areas
-Closing of post offices in rural communities
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgDV...
-Shipping costs increase
-30 day notice
-Reduction of services in rural areas
-Closing of post offices in rural communities
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgDV...
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Is your book on the LibGen list? Let us know.
Meta considered licensing books to train AI—but opted instead to pirate LibGen, a database that currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner writes.
March 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email:
"Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
"Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
March 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email:
"Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
"Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
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Thread: the premise of the EOs aimed at Paul Weiss and other law firms is that it’s based on national security concerns. Yet nothing in the “settlement” had anything to do with addressing such concerns. It was extortion pure and simple.
Trump's extortion of Paul Weiss completely obliterates Trump's defense of his executive order against Perkins Coie.
At the temporary restraining order hearing last week in the Perkins Coie case, DOJ argued that Trump's judgments as to national security were essentially unreviewable. 1/
At the temporary restraining order hearing last week in the Perkins Coie case, DOJ argued that Trump's judgments as to national security were essentially unreviewable. 1/
March 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Thread: the premise of the EOs aimed at Paul Weiss and other law firms is that it’s based on national security concerns. Yet nothing in the “settlement” had anything to do with addressing such concerns. It was extortion pure and simple.
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Paul Weiss didn't bend a knee, he bent over.
It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.
March 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Paul Weiss didn't bend a knee, he bent over.
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I'm helping organize nationwide #HandsOffUSPS teach-in events in late April/early May (exact date tbd very soon). We will need folks to #volunteer to host an event in their neighborhood/community. Resources will be provided - we just need people to spread the word & step up to host! Stay tuned! 💌📬
How about gathering to demonstrate in front of every local post office nationwide at a certain date & time? @indivisible.org would you organize this? #SaveThePostOffice #HandsOffUSPS
The Constitution literally requires a postal service. USPS delivers everywhere, six days a week, more reliably and for less money than FedEx or UPS. Privatizing it just means higher prices, worse service, and screwing over rural areas...all so billionaires can cash in.
March 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm helping organize nationwide #HandsOffUSPS teach-in events in late April/early May (exact date tbd very soon). We will need folks to #volunteer to host an event in their neighborhood/community. Resources will be provided - we just need people to spread the word & step up to host! Stay tuned! 💌📬
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this is a golden age for walking out of your lab with a USB key in your pocket getting on a plane and going to Luxembourg
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
March 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
this is a golden age for walking out of your lab with a USB key in your pocket getting on a plane and going to Luxembourg
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"it's much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all."
March 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"it's much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all."
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"despite" is one way to say "in violation of," I guess
March 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"despite" is one way to say "in violation of," I guess