LaPoodella
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Retired CA aty, Broward-FL resident, Cape Cod raised lifelong liberal, poodle lover, sailor, opera fan, history student, classical music,films, jazz, ballroom dancing. No DMs I block crypto,porn,sexism,racism, ageism, religious proseletyzing.
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SPOT ON! 🎯
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
February 16, 2026 at 7:13 PM
SPOT ON! 🎯
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In Uganda, I met people who went from earning $200 a month doing HIV prevention to just $60 because USAID went away—and who are still doing the work for a fraction of the pay. I met ppl who lost their jobs entirely and stiil do HIV work for free for food. Meanwhile theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...
February 16, 2026 at 4:45 PM
In Uganda, I met people who went from earning $200 a month doing HIV prevention to just $60 because USAID went away—and who are still doing the work for a fraction of the pay. I met ppl who lost their jobs entirely and stiil do HIV work for free for food. Meanwhile theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...
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Some folks on Wall Street think yesterday’s U.S. jobs number is ‘implausible’ and thus due for a downward correction.
Believe it.
fortune.com/2026/02/12/s...
Believe it.
fortune.com/2026/02/12/s...
Some folks on Wall Street think yesterday’s U.S. jobs number is ‘implausible’ and is thus due for a correction | Fortune
Some analysts are worrying that the latest number might be wrong, and that the level of job creation in America is lower than the stats suggest.
fortune.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Some folks on Wall Street think yesterday’s U.S. jobs number is ‘implausible’ and thus due for a downward correction.
Believe it.
fortune.com/2026/02/12/s...
Believe it.
fortune.com/2026/02/12/s...
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US had almost *no* job growth in 2025.
Hiring numbers were revised down by over a million jobs.
Largest annual revision in over 20 years.
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Hiring numbers were revised down by over a million jobs.
Largest annual revision in over 20 years.
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January, but labor market growth stalled in 2025
The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that U.S. employers added 181,000 jobs last year, far fewer than the 1.46 million jobs that were added in 2024.
www.nbcnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:30 PM
US had almost *no* job growth in 2025.
Hiring numbers were revised down by over a million jobs.
Largest annual revision in over 20 years.
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Hiring numbers were revised down by over a million jobs.
Largest annual revision in over 20 years.
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
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The Bari Weiss hire, who appears in the Trump-Epstein files 1,838 times, wrote in a 2016 email: “I go into JE withdrawal when I don’t see him.” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
February 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The Bari Weiss hire, who appears in the Trump-Epstein files 1,838 times, wrote in a 2016 email: “I go into JE withdrawal when I don’t see him.” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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The regime wants to control what military students learn so it can better manipulate their loyalty not to the Constitution but to Trump himself as their god
February 16, 2026 at 4:07 PM
The regime wants to control what military students learn so it can better manipulate their loyalty not to the Constitution but to Trump himself as their god
The USA used to do this before a bunch of dummies with undergraduate business degrees took over.
'The majority of the UK’s publicly-funded research is carried out in universities, who now spend over £15bn annually delivering research.
Universities are the UK’s single best collective asset for economic and social prosperity'. 1/3
Universities are the UK’s single best collective asset for economic and social prosperity'. 1/3
Introducing the commission on research for better economic growth
James Coe and Sarah Chaytor launch the brand new commission on research for better economic growth
wonkhe.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:24 AM
The USA used to do this before a bunch of dummies with undergraduate business degrees took over.
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Project 2025, the Big Beautiful Bill, & the Epstein files have at least one thing in common: All share a belief senior citizens are disposable because costs to corporations are more important than human lives. #GivingProDeathVibes
If you haven’t yet, you might want to start caring about this.
If you haven’t yet, you might want to start caring about this.
‘Suicide is only one option': Social Security staff newly assigned to phone duties raise concerns over training. CONCERNS? WTAF⁉️
https://shorturl.at/9Gfpz
https://shorturl.at/9Gfpz
‘Suicide is only one option': Social Security staff newly assigned to phone duties raise concerns over training
Experts and SSA employees question wisdom of telling callers in crisis that suicide is an option.
www.govexec.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Project 2025, the Big Beautiful Bill, & the Epstein files have at least one thing in common: All share a belief senior citizens are disposable because costs to corporations are more important than human lives. #GivingProDeathVibes
If you haven’t yet, you might want to start caring about this.
If you haven’t yet, you might want to start caring about this.
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how can this only lower prices
are we to believe it's going to make a $1 item cost 50¢ for one person and then it's not going to raise back up to $1?
are we to believe it's going to make a $1 item cost 50¢ for one person and then it's not going to raise back up to $1?
(5/11) Walmart, Whole Foods, and Kohls are switching to electronic shelf labels that can display dynamic prices. Kroger deployed them with Microsoft AI—a setup a 2024 Senate inquiry warned could enable “surge pricing” via facial recognition. (Kroger claims it will only lower prices.)
February 16, 2026 at 1:34 AM
how can this only lower prices
are we to believe it's going to make a $1 item cost 50¢ for one person and then it's not going to raise back up to $1?
are we to believe it's going to make a $1 item cost 50¢ for one person and then it's not going to raise back up to $1?
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(10/11) Dubal’s research showed that dynamic rates are coming for wages too, with Uber drivers with identical workloads and performance getting different pay based on the lowest amount the algorithm calculated they’d accept. www.columbialawreview.org/content/on-a...
ON ALGORITHMIC WAGE DISCRIMINATION - Columbia Law Review
INTRODUCTION Over the past two decades, technological developments have ushered in extreme levels of workplace monitoring and surveillance across many sectors. These automated systems record and quant...
www.columbialawreview.org
February 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
(10/11) Dubal’s research showed that dynamic rates are coming for wages too, with Uber drivers with identical workloads and performance getting different pay based on the lowest amount the algorithm calculated they’d accept. www.columbialawreview.org/content/on-a...
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(3/11) A December 2025 Consumer Reports investigation found that Instacart prices for identical items varied by as much as 23% between different users. Instacart characterizes these discrepancies as routine ‘A/B testing’. www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...
Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports
Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.
www.consumerreports.org
February 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
(3/11) A December 2025 Consumer Reports investigation found that Instacart prices for identical items varied by as much as 23% between different users. Instacart characterizes these discrepancies as routine ‘A/B testing’. www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...
What if you don’t have a data footprint? Hubby has somehow managed to keep his very small. I recently did a web search on him and there’s nothing since 2008 and there was very little before that. He never signed up for Google, meta, Amazon, etc.
(2/11) You know dynamic pricing—think Uber rides, flights, or concert tickets that surge based on supply and demand. “Surveillance Pricing” takes this to the next level: using your data to set a “price for you” based on your predicted breaking point. This is, increasingly, everywhere.
February 16, 2026 at 7:55 AM
What if you don’t have a data footprint? Hubby has somehow managed to keep his very small. I recently did a web search on him and there’s nothing since 2008 and there was very little before that. He never signed up for Google, meta, Amazon, etc.
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No religion, government or person is perfect.
Which is why the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, which GUARANTEES the right to practice ANY--or NO religion--is a watershed in world history.
If slavery was America's original sin, separation of church and state is its salvation.
Which is why the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, which GUARANTEES the right to practice ANY--or NO religion--is a watershed in world history.
If slavery was America's original sin, separation of church and state is its salvation.
February 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
No religion, government or person is perfect.
Which is why the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, which GUARANTEES the right to practice ANY--or NO religion--is a watershed in world history.
If slavery was America's original sin, separation of church and state is its salvation.
Which is why the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, which GUARANTEES the right to practice ANY--or NO religion--is a watershed in world history.
If slavery was America's original sin, separation of church and state is its salvation.
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February 16, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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Senior military commanders in the U.S. military who remain loyal to the Constitution are being replaced by apparatchiks who are personally loyal to Trump. This form of treason is essential to fascism.
Trump is loyal to Putin and fascist Russia – a traitor to the United States.
Trump is loyal to Putin and fascist Russia – a traitor to the United States.
February 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Senior military commanders in the U.S. military who remain loyal to the Constitution are being replaced by apparatchiks who are personally loyal to Trump. This form of treason is essential to fascism.
Trump is loyal to Putin and fascist Russia – a traitor to the United States.
Trump is loyal to Putin and fascist Russia – a traitor to the United States.
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February 16, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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The real story of the piece is mentioned in the seventh paragraph and then not returned to: one by one, the foundations that used to fund humanities research stopped, leaving just Mellon, which put an ideological rider on their funding in 2020.
They did not seize the humanities; everyone else left.
They did not seize the humanities; everyone else left.
February 15, 2026 at 3:17 PM
The real story of the piece is mentioned in the seventh paragraph and then not returned to: one by one, the foundations that used to fund humanities research stopped, leaving just Mellon, which put an ideological rider on their funding in 2020.
They did not seize the humanities; everyone else left.
They did not seize the humanities; everyone else left.
Had to send another email to my Senator Rick Scott (R), FL demanding he vote NO on the SAVE Act. What are the odds?
STOP WOMEN FROM VOTING!!!
“They’re saying this is a voter ID bill? That is NOT what’s happening here
Women, because they got married & changed their names, they have to go down to a clerk & prove they’re citizens, sign affidavits, & do this in person
A minefield of red tape put in front of women"
“They’re saying this is a voter ID bill? That is NOT what’s happening here
Women, because they got married & changed their names, they have to go down to a clerk & prove they’re citizens, sign affidavits, & do this in person
A minefield of red tape put in front of women"
“Because They Got Married and Changed Their Names, They Have to Go Down to a Clerk and Prove They’re Citizens?” Rep. Katherine Clark Raises Concerns That GOP Voter ID Measure Could Disadvantage Women ...
Rep. Katherine Clark (House Session / C-SPAN) House Minority Whip Katherine Clark criticized Republican-backed voter identification legislation during a Ho
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February 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Had to send another email to my Senator Rick Scott (R), FL demanding he vote NO on the SAVE Act. What are the odds?
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STOP WOMEN FROM VOTING!!!
“They’re saying this is a voter ID bill? That is NOT what’s happening here
Women, because they got married & changed their names, they have to go down to a clerk & prove they’re citizens, sign affidavits, & do this in person
A minefield of red tape put in front of women"
“They’re saying this is a voter ID bill? That is NOT what’s happening here
Women, because they got married & changed their names, they have to go down to a clerk & prove they’re citizens, sign affidavits, & do this in person
A minefield of red tape put in front of women"
“Because They Got Married and Changed Their Names, They Have to Go Down to a Clerk and Prove They’re Citizens?” Rep. Katherine Clark Raises Concerns That GOP Voter ID Measure Could Disadvantage Women ...
Rep. Katherine Clark (House Session / C-SPAN) House Minority Whip Katherine Clark criticized Republican-backed voter identification legislation during a Ho
share.newsbreak.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:12 PM
STOP WOMEN FROM VOTING!!!
“They’re saying this is a voter ID bill? That is NOT what’s happening here
Women, because they got married & changed their names, they have to go down to a clerk & prove they’re citizens, sign affidavits, & do this in person
A minefield of red tape put in front of women"
“They’re saying this is a voter ID bill? That is NOT what’s happening here
Women, because they got married & changed their names, they have to go down to a clerk & prove they’re citizens, sign affidavits, & do this in person
A minefield of red tape put in front of women"
I had no idea that the regime was blunting college admissions of our military. That’s terrible. Dad got his HS diploma, BA and MA all on the GI bill. Why they let that lapse, I have no idea. And many who benefited from it, forgot they got a boost from the govt. VA housing bills too.
Trump’s regime is polluting our air, slashing medical research ,blunting college admissions of military , telling museums what to share is all part its campaign to control our culture , our beliefs & what our children learn.
February 15, 2026 at 4:07 PM
I had no idea that the regime was blunting college admissions of our military. That’s terrible. Dad got his HS diploma, BA and MA all on the GI bill. Why they let that lapse, I have no idea. And many who benefited from it, forgot they got a boost from the govt. VA housing bills too.