Taylor Mandelbaum
@aaatman.bsky.social
Meteorology, data, cats, socioeconomic justice + housing justice, loud music of people yelling at me.
-1.1T for healthcare for people, +3.3T to the deficit.
What a horrible group of people these politicians are.
What a horrible group of people these politicians are.
June 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
-1.1T for healthcare for people, +3.3T to the deficit.
What a horrible group of people these politicians are.
What a horrible group of people these politicians are.
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The future of the party is now
June 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The future of the party is now
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The administration is a perfect storm of dumb people who enjoy inflicting pain and are addicted to psychotic cruelty and quadrupling down. It ends in total ruin if you don't impeach him.
April 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The administration is a perfect storm of dumb people who enjoy inflicting pain and are addicted to psychotic cruelty and quadrupling down. It ends in total ruin if you don't impeach him.
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In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
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Every New Yorker deserves to be safe. Today, I’m announcing a plan to deliver exactly that.
Our Department of Community Safety will implement evidence-based strategies that will prevent violence and crime before they occur.
Learn more at zohranfornyc.com/safety
Our Department of Community Safety will implement evidence-based strategies that will prevent violence and crime before they occur.
Learn more at zohranfornyc.com/safety
April 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Every New Yorker deserves to be safe. Today, I’m announcing a plan to deliver exactly that.
Our Department of Community Safety will implement evidence-based strategies that will prevent violence and crime before they occur.
Learn more at zohranfornyc.com/safety
Our Department of Community Safety will implement evidence-based strategies that will prevent violence and crime before they occur.
Learn more at zohranfornyc.com/safety
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A voicemail I received after demanding answers from Tom Homan last week. There are many more like this.
As Trump fails to deliver for the working class, all his movement has left is cruelty and division. It’s up to us to offer courage instead.
As Trump fails to deliver for the working class, all his movement has left is cruelty and division. It’s up to us to offer courage instead.
March 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A voicemail I received after demanding answers from Tom Homan last week. There are many more like this.
As Trump fails to deliver for the working class, all his movement has left is cruelty and division. It’s up to us to offer courage instead.
As Trump fails to deliver for the working class, all his movement has left is cruelty and division. It’s up to us to offer courage instead.
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NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.
March 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.
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The legal rationale for Mr. Khalil's ICE arrest has been public for days know, and I know for a fact that Schumer's staff is aware of it, and so he should be aware of it too, so he's either not listening to his staff or deliberately playing dumb here.
March 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The legal rationale for Mr. Khalil's ICE arrest has been public for days know, and I know for a fact that Schumer's staff is aware of it, and so he should be aware of it too, so he's either not listening to his staff or deliberately playing dumb here.
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Judge Alsup "rejects" the government's attempt to use "press releases" to say that agencies made these decisions with no direction from OPM.
The TRO will be extended. Additionally, the VA must offer reinstatement to all fired probationary employees. Terminations were "unlawful," court finds.
The TRO will be extended. Additionally, the VA must offer reinstatement to all fired probationary employees. Terminations were "unlawful," court finds.
March 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Judge Alsup "rejects" the government's attempt to use "press releases" to say that agencies made these decisions with no direction from OPM.
The TRO will be extended. Additionally, the VA must offer reinstatement to all fired probationary employees. Terminations were "unlawful," court finds.
The TRO will be extended. Additionally, the VA must offer reinstatement to all fired probationary employees. Terminations were "unlawful," court finds.
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"I just want to say it is sad. A sad day. When our government would fire an employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that's a LIE
... that should not happen in our country. That was a sham to avoid statutory requirements."
... that should not happen in our country. That was a sham to avoid statutory requirements."
March 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"I just want to say it is sad. A sad day. When our government would fire an employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that's a LIE
... that should not happen in our country. That was a sham to avoid statutory requirements."
... that should not happen in our country. That was a sham to avoid statutory requirements."
My fear is we're struggling against a force that is not just amoral, but truly, genuinely, evil.
Individual Border Patrol agents knew they were doing this, and a supervisor signed off on it.
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
March 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
My fear is we're struggling against a force that is not just amoral, but truly, genuinely, evil.
This is REALLY bad. Particularly for NYISO and PJM...
If I'm following, last night Trump responded to Ontario's electric tariff by saying he'd just add more tariffs on April 2. Having not gotten everything he wanted in, oh, 10 hours, he's now announcing new tariffs tomorrow
New tariffs just dropped, Ontario is absolutely going to cut off the northeast grid y'all.
March 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is REALLY bad. Particularly for NYISO and PJM...
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I'm sure the Free Speech Warriors are all over this. Oh wait sorry I was huffing paint, I forgot for three seconds that they are craven grifters with less intellectual consistency than Charles Manson getting offered a record deal.
March 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I'm sure the Free Speech Warriors are all over this. Oh wait sorry I was huffing paint, I forgot for three seconds that they are craven grifters with less intellectual consistency than Charles Manson getting offered a record deal.
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Most of the faculty watching what's unfolding on their campuses think they're among the good ones and are saddened and outraged by what their colleagues are doing. Very few are doing anything in response. They aren't, in fact, the good ones; they're a key part of the repressive apparatus.
March 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Most of the faculty watching what's unfolding on their campuses think they're among the good ones and are saddened and outraged by what their colleagues are doing. Very few are doing anything in response. They aren't, in fact, the good ones; they're a key part of the repressive apparatus.
This will, once again, result in people dying.
We already have seen a reduction in radiosonde launches at the NWS offices in Albany and Gray, which will increase error in all of our NWP and AIWP models. That will get worse with more RIF.
We already have seen a reduction in radiosonde launches at the NWS offices in Albany and Gray, which will increase error in all of our NWP and AIWP models. That will get worse with more RIF.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier agency for weather and climate science, is set to lose another 1,000 workers under the Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal government.
More NOAA Employees May Be Let Go, Making 20% of Staff Cut
Together with recent firings and resignations, the new cuts could hamper the National Weather Service’s ability to produce lifesaving forecasts, scientists say.
www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This will, once again, result in people dying.
We already have seen a reduction in radiosonde launches at the NWS offices in Albany and Gray, which will increase error in all of our NWP and AIWP models. That will get worse with more RIF.
We already have seen a reduction in radiosonde launches at the NWS offices in Albany and Gray, which will increase error in all of our NWP and AIWP models. That will get worse with more RIF.
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This extraordinary, penetrating NYT reporting on a brutal pattern of crime against prisoners upstate is the sort of work that deserves to be elevated and honored. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/n...
March 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This extraordinary, penetrating NYT reporting on a brutal pattern of crime against prisoners upstate is the sort of work that deserves to be elevated and honored. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/n...
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NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.
March 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.
Enriching the person swinging the sledgehammer, while that person tells everyone to ignore any ethical questions this raises.
No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”
March 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Enriching the person swinging the sledgehammer, while that person tells everyone to ignore any ethical questions this raises.
Experienced cost cutting folks existed in the government through USDS and 18F. They couldn't handle that they're reinventing the wheel (and doing it worse). Typical Silicon Valley mentality.
One way you can tell that DOGE is not doing what they claim they are, modernizing tech or finding waste, is bc Trump and DOGE have ousted 3 entities who ALREADY WERE DOING THAT. @donmoyn.bsky.social describes two here, USDS and 18F.
The third are the IGs.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-te...
The third are the IGs.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-te...
Skilled technologists are being forced out of government
18F and USDS are gutted by DOGE
donmoynihan.substack.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Experienced cost cutting folks existed in the government through USDS and 18F. They couldn't handle that they're reinventing the wheel (and doing it worse). Typical Silicon Valley mentality.
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NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes **for work that’s been done.**
One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
March 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes **for work that’s been done.**
One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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When you're suddenly desperate to convince people it's a good thing you drove the economy into recession.
February 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
When you're suddenly desperate to convince people it's a good thing you drove the economy into recession.
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You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.
Andrew Tate and His Brother Are Said to Leave Romania for the U.S.
Andrew and Tristan Tate, the online influencers, are facing investigations in Romania and Britain, including accusations of human trafficking and sex crimes.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.
Assuming this email takes 15 minutes, and assuming this is actually impacting all 2 million employees (not sure we know how many have been cut at this point), this costs $26.7m each week, or $1.39b each year based on average federal salaries, ~$855m a day considering days worked/year.
No one at DOGE is going to be personally reviewing 2 million emails about what people did each week. Everyone in the government already has a supervisor they report to. This is a transparent effort to manufacture reasons to fire people because their Fork offer got low results.
The latest message from Elon Musk to federal employees.
This comes after President Trump posted that he wanted Elon to get more aggressive.
This comes after President Trump posted that he wanted Elon to get more aggressive.
February 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Assuming this email takes 15 minutes, and assuming this is actually impacting all 2 million employees (not sure we know how many have been cut at this point), this costs $26.7m each week, or $1.39b each year based on average federal salaries, ~$855m a day considering days worked/year.
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The DOGE numbers don't add up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes
The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The DOGE numbers don't add up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...