Amanda Waldroupe
@amandawaldroupe.bsky.social
Journalist, based in Portland, Oregon. Covering libraries, intellectual freedom, arts education for orartswatch.org.
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This will be catastrophic to rural America in particular:
Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in ecommerce business and the 250 year-old Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This will be catastrophic to rural America in particular:
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BREAKING: A fourth judge has issued a nationwide block on Donald Trump's birthright citizenship oder. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
BREAKING: A fourth judge has issued a nationwide block on Donald Trump's birthright citizenship oder. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!
Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)
February 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!
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I would just like to applaud journalists everywhere doing great accountability work on DOGE/Musk and Trump.
Far fewer journos than 2016. The overall industry is in dire straights. Many are have owners are bowing to Trump. There's so much to cover.
And folks are killing it.
Far fewer journos than 2016. The overall industry is in dire straights. Many are have owners are bowing to Trump. There's so much to cover.
And folks are killing it.
February 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I would just like to applaud journalists everywhere doing great accountability work on DOGE/Musk and Trump.
Far fewer journos than 2016. The overall industry is in dire straights. Many are have owners are bowing to Trump. There's so much to cover.
And folks are killing it.
Far fewer journos than 2016. The overall industry is in dire straights. Many are have owners are bowing to Trump. There's so much to cover.
And folks are killing it.