A M Carley Writes
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At GSA, in the Biden administration, we were determined to build as much federal EV infrastructure as quickly as possible: buy vehicles, run greater power capacity to facilities, install chargers. Because a Republican administration wouldn’t undo all of *that*.
Yet here we are:
Yet here we are:
👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers.
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
June 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
At GSA, in the Biden administration, we were determined to build as much federal EV infrastructure as quickly as possible: buy vehicles, run greater power capacity to facilities, install chargers. Because a Republican administration wouldn’t undo all of *that*.
Yet here we are:
Yet here we are:
Tomorrow, Saturday, is the last day for early voting in the Virginia primary elections. Then it's the big day, Tuesday.
June 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Tomorrow, Saturday, is the last day for early voting in the Virginia primary elections. Then it's the big day, Tuesday.
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Republicans will claim Padilla — one of the kindest people I know — is a menacing man who stormed the briefing with smoke coming out of his ears.
But the video doesn't lie.
He didn’t lunge. He announced himself. He just wanted answers.
But the video doesn't lie.
He didn’t lunge. He announced himself. He just wanted answers.
June 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Republicans will claim Padilla — one of the kindest people I know — is a menacing man who stormed the briefing with smoke coming out of his ears.
But the video doesn't lie.
He didn’t lunge. He announced himself. He just wanted answers.
But the video doesn't lie.
He didn’t lunge. He announced himself. He just wanted answers.
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :
June 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :
This gets to the heart of it.
It's so so important to understand that these technologies are absolutely failing within a market context, they all lose a ton of money and are set to lose more, the only path to profit for these vultures is to attach themselves to educational and government institutions.
The article itself is studiously balanced. (To a fault to my mind, but that's my perspective.) But this very dry paragraph in the middle is the whole deal. Why would an educational institution make this leap without any evidence of efficacy?
June 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This gets to the heart of it.
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NPR CEO Katherine Maher on plan to claw back funding from public broadcasting: “I want to be unequivocal about the significance and urgency of this threat.” Staff memo:
June 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
NPR CEO Katherine Maher on plan to claw back funding from public broadcasting: “I want to be unequivocal about the significance and urgency of this threat.” Staff memo:
Fair warning, authors
So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS.
Please read and share this thread.
Please read and share this thread.
May 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Fair warning, authors
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We need an explainer about whether and how Americans can go to Canada or Mexico to get a Covid vaccine.
May 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We need an explainer about whether and how Americans can go to Canada or Mexico to get a Covid vaccine.
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Today’s NY Post headline looking like it’s straight out of 2020 is something else. This may pour a little cold water on the whole “mild” part though.
Good luck out there.
Good luck out there.
May 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Today’s NY Post headline looking like it’s straight out of 2020 is something else. This may pour a little cold water on the whole “mild” part though.
Good luck out there.
Good luck out there.
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In addition to healthy people who just, you know, DON'T WANT TO GET COVID with the attendant risk of long covid (which can happen to anyone, no matter how previously healthy) — this will hurt households where one person is at high risk and their loved ones can't get vaccinated to help protect them
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In addition to healthy people who just, you know, DON'T WANT TO GET COVID with the attendant risk of long covid (which can happen to anyone, no matter how previously healthy) — this will hurt households where one person is at high risk and their loved ones can't get vaccinated to help protect them
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No, you’re not crazy.
They are deporting brown people and importing white people.
They are deporting brown people and importing white people.
May 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
No, you’re not crazy.
They are deporting brown people and importing white people.
They are deporting brown people and importing white people.
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There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.
May 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.
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About half of all births are covered by Medicaid.
Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.
Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.
May 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
About half of all births are covered by Medicaid.
Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.
Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.
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At a 24-hour vigil to protect Medicaid on the National Mall in Washington, DC, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) was to the point: to protect democracy, Medicaid has to be protected, too.
24-hour vigil to save Medicaid takes over National Mall
"This is a matter of life and death for millions of people," said Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin.
www.motherjones.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
At a 24-hour vigil to protect Medicaid on the National Mall in Washington, DC, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) was to the point: to protect democracy, Medicaid has to be protected, too.
How indeed?
Saw this post from Warpaint Journal today and it definitely resonated with me.
May 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
How indeed?
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Nothing says teacher appreciation like gutting the Department of Education and firing half of the people that make the agency run.
May 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Nothing says teacher appreciation like gutting the Department of Education and firing half of the people that make the agency run.
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ICE says they will bring charges against the two Immigration Rapid Response Hotline volunteers who demanded that agents show their badges before seizing two men from the Charlottesville courthouse. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted
After ICE raided a downtown Charlottesville courthouse and arrested two men, the federal agency is promising to prosecute the bystanders who challenged their authority.
dailyprogress.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
ICE says they will bring charges against the two Immigration Rapid Response Hotline volunteers who demanded that agents show their badges before seizing two men from the Charlottesville courthouse. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
My latest for @janefriedman.com. Time was, you could step up and help an indie author with the tech sides of self-publishing. Nowadays, not so much.
As someone who used to assist authors in self-publishing, I can't imagine trying to do it today. Too many headaches!
Read what @amcarley.bsky.social recently experienced trying to help a client publish and distribute via Amazon KDP and IngramSpark.
Read what @amcarley.bsky.social recently experienced trying to help a client publish and distribute via Amazon KDP and IngramSpark.
Self-Publishing Assistance Is Becoming Threatened | Jane Friedman
In an attempt to crack down on bad actors, KDP and IngramSpark have made it very difficult for anyone but the author to publish a book there.
janefriedman.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My latest for @janefriedman.com. Time was, you could step up and help an indie author with the tech sides of self-publishing. Nowadays, not so much.
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It's 1984
Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
April 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It's 1984
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Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one
April 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one
Thanks, and congratulations, Senator Booker #coreybooker
April 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Thanks, and congratulations, Senator Booker #coreybooker
it's a really smart building
thinking about this in relation to archival technology and infrastructure. If you haven't been to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, you might not know just how carefully it is built -- in a challenging location and terrain. 1/?
Good morning.
Listen, you have to just decide.
They are not taking the Black Smithsonian.
Resolve it in your spirit.
Listen, you have to just decide.
They are not taking the Black Smithsonian.
Resolve it in your spirit.
March 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
it's a really smart building