Christina Diaz
@c-diaz.bsky.social
Chicago, Madison, Tucson, Houston.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way:
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
BREAKING: SENATOR PADILLA HANDCUFFED AND THROWN TO THE GROUND AFTER BEING FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM PRESS CONFERENCE.
June 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way:
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
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This administration is hell bent on gutting the National weather service. I cannot even begin to tell you how bad this would be for the country.
National Weather Service employees were encouraged to take early retirements at an all-hands meeting Thursday. The union believes as many as 1,000 could leave in the coming months - out of a workforce of just over 4,000.
With @weathersullivan.bsky.social (gift):
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
With @weathersullivan.bsky.social (gift):
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Weather Service Merges Offices as Staffing Pressure Mounts
The US National Weather Service will merge two of its largest forecasting units as it prepares for the loss of as many as 1,000 staffers.
www.bloomberg.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This administration is hell bent on gutting the National weather service. I cannot even begin to tell you how bad this would be for the country.
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when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
www.wired.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
We cannot afford this bill to pass. It’s cruel, inhumane, and will impact every single Texan.
thenationaldesk.com/news/america...
thenationaldesk.com/news/america...
Texas lawmaker introduces bill to extend gender reassignment ban for children to adults
A Texas state lawmaker introduced a bill Wednesday that would extend a ban on gender reassignment surgeries for children to all people.
thenationaldesk.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We cannot afford this bill to pass. It’s cruel, inhumane, and will impact every single Texan.
thenationaldesk.com/news/america...
thenationaldesk.com/news/america...
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February 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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No Republican in Congress should be allowed the claim to be “pro-life” ever again. This is a disgrace.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...
CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health
The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
No Republican in Congress should be allowed the claim to be “pro-life” ever again. This is a disgrace.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...
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Another hallmark of dictatorships is deleting data 📈📉📊 so that there is no evidence or grounds to make empirical, fact based arguments.
🙏🏼 Read more about this concerning aspect and what to do about it in my guest blog with @kaitsims.bsky.social
empiricaltruths.substack.com/p/the-friday...
🙏🏼 Read more about this concerning aspect and what to do about it in my guest blog with @kaitsims.bsky.social
empiricaltruths.substack.com/p/the-friday...
February 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Another hallmark of dictatorships is deleting data 📈📉📊 so that there is no evidence or grounds to make empirical, fact based arguments.
🙏🏼 Read more about this concerning aspect and what to do about it in my guest blog with @kaitsims.bsky.social
empiricaltruths.substack.com/p/the-friday...
🙏🏼 Read more about this concerning aspect and what to do about it in my guest blog with @kaitsims.bsky.social
empiricaltruths.substack.com/p/the-friday...
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BREAKING WAPO:
Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
www.washingtonpost.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
BREAKING WAPO:
Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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FANTASTIC
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
February 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
FANTASTIC
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
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CDC source:
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
February 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
CDC source:
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
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RFK Jr. is disqualified, dangerous, and cannot be given the power to make critical health care decisions for millions of Americans.
I'm headed to the floor to put up a fight against his nomination.
I'm headed to the floor to put up a fight against his nomination.
February 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
RFK Jr. is disqualified, dangerous, and cannot be given the power to make critical health care decisions for millions of Americans.
I'm headed to the floor to put up a fight against his nomination.
I'm headed to the floor to put up a fight against his nomination.
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A man suspected in the the sexual assault of a University of Houston student last week had been arrested hours later by UH police and let go, Harris County court records show. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Man wanted for University of Houston sexual assault was arrested, released
Eric Latroy Brown, 40, of Houston, was arrested hours after the assault on Friday afternoon, but was released from the Harris County Jail on Saturday.
www.houstonchronicle.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A man suspected in the the sexual assault of a University of Houston student last week had been arrested hours later by UH police and let go, Harris County court records show. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Librarians are awesome. Our data librarian has been compiling efforts to archive and preserve federal data. Preliminary list here: researchguides.library.syr.edu/data
Research Guides: Numeric Data Resources: Home
Numeric Data Resources can provide help with finding data to analyze for student and faculty research, data management and analysis, use of statistical software, especially SAS, Stata and SPSS, and ad...
researchguides.library.syr.edu
February 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Librarians are awesome. Our data librarian has been compiling efforts to archive and preserve federal data. Preliminary list here: researchguides.library.syr.edu/data
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I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
January 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.