ClaireWXY
@clairewxy.bsky.social
Architect, Urbanist, Public Market enthusiast, pro-walking and cycling
Canadian and "American by Birthright"
Focuses most of the time on building great spaces and places, public buildings and civic infrastructure.
Canadian and "American by Birthright"
Focuses most of the time on building great spaces and places, public buildings and civic infrastructure.
“Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the Department of Justice"...Trump’s own mortgages match his description of mortgage FRAUD
December 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the Department of Justice"...Trump’s own mortgages match his description of mortgage FRAUD
@nytimes.com Headline FIX "Trump's tops his own record as the greatest hypocrite ever elected POTUS" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions
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November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
@nytimes.com Headline FIX "Trump's tops his own record as the greatest hypocrite ever elected POTUS" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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Here is a video that we posted today that offers an overview of our reporting. Please read the story and watch the video. Investigative reporting like this only matters if people read it/engage with it.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
Video: Howard Lutnick’s Family Business Is Cashing In on Data Center Deals
The commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, is involved in A.I. data center deals that overlap with work his family is doing. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton describes what we know about these deal...
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Here is a video that we posted today that offers an overview of our reporting. Please read the story and watch the video. Investigative reporting like this only matters if people read it/engage with it.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
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Massachusetts AG Campbell: What you heard from the president and the speaker is total bullshit.
Let’s take a step back. Never in the history of this country — during a war or an emergency shutdown — has the federal government ever stopped funding SNAP benefits for our most vulnerable.
Let’s take a step back. Never in the history of this country — during a war or an emergency shutdown — has the federal government ever stopped funding SNAP benefits for our most vulnerable.
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Massachusetts AG Campbell: What you heard from the president and the speaker is total bullshit.
Let’s take a step back. Never in the history of this country — during a war or an emergency shutdown — has the federal government ever stopped funding SNAP benefits for our most vulnerable.
Let’s take a step back. Never in the history of this country — during a war or an emergency shutdown — has the federal government ever stopped funding SNAP benefits for our most vulnerable.
So true - of everything. Trump policy is Takeaway Everything and Give to Me/MyFamily Plan. Almost everyone and everything is grist for the mill. Apparently hard to buy peace- from the Globe's reporting on the G7 this am- "The White House’s efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine have so far failed"
They have no healthcare plan. They only have a plan to take away what exists.
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
So true - of everything. Trump policy is Takeaway Everything and Give to Me/MyFamily Plan. Almost everyone and everything is grist for the mill. Apparently hard to buy peace- from the Globe's reporting on the G7 this am- "The White House’s efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine have so far failed"
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“For 18 months, China’s carbon emissions have been flat or falling as solar and wind displace coal and electric vehicles supplant gas-powered cars.”
e360.yale.edu/digest/china...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“For 18 months, China’s carbon emissions have been flat or falling as solar and wind displace coal and electric vehicles supplant gas-powered cars.”
e360.yale.edu/digest/china...
e360.yale.edu/digest/china...
IRS has faced intense blowback to Direct File from private tax preparation companies that have spent millions lobbying Congress. #followthe$$ The average American typically spends about $140 preparing returns each year
WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS Direct File, the electronic system for filing tax returns for free, will not be offered next year, the racist donald administration has confirmed.
IRS Direct File won't be available next year. Here's what that means for taxpayers
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IRS Direct File won't be available next year. Here's what that means for taxpayers
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IRS Direct File won't be available next year. Here's what that means for taxpayers
The Trump administration has decided not to offer the IRS' electronic tax filing system for free next year, and its future is unclear.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
IRS has faced intense blowback to Direct File from private tax preparation companies that have spent millions lobbying Congress. #followthe$$ The average American typically spends about $140 preparing returns each year
Our taxes funding extreme favoritism instead of what has been constitutionally approved by Congress -SNAP, Universities, USAID...and with the GOP controlled Congress is taking their pay package's without working, it's hard to see the current government as anything except a kleptocracy.
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Our taxes funding extreme favoritism instead of what has been constitutionally approved by Congress -SNAP, Universities, USAID...and with the GOP controlled Congress is taking their pay package's without working, it's hard to see the current government as anything except a kleptocracy.
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No taxes for the rich and no food for the poor. Seems fair, right? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
No taxes for the rich and no food for the poor. Seems fair, right? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
This alone should be what the media talks every time #Elon #Musk is mentioned. #shame this is an administration hellbent on destroying anyone who isn't rich or powerful which includes most children and most of their families. #NoX #NoKings
people who can compartmentalize elon musk’s actions and are able to keep using his app must better at navigating social realities than i’ll ever be
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
Let's make sure that this is clear to all voters and all Americans who pay these scofflaws' salaries
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Let's make sure that this is clear to all voters and all Americans who pay these scofflaws' salaries
Indeed
And you can bet that last 37% aren't rocket scientists.
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Indeed
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
Can't help seeing SMELANIA
The litigation does not accuse the first lady of any wrongdoing, arguing she was deceived and “would not have agreed to any use of her name had they known the truth.”
$MELANIA Under Fire: First Lady’s Memecoin Was Part Of Fraudulent Scheme, Lawsuit Alleges—What To Know
The litigation does not accuse the first lady of any wrongdoing, arguing she was deceived and “would not have agreed to any use of her name had they known the truth.”
www.forbes.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Can't help seeing SMELANIA
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Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…
Is women getting the right to vote next?
October 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Is women getting the right to vote next?
JFK today was completely different than 2 weeks ago on the same EU flight. Tons of PAPolice, ICE, flashing lights black uniforms, serious guns than passengers dragging their stuff through the terminals. Why spend public $$$ on this when no one wants to come here anymore?
October 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
JFK today was completely different than 2 weeks ago on the same EU flight. Tons of PAPolice, ICE, flashing lights black uniforms, serious guns than passengers dragging their stuff through the terminals. Why spend public $$$ on this when no one wants to come here anymore?
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The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
#GoodluckAmerica from the #OvalOffice #NoKings "You probably hear the beautiful sound of construction to the back," he said, sighing approvingly. "That's music to my ears. I love that sound. Other people don't like it. ... When I hear that sound it reminds me of money."
White House says it will submit ballroom plans for review, with demolition already under way reut.rs/4hkqoRo
White House says it will submit ballroom plans for review, with demolition already under way
The White House said on Tuesday it will submit plans for President Donald Trump's $250 million White House ballroom project to a body that oversees federal building construction, even though demolition work began earlier this week.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
#GoodluckAmerica from the #OvalOffice #NoKings "You probably hear the beautiful sound of construction to the back," he said, sighing approvingly. "That's music to my ears. I love that sound. Other people don't like it. ... When I hear that sound it reminds me of money."
Reportedly these cattle ranchers bought the #buyamerica promises - but they seem to be waking up to the fact that it is actually the #bilkamerica plan. Would have thought "we will deport the worst of the worst" turning out to be terrorizing farmworkers, caregivers, might have been a sign...
Wyoming-based Meriwether Farms said the plan would be an "absolute betrayal."
Argentina Beef: Trump’s New Plan Sparks Fury After Bailout
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October 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Reportedly these cattle ranchers bought the #buyamerica promises - but they seem to be waking up to the fact that it is actually the #bilkamerica plan. Would have thought "we will deport the worst of the worst" turning out to be terrorizing farmworkers, caregivers, might have been a sign...
October 18th #NoKingsDay #Anticorruptiom #itsourmoney #antigraft #Freedomofexpression #FreedomofSpeech
But where would we ever get the money for universal healthcare or affordable housing or public transportation, amirite?
Actual text: “— and over there will be the big beautiful ballroom — I’m getting the big billionaires to pay for it. They love me because they are making billions while I am in the White House. It will be the biggest ballroom anyone has ever seen. Then we’re building new monuments —“
October 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM