EMM
@emm5978.bsky.social
Avid traveler, lifelong learner, wannabe flaneur, arts lover
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Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
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Catholics represent fewer than 20% of U.S. adults, however, they make up 61% of the population at risk of deportation. Trump’s immigration crackdown is disproportionately hitting Catholic communities.
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chico.newsreview.com/2025/12/24/t...
Trump’s War on ICE-Fearing Catholics • Chico News & Review
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December 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Catholics represent fewer than 20% of U.S. adults, however, they make up 61% of the population at risk of deportation. Trump’s immigration crackdown is disproportionately hitting Catholic communities.
chico.newsreview.com/2025/12/24/t...
chico.newsreview.com/2025/12/24/t...
My favorite scene from my favorite Christmas movie
youtu.be/st0ym7rYnBU
youtu.be/st0ym7rYnBU
Bishop Boychoir
YouTube video by Ted Reinert
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December 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My favorite scene from my favorite Christmas movie
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youtu.be/st0ym7rYnBU
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I’m sure Russia knows what we are going to do before the American people since they have so many people serving in the Trump admin sharing intel with them.
December 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I’m sure Russia knows what we are going to do before the American people since they have so many people serving in the Trump admin sharing intel with them.
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On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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Waymos have adopted a dangerous habit of human drivers: swerving to get around stopped school buses. buff.ly/5zA0lX3
Tuesday's Headlines Let the Kids Cross — Streetsblog USA
Waymos have adopted a dangerous habit of human drivers: swerving to get around stopped school buses.
usa.streetsblog.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Waymos have adopted a dangerous habit of human drivers: swerving to get around stopped school buses. buff.ly/5zA0lX3
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No, New York Times, I'm pretty sure the man who got up on stage yesterday and said "we no longer have to apologize for being white" and who said America will always be a "christian nation" has firmly taken a side on bigotry.
December 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
No, New York Times, I'm pretty sure the man who got up on stage yesterday and said "we no longer have to apologize for being white" and who said America will always be a "christian nation" has firmly taken a side on bigotry.
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Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
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NEW: Todd Blanche, the second-highest official at the DOJ, issued a memo to shut down enforcement against crypto companies while he still held more than $150,000 in crypto investments, ProPublica found.
One expert called it “an obvious conflict of interest.”
One expert called it “an obvious conflict of interest.”
Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments
The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, experts told ProPublica.
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
NEW: Todd Blanche, the second-highest official at the DOJ, issued a memo to shut down enforcement against crypto companies while he still held more than $150,000 in crypto investments, ProPublica found.
One expert called it “an obvious conflict of interest.”
One expert called it “an obvious conflict of interest.”
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So we found out today in San Francisco that autonomous cars don't work in a blackout (Waymos shut down, wherever they were, all over city)
Participating in live experiments is fun! I still wish I'd been asked beforehand. But it is pretty wild and kind of cool to see them discover their edge cases.
Participating in live experiments is fun! I still wish I'd been asked beforehand. But it is pretty wild and kind of cool to see them discover their edge cases.
December 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
So we found out today in San Francisco that autonomous cars don't work in a blackout (Waymos shut down, wherever they were, all over city)
Participating in live experiments is fun! I still wish I'd been asked beforehand. But it is pretty wild and kind of cool to see them discover their edge cases.
Participating in live experiments is fun! I still wish I'd been asked beforehand. But it is pretty wild and kind of cool to see them discover their edge cases.
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2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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Appalling and alarming:
December 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Appalling and alarming:
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Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation' abc7chicago.com/post/bulgari...
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian business owner who lived in Chicago for decades and was arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of ICE at a private prison in Michigan, the ABC7 I-...
abc7chicago.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation' abc7chicago.com/post/bulgari...
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Cars are now being programmed to violate traffic rules. What could go wrong?
Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
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Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
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Tesla’s ‘Mad Max mode’ points to a big problem for self-driving cars
Mad Max mode exposes a risk for AV innovation. To stay competitive, computer-powered cars are emulating human drivers.
www.fastcompany.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Cars are now being programmed to violate traffic rules. What could go wrong?
Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
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Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
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The "confrontational" tone dominating both global and national politics is "deepening instability and unpredictability day by day," Pope Leo XIV wrote in his message for World Peace Day.
Pope urges people to protect, cultivate even smallest signs of peace, hope
"Unfortunately, it has become increasingly common to drag the language of faith into political battles, to bless nationalism, and to justify violence and armed struggle in the name of religion," the p...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The "confrontational" tone dominating both global and national politics is "deepening instability and unpredictability day by day," Pope Leo XIV wrote in his message for World Peace Day.
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Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
www.propublica.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
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Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
Truth Social Parent to Merge With Nuclear Fusion Firm in $6 Billion Deal
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Nah, we about to Sears Tower that shit
BREAKING: Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center will become the Trump-Kennedy Center: Leavitt
Leavitt said the the board unanimously voted to rename the performing arts venue.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Nah, we about to Sears Tower that shit
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Does this to adults too
It turns out vehicular traffic does something else, too, more subtle but equally pernicious: It changes the way children see and experience the world by diminishing their connection to community and neighbors.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Kids Who Get Driven Everywhere Don't Know Where They're Going
A new study suggests vehicular travel affects children's ability to navigate their neighborhood and connect to their community.
www.bloomberg.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Does this to adults too
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Useful thread from our reporter @bxroberts.org 🧵
THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool.
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
December 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Useful thread from our reporter @bxroberts.org 🧵
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