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Worth reading. Scott Pelley’s Commencement speech at Wake Forest commencement.news.wfu.edu/2020s/c2025/...
2025: Scott Pelley - Commencement News Archive
Good morning, everybody. What a beautiful day. What a beautiful North Carolina day for a graduation. Incredible. Thank you, President Wente, Provost Gillespie, members of the Board of Trustees and Kat...
commencement.news.wfu.edu
May 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Worth reading. Scott Pelley’s Commencement speech at Wake Forest commencement.news.wfu.edu/2020s/c2025/...
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How can the people who Nazis starved 80 years ago do this to others today? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/w...
In Private, Some Israeli Officers Admit That Gaza Is on the Brink of Starvation
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
How can the people who Nazis starved 80 years ago do this to others today? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/w...
First, tell lies about dead people being alive (#SocialSecurity paying 150-year-olds). Then tell lies about live people being dead (and breaking the law doing it?). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Social Security Lists Thousands of Migrants as Dead to Prompt Them to ‘Self-Deport’
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
First, tell lies about dead people being alive (#SocialSecurity paying 150-year-olds). Then tell lies about live people being dead (and breaking the law doing it?). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
Remember "the goose that laid the golden egg"? #Princeton President Eisgruber points out that America should treasure Columbia and America's other research universities, not defund them.
Maybe if the >80 US Nobel laureates signed a letter?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Maybe if the >80 US Nobel laureates signed a letter?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
www.theatlantic.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Remember "the goose that laid the golden egg"? #Princeton President Eisgruber points out that America should treasure Columbia and America's other research universities, not defund them.
Maybe if the >80 US Nobel laureates signed a letter?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Maybe if the >80 US Nobel laureates signed a letter?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Has anyone produced a guide to let federal employees know when/how they can/cannot refuse to do something they consider (a) illegal, (b) contrary to regulation, or (c) harmful? #RefusetoObey #Whistleblower
February 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Has anyone produced a guide to let federal employees know when/how they can/cannot refuse to do something they consider (a) illegal, (b) contrary to regulation, or (c) harmful? #RefusetoObey #Whistleblower
We don't know what the dispute was but it was serious enough for the US Treasury's most senior career official to resign. Political influence in, e.g., #SocialSecurity checks would make the OMB grant pause memo seem trivial.
wapo.st/4jH7XYa
wapo.st/4jH7XYa
Senior U.S. official exits after rift with Musk allies over payment system
A top Treasury career staffer, David A. Lebryk, announced his retirement. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.
wapo.st
February 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
We don't know what the dispute was but it was serious enough for the US Treasury's most senior career official to resign. Political influence in, e.g., #SocialSecurity checks would make the OMB grant pause memo seem trivial.
wapo.st/4jH7XYa
wapo.st/4jH7XYa
Cut #taxes or save #SocialSecurity? Guess which option won't be considered by the Congress or the President. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...
Cut taxes or save Social Security? The $5 trillion question
Revenues that would go to making the TCJA tax cuts permanent could be used to make Social Security solvent for at least the next 75 years.
www.brookings.edu
January 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Cut #taxes or save #SocialSecurity? Guess which option won't be considered by the Congress or the President. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...
#Starbucks & #Union are trying to reach a contract. It would be a first for the industry and a first for Starbucks, which previously opposed its employees' desire for a union to represent them. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
Starbucks and Workers United Union Agree to Contract Mediation
A labor agreement, covering more than 500 U.S. stores, would be the company’s first. Talks stalled last year over wages.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:02 AM
#Starbucks & #Union are trying to reach a contract. It would be a first for the industry and a first for Starbucks, which previously opposed its employees' desire for a union to represent them. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
"...in light of the New Orleans #Terroristattack both political parties should ask: “Why is this massive [social media] industry not helping prevent such attacks? Why not a tip, as we [get] from banks and every financial institution worldwide...?” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/w...
How the Islamic State Radicalizes People Today
A man who pledged allegiance to the terrorist group carried out a deadly attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day.
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"...in light of the New Orleans #Terroristattack both political parties should ask: “Why is this massive [social media] industry not helping prevent such attacks? Why not a tip, as we [get] from banks and every financial institution worldwide...?” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/w...
Dave Barry, both sad and funny: on "New Year’s Eve in a beloved tradition, revelers will gather in Times Square...as that giant ball starts to descend, the people gazing up will all be united...by a common hope — specifically, that the giant ball was not manufactured by Boeing." wapo.st/3ZVw5Ns
Opinion | Dave Barry’s 2024 year in review
How many goofs can one nation endure? The answer is Boeing in the wind.
wapo.st
January 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Dave Barry, both sad and funny: on "New Year’s Eve in a beloved tradition, revelers will gather in Times Square...as that giant ball starts to descend, the people gazing up will all be united...by a common hope — specifically, that the giant ball was not manufactured by Boeing." wapo.st/3ZVw5Ns
As we rush to form judgments about the #PresidentBiden and #Bidenomics, it's worth remembering how much opinions have changed about #PresidentCarter. Jeffrey Frankel did an economic reappraisal in his @projectsyndicate.bsky.social blog: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/m...
Jimmy Carter’s Century | by Jeffrey Frankel - Project Syndicate
Jeffrey Frankel shows why the 39th president of the United States was more successful than previously believed.
www.project-syndicate.org
December 2, 2024 at 5:00 PM
As we rush to form judgments about the #PresidentBiden and #Bidenomics, it's worth remembering how much opinions have changed about #PresidentCarter. Jeffrey Frankel did an economic reappraisal in his @projectsyndicate.bsky.social blog: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/m...