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Painful preparation for possible funding lapses inside agencies like the IRS creates headaches, and distracts from essential duties, writes former IRS communications director Terry Lemons.
The Hidden Cost Of Government Shutdown Threats: Wasted Taxpayer Resources
Painful preparation for possible funding lapses inside agencies like the IRS creates headaches, and distracts from essential duties, writes former IRS communications director Terry Lemons.
www.forbes.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Painful preparation for possible funding lapses inside agencies like the IRS creates headaches, and distracts from essential duties, writes former IRS communications director Terry Lemons.
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"...reaching with one hand to embrace his young child who is in the back in his car seat.
“Mommy’s coming,” he said.
The video doesn't show the child exiting the car. But in a later clip, Khanbabazadeh is alone in the vehicle when ICE agents break his window..."
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
“Mommy’s coming,” he said.
The video doesn't show the child exiting the car. But in a later clip, Khanbabazadeh is alone in the vehicle when ICE agents break his window..."
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
‘Mommy’s coming’: Video shows what happened before ICE arrested parent outside Oregon preschool
Mahdi Khanbabazadeh, 38, was arrested by immigration authorities last week.
www.oregonlive.com
July 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
"...reaching with one hand to embrace his young child who is in the back in his car seat.
“Mommy’s coming,” he said.
The video doesn't show the child exiting the car. But in a later clip, Khanbabazadeh is alone in the vehicle when ICE agents break his window..."
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
“Mommy’s coming,” he said.
The video doesn't show the child exiting the car. But in a later clip, Khanbabazadeh is alone in the vehicle when ICE agents break his window..."
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
If only... bsky.app/profile/rbre...
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF
The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based
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July 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
If only... bsky.app/profile/rbre...
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You really have to be a special kind of evil to rip $1 BILLION from school mental health and anti-violence programs—because they dared to be inclusive. Trump isn’t saving kids—he’s sacrificing them to push his hateful agenda.
Trump administration to cancel $1bn in Biden-era school mental health grants
Funding will not be continued next year after bill signed in 2022 helped schools hire more mental health workers
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
You really have to be a special kind of evil to rip $1 BILLION from school mental health and anti-violence programs—because they dared to be inclusive. Trump isn’t saving kids—he’s sacrificing them to push his hateful agenda.
‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
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The Trump administration halted $1 billion for mental health services for children, saying that the programs funded by a bipartisan law aimed at stemming gun violence in schools were no longer in “the best interest of the federal government.”
Trump Administration Cancels $1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health
Congress authorized the money in a bipartisan breakthrough around addressing gun violence after a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The Trump administration halted $1 billion for mental health services for children, saying that the programs funded by a bipartisan law aimed at stemming gun violence in schools were no longer in “the best interest of the federal government.”
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Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978?
100%? 500%?
Try 1,085%
Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
100%? 500%?
Try 1,085%
Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
May 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978?
100%? 500%?
Try 1,085%
Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
100%? 500%?
Try 1,085%
Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
apnews.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
Opinion | We Found a Work Around to Trump Defunding Science (Gift Article)
When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
A government-imposed $8 limit on most credit card late fees is the latest consumer protection regulation to be scrapped by President Trump’s administration.
Court Scraps $8 Limit on Credit Card Late Fees
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau switched sides and backed a federal lawsuit by banks and business groups seeking to eliminate a fee cap the bureau set last year.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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What are the odds that enough Supreme Court Justices believe we shouldn't put people in foreign torture prisons without due process & especially when the government misrepresents the evidence it has in briefs it submits to the Court?
April 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
What are the odds that enough Supreme Court Justices believe we shouldn't put people in foreign torture prisons without due process & especially when the government misrepresents the evidence it has in briefs it submits to the Court?
ICE is reportedly violating detained Tufts student’s right to medical care www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE is reportedly violating detained Tufts student’s right to medical care
Democrats say Rümeysa Öztürk’s inhaler has been withheld and she has had repeated asthma attacks.
www.motherjones.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
ICE is reportedly violating detained Tufts student’s right to medical care www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Authoritarianism thrives when “the best and the brightest” abandon principle to remain in the good graces of the king.
April 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Authoritarianism thrives when “the best and the brightest” abandon principle to remain in the good graces of the king.
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Seeking absolute self-sufficiency is as absurd for a country as it is for an individual.
The whole point of trade is to allow us to specialize in things that we do best cheapest and trade for the things that we do not.
The whole point of trade is to allow us to specialize in things that we do best cheapest and trade for the things that we do not.
April 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Seeking absolute self-sufficiency is as absurd for a country as it is for an individual.
The whole point of trade is to allow us to specialize in things that we do best cheapest and trade for the things that we do not.
The whole point of trade is to allow us to specialize in things that we do best cheapest and trade for the things that we do not.
