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Lisa Firestone Rydecki
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Mom, wife, sister. Proud to be liberal.
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Same with this. If Trump admin is already censoring farm trade data, reasonable to worry that jobs, inflation, GDP, other market-moving data could be next. bsky.app/profile/cram...
June 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Reposted by Lisa Firestone Rydecki
For nearly 160 years, federal govt has been producing a statistical report on condition & progress of education. In 2002, Congress gave Ed Dept annual deadline for that report: June 1.
For first time ever, Ed Dept just failed to meet this statutory obligation.
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
Education Department misses key deadline for delivering statistics report
Congress mandates annual ‘Condition of Education’ digest by June 1
hechingerreport.org
June 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Reposted by Lisa Firestone Rydecki
Here is what we confirmed: After Musk’s rise to power in the U.S. government, the State Department has repeatedly coaxed, lobbied and browbeat this tiny West African country into giving business to Musk’s satellite company Starlink.
The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
www.propublica.org
May 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM