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...
Very ominous: Trump administration officials delayed and censored a govt forecast because it predicts an increase in the nation’s trade deficit in farm goods later this year
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Trump officials delayed farm trade report over deficit forecast
Administration officials blocked publication of written analysis that normally accompanies the report because they disliked what it said about the deficit.
www.politico.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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...
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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...
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
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...
For first time ever, Ed Dept just failed to meet this statutory obligation.
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
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
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.