Robyn Loda
@robynloda.bsky.social
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-Dropped or halted investigations into 100+ corporations
-Gutted regulatory agencies and fired ethics watchdogs
-Launched a crypto coin and offered an "intimate dinner" to top buyers
-Turned the White House into a Tesla showroom to help his biggest donor
"Drain the swamp."
-Gutted regulatory agencies and fired ethics watchdogs
-Launched a crypto coin and offered an "intimate dinner" to top buyers
-Turned the White House into a Tesla showroom to help his biggest donor
"Drain the swamp."
May 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
-Dropped or halted investigations into 100+ corporations
-Gutted regulatory agencies and fired ethics watchdogs
-Launched a crypto coin and offered an "intimate dinner" to top buyers
-Turned the White House into a Tesla showroom to help his biggest donor
"Drain the swamp."
-Gutted regulatory agencies and fired ethics watchdogs
-Launched a crypto coin and offered an "intimate dinner" to top buyers
-Turned the White House into a Tesla showroom to help his biggest donor
"Drain the swamp."
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Reposted by Robyn Loda
President Trump and his top aides are exerting control of huge sums of federal research money to shift the ideological tilt of elite universities, which they see as hostile to conservatives. The process has upended higher education. nyti.ms/4jqnCKe
April 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
President Trump and his top aides are exerting control of huge sums of federal research money to shift the ideological tilt of elite universities, which they see as hostile to conservatives. The process has upended higher education. nyti.ms/4jqnCKe
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Illustration from Baba Yaga’s Cat - a story in My Big Book of Cat Stories, written by various authors and illustrated by Adrienne Ségur. 1965.
April 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Illustration from Baba Yaga’s Cat - a story in My Big Book of Cat Stories, written by various authors and illustrated by Adrienne Ségur. 1965.
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Harvard University has rejected the policy changes requested by the Trump Administration, becoming the first university to directly refuse to comply with their demands. Revisit Nathan Heller’s report on the school’s ongoing crisis of speech.
Will Harvard Bend or Break?
Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education.
www.newyorker.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Harvard University has rejected the policy changes requested by the Trump Administration, becoming the first university to directly refuse to comply with their demands. Revisit Nathan Heller’s report on the school’s ongoing crisis of speech.
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Trump wants to spend $45B to expand ICE detention — and let the private prison companies who bankrolled his campaign run at least a half dozen new detention centers.
This won't make us safer, but it will make the border-industrial complex even richer.
This won't make us safer, but it will make the border-industrial complex even richer.
The Truth About the U.S. Border | Robert Reich
The full story about immigration you aren't getting from politicians and the media. Watch More: The Military-Industrial
www.youtube.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump wants to spend $45B to expand ICE detention — and let the private prison companies who bankrolled his campaign run at least a half dozen new detention centers.
This won't make us safer, but it will make the border-industrial complex even richer.
This won't make us safer, but it will make the border-industrial complex even richer.
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The FDA is asking laid-off employees to temporarily return after mass cuts decimated the agency’s ability to penalize stores that sell cigarettes and vapes to minors.
The FDA fired its tobacco enforcers. Now it wants them back.
The agency asked laid-off workers to return after gutting the office that penalizes stores for selling tobacco to minors.
www.politico.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The FDA is asking laid-off employees to temporarily return after mass cuts decimated the agency’s ability to penalize stores that sell cigarettes and vapes to minors.
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The Trump regime is on the cusp of a showdown with the Supreme Court.
Depending on what the Court does and how the regime responds, it could openly become a dictatorship two ways. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/the-two-ti...
Depending on what the Court does and how the regime responds, it could openly become a dictatorship two ways. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/the-two-ti...
The two tipping points for when we officially become a dictatorship could occur this week
Friends,
robertreich.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The Trump regime is on the cusp of a showdown with the Supreme Court.
Depending on what the Court does and how the regime responds, it could openly become a dictatorship two ways. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/the-two-ti...
Depending on what the Court does and how the regime responds, it could openly become a dictatorship two ways. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/the-two-ti...
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Pete Marocco, who worked with Elon Musk’s team to oversee the dismantling of USAID and the firing of most of its roughly 10,000 workers, has left the State Department, administration officials said on Monday.
Pete Marocco, Who Helped Gut Foreign Aid for Trump, Leaves State Department
Pete Marocco oversaw the cutting of thousands of contracts at U.S.A.I.D. and the firing of most of its roughly 10,000 workers. Aid agency employees have accused him of mismanagement.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Pete Marocco, who worked with Elon Musk’s team to oversee the dismantling of USAID and the firing of most of its roughly 10,000 workers, has left the State Department, administration officials said on Monday.
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My Passover reading included this phenomenal graphic novel memoir by Ari Richter. Highly highly recommend.
bookshop.org/p/books/neve...
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Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance
A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance
bookshop.org
April 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
My Passover reading included this phenomenal graphic novel memoir by Ari Richter. Highly highly recommend.
bookshop.org/p/books/neve...
bookshop.org/p/books/neve...
The primordial poetry of Jayne Cortez. Listen up!
With son Denardo Coleman (as in Ornette Coleman).
youtu.be/-moyZ7Rld2w?...
With son Denardo Coleman (as in Ornette Coleman).
youtu.be/-moyZ7Rld2w?...
Jayne Cortez "Find Your Own Voice"
YouTube video by mediasanctuary
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February 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The primordial poetry of Jayne Cortez. Listen up!
With son Denardo Coleman (as in Ornette Coleman).
youtu.be/-moyZ7Rld2w?...
With son Denardo Coleman (as in Ornette Coleman).
youtu.be/-moyZ7Rld2w?...
"No Blood for Corporate Greed!"
My original design 2010. Stay Strong!
My original design 2010. Stay Strong!
November 16, 2024 at 2:56 PM
"No Blood for Corporate Greed!"
My original design 2010. Stay Strong!
My original design 2010. Stay Strong!
