Diane
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Diane
@soonerdi.bsky.social
Jesus Lover. Retired teacher. Blessed wife, mom, grandmother. New England transplant from OK. Sooners, Red Sox, OKC Thunder, Bruins.
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There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic.

Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...
February 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts.

NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms.

This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.
February 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This tells you who their constituents are. Not American voters. Not Americans at all.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Pam Bondi ends FBI effort to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics
The order also curbs prosecutions of Americans who improperly lobby for foreign nations. President Donald Trump says Republicans were unfairly targeted in the past.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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breaking a 103-year silence "by rigorous examination and a full accounting of one of the darkest episodes of our nation’s past. This report lays bare new information and shows that the massacre was the result not of uncontrolled mob violence, but of a coordinated, military-style attack on Greenwood”
DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review
DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
An excellent read or listen!
November 19, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Bluesky,

Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this

I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
November 11, 2024 at 2:49 PM