Valerie
@valeriekramer.bsky.social
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Scientists, as well as bureaucrats.
This is the head of OMB, folks. He coauthored Project 2025. This is the playbook we are seeing with the attacks on DEI efforts, on healthcare, on NSF and NIH funding.
They want us out of the way so they can destroy many institutions and resegregate the rest.
This is the head of OMB, folks. He coauthored Project 2025. This is the playbook we are seeing with the attacks on DEI efforts, on healthcare, on NSF and NIH funding.
They want us out of the way so they can destroy many institutions and resegregate the rest.
“We Want the Bureaucrats to Be Traumatically Affected”
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Scientists, as well as bureaucrats.
This is the head of OMB, folks. He coauthored Project 2025. This is the playbook we are seeing with the attacks on DEI efforts, on healthcare, on NSF and NIH funding.
They want us out of the way so they can destroy many institutions and resegregate the rest.
This is the head of OMB, folks. He coauthored Project 2025. This is the playbook we are seeing with the attacks on DEI efforts, on healthcare, on NSF and NIH funding.
They want us out of the way so they can destroy many institutions and resegregate the rest.
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Trump and Apple better tell the UK to go to hell with its demand to access Americans’ private, encrypted texts and files. Trump and American tech companies letting foreign governments secretly spy on Americans would be an unmitigated privacy and national security disaster.
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying
If implemented, the secret order would give the UK access to encrypted backups belonging to any user — not just Brits.
buff.ly
February 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Trump and Apple better tell the UK to go to hell with its demand to access Americans’ private, encrypted texts and files. Trump and American tech companies letting foreign governments secretly spy on Americans would be an unmitigated privacy and national security disaster.
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Next theme is Black inventors
Day 8 - Garrett A Morgan
www.biography.com/inventors/ga...
#BlackHistoryMonth
Day 8 - Garrett A Morgan
www.biography.com/inventors/ga...
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Next theme is Black inventors
Day 8 - Garrett A Morgan
www.biography.com/inventors/ga...
#BlackHistoryMonth
Day 8 - Garrett A Morgan
www.biography.com/inventors/ga...
#BlackHistoryMonth
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One reason Donald Trump is going after USAID: Polls show Americans think foreign aid is about a quarter of the US budget.
It's actually ~1%.
Across the board there's a disconnect between actual gov't spending and perceptions of gov't spending.
From the Brookings Institution:
It's actually ~1%.
Across the board there's a disconnect between actual gov't spending and perceptions of gov't spending.
From the Brookings Institution:
February 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
One reason Donald Trump is going after USAID: Polls show Americans think foreign aid is about a quarter of the US budget.
It's actually ~1%.
Across the board there's a disconnect between actual gov't spending and perceptions of gov't spending.
From the Brookings Institution:
It's actually ~1%.
Across the board there's a disconnect between actual gov't spending and perceptions of gov't spending.
From the Brookings Institution:
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An Elon Musk staffer misused the U.S. Marshals Service by falsely invoking their authority to intimidate. USAID security personnel were threatened with action by the federal Marshals Service.
February 3, 2025 at 5:41 AM
An Elon Musk staffer misused the U.S. Marshals Service by falsely invoking their authority to intimidate. USAID security personnel were threatened with action by the federal Marshals Service.
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Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
February 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
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Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.
February 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.
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A few things Trump just made more expensive for you:
Gas
Cars
TVs
iPhones
Xboxes
Avocados
Strawberries
Furniture
Power tools
Modelo
Refrigerators
Microwaves
Clothes
Bananas
Tequila
Maple syrup
Gas
Cars
TVs
iPhones
Xboxes
Avocados
Strawberries
Furniture
Power tools
Modelo
Refrigerators
Microwaves
Clothes
Bananas
Tequila
Maple syrup
Trump slaps tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, risking higher prices for U.S. consumers.
Trump slaps tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, risking higher prices for U.S. consumers
The new levies on America’s top trade partners could drive prices higher for cars, electronics, lumber and more, threatening to crimp an economy that the president has vowed to improve.
www.nbcnews.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A few things Trump just made more expensive for you:
Gas
Cars
TVs
iPhones
Xboxes
Avocados
Strawberries
Furniture
Power tools
Modelo
Refrigerators
Microwaves
Clothes
Bananas
Tequila
Maple syrup
Gas
Cars
TVs
iPhones
Xboxes
Avocados
Strawberries
Furniture
Power tools
Modelo
Refrigerators
Microwaves
Clothes
Bananas
Tequila
Maple syrup
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Department of Transportation order signed by the secretary tells staff to “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” including on certain grant programs. It bars recipients of funding “from imposing vaccine and mask mandates.”
January 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Department of Transportation order signed by the secretary tells staff to “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” including on certain grant programs. It bars recipients of funding “from imposing vaccine and mask mandates.”
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This is a great question for all of congress to think about.
Hypothetically,If FEMA goes away, what happens to home owners and other insurance rates ?
Climate change looks like it will make rates so high, home insurers will want equity in your house as a way of holding down rates
Hypothetically,If FEMA goes away, what happens to home owners and other insurance rates ?
Climate change looks like it will make rates so high, home insurers will want equity in your house as a way of holding down rates
I wonder how much the dissolution of FEMA and cancellation of flooding infrastructure programs is going to increase insurance premiums?
Especially as the population ages, inflation spikes, and a large % of housing stock is used as short term rentals in high risk areas.
Especially as the population ages, inflation spikes, and a large % of housing stock is used as short term rentals in high risk areas.
January 29, 2025 at 5:24 AM
This is a great question for all of congress to think about.
Hypothetically,If FEMA goes away, what happens to home owners and other insurance rates ?
Climate change looks like it will make rates so high, home insurers will want equity in your house as a way of holding down rates
Hypothetically,If FEMA goes away, what happens to home owners and other insurance rates ?
Climate change looks like it will make rates so high, home insurers will want equity in your house as a way of holding down rates
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59-34, Senate votes to confirm Kristi Noem to be DHS secretary.
The Democrats who voted YES:
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
Kim
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
The Democrats who voted YES:
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
Kim
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
January 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
59-34, Senate votes to confirm Kristi Noem to be DHS secretary.
The Democrats who voted YES:
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
Kim
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
The Democrats who voted YES:
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
Kim
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin