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On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

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this says Doge staff marked 4 million people as dead in the social security master death index (death master file) system and there's a huge backlog to fix it not just the 6K very alive immigrants they've been harassing archive.is/qPNiu

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A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

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This is the kind of honey trap that the CFPB would have been helpful to look out for. Now that you’re on your own, be careful out there. marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/04/medi...

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An increase in unemployment will reduce earnings for everyone, and not just those who lose jobs In the past four decades hourly wages for typical workers have only grown when labor markets are tight and employers have to compete for workers www.epi.org/blog/how-sho...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: "The United States government quite literally disappeared these people. It won't say where they are. We don't know. Their families do not know where they are. And they have essentially no recourse in U.S. courts because there are no records of their whereabouts."

submitted 2 days ago • 245 comments

This made my stomach drop. How can anyone support a system that includes this?

submitted 3 days ago • 54 comments

The House & Senate majorities have immense responsibility for enabling this administration. Every day. Every decision. They permit it. They enable it. They own it.

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

every foreign intelligence agency right now

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

hummingbird cake with strawberry cream cheese frosting

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

finally made @wordloaf.org's insanely delicious biscuits

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

@upjohninstitute.bsky.social is a great place to work with good people on interesting research. We're looking for a new full-time, permanent RA. Kalamazoo is cool, too. Reasonable cost of living and probably more microbreweries per capita than oh, say, around 92% of cities its size.

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Love labor and employment research? New opportunity to join the team @upjohninstitute.bsky.social in Kalamazoo as a research analyst. Bachelors required, more experience & education desirable. #econ_ra www.upjohn.org/sites/defaul...

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Foreign travelers and students in the US are some of our most important exports, equal to nearly three quarters of the entire US trade surplus in services ($300 billion annually)

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Applications are now open for the next RFBerlin Handbook Masterclass! Join Arindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner in Berlin on for two days of in-depth teaching on Minimum Wages in the 21st Century. Apply now: www.rfberlin.com/event/rfberl...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

submitted 8 days ago • 592 comments

The Trump Administration was more than twice as likely to fire Black and Hispanic or female scientists than it was to fire white or male scientists www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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IRS Direct File is clear-cut government success story, a shining example of efficiency and social value Every year it will save Americans billions of dollars and hundreds of millions of hours in tax preparation costs So of course Trump and Musk want to kill it

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26 states have launched their own version of DOGE ⚠️ But these efforts are not really about promoting "efficiency." Republicans are simply rebranding longstanding efforts to undermine government & prioritize the wealthy at the expense of workers. www.epi.org/blog/at-leas...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

The total gutting of the IRS will have one main consequence: a surge in tax evasion by the wealthy Working-class and middle-class individuals don't evade a lot, because they can't High-income individuals do, because they can & because an industry helps them do it

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

awful outlook from the latest New York Fed regional manufacturing survey

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Everything you ever wanted to know about immigration and the economy: a new FAQ @epi.org www.epi.org/publication/...

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Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 10 days ago • 368 comments

Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

submitted 10 days ago • 35 comments

This is true & anti-American.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Exiling people beyond the protection of US law without due process is not only unconstitutional, it's a rejection of the entire American revolutionary project. Sending people "beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" is one of the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.

submitted 12 days ago • 82 comments

Trump just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it “unwarranted.”

submitted 13 days ago • 1123 comments

A second new position at @capolicylab.bsky.social - this one for a research manager for our criminal justice work.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

How many kids' lives will be ruined because of the Trump Administration and their so-called "government savings"? www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...

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Either the Social Security Administration's real-time performance tracker is broken or right now is the perfect time to call. www.ssa.gov/ssa-performa...

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🚨🚨🚨 "Things are going to break, and they’re going to break fast" says a regional Social Security Commissioner federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-overs...

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yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

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She has broken ZERO LAWS and she is now imprisoned because she wrote an op-ed.

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The Trump admin is actively pushing deindustrialization

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Why does the Trump Administration despise federal employees? One reason is that most of them are union members www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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"The government’s three main payroll processors have all surreptitiously ceased collecting union dues directly from employees’ paychecks." www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

submitted 15 days ago • 862 comments

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

submitted 15 days ago • 523 comments

We are hiring an education researcher to join the @capolicylab.bsky.social and @berkeleycshe.bsky.social teams. You'll work on projects using administrative data relating to California higher education. Here's more information: capolicylab.org/careers/rese...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The weirdest part of the “let’s run the government like a business” nonsense is that the idiots spouting it always tend to take a dim view of the “bringing in money” aspect, which I’m told is actually a pretty big goal in business

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Last week, ICE agents violently removed farmworker organizer and advocate Alfredo Juarez from his car while dropping his partner off at work. He was likely targeted because of his work for farmworkers’ basic rights, such as overtime pay & protections from extreme heat. www.epi.org/blog/ice-und...

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments