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Crested Butte’s 4,000 residents could lose their post office amid federal government upheaval

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Also more than this year's U.S. budget.

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Trump went to a LIV golf tournament instead of attending the dignified transfer of four U.S. Army soldiers who died in Lithuania. If you're wondering why this is so disgusting and insulting, I wrote about my time in the Army doing dignified transfers here: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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"The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday that it will end a mortgage-rescue program designed to help veterans who have fallen behind on their mortgages keep their homes."

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In an alternate timeline, President Harris signed into law today legislation imposing a 0.5% Social Security surcharge on those making more then $1 million a year. This ensures that Social Security will be fully funded for as far out as we can see.

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electrek.co/2025/04/02/d...

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New Book: TL;DR: Financial Literacy for Montana Public School Teachers: Optimizing Financial Decisions Based on Your TRS Benefits fischfinancial.org/2025/04/03/t... Please consider sharing with folks in Montana.

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#PairedTexts 5 months ago vs. today

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This is true: The Trump administration said it has imposed a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose only inhabitants are the U.S. and U.K. service members at the military base on Diego Garcia.

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Maybe it's April Fools' Month?

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We heard anecdotally that Canadians weren’t visiting the states, now we have the data. A massive, shocking drop.

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Announcing My New Podcast: Teaching You To Fisch fischfinancial.org/2025/04/02/a...

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Remember these guys did multiple days about a squirrel that was killed by animal control right before the election as if it was the crime of the century. And now they're dismissing human trafficking an innocent guy to a foreign slave labor camp as no big deal.

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Oh man, I really want to see the Trump speech where he urges Americans to make "victory gardens" to feed themselves and to take part in scrap metal drives and to give up staples like coffee and ...

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Apply for The Colorado Sun’s free summer journalism camp for teens

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REMINDER: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration. So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY. Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.

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New Book: TL;DR: Financial Literacy for Delaware Public School Teachers: Optimizing Financial Decisions Based on Your SEPP Benefits fischfinancial.org/2025/04/01/t... Please consider sharing with folks you know in Delaware.

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"Hi Senator I am a voter in [your home zip code] and I saw what Sen. Booker did for others and I want that for me. Good day". A phone call like this is worth 10,000 quote posts.

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Such a distillation of the con: guess who got Musk's $1 million check yesterday? The head of the Wisconsin College Republicans. meidasnews.com/news/republi...

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New Book: TL;DR: Financial Literacy for Hawaii Public School Teachers: Optimizing Financial Decisions Based on Your ERS Benefits fischfinancial.org/2025/03/31/t... Please consider sharing with anyone you know in Hawaii.

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White House aide Peter Navarro claimed Sunday that President Donald Trump’s new tariffs would raise more than $6 trillion in federal revenue over the next decade, a figure that experts said would almost certainly represent the largest peacetime tax hike in modern U.S. history.

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This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

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The Texas measles outbreak has hit 400 cases Of the 400 cases, 398 were people who were unvaccinated or had an unknown vaccination status

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"A 25% tariff will completely blow apart the business case for entry-level vehicles"

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@jessedjenkins.com @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social re: data center episode. Have you talked/written anything about the use of the heat that is generated? I assume that folks are using that in some shape or form for economic reasons, but I haven't heard you talk about it (or I don't remember it :-)

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Calling all high school artists! The search is on for the next great artists in our community. Submit your work by April 14 to compete in the 2025 Congressional Art Competition! The winner will have their work displayed in the US Capitol. Apply today! 👇

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Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

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This is a bad idea, unless it contains a provision to make PERA whole if the investment returns from the $500 million don't cover the decrease in the direct distribution (which I very much doubt there is such a provision).

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If you know anyone that takes Sprycell, please let them know !!!

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Helen Reddy he's not...

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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP scienceimpacts.org

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Exciting news in windows (really). www.wsj.com/business/cor... archive.ph/amrO3

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www.nasa.gov/earth/arctic...

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www.forkingpaths.co/p/on-power-a...

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Making polio great again.

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No child is “lost” when 2. This is bogus race-“science” argument for children of color as in “born criminal.” Know what you’re hearing. This refrain will increase.

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GOP Rep. Bacon: "Everybody that reads the messages knows that it was inappropriate for the secretary of defense to put when we were gonna bomb Yemen, when the aircraft are taking off ... I have no doubt that Russia and China are able to read those messages. I would be very surprised if they did not"

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GOP Rep. Bacon on the Trump administration's handling of SignalGate: "The credibility is suspect when you cannot even admit that this was wrong."

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