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presidentgrant.bsky.social
DataViz, Maps, Philosophy, Cosmology, Liberalism
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Every federal employee that works with confidential or secret information: I fucking can’t do that bitch

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

MORGAN STANLEY: “.. Immigration averaged about 3mn per year in 2022-24 .. “We think immigration falls to 1mn this year and only 500,000 next year. .. Slower immigration could pull short-run potential GDP growth down from 2.5-3.0% in 2022-24 to 2.0% this year and 1-1.5% next.”

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

submitted 8 days ago • 2783 comments

“What do they want, more fires?” Mary Louise Knapp, a Montana resident who has worked with the department on fire resiliency in her own neighborhood, said of the Trump administration. 🔥 essential reporting by Mark Olalde

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

Do these people want to live in a world where only cis straight white dudes make your coffee? Lmao

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Mindscape Bonus Episode | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter. I try to lay things out in a way that would be informative to partisans on both sides of the spectrum (with my own views perfectly evident). #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

The four charts that lead me to believe the economy continues to slow in a concerning way: 1) the average workweek is very low 2) manufacturing job growth is negative and is worsening 3) the hires rate remains early 2010’s sluggish 4) the largest publicly-traded homebuilder stock is cratering

submitted 14 days ago • 48 comments

Elon Musk and the DOGE engineers are the best argument for the Humanities

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

From the U-Mich consumer survey: "Year-ahead inflation expectations jumped up from 3.3% last month to 4.3% this month, the highest reading since November 2023 and marking two consecutive months of unusually large increases." It'll be interesting to see if the NY Fed survey shows a similar move.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

For perspective, about 150,000 federal workers voluntarily leave the government every year. Another 50,000 to 60,000 are fired for disciplinary or performance reasons, or because their appointments or funds expired. Around 3,400 die each year while employed. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

submitted 17 days ago • 108 comments

“The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking to withdraw all papers involving its researchers that are being considered for publication by external scientific journals to allow for a review by the Trump administration” 🧪 www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

submitted 20 days ago • 139 comments

You've probably heard that "we are stardust," but this graphic breaks it down and tells you what kind of stars your dust came from--and which elements didn't come from stars at all. 🧪 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13873/

submitted 25 days ago • 21 comments