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Demographer, sociologist, health policy researcher, movie buff. I endeavor to make data accurately reflect who we are and appreciate cinema that is trying to do the same.
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(I wrote this early in May when the budget overview came out. New document released today offers the details re NASA)
SpaceX could win billions of dollars in new contracts if President Trump’s budget proposal is approved by Congress.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u...
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And I will note again that the amount of money they are diverting to immigration detention is equivalent to a the entire NIH's yearly budget. So instead of cures for cancer, we will likely just get more kids in cages.
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DOJ had assured a federal appeals court court that Melgar-Salmeron wouldn't be deported before May 8-9. But after the court issued a May 7 order blocking his deportation, ICE put him on a plane just minutes later and told the court he was gone. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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An interesting pattern: Two Trump-appointed judges have now declared that Trump does not have the power to simply invent emergencies by decree.
This is the real reason Stephen Miller and others are so furious. It's *that* power that they want for Trump.
newrepublic.com/article/1959...
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Trump often fearmongers about an “invasion” of unauthorized immigrants. Now he's manifesting those fever dreams into reality through a mass “de-documentation” campaign.
This is not an immigration agenda that targets criminals; it’s one that criminalizes immigrants who follow the law
wapo.st/3HvBBka
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That "84% of CBO is Democrat," by the way, is based on some right-wing fever swamp report that looked at one division with about 1/10th of total CBO employees. The big smoking gun is that one guy gave $300 to the Kerry campaign 21 years ago. Really.
www.foxnews.com/politics/non...