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tomlovesdata.bsky.social
Someone once accused me of being too damn curious, and I took it as a compliment. Data and design nerd, history and economics obsessed, eternally curious as to how the world works. Find me on Medium: medium.com/@seiple.tom *Views are my own*
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.... —F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, p 179 (1925)

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In Nazi Germany, the targeted population was encouraged to self-deport and the state sought to impoverish them to force them to leave.

submitted 5 days ago • 97 comments

i made a chart to save their time and effort today

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

submitted 7 days ago • 134 comments

Most of the world’s foreign aid comes from governments, not philanthropic foundations

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

This is the truth. Republicans could put an immediate end to this insanity. They own this.

submitted 9 days ago • 186 comments

Nobody should have been sent there, period. Not the ones with no record, not the ones with a record. Nobody.

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

The best evidence we have that he has absolutely no idea what he is doing.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

The most frustrating thing about this whole manufacturing bullshit tariff debacle is that there ARE good jobs that we need to be funding here have here that can’t be outsourced. It’s called the Green New Deal.

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff

submitted 9 days ago • 1747 comments

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

submitted 10 days ago • 1029 comments

I’ve worked on these types of global data architecture consolidations before. It takes months if not years of planning and work from all levels of the organization. This will break. It will cause errors. It will create chaos.

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THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

submitted 13 days ago • 303 comments

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

submitted 13 days ago • 817 comments

Harris Faulkner's Fox News show has been on for 20 minutes now. She has not mentioned tariffs or stocks once and a stock ticker isn't being displayed. Strong state media vibes.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...

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ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses. It's the third highest monthly total on record.

submitted 12 days ago • 611 comments

For over a decade I’ve been a hobbyist election analyst. I have NEVER seen an entire county map shift for a single party. Never. This is 2008 Obama levels of shifts. But it’s so much bigger, the Obama climate was far less partisan compared to now. This is a SHOCKING shift!

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If senate dems want @booker.senate.gov’s filibuster to be anything other than performative, they should all organize to agree this happens EVERY TIME the republicans move to pass legislation. Delaying for 18+ hours is admirable, but doing so every single time delays republicans by weeks or months.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Here’s your chance to do something. Click here and send the link to all your friends, and urge them to come out too.

submitted 17 days ago • 149 comments

This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.

submitted 17 days ago • 211 comments

Gorgeous article about time zones by @oliviafvane.bsky.social, just in time for National What-Time-Is-It-Actually Day www.economist.com/interactive/...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

It’s #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday! The theme this week is “arch”. Sometimes, you find something, and all you have is your phone. This church in #Oaxaca was stunning in the evening light last year. The sun and stain glass created brilliant colors on the walls and ceiling.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Musk is bailing himself out of a sinking ship by off loading Twitter onto one of his start ups, all at the expense of investor money. Not only is this absolutely shady, but also suggests he’s cash strapped and concerned about debt.

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