Oh - he’s taking a senior correspondent role - MY BAD! 😂

We are gonna miss David Brancaccio! ❤️

Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash Powerful lobbies are hindering a digital transition by America’s huge network of some 4,500 banks

Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash - @bhgreeley.bsky.social here on the problems of US payments and why that means he has to pay with dollar notes at his local store with doughnuts that are “definitional” www.ft.com/content/8766...

I read that article this AM - great work! ✅

Financial Times: “…a federal judge last week barred the OPM from firing probationary workers at specific government departments, clarifying that the office “does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees at another agency”.”

30% voted for Trump, 40% didn’t/couldn’t vote: “as a nation” isn’t quite right…

You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today?

Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!

Budapest Memorandum - Wikipedia

What ever happened to keeping our promises?
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...

John Deere investors firmly reject anti-DEI resolutions at annual meeting Investors at John Deere's annual meeting reject anti-DEI resolutions despite company distancing itself from diversity measures

<snicker>
“… only 1.3% of votes cast were in support of a resolution calling on the company to report on racial and gender hiring statistics "to prove it does not practice discrimination."
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/...

UGH 😥

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

Donate to Support Mark Sturbois' Final Journey, organized by Mark Sturbois I'm Mark Sturbois. February before last I was diagnosed with terminal cancer and gi… Mark Sturbois needs your support for Support Mark Sturbois' Final Journey

If you could help my brother Mark out by chipping in, I’d appreciate it: he’s been my mentor on so many things related to civic engagement and organizing…
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...

IDEA: Musk should release The CyberChip!

EW 2 U 2 !!!

RIP Jimmy Carter 🌹

Trump Has Lost His Popular-Vote Majority Let’s be clear about the limited nature of what he calls an “unprecedented and powerful mandate” from voters.

“Though it looked like he was over 50 percent on Election Night, the steady drip of late ballots has eroded his percentage to (currently) 49.87 percent, with further slippage very likely before all the votes are in.”
nymag.com/intelligence...

Opinion | The blurred line between X and the Trump administration Forget the ridiculous "Twitter Files." This is what it actually looks like when a social media company works in concert with the government.

Hey, I've written something for MSNBC (first time I've written for them). www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

No thanks, “Mrak”—I’m good! #blocked

china: leading the way with green energy tech
and the largest annual emitter of greenhouse gases in the world

think: texas but bigger

FT: “Andriy Kovalenko, a [UKR] National Security and Defense Council official, wrote on Telegram that the Karachev arsenal contained artillery, glide bombs, anti-aircraft missiles and ammunition for weapons systems supplied by North Korea.”

*Financial Times

Kayse Jama is Oregon’s new SENATE MAJORITY LEADER!!!

www.oregonlegislature.gov/senatedemocr...

Graph demonstrating rates of vaccine preventable illness decreasing over time

Vaccination saves lives. Period.

number of oil/gas lobbyists at cop29 this year: >1700
if they were a country, would be third largest delegation in attendance

Hypothetical. I'm curious what people think. If the DOGE agency worked on the premise that half of all savings in a federal program were distributed as increased benefits to qualified recipients, would you consider the details ?

Fun thing about measles: it frequently erases all of your immune system “memory”. Have a great day!

The Onion acquires Alex Jones' Infowars The Onion will relaunch a new version of Infowars with Everytown for Gun Safety.

#NotTheOnion
www.axios.com/2024/11/14/a...

Trump would like to bring back mental institutions, but experts are skeptical Permanent tent cities are another idea Trump has for dealing with people who are unhoused. Sequestering people with mental illness or substance abuse in one place has been tried, an expert says, and "it turns into hell on earth."

“Experts say this law-and-order approach has already been tried, and failed.

"Independent of whether you think it's a good idea, I just don't see that happening," says Keith Humphreys, professor of psychology who studies addiction medicine at Stanford University.”
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Was there today for the H.R. 9495 vote (bill that would have allowed labeling nonprofits as terrorist supporting organizations).

Voted no, of course - but I do want to report that the activism DID work and persuaded members.

I thought it’d be a lonely NO vote, which we take often. It wasn’t.