Guitar player/teacher + photographer in NYC. All magas, theocrats, fans of the electoral college, + climate deniers cheerfully blocked on sight.
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The thing that frightens me about this isn't that kids aren't learning to write, per se. It's that learning how to write also teaches you how to think, and the downstream problems presented by a population who can't think are actually scary. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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The media demanded Biden personally solve a shortage of baby food formula and kept after him for weeks about it while Trump's FDA isn't even bothering to warn people about E. coli outbreaks and it won't even be a story by tomorrow.
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I voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, so none of this is on me. You don't get to be angry if you didn't vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. Everyone knew what was at stake, and people still voted for how they wanted regardless of all the warning signs we saw and heard.
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Re Due Process:
The term "due process" has many specific definitions but what it really means is that in the American system of jurisprudence before rights or property are taken by the state there will first be a hearing with rules ,often in public.
The government should never be permitted to take life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in the dark ,hidden from observation.
The current administration has abandoned essential due process.
What can happen to anyone can happen to everyone.
Me, everyone of you.
All of us.
But only if we refuse to watch and do not report denial of these very fundamental rights of a democracy.
You don't have to admire the victims just recognize their humanity.
Their's is yours.
eli friedmann retweeted
The long and the short of the Ukraine negotiations so far: Ukraine agreed to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire. Russia did not.
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The New York Times estimate of how many people would die from USAID cuts *this year* is just staggering. Nearly two million from AIDS relief cuts, half a million from vaccine cuts and from food aid cuts each, 600,000 from of malaria and tuberculosis cuts. Genuinely monstrous
Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in Washington.
The visit that moved me the most was to a remote area that used to have no health care, where women routinely died in childbirth. Then a US-funded maternity clinic opened through @UNFPA in December, and not one woman has died since. I showed up, and people mistakenly thought I was responsible for the clinic. One new mom wanted to name her baby for me, and the village elders thanked me and hailed America's generosity. What they didn't know was that Trump/Musk had cut all funding for UNFPA and that as a result the maternity clinic will close this month, and women will once again be bleeding to death in the dust.
Here's a giftlink to my report from ground level about what the shutdown of USAID means: nytimes.com/interactive/2025…
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Trump and Musk are bulls.
The American economy is the china shop in which they are currently loose.
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Really can't overstate the extent to which the media, which OBSESSED over grocery prices when Biden was President, is not bringing nearly the same energy now that Trump is back in office. If I didn't know better, I'd think the two men were treated differently 🤔
eli friedmann retweeted
Congestion pricing is getting more popular for one simple reason: it works.
A new poll released Monday from Siena College found that more New York City residents approve of congestion pricing than don't, a dramatic turnaround from a previous poll by the same firm back in December. buff.ly/8R8p5BK
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Republicans are in damage control. They know their extreme policies are causing harm.
That’s why they're claiming a “short term interruption” & “natural adjustment.”
It’s code for: Prices are still going up, but hopefully this chaos distracts you from our billionaire tax cuts.
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Had Biden launched a memecoin in Jan 2021 and made billions from it while president, Fox would still be broadcasting special live coverage right now. I know this type of observation is tiresome, but the asymmetry is astounding. (Also note the euphemistic use of “personal element” below when “corruption” is more accurate.)
Trump was regaling donors at Mar-a-Lago about all his administration was doing for the crypto industry when he turned to a more personal element: all the crypto money he is making as president. He marveled at how much $ his memecoin could bring in and asked the audience if they knew what the coin was worth. (The answer: a market cap of $13 billion.)
How Trump came to embrace crypto, politically and personally, w/@jdawsey1 @elizacollins1:
wsj.com/politics/policy/trum…
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Everyone who voted for this - almost every House GOP - voted to cut Medicaid.
When they try to pretend later that they didn’t, know that they are lying to you.
This was the vote. They knew it, we knew it, CBO confirms it.
Good news is we can still defeat it. Time to organize.
eli friedmann retweeted
The American Medical Association is urging the public to get vaccinated against the measles if not already immune:
"Measles is extremely contagious and can cause life-threatening illness. There is no cure or specific antiviral treatment for measles. Vaccination remains the best defense against measles infection. Vaccination not only prevents infection, measles-related complications and even death, but also helps prevent further spread."
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A federal judge has indefinitely blocked the Trump administration's federal funding freeze, criticizing the move as "irrational" and "imprudent" cnn.it/4kdziBo
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Great profile of Janno Lieber by the NYT's new transit reporter @stefanoschen who "could one day be regarded as the next Richard Ravitch" nyti.ms/4k40XEP
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Trump Cabinet member and top economic adviser Howard Lutnick says he and Elon Musk have determined that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are “wrong” and that they will be cut by “one trillion” dollars
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Eggs and coffee around 20 percent more expensive. Airplanes crashing. Mass layoffs. Tariffs. Data breaches. Shutting down energy projects. Letting food and medicine rot. Either they are really shitty at helping you, or you are not the one they want to help.
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every dumb fuck right winger and techbro is stumbling their way around the federal budget like "where the hell does all this money go?"
dude it's old people and the military, it has always been old people and the military, how did you not know it was old people and the military