Laurie A ✍️

@HackingButLegal & Stephen Miller saying Project 2025 didn’t start until 2023 is laughable. 1 - dude, didn’t you say you had nothing to do with it, yet now you’re arguing about when it started?! 2 - they created the domain in 2018 🤦‍♀️

When DOGE started cutting National Weather Service staff, there were also cuts in the number of daily balloon launches to gather weather data. The graphic on the left is what went up today at 8 am EDT (1200z). The graphic on the right is from May 2, 2023.

If you want to know the latest news on DOGE goons stealing your Social Security data, listen to this new interview with SSW's President Nancy Altman.

The FDA has approved the first gene therapy for genetic hearing loss, which drugmaker Regeneron says it will offer for free to U.S. patients. nbcnews.com/health/health-…

- No universal healthcare - No paid family leave - No universal childcare - No tuition-free public college - Price gouged on food and housing We’ve exploited people to the point where starting a family is considered a luxury.

The sexual predator arrested for first-degree attempted kidnapping of a barista that was caught on video just outside of Seattle has been released from jail on cashless bail. This is precisely why women in America are being raped and murdered by repeat offenders.

The Chicago-Naperville area was graded "F," as more than 2 million Illinois children experienced unhealthy air the annual "State of the Air" report released on Earth Day by the American Lung Association. chicago.suntimes.com/environment/20…

I respect what Sanders is trying to do, but a senator (irrespective of his being 84 yrs old) with no background in tech should not be deciding which positions on AI are credible or what types of guardrails will make it safe (economically and existentially) for all of us

RFK Jr has said screening for prevention is critical,but then he cuts all the funding for Preventatives like Mammograms!

Pro tip for businesses that can't find workers: minimum wage is the lowest amount you're legally permitted to pay someone, that doesn't mean it's the market rate for the labour you're asking for.

That didn't take long: Logan Circle sign thanking President Trump for the ongoing renovation now reads:

Op ed calls for air quality monitors in every public school classroom in Illinois. The supporting bill awaits a vote in the IL State House. (link in next)

NEW: Lue Elizondo says a legacy UFO program engineer and a DOE OIG Special Agent whistleblower with knowledge of UAP files both mysteriously died while in talks with himself and Christopher Mellon “I was arranging for this individual to meet with members of Congress.” Elizondo says U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer Matthew Sullivan was found dead in a Washington D.C. hotel. “He was going to go public and talk to Congress.”

A company funded by the CIA, used for predictive policing, mass data fusion, overseas targeting ops, and founded by Jeffrey Epstein's "great friend," is now responsible for keeping America’s food “safe.” Totally normal. Nothing to see here.

They now have AI robots that can keep working even when they lose parts. Humanity has no idea what’s coming. They’re going to replace most of our jobs and anyone who thinks the billionaire class is going to help us with UBI is delusional. They don’t care about us now and they’ll care about us even less when they don’t need our labor. Humanity’s only hope is a revolution to collectively own the means of technology so we all profit from it.

An Epstein survivor speaks directly to Trump. Anoushka wants him to know she will gladly testify anywhere under oath to attempt to get some accountability for the survivors of these horrific crimes. #DemsUnited

9,000 Microsoft employees did everything right. Top schools. FAANG resumes. $200K salaries. Still got replaced by a line item in an AI budget. Senior engineers. Directors. PMs with FAANG resumes and 15-year careers. The memo called it “voluntary retirement.” Nobody volunteered. Here’s the part nobody’s saying out loud: Microsoft is cutting humans to pay for AI. The same people who built the company are now funding the technology that made them unnecessary. No performance review saves you from a budget decision. This is what the AI transition actually looks like. Not robots. Just a reallocation of spend.

at this point it’s hilarious. julian casablancas dares to criticize america, israel and zionists in the western world and now you got a major newspaper implying he’s an epstein affiliate. well he was a child in 91 so at most he’s an epstein victim.

One of the drawbacks of denying a problem exists is you can't warn against this entering the blood bank supply.

It has been so deeply depressing seeing more and more information come out confirming that children are getting seriously harmed by repeated COVID infections and yet still no movement in left spaces to be the adults in the room and get serious about clean air & issue advocacy

🦔Deloitte is cutting parental leave from 16 weeks to 8 weeks, reducing PTO by 5 to 10 days, eliminating $50,000 in IVF and adoption reimbursement, and freezing pension accruals for employees in internal support roles including admin, IT, and finance, effective January 2027. The company employs 181,000 people in the US and posted $35.7 billion in revenue last year, up 8%. A spokesperson described the changes as tailoring benefits to better align with the marketplace. My Take Deloitte charges clients hundreds of thousands of dollars to advise them on workforce strategy while cutting parental leave in half and eliminating IVF coverage for the people keeping its own systems running. The internal support staff losing these benefits aren't junior consultants billing 70-hour weeks on client engagements. They're the IT, finance, and admin employees whose work makes the billable side of the business function. I don't buy the marketplace alignment argument. Deloitte grew revenue 8% last year and posted $35.7 billion. This isn't a company making hard choices under financial pressure. It's a company making easy choices because the job market is weak enough that it can. Cutting parental leave and IVF coverage isn't trimming a perk. It's a decision about whose family planning the company considers worth supporting, and the answer landed on the employees with the least leverage to push back. That lets me know everything about how these companies view the people who aren't directly billable. Hedgie🤗