kyle
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There is a fundamental disconnect between the K-12 public school system and the labor market demands faced by parents. Before age 5, after 3:00pm, and during the summer, parents are on their own to find a safe place for their children.
I propose a solution:
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
I propose a solution:
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Whole Child, Whole Day, Whole Year: Assembling a Comprehensive Child Development System for America - Roosevelt Institute
In a new report, economist Kathryn Anne Edwards makes the case for a comprehensive Child Development System supported by federal funds that would provide every child the right to a safe environment wh...
rooseveltinstitute.org
June 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
There is a fundamental disconnect between the K-12 public school system and the labor market demands faced by parents. Before age 5, after 3:00pm, and during the summer, parents are on their own to find a safe place for their children.
I propose a solution:
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
I propose a solution:
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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When you read about the slide from democracy to "competitive authoritarianism" in other countries, it's composed of things like this. No big, sudden breaches, the kind that might spark widespread resistance. Just crossing these little lines, one at a time, each one a seemingly small thing ...
Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)
June 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
When you read about the slide from democracy to "competitive authoritarianism" in other countries, it's composed of things like this. No big, sudden breaches, the kind that might spark widespread resistance. Just crossing these little lines, one at a time, each one a seemingly small thing ...
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Palmer: Charges should be brought against each one of you
AOC: Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation is it not?
Palmer: I strike those words
AOC: Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation is it not?
Palmer: I strike those words
June 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Palmer: Charges should be brought against each one of you
AOC: Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation is it not?
Palmer: I strike those words
AOC: Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation is it not?
Palmer: I strike those words
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If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.
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Media organizations firing any journalist whom the president decides he doesn't like. This is not the free press guaranteed in our Constitution. This is un-American.
Executives at Disney’s ABC News woke up Sunday morning to a social-media firestorm that put them in the Trump administration’s crosshairs.
Two days later, they ousted a veteran correspondent.
Two days later, they ousted a veteran correspondent.
Inside ABC News’s Decision to Oust a Longtime Correspondent
on.wsj.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Media organizations firing any journalist whom the president decides he doesn't like. This is not the free press guaranteed in our Constitution. This is un-American.
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They're literally doing the meme
June 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
They're literally doing the meme
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Tammy Bruce: "The thing that matters when it comes to American policy and what's happening is what President Trump thinks and says."
June 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Tammy Bruce: "The thing that matters when it comes to American policy and what's happening is what President Trump thinks and says."
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REPORTER: When could the administration resume interviews for foreign students visa?
TRUMP: On what?
REPORTER: Foreign student visas
TRUMP: For the French?
REPORTER: All the foreign students
TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?
TRUMP: On what?
REPORTER: Foreign student visas
TRUMP: For the French?
REPORTER: All the foreign students
TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?
May 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
REPORTER: When could the administration resume interviews for foreign students visa?
TRUMP: On what?
REPORTER: Foreign student visas
TRUMP: For the French?
REPORTER: All the foreign students
TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?
TRUMP: On what?
REPORTER: Foreign student visas
TRUMP: For the French?
REPORTER: All the foreign students
TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?
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The findings indicate that, in some areas, “even the coolest growing season in the present day is warmer than the warmest season that would have occurred 50 years ago”.
www.carbonbrief.org/global-wheat...
www.carbonbrief.org/global-wheat...
Global wheat yields would be ‘10%’ higher without climate change - Carbon Brief
Global yields of wheat are around 10% lower now than they would have been without the influence of climate change, according to a new study.
www.carbonbrief.org
May 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The findings indicate that, in some areas, “even the coolest growing season in the present day is warmer than the warmest season that would have occurred 50 years ago”.
www.carbonbrief.org/global-wheat...
www.carbonbrief.org/global-wheat...
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Media coverage of a personalist regime:
Q: What will the mad king do?
A: I don't know.
Q: What will the mad king do?
A: I don't know.
CNBC: Are you thinking eventually tariffs will get down to the level that businesses can negotiate within -- 10% or less -- or do you think a lot of this is going to be paid by the American consumer too?
HASSETT: Well in the end that's going to be up to the president
HASSETT: Well in the end that's going to be up to the president
May 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Media coverage of a personalist regime:
Q: What will the mad king do?
A: I don't know.
Q: What will the mad king do?
A: I don't know.
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Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."
April 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."
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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs chair Sen. Ron Johnson says that 9/11 was a "controlled demolition" and there has been a "cover up" of massive amounts of evidence, many "questions" need to be answered:
jeez louise -- Sen. Ron Johnson and Benny Johnson suggest 9/11 was an inside job and Johnson says he wants to hold hearings
April 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs chair Sen. Ron Johnson says that 9/11 was a "controlled demolition" and there has been a "cover up" of massive amounts of evidence, many "questions" need to be answered:
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For nearly 15 years the US Dept of Interior's Climate Adaptation* Science Centers have supported hundreds of scientists studying how ecosystems respond to climate change & pollution, invasive species, sustainable wildlife & wild lands management, and more.
Now the admin wants to cancel them all.
Now the admin wants to cancel them all.
Trump swings budget ax at USGS biology research
Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress
www.science.org
April 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
For nearly 15 years the US Dept of Interior's Climate Adaptation* Science Centers have supported hundreds of scientists studying how ecosystems respond to climate change & pollution, invasive species, sustainable wildlife & wild lands management, and more.
Now the admin wants to cancel them all.
Now the admin wants to cancel them all.
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@jasmineforus.bsky.social: Abrego Garcia "a lot less criminal than the person that's sitting in the White House because last time I checked, he didn't have any criminal convictions."
April 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
@jasmineforus.bsky.social: Abrego Garcia "a lot less criminal than the person that's sitting in the White House because last time I checked, he didn't have any criminal convictions."
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We all need to dedicate the rest of our lives to destroying the republican party
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
We all need to dedicate the rest of our lives to destroying the republican party
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Interesting research! Human beings are, by nature, extremely bad at noticing & appreciating the significance of gradual change over time. We notice binaries, on/offs, either/ors.
"Winter temperatures gradually rising." - no one cares
"Lake X used to freeze over; now it doesn't." - people notice
"Winter temperatures gradually rising." - no one cares
"Lake X used to freeze over; now it doesn't." - people notice
🚨 New in Nature Human Behavior! 🚨
Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change.
Both graphs in this image reflect equivalent climate change trends over time, yet people consistently perceive climate change as having a greater impact in the right plot than the left.
👇1/n
Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change.
Both graphs in this image reflect equivalent climate change trends over time, yet people consistently perceive climate change as having a greater impact in the right plot than the left.
👇1/n
April 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Interesting research! Human beings are, by nature, extremely bad at noticing & appreciating the significance of gradual change over time. We notice binaries, on/offs, either/ors.
"Winter temperatures gradually rising." - no one cares
"Lake X used to freeze over; now it doesn't." - people notice
"Winter temperatures gradually rising." - no one cares
"Lake X used to freeze over; now it doesn't." - people notice
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The best way to make remote rural towns resilient against increasing weather disasters?
Microgrids! 🎉
Microgrids! 🎉
In the Wake of Disasters, Rural Health Could End Up Running on Sunshine | The Daily Yonder
This story was originally published by North Carolina Health News. When Hurricane Helene ripped through western North Carolina, it downed power lines,
dailyyonder.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The best way to make remote rural towns resilient against increasing weather disasters?
Microgrids! 🎉
Microgrids! 🎉
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Solar farms are good for birds 🦜🎶
Solar farms can host up to three times as many birds as crop fields, study shows
"We have a golden opportunity for finding multiple functions for land: generating clean energy while restoring biodiversity."
theprogressplaybook.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Solar farms are good for birds 🦜🎶
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In China & India, the growth in electricity demand has "decoupled" from the growth in fossil fuels. The next step is for fossil fuel demand to plateau & head down, even as economic growth continues. Should happen in the next few years. Believe me, when it happens you'll hear some cheering.
April 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
In China & India, the growth in electricity demand has "decoupled" from the growth in fossil fuels. The next step is for fossil fuel demand to plateau & head down, even as economic growth continues. Should happen in the next few years. Believe me, when it happens you'll hear some cheering.
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➡️ Trump and his administration tell a lie.
➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact.
➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie.
➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true.
🔄 Repeat
➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact.
➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie.
➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true.
🔄 Repeat
The devious purpose behind MAGA's incessant lying
Creating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
www.publicnotice.co
April 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
➡️ Trump and his administration tell a lie.
➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact.
➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie.
➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true.
🔄 Repeat
➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact.
➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie.
➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true.
🔄 Repeat
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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
April 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
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We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won't respect an US court orders to release people that it's holding.
REPORTER: You mentioned you're open to deporting individuals that aren't foreign aliens but aren't criminal to El Salvador. Does that include US citizens?
TRUMP: If they are criminals and hit people with baseball bats, if they rape 87 year old women, yeah. Yeah. That includes them. I'm all for it.
TRUMP: If they are criminals and hit people with baseball bats, if they rape 87 year old women, yeah. Yeah. That includes them. I'm all for it.
April 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won't respect an US court orders to release people that it's holding.
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Trump has perfected the art of Pareto Worsening, a change in allocation making at least one person worse off without making a single person better off.
Trade war, Medicaid cuts, science cuts, there are no winners here, only losers.
Trade war, Medicaid cuts, science cuts, there are no winners here, only losers.
April 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Trump has perfected the art of Pareto Worsening, a change in allocation making at least one person worse off without making a single person better off.
Trade war, Medicaid cuts, science cuts, there are no winners here, only losers.
Trade war, Medicaid cuts, science cuts, there are no winners here, only losers.
What are people even talking about when they say Trump "may be proven right"? This implies some kind of tangible, clear goal which he claims the tariffs will help achieve. Let me know if I've just missed it but I don't know what that's supposed to be.
April 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
What are people even talking about when they say Trump "may be proven right"? This implies some kind of tangible, clear goal which he claims the tariffs will help achieve. Let me know if I've just missed it but I don't know what that's supposed to be.