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tony romm
@tonyromm.bsky.social
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economic policy correspondent at the new york times tips? signal: tonyromm.62 https://www.nytimes.com/by/tony-romm
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 12h
please stop sexting the ai slop and read my stories instead idk
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 12h
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Elon Musk Gambles on Sexy A.I. Companions
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 12h
NEW: The White House has threatened mass layoffs if the government shutdown continues, saying they have the power and must protect vital services.

But such cuts may be unlawful and unnecessary, budget experts, legal scholars and unions say

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...
Mass Layoffs Trump Is Threatening in Shutdown Fight May Be Illegal
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 13h
We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them.
We kept wondering: Did they find their missing relatives? Were they even still alive?
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 2d
I hate the eagles, and I never believed in this team, which is terrible, and which I hate because they are terrible. And I hate them.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 2d
prob deserved it lol
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 2d
eagles gonna eagles, because of course
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: The White House is weaponizing the federal budget during the shutdown to harm Democratic-led cities and states. Targeting $27 billion and counting, it is a major escalation in the president’s efforts to date to interrupt funding and defy Congress.

My latest www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...
Trump Seizes On Shutdown to Punish Political Foes
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 3d
“Without a doubt, blue states are on the front lines of the attacks,” New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, told me for the story. “They’re coming after us.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...
Trump Seizes On Shutdown to Punish Political Foes
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: The White House is weaponizing the federal budget during the shutdown to harm Democratic-led cities and states. Targeting $27 billion and counting, it is a major escalation in the president’s efforts to date to interrupt funding and defy Congress.

My latest www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...
Trump Seizes On Shutdown to Punish Political Foes
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WIRED @wired.com · 5d
Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED. www.wired.com/story/govern...
Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown
Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 5d
cancel all my appointments i need to rewatch the ragtime performance on colbert
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 5d
wait i was also considering it but????
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 5d
does anyone know where my AirPods are
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 5d
i saw someone somewhere with a shirt that said "this meeting could have been a fist fight" and i have been laughing about it ever since because i need a mug at least
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 5d
Russ Vought, in particular, has embraced this role. As I wrote in March, his aim is to marry extreme fiscal austerity with Christian values, and to eliminate federal programs seen as too wasteful, “woke” or secular

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
Trump’s Budget Chief Eyes Deep Cuts to ‘Woke and Weaponized’ Spending
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 5d
It is important to remember -- months earlier -- the White House sketched out its vision for the new fiscal year. It was $163 billion in cuts to vital government services, including those that help the poor, and the lowest level of domestic spending in modern history www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u...
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 5d
This is important, because we have already seen the president suggest he would weaponize the shutdown to maximize pain, achieve his budget and agenda, and punish political enemies, as I wrote yesterday www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...
White House Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 5d
NEW: President Trump will meet with his top budget chief, a Project 2025 architect, to discuss ways to leverage the shutdown to cut "Democratic agencies," calling it "unprecedented opportunity" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...
Trump Calls Shutdown an ‘Unprecedented Opportunity,’ and Eyes Deep Cuts
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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 5d
My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 7d
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 6d
NEW: The Trump admin took steps on Wednesday to maximize the pain of the government shutdown, halting billions of dollars in green energy and infrastructure funds for Democratic-led states while readying a plan to lay off federal workers, perhaps in next day or two www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...
White House Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 6d
the calories don't count in a shutdown, i think
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 6d
New: WH says it has put about $18 billion in infrastructure projects in New York City on hold "to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles." Russ Vought, the budget director, specifically cited the Hudson Tunnel Project and the Second Ave Subway.
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