Carl Nelson (He/Him)

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Hypocrisy

Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.

This wasn’t even their top story. That’s how unbiased they are. Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS

www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings: Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings: Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over

This is actually not true. Median real wages are higher now than ever aside from a spike during the high unemployment of covid. Median means average person and real means adjusted for inflation, or cost of living. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES12...

Great. Is it strongly worded, too? When do the impeachment proceedings start?

FBI arrests Wisconsin judge on charges of obstructing immigrant arrest Judge Hannah Dugan’s arrest is the first known instance of the Trump administration charging a local official with interfering on immigration enforcement.

Unless they’re charging the immigrant with something, how can she be arrested for obstruction of justice? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

My AP English teacher in high school liked to talk about the “Sesame Street factor.” Kids who watched had an edge on others to succeed in school and life. I worked at NPR, donate every month, and would really miss it.

Trump plans order to cut funding for NPR and PBS President Trump and GOP members of Congress have accused the public broadcasters of biased and "woke" programming. The president plans a rescission, which would give Congress 45 days to approve the di...

Congress has got to put a stop to his madness.

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How DOGE led a ‘hostile takeover’ at the IRS to use taxpayer data for immigration crackdowns | CNN Politics A group of senior career officials tried but ultimately failed to protect the agency’s highly-sensitive database of taxpayer information.

How incredibly stupid and costly is this administration. www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/p...

Hungary passes a constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events Hungary’s parliament has passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities.

A leader that Trump admires. apnews.com/article/hung... Hungary passes a constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events

The economy is an exercise in trust. People work trusting they will get paid. Companies hire trusting the government allows them to sell enough to cover employees. Investments are made trusting they will get a return. When that trust is broken, the whole thing breaks down. Trump did this.

a baby in a diaper is dancing in the dark ALT: a baby in a diaper is dancing in the dark

Dancing baby!

Too good

Charted: Where People Trust the Media (and Where They Don’t) Examine the global landscape of public trust in media institutions. Confidence remains low in all but a few key countries.

This is crazy to me. 75% of Chinese people trust the media, when that’s probably one of the least trustworthy from state propaganda. www.visualcapitalist.com/where-people...

I can’t believe the DC mayor agreed to do this. You know this is right in front of the hotel where we got married?

I wish I could be severed from reality for the next 4 years and live in some fantasy world. Everything would be mysterious and important.

Half waiting for the news that Trump / DOGE have banned Transportation, Transplants, Translations, Transmissions, Transistors, Transformers, Transfusions, Transgressions, Transcriptions and Transactions.

These are true, but also not good measures of the economy. Growth and unemployment are better. Tariffs will hurt both, especially with retaliation.

Jeff Bezos: “The Washington Post is slightly modifying our editorials. The Proud Boys will write them now.”

Fascinating findings! I wish I had had you as an Econ professor.

Iowa's governor signs a bill removing gender identity protections from the state’s civil rights code Iowa has became the first U.S. state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code. Republican Gov.

One step forward and two steps back. The state of my grandparents is ass-backwards again.😡 apnews.com/article/iowa... Iowa's governor signs a bill removing gender identity protections from the state’s civil rights code

A trifecta.