Vanessa Tyson

September 21, 2025 On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics postponed the release of the annual report on consumer expenditures—a key report for understanding inflation—without explanation.

September 21, 2025

You’ve GOT to be kidding me!

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"

our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got

dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...

We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders," yet they're being arrested at their workplaces and LA's economy is floundering without them.

Hello?

Federal judge orders stop to indiscriminate immigration raids in Los Angeles Civil rights groups alleged that ICE and Border Patrol agents are rounding people up based on their race, and denying them access to lawyers. A federal judge said there's ample evidence what they're d...

Hallelujah. Things have gone haywire over here…

Federal judge orders stop to indiscriminate immigration raids in Los Angeles

www.npr.org/2025/07/11/n...

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

The riot is your goons assaulting community and labor leaders unprovoked. The looter is you raiding the hardworking tax payers of our state - stealing their federal taxes and depriving them of the basic services they’ve paid for.

You can’t arrest a movement or deport solidarity

This moment is why we were so opposed to Pete Hegseth being confirmed.

FFS!!! How did it possibly take this long?!?!? NO ONE, documented or not, should be sent to Salvadoran prisons. NO ONE!

I’m a Black woman in the United States. I’m unclear which “we” you’re referring to. 😂 92%

PREACH!!!

@jjfreyd.bsky.social, FYI

This is the kind of INSTITUTIONAL COURAGE I want to see in the US.

We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy.

Third time’s the charm, I guess.

Really??? Damn.

Well done @wearehighered.bsky.social!

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Two brilliant, amazing humans! ❤️

Oh HELL NO!!!

I think I’d go back to Bush v Gore on this one, just to highlight the earlier role that SCOTUS played in partisan politics. Thanks, Florida. 😒

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’

What could go wrong???

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A small box truck with an electronic billboard sign on the sides urging fired federal workers to contact ProPublica with tips.

When @propublica.org reporters Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social found out that fired #USAID workers could go to the office one last time to clean out their desks, they pitched this crazy idea. What if we rented a billboard truck to advertise how to get in touch with @propublica.org? So we did.

My initial reaction might get me into trouble…

The US… watching the demise… are we a now a failed state?

Worth some consideration…

After all that Marko Elez was the first taker on the resignation program.

Is this backlash, frontlash, or hyper destructive lash? 🤬

Every response I can think of is laced with expletives…