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Congrats, Dan. What a worthy topic. 💙

I think about this very fact ALL THE TIME.

Yay, congrats Whitney! 🥳

Wow, congratulations! 🎉

AOC Rips “Tyrannical and Un-American” Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a serious warning about the ICE arrest of Palestinian activist (and U.S. green card holder) Mahmoud Khalil.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex condemned ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, calling it a “tyrannical” move.

“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."

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We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

Word of the day: extortion.

You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today?

Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business.

We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

Oppose The SAVE Act (H.R. 22 / S.128) – A Voter Suppression Bill ⭑ 5 Calls Republicans in Congress have introduced the extreme anti-voter Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act (H.R. 22/ S.128 and declared it among …

If the “SAVE Act” HR 22 passes 69 million women who have taken their spouse’s last name will no longer be eligible to vote in the United States. 🚨🚨🚨 This is not about election integrity. This is about voter suppression. Call your reps to opposite it ASAP.

5calls.org/issue/save-a...

“The SF-50 is important for federal employee retirement because an incorrect service computation date can lead to a reduction in benefits.” 🚨🚨🚨

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

I don’t even believe he thinks it’s for the “greater good”. He has a long track record of doing what’s thrilling, interesting or good for himself. Full stop. To assume otherwise seems…generous.

jittered dot plot showing the number of steps conference goers took per day during tc24. each day is a different rainbow shade. a bar chart shows the growth of the project per year, with a projected bar in purple for 2025.

I'm bringing back the TC Step Tracker for TC25! Sign up now for reminders to log your steps—in turn you'll get a chance to offer feedback for this year's step tracker.

Learn more at the blog: brittanyrosenau.medium.com/coming-soon-...
Check out the viz: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Everyone should file an extension on your taxes, then decide if things are better or worse in October. If they're worse, time for a tax strike.

Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.

nymag.com/intelligence...

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

Downloaded CDC Data And Where To Find It Journalists and scientists are downloading a bunch of public health data they suspect might be at risk of deletion. Instead of all of us privately reinventing the wheel over and over, what if we share...

If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Welcome to 1984.

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

Advance your #dataviz skills by joining the weekly 2025 Du Bois Visualization Challenge. Starting on Feb 3rd, re-create visualizations from the 1900 Paris Exposition using modern tools. More details: https://buff.ly/3QjOsaF.

This is me every time, Brittany. Every freaking time. 😆

Powerful.

Wow does this hit. Just doing what feels like the hard thing is almost always easier once actually done than the time and energy spent worrying about how and what to do. Such a good reminder.

Is anybody going to ask the entirely relevant questions of Trump and his DEIA for incompetent Americans transportation chief Duffy if the freeze in hiring of these critical functionaries contributed to the accident?

Or is the mainstream “free press” gonna roll over for Trump like saps, again?

It is pocket-sized, easy to read, and a necessity in this moment. Please read.

A picture of buttered burned toast that honestly looks fine.

Thinking about Jim Nantz this morning after burning my toast and just deciding it’s fine. ftw.usatoday.com/2016/03/jim-...

That logo is C-U-T-E!