Kelly 🅅

Hi, former Foreign Service Officer here

The Secretary of State might be interested to learn that visa requirements and terms are generally reciprocal. We do it to them, they do it to us.

Or drivers…

This is actually iconic

It’s so good.

Perhaps unpopular opinion — if you’ve been covering business and the economy for 25 years, you don’t have to cite “economists say” to state the truth — that firing the commissioner of the BLS is a bad thing.

YouTube video by Washington Spirit Courtney Brown Matchday-1 Press Conference | 08.02.25

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Hacker Summer Camp: Moving from one air conditioned space to another air conditioned space by briefly transversing a super heated outdoor space (hopefully in the shade and possibly cooled by misters)

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

Applebaum on Autocracy Anne Applebaum warns that Sudan’s descent into chaos shows what happens when institutions fail—and why a free press is essential to prevent America from following the same path.

Anne Applebaum: "If American media can’t convey how dangerous this behavior is—for our prosperity, for our health, for our democracy—then American media will eventually cease to exist."

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Instant banger.

3 - @washingtonspirit.com's Trinity Rodman is the first player in #NWSL history to score three stoppage-time match-winning goals in regular season play (also in 2021 and 2023 vs. Kansas City). Return.

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

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It simply had to be Trinity Rodman 🥹

The triumphant return of Trinity Rodman.

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Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

“Firing the top statistical official sends a clear signal to others across the government that you are expected to compromise scientific integrity to appease the president… This puts us in dangerous territory far from an accountable and reality-based government.” @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

If you’re looking for a template for Trump, it’s here with his biggest pal in
Central America.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele: “Constitutional reform does not mean the end of democracy.”

Two days ago he abolished presidential term limits, allowing indefinite re-election.

It’s just going to get worse.

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

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Censorship Whac-A-Mole: Google search exploited to scrub articles on San Francisco tech exec A novel method of de-indexing websites from search results was used to bury critical reporting and commentary.

NEW: Google admits to a vulnerability that was used to de-index legitimate web pages from search results and bury critical reporting, commentary.

Sounds like the start of a Marvel movie.

*dinner (clearly typing while walking the dog in the dark)

But I most like learning about Adrián’s approach to coaching and his views on the league and players.

Need to know if Adrián likes NY cheesecake or Basque cheesecake!

Finally got to listen to the entirety. Del Mar is our go to for a nice dimmer. The food is excellent.

How Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and DOGE Got Access to a Federal Payroll System That Serves the FBI Hundreds of pages of records reviewed by WIRED show just how quickly DOGE gained access to systems at the Small Business Administration—and through it, a USDA system that handles payroll for federal l...

WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is primarily based on reporting from Freedom of Information Act requests.

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