Alicia Grega

More Than 1 Million Jobs Have Been Cut This Year, Report Says A new report largely blames "disruptive technology” and cuts to government spending for a high number of job losses this year.

A new report largely blames "disruptive technology” and cuts to government spending for a high number of job losses this year.

Happy-Go-Lucky is doing well after emergency surgery when an unsecured dog down the street attacked him on Monday. Fortunately, all those years of caring for human children prepared me for my new role as Dog (Mom) Nurse.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

Courtesy of the world’s richest man who just got a trillion-dollar pay package from his feckless board: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Love is more attractive than hate; it is the one thing we all want more than anything else. It is more powerful than hate. No one wants to live in a techno-dystopian fascist world smothered in fearmongering and divisive AI-slopaganda 💛🌻🐸 Believe in beauty & protect the vulnerable. Kindness will win.

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.

Wired - Out-of-office messages of US Department of Education employees, after the government shutdown began, were altered to contain partisan language without their consent. www.wired.com/story/governmen...

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.

Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

It’s happening. This is the beginning of what I’ve been writing in my audio play The Ferment. The United States, no longer united, breaks into regional territories.

The right wing will attempt to address this issue by funneling immigrants, prisoners, snd/ or other oppressed groups into forced labor. Watch

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

I think I noticed these because of these pretty polypores growing just over the fence on the neighbor’s birch tree.

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

Birch Polypore @ McDade Park, Scranton. #fungifriends

Curving mushroom semi circle “leaves” of striped brown “turkey tail” mushrooms on a pice of wood with white background

Found a nice Turkey Tail specimen on our hike this evening!

Next week, spread the word Scranton folks!

Political violence from any party or any ideology is a direct assault on the foundations of democracy and the rule of law; it seeks not to persuade but to intimidate, not to debate but to destroy.

It’s corruption, plain and simple.

Teachers Can Get Special Discounts. These Are Our Favorites Ace the school year with special perks—like cheap software, phone plans, and classroom supplies.

Ace the school year with special perks—like cheap software, phone plans, and classroom supplies. www.wired.com/story/best-t...

Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.

The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us? Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”

With Cuts to Federal Funding, How Will Public Media in the U.S. Survive? - Nieman Reports With cuts to federal funding, how will public media in the U.S. survive? Gabe Bullard writes, "The closure of the CPB will hurt NPR and PBS, but the most immediate and devastating blow will be to the ...

I'm closely interviewed for this Nieman Lab report that discusses how rural areas will be affected by loss of funding for local NPR reporting. We must not underestimate the importance of equal access to information - we're about to witness a seismic ideological shift in American sense of "place."

Bright banded yellow and orange mushrooms growing from fallen hardwood.

Bright banded yellow and orange mushrooms growing from fallen hardwood in a deciduous forest.

Laetiporus sulphureus on the NPTA trail in Roaring Brook Twp. PA #fungifriends

White lumpy fungus growing out of the side of a tree

Best guess: trametes gibbosa aka lumpy bracket. #fungi

Good news? Is that still a thing?

#fungifriends

Boletes at West Mountain, Scranton. Baorgania bicolor.

A fifth of California homes are investor-owned as state’s affordability crisis deepens – report New figures show that the Golden state’s rate of investor-owned homes is 19%, with mountain regions up to 83%

One reason we need a massive amount of new social housing is that as investors take ever more control of California's housing stock they can increase rental prices ever more in order to extract as much of our wealth as possible.

That is why the rent is too damn high!
#FreeTheBear
#SocialHousing

He fired the Librarian of Congress who oversees the Copyright Office in May and tried replacing him with one of his personal lawyers.

Intellectual rape. That tracks.

Who benefits most from CPB funding? A state-by-state look at station grants "Faced with the loss of public media’s chief financier, how do we evaluate the performance of CPB itself?"

Congress did not defund NPR. They pulled funding for CPB; NPR gets less than 1% of its funds from CPB. States like N Dakota, S Dakota, Wyoming, N Mexico, Utah, Vermont, Montana, Oregon that rely HEAVILY on CPB grants. They will lose their local stations.

current.org/2025/03/who-...