Amy Maceyko

I don’t think the general public understands how much international students help keep colleges going. Not just from an intellectual and cultural aspect… but purely financial. They generally pay higher costs for tuition, have to spend more in housing and food on campus, and pay cash.

Donald Trump just Friday night massacred the White House's National Security Council staff.

Carry on.

Same.

Mike Waltz has now decided to roll out the story that Jeffrey Goldberg somehow hacked his way into their Signal chat.

Just admitting a mistake and apologizing seems like a lot less work than lying and peddling a half dozen different conspiracies.

It is! Most of her speeches are.

I’m rewatching Designing Women.

It holds up really well to today’s sensibilities (other than Suzanne’s constant dieting).

Season 6, Episode 8 is about the confirmation of Clarence Thomas.

Timely. And a worthwhile look at how we have treated women of color for the entirety of my life.

Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud All they've really got is "spending that Elon Musk doesn't like."

Just your daily reminder that DOGE has found ZERO fraud.

Via @atrupar.com

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😔 I hope Katie lands somewhere else. I enjoy her voice and perspective.

“…data from an August 2024 study by the [OMB]…54% of the federal workforce was required to show up at an office every day… just 10% of federal employees worked exclusively from home. Those allowed to have hybrid schedules ended up spending an average of 60% of their work time at federal offices.”

‘Another woke disaster from Hollywood!’ How Captain America joined the culture wars In the latest film from the Marvel franchise, Captain America: Brave New World, a Black hero squares up to a raging red baddie trashing the White House. Cue the conservative outrage …

This is what we mean when we say “woke” and “DEI” just mean Black. Odd how the folks who insist race no longer matters and so we shouldn’t discuss it or acknowledge it, get really upset when a person who is not white plays a favorite fictional character. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

So important.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.

Please, please, please. More of this!

An Elon Musk staffer misused the U.S. Marshals Service by falsely invoking their authority to intimidate. USAID security personnel were threatened with action by the federal Marshals Service.

Billionaire Elon Musk has stated that work is underway to shut down the U.S. foreign aid agency, USAID. Officials have been instructed not to report to work and have been locked out of the building.

I and many others warned that the anti-CRT, anti-DEI propaganda campaign that so many embraced or down played was always about creating the narrative for and paving the way for a larger attack on civil rights. We are here.

What ProPublica’s Reporters Will Be Covering During Donald Trump’s Second Presidency — and How to Contact Them From Trump’s relationships with billionaires to immigration, here are some of the issues and topics our reporters will be keeping an eye on as his second presidency begins.

Do you work for the fed government and want to offer a tip or guidance on what is changing at your agency? This is how you can to contact @ProPublica.org reporters securely:
www.propublica.org/article/seco...

Want to share something I worked on in therapy today:

I've been struggling since Monday, because I know the assignment is not to let these fuckers overwhelm me, send me into panic mode, or steal my joy. BUT HOLY SHIT I AM HAVING A LOT OF BAD FEELINGS RIGHT NOW. (1/5)

This is fine. We’re fine. Everything is fine.

As an architect who doesn’t do residential work, I’m now wondering if this design element of your house was on purpose or just a happy accident that resulted from other design decisions. Interesting.

We knew it was coming, and yet I still cried today.
The line between staying informed as a citizen and not listening to it all to protect my mental health is going to be a hard one to balance.

Thank you for your time and energy to watch and edit the event so others of us could be informed without having to watch the whole thing.

So basically we are no longer a country.

I wish there was some way NYS, IL, and CA could just refuse to send tax dollars to DC in exchange.

The Fed govt stops functioning without us. Yet here we are, repeatedly informed that we are second-tier citizens.

Some days you just see it and other days it takes some real concentration. You’ll get better with practice.

First show of 2025. I’ve never seen it on stage, and I’m not positive that I’ve seen the whole movie. But I know a bunch of the songs thanks to years of Barbra and Broadway culture.

#PittsburghBroadwaySeries #BenedumCenter

The Mystery of Food Deserts They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

It’s adorable that two of our three cats have joined me here at bedtime. Except there isn’t enough room for me to lie down all the way.

Classic cat owner conundrum.