Deepa Sharma

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally-mandated agency.

NEW: The CFPB has been gutted. More than 1,400 workers received RIF notices this afternoon, agency sources tell me. Around 200 employees are left. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

17.04.2025 21:29 — 👍 2996    🔁 1637    💬 128    📌 183

March 17, 2025 Newsletter 2025 California Democratic Party Convention Anaheim Convention Center May 30 – June 1 The 2025 convention will be taking place. This convention will include party leadership elections.Registr…

Latest update from the California Dems' Asian American Pacific Islander Caucus:
- CA Dem Convention, May 30-June 1 in Anaheim
- Caucus Leadership Elections
- Membership Renewals
- Asian Dems of Los Angeles spring mixer
aapicaucus.com/2025/03/18/m...

18.03.2025 06:07 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Is the Government Shutting Down? Here's what’s happening.

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Anti-South Asian online hate surged in extremist spaces after election, report says Some online rhetoric centered around Indians “stealing jobs” and threatening “white livelihood,” the nonprofit group Stop AAPI Hate said.

Anti-South Asian online hate surged in extremist spaces after election, new report says.

Some rhetoric centered on Indians “stealing jobs” and threatening “white livelihood,” the nonprofit group Stop AAPI Hate says.

20.02.2025 18:33 — 👍 55    🔁 19    💬 6    📌 2

"Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work" #ELB Eric Geller for Wired: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secur...

“CISA will pause all elections security activities until the completion of this review,” Bean added. The agency is also cutting off funding for these activities” electionlawblog.org?p=148644

15.02.2025 23:17 — 👍 2150    🔁 1162    💬 211    📌 100

a teddy bear wearing a red hat is holding a red teapot in its paws . ALT: a teddy bear wearing a red hat is holding a red teapot in its paws .

Getting rid of DEI was never about merit. For all of you MAGA women, LGBTQ, and people of color who believe that it won't affect you, think hard on this:

Dismantling it is meant to exclude people just like YOU; no matter how much experience or education you have.

Tea anyone?☕️

09.02.2025 20:45 — 👍 1220    🔁 324    💬 62    📌 7

Homepage of Dallas Morning News 2/8/25

1/ A thread about why the gutting of journalism, and local news in particular, is a main reason why we are here. And what you can do—constructively—to help.

Let's start with the homepage of @dallasnews.com. Mostly sports. Almost nothing about what's happening in DC—THAT AFFECTS TEXANS

09.02.2025 00:33 — 👍 714    🔁 266    💬 43    📌 43

Reminder: this is completely lawless

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“I started to feel that the folks making the decisions felt less connected to the consequences that these decisions would lead to. And that is a recipe for disaster.” Words of wisdom from @billwongllc.bsky.social

07.02.2025 05:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People so readily accuse immigrants of not assimilating and having true loyalties to their motherlands… but not a peep for Elmo 🤔

04.02.2025 06:27 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The people who want to use the power of government to make people’s lives harder are fearless. The people who want to use the power of government to make people’s lives better are gutless. This is an unsustainable reality.

28.01.2025 15:40 — 👍 283    🔁 65    💬 12    📌 1

The Strategy Behind Trump’s Policy Blitz The flood of executive orders and news was designed to disorient the Democratic resistance. It might be working.

Trump’s week-long blitz of executive orders, press appearances, and social-media posts is “a deliberate strategy,” several of his aides and allies told @JonLemire. It is “designed to disorient already despairing Democratic foes,” Lemire reports: theatln.tc/Y1rfoJmQ

28.01.2025 14:52 — 👍 238    🔁 99    💬 45    📌 18