Andrew O’Leary

H-1B visa application form and displayed company logos are seen in this illustration

Tech companies in the UK, Canada and elsewhere are hoping to attract more skilled talent after Donald Trump’s decision to toughen US visas for skilled foreign workershttps://www.ft.com/content/f658cf19-fae2-40e1-b88d-7dbf68ea18ba

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

These weak men really hate women.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl

"As medical care evaporates it is moms who die in childbirth. As food disappears overwhelmed husbands abandon wives and children. As social order unravels it is mostly girls who are raped. And when times are desperate it is girls who are married against their will."

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China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0.

China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

With political and economic mis-steps sparking panic in Argentina’s markets, the South American nation is once again on the brink, and the Trump administration is preparing to bail out its ideological ally. on.ft.com/4nfaOZo

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

It’s neurodiverse, not neurodamaged. Demonizing autistic people doesn’t help anyone. And making up crazy, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about what causes neurodiversity (and making registries, controlling meds and bodies) is just one more flavor of fascism.

Korea’s school lunches go viral but workers making them suffer in silence - The Korea Times “Best lunch I’ve seen yet!” one user wrote under a TikTok video with 2.8 million views, the comment drawing nearly 1,000 likes. “I would eat this e...

SOUTH KOREA: School lunches go viral but workers making them suffer in silence www.koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/2025...

Informing the Gun Policy Debate Updated findings from RAND's Gun Policy in America initiative include supportive evidence that minimum age requirements for purchasing a firearm reduce firearm suicides among young people. And there's...

Want evidence-based solutions to gun violence? RAND's Gun Policy in America is a good starting point share.google/LmvMKeGYqRP9...

'Insane': Michigan Woman Facing 10 Years for Allegedly Using Her Food Stamps to Buy Ingredients for Bake Sale 🚨 Michigan woman facing 10 years for using food stamps to bake and sell goods! Shocking twist in food stamp fraud scandal! #MichiganWoman...

This case makes clear that the point of work requirements isn't to keep people from exploiting the system. It's to ensure that the system has a steady supply of people to exploit.
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Pope Leo: “An act performed according to law is certainly performed according to justice, and it is impossible for an act to be truly lawful if it is carried out against justice...A state without justice is not a state. Justice is, in fact, the virtue that gives to each person what is due to them.”

“Did you think.. that law is stronger than life? Than man’s desire to be free? We will try it out with you. Ye that have harried and held; bullied and bribed. Tyrants. Hypocrites. Liars.” - PH Pearse

My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Rochester residents question $288 million Old Colony campus upgrade ROCHESTER — Rochester residents questioned if the means justify the needs of an outdated and undersized vocational school. On Monday, Sept. 15, the Rochester Select Board listened to the Old Colony Re...

Rochester residents question $288 million Old Colony campus upgrade

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Clicks and Conflict In a conversation with Status, Renee DiResta unpacked how Charlie Kirk’s death was weaponized online, exposing the toxic mix of platform algorithms, influencer incentives, and America’s fractured medi...

Renee DiResta unpacks how Charlie Kirk’s death has been weaponized online, exposing the toxic mix of platform algorithms, influencer incentives, and America’s fractured media environment.

More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/charlie-ki...

Fired By The Post The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Status has learned.

The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Status has learned.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

homer simpson from the simpsons has a very angry look on his face ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons has a very angry look on his face

That man never cleaned the house in his life.

I recall once reading how national guard helped get students to school

China installs the world's most powerful wind turbine China’s Dongfang Electric has installed a 26-megawatt offshore wind turbine, snatching the "world’s most powerful" title from Siemens Gamesa.

Holy crap, a 26 MW wind turbine! 185 meter hub height! 310 meter rotor diameter!

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Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant – so what is it and how does it work? The site in Fukuoka is only the second power plant of its type in the world, harnessing the power of osmosis to run a desalination plant in the city

We should be doing what Japan and Denmark are doing, but instead we're killing every "green" energy program we can. Which means we're even LESS competitive on the world stage.

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How can local governments make their streets safer for all? An… The Economic Mobility Catalog’s Strategy Guide on Traffic and street safety improvements provides guidance for local governments seeking to improve street…

"Instead of saying, 'The driver was going 60 in a 25 zone,' we should ask, 'Why is it even possible for a driver to go 60 in a 25 zone?' The problem isn't just the individual; it's the system."

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@sethlaj.bsky.social

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Why Aren’t Markets Freaking Out? Of Trump, Keynes and Wile E. Coyote

The muted market reaction to The Crazy doesn't tell you much about what will happen. Markets almost *never* react in advance to large but only potential disruptions. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...

Trump administration wants to overhaul student visa process The administration wants to limit international students to four-year stays.

Massachusetts, we have a vested interest in flooding this comment process. This IS our economy. www.axios.com/local/boston...

Public Health Initiatives Deliver Big Returns on Investment | Susan Urahn This is one staggering stat: Every dollar invested in public health saves about $14. As my colleague Josh Wenderoff writes, that means investment in "public health offers some of the most effective so...

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New England states vow to fight Trump administration order to halt work on offshore wind farm that’s nearly complete Rhode Island and Connecticut officials say project, slated to power 350,000 homes, is essential to their climate goals

‘“When the oil industry showed up at Mar-a-Lago with a set of demands in exchange for a $1 billion of campaign support for Trump, this is what they were asking for: the destruction of clean energy in America…

“This is a story of corruption, plain and simple.”’

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As I watch this busy bee hop happily, I recall the popular presidential debate trope one party used decrying gov “waste” like studying the mating and eating habits of insects