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New Report: Investing in the MTA Is Investing in America - Reinvent Albany New York’s MTA Paid Companies in Other States $19B Over 14 Years, Supporting up to 247,000 Jobs in Blue, Red, and Purple States Alike

Trump's extortion withholding of $18bn+ from MTA won't just impact NYers.
Data shows NY’s MTA paid companies in other states $19bn over 14 years, supporting up to 247,000 jobs in blue, red, and purple States, with $7 billion going to Trump supporting states alone.
#DataSky #DataBS #EconSky

Tariffs boost lobbyists, not workers. #econsky

Just a few short hours to fund the government, and House Republicans aren't even in town—they're on vacation.

Republicans don't care.

Republicans and Trump are shutting down the government rather than working with Democrats to fix the health care crisis THEY created.

Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Getting Audited The Government Accountability Office’s audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED.

Did you know?👇🏼

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is auditing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

www.wired.com/story/gao-au...

Republicans are about to shut down the government because they want American citizens to go bankrupt over basic health care.

Thank you!!!

BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return on Tuesday night following a brief suspension.

"Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country..."

What will happen to KUOW? 🙏

Good news for China, India and Canada:

"firms respond to restrictions on H-1B immigration by increasing foreign affiliate employment... particularly in China, India, and Canada. The most impacted jobs were R&D- intensive."

Our Climate Future Webinars | Climate Impacts Group A CIG Webinar SeriesWe’re building a just and resilient world where people and nature thrive in a changing climate. This new webinar series will expand access to 30 years of research, data, and tools,...

For folks in the NW concerned about continued availability of federal climate tools and resources, check out my webinar next week w/ @guillaume-mauger.bsky.social:

Taking stock of available resources for understanding and responding to climate risks in Washington and the Northwest.

Register here 👇

Since 1994 childhood vaccines have prevented:
508M cases of illnesses
32M hospitalizations
1.3M deaths
Every $1 spent on childhood vaccines, the US has saved $10.90, totaling $2.7 trillion in societal savings.
Yet, tomorrow ACIP will consider changing the schedule based on no science or data.

'Astounding:' Alaska researchers make alarming discovery in Arctic rivers "No place is spared."

McPhee once called Alaska’s Salmon River “the clearest, purest water.” Now it runs orange with toxins from thawing permafrost. Salmon are faltering, just as ecosystems planet-wide are unraveling. The biosphere’s collapse is written in their decline.
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

An Annual Blast of Pacific Cold Water Did Not Occur, Alarming Scientists

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

WE have fucked up our world and it will kill us.

Bye-bye mandatory greenhouse gas reports. #econsky

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:

www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money. An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...

An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.

By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget. Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.

(Published July 2024)

Some good news: *everyone* is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in Washington State, and it *will* be covered by your insurance!

In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit

Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents.

It’s unconscionable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

Anybody who has worked hands-on with private sector data understands it cannot replace government statistics.

Look no further than the National Association of Business Economist's statement from last week for what practitioners think: files.constantcontact.com/668faa28001/...

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.

It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.

Likely to enter force within days.

Yosemite employees worked for weeks with no pay before the government hired them Seasonal employees counting on housing at Yosemite were asked to volunteer for the park while the government was unable

Thanks to Trump's cuts, seasonal employees at Yosemite worked for as long as six weeks without pay.

The National Park Service is one of our most popular government agencies.

It's being gutted to fund enormously unpopular tax cuts for the super-rich.

“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.”

@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

Extremists’ decision to kneecap American science and innovation will stand as a historically tragic attack on our children’s future.

We need your email power to support Dept of Agriculture! USDA is opening a 30-day public comment period on the Department's reorganization plan now through Aug. 26, 2025.

Say yes to SNAP!
Say yes to Research!
Say yes to conservation!

To submit feedback, please email reorganization@usda.gov.

Next question is, who's going to organize the economists to communicate this to the American people? We need to step up, #EconSky! (I'd happily take the lead but I don't have the clout)

Today is the last day for many Education Department workers. Here's what they did Employees across multiple divisions agree: They can't imagine how the department will fulfill its legal obligations with roughly half its staff gone.

Employees across multiple divisions agree: They can't imagine how the department will fulfill its legal obligations with roughly half its staff gone.

Soaring heat is driving Italy’s tourists to the Alps – and into deadly terrain Visitors to the mountains are often novices with little knowledge of hiking conditions which has led to multiple deaths in recent months

'Soaring heat is driving Italy’s tourists to the Alps – & into deadly terrain

“We’ve had 83 fatalities & 5 people missing just in the 1st mth of the summer hols. That is nearly 3 fatalities a day. We are carrying out 20% more rescues compared to the average.”'

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

I support efforts to make the Department of Agriculture work better for farmers, families, and rural areas, but the reorganization they announced last week will almost certainly result in worse service. We are holding a bipartisan hearing today to get answers.