Deb Darinzo

You can read his book Fault Lines..History of US since 1974. Based on his class at Princeton. Excellent book.

Think of your biggest financial risk: it's not your stock portfolio, it's losing your paycheck. That's why unemployment is the single best measure of economic health—when people can't earn a living, everything else in the data is just background noise.

And unemployment is rising.

Remember when Trump lied that the Biden administration wasn't sending all the relief money North Carolina needed?

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.

A portrait of the kind of science we are losing, and for no reason

www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released by the CFPB would eviscerate longstanding fair lending and consumer protections in three dangerous ways:

It wasn't long ago that women were forced to have a male co-signer to get a credit card or a home loan.

Now, the Trump administration wants to end protections against such discrimination.

Take 45 seconds today to say "No way." nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/ind...

They’re all just looting the treasury now

It's too easy to be distracted by the economic story of the day. The more important story is of our system fraying: The rule of law is decaying, Bribery spreading, crony capitalism normalized. It won’t show up in next quarter’s data, but when our kids try to build their lives.

The former chief editor of Chinese government-backed Global Times, Hu Xijin, described the paralysis of VOA as gratifying. “The Chinese people are happy to see the U.S. anti-China ideological fortress breached from within,” he said

We must not leave this out of the account of what they have done. What Musk and Trump and Vought did. What Johnson and his band of sycophants allowed them to do. What tens of millions of fellow Americans endorse.

Opinion | Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe

Gift Article - “Over the past five months, many F.B.I. agents… have been fired, pressured to leave or transferred to lesser roles. Hundreds have resigned on their own, unwilling to follow the demands of the Trump administration.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/o...

24 Dead In Texas Flood As State Officials Blame Forecasts From National Weather Service Flash floods along Texas’ Guadalupe River have killed at least 24 people and left around 25 people missing.

Flash floods along Texas’ Guadalupe River have killed at least 24 people and left around 25 people missing.

Anyone still quibbling that this isn't fascism?

There is no “one and done” in any conflict.

The opponent always gets a vote, and unless we’ve prepped for all the things Iran may do we’re gonna have some surprises.

It's a good thing we have a 22 year old kid in charge of terrorism prevention.

Kind of the whole point

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: “The President's federal deployment of the National Guard over the official wishes of a governor is bad for all Americans concerned about freedom of speech and states rights. The governor has the authority and ability to respond to the civil disturbances with law enforcement capabilities within his state, augmented as necessary by requesting law enforcement assistance from other governors. There are over a million badged and trained members of law enforcement in this country for the governor to ask for help if he needs it. While this is presently a legal order, it tramples the governor’s rights and obligations to protect his people. This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News:

"This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission.

Very important apnews.com/article/nih-...

NIH scientists air deep concerns about agency policies and cuts

The letter was signed by 92 NIH scientists and many more who remained anonymous across all 27 of the agency's divisions.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...

Photo: Lydia Polimeni/NIH/Flickr cc

It’s fucking insane. With HHS, IRS, and Social Security data, a competent intelligence agency (or AI) could create a hyper accurate profile on you. They could predict your daily routine down to a frightening level.

I don’t know what’s next, but nothing good.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.

Donald Trump cut funding for cancer research by 31% in the first three months of his term.

This is an attack on every American family who has loved someone with cancer.

You see it right?!

Trump is literally taking credit for things that were announced when Biden was still in office.

Walmart CFO John David Rainey: "We've not seen a period where you've had prices go up this high, this quickly. We're well equipped and experienced in dealing with price increases that are going up 2 or 3 percent, but not 30 percent."

There should be bipartisan concern about the reports that DOGE is merging HHS, Social Security, and IRS data into one database.

That is the trifecta of personal information, and any competent person (or machine) could essentially put together a complete profile of your life.

I will continue to post as long as it’s relevant. But, DAMN - why should I have to??

It can never be forgotten that one of the first social media campaigns Russia ran in the US was promoting anti-vax sentiment. Why? For it would cause Americans to die and rip apart our social fabric.

Donald Trump spent $23M on golf (up to mid march).

Over 56 days, he spent $410k of our tax dollars each day at his own clubs.

That is one 3-year NSF grant per day.

Waste and abuse, my ass.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...