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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents. “I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.” During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley. “They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Remember we're already in a world of Kavanaugh stops based solely on ethnicity. If you are from a targeted group, this can happen to you no matter what your citizenship status is. What if you forget your wallet at home? You could end up in detention for days or worse.

infographic with text on impacts of HR1

Graphic by @rwjf.org describing a few of the ways in which recent policy changes will impact families and communities. Keep an eye out for reports from organizations such as @datahaven.bsky.social, which publish reports/maps on how these changes impact individual towns & legislative districts. #nnip

The inaugural meeting of the Westville neighborhood urbanism book club this evening was a success - loaned out my 3rd copy of Elizabeth Mills Brown’s New Haven: A Guide to Architecture and Urban Design (1976) and we might read @charlesincities.bsky.social for next month. #nhv

Your guide to using the home energy tax credits before they're gone Save on better appliances before the year ends. Help for all your tax credit and installation questions.

All good things must come to an end. But the federal tax credits that help Americans save big on electric home appliances are disappearing years sooner than planned. That means if you want to take advantage of these savings, you’ve got to do it now.

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Urban Forest Network Coordinat in New Haven, Connecticut | Conservation at The Nature Conservancy Apply for Urban Forest Network Coordinat job with The Nature Conservancy in New Haven, Connecticut. Conservation at The Nature Conservancy

Job posting: Urban Forest Network Coordinator careers.tnc.org/us/en/job/JR... #nhv #newhaven #UrbanForestry

Recent tariffs threaten residential construction | Brookings

📈 Tariffs are impacting America’s housing crisis.

Elena Patel, Robert McClelland, and John Wong estimate that recent trade policies could add $30B to residential construction costs, with 90% affecting new homes and apartments.

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025

Judge's house on fire

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

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Opinion | G.O.P. to Gen Z: Pay Double for Health Insurance or Go Without

"Young adults are anxious about the state of the economy... 1/3 have given up on ever owning a home. Now, Republicans are coming for their health insurance too. When open enrollment opens on Nov. 1... premiums are set to skyrocket, roughly doubling on average." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

Coverage at Risk: Projected Losses in Medicaid and Access Health CT by Town and Community | DataHaven How Policy Changes Could Affect Health Insurance in Connecticut

@datahaven.bsky.social’s review of state and local data in Connecticut makes clear that Medicaid cuts from new federal policies will impact communities all over, but especially low-income residents. See how these changes are likely to widen existing disparities: buff.ly/504R02e

Trump's new $100K visa fee could pummel red state hospitals Rural areas that overwhelmingly voted for the president employ a high concentration of doctors on H-1B visas.

The administration's new immigrant visa rules are set to hit hospitals in 3 states hardest. All 3 voted for Trump. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Report: A Third of Americans Can't Rely On Cars — And 16 Million Have No Access At All — Streetsblog USA So why do we plan our cities like everyone can and does get behind the wheel every day?

More than one-third of Americans can't legally or physically drive, belong to households that can't afford a car, or otherwise can't rely on a personal vehicle to meet their daily travel needs, a new report finds — and that means millions of people are being left behind due to car-centric policies.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Cities that act to reduce traffic-related congestion, noise, and air pollution are seeing massive increases in quality of life. #publichealth @londoncycling.bsky.social

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On 1934, about a year into Hitler’s appointment, “the cabinet decreed the "Law On The Allegiance of Civil Servants and Soldiers of the Armed Forces", which superseded original oaths and decreed both members of the armed forces and civil servants had to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler personally”

Trump and Hegseth Gathered U.S. Military Leaders for an “Embarrassing” Rant Defense officials were shocked at the cost and danger of assembling the military’s top officers to listen to meandering tirades.

Defense officials were shocked at the cost and danger of assembling the military’s top officers to listen to meandering tirades.

Trump brags to military leaders about his strikes on boats: "They don't want go fishing. I don't blame them. There will be no fishing today. It's amazing what strength will do."

The headline here is “Hegseth announces changes that will protect domestic abusers in the military.” Even though this is incontestably true, no news organization will use this headline, because telling the truth is deemed impermissible if the truth hurts the right too much

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here:

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Montreal Makes People Feel Welcome With Safe Streets, Happy Places & Green Spaces — Streetfilms My standing piece of advice for those who live in North America who pine to see the best-practice streets of dozens of places in Europe or want to educate colleague/friends what’s possible: just go to...

Montreal Makes People Feel Welcome With Safe Streets, Happy Places & Green Spaces! More great video watching thanks to @streetfilms.bsky.social, featuring Montreal’s @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social.

Housing prices are causing some people to have smaller families than planned Home prices skyrocketed during the pandemic — and have stayed high. For some Americans, making their budget work means having fewer children than they'd envisioned.

Home prices are up 56% since February 2020.

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130 immigration judges have been fired or forced out since Trump took office, a figure which doesn't even include the count of those who have retired or quit (quite a few). The Trump admin is systematically moving to kill a fair day in court for immigrants facing removal.

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

“Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers…. When we asked participants how it feels to receive “workslop,” 53% report being annoyed, 38% confused, and 22% offended.” hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g... #genai

Doctors & HCWs #2 on this list after Amazon (5,640 approvals in 2025)? “The @aafp.org emphasized that international medical graduates account for more than one-fifth of practicing family doctors and are disproportionately likely to serve in rural areas.”
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For about a year now, Thiel has been publicly laying out his understanding of biblical prophecies and the potential for the rapid advance of technology to bring about an apocalyptic future. In a lecture Monday, he encouraged an audience to continue working toward scientific progress, whether in AI or other forms of technology. Fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist, Thiel said, according to people who attended.

New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
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“Untreated fever, particularly in the first trimester, increases the risk of miscarriage, birth defects, and premature birth, and untreated pain can lead to maternal depression, anxiety, and high blood pressure,” it said.”

BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down. The Trump administration's HHS is back to its old habits of targeting public health resources deemed too woke.

BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down.
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It’s convenient to statistically abolish hunger right when it’s at an all-time high. (It was also a measure in the Census HPS, which was also discontinued recently). @datageekb.bsky.social

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.