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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 3h

This here pad of paper costs $100. No pad of paper is worth $100. What are we doing, folks?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3h

This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC

An Ugmonk Analog card standing up in the card holder on a desk beside a keyboard and laptop sitting on a riser.

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 10h

Included in the story is an update from @emilyflitter.bsky.social about Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) putting together a letter challenging the firings.

I know. A letter! But in the context of the Senate, that's at least something.

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 10h

Here's my story about potential pushback to the Trump administration's RIF of the entire CDFI Fund staff.

Is it for show? Maybe. But it's one of the few instances where the GOP has said peep about a Trump move.

news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...

Trump Bid to Fire Community Finance Staff Faces Bipartisan Fight

The Trump administration’s plan to terminate all staff at a Treasury Department agency supporting community financial institutions is drawing pushback from industry groups and even some Republican law...

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 6d

I'm listening to something where a tech person referred to a farm as a "diversified veggie and livestock operation."

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 8d

I was legitimately confused the first time someone told me that sweetbreads were glands. Now that I think of it, I should be compensated richly for that.

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 8d

Hey! This stinks!

Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 8d

NBC debuts AI-generated Jim Fagan voice for NBA coverage

In our latest edition of “Artificial Intelligence literally nobody was asking for,” NBC doubles down on its NBA nostalgia. The network soft-launched its NBA coverage on Tuesday, with Peacock airing a preseason game between the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers. It looked just how one would expect any major network broadcast to look. It was Read more... The post NBC debuts AI-generated Jim Fagan voice for NBA coverage appeared first on Awful Announcing.

dlvr.it

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 10d

Farewell, Kramerica Industries joke.

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 10d

Took the older boy to see One Battle After Another yesterday afternoon. Spectacular. It's rare a movie as hyped up as that one lives up to it.

Sean Penn should get an award just for the way he made his Lockjaw character move. Just a fabulous physical performance.

Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 13d

Gonna show my kids their first Lee Marvin movie this weekend. Then I'm taking the 15-year old to see "One Battle After Another."

That's some solid dad work.

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 14d

By the way, Vought should be there because, as acting CFPB director, he has a seat on the FDIC's board.

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 14d

Some federal agencies are offline during the shutdown, but not all! The FDIC is going to meet on Tuesday morning, and I guess Russ Vought is going to take time out of his, ahem, busy schedule to be there.

Here's the agenda.

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 14d

Don't forget avoiding a potential fine for "debanking."

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 15d

I guess the Federal Register wouldn't have much to publish from the agencies that are shut down anyway.

Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 15d

Looks like agencies that are still operating can transmit stuff to the Federal Register and ask for an exception to allow the notice to publish. www.archives.gov/federal-regi...

Federal Register Bulletin Newsletter September 2025

September 30, 2025 What happens to the Federal Register during a government shutdown?

www.archives.gov

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 15d

Just a reminder: the CFPB isn't touched by the government shutdown. So the reviews enforcement staff are undertaking can move forward.

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 15d

The CFPB's enforcement and examination teams have been almost entirely sidelined since February. But they're being put back into gear as part of the Trump administration's anti-"debanking" effort.

New from me: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...

CFPB Opens ‘Debanking’ Probe Even as Employees Remain Sidelined

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is asking its enforcement attorneys and a small team of examiners to flag investigations that uncovered potential “debanking” of customers based on religious o...

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 16d

That pop-up and the banner behind it follows you to every single page on HUD's website. It's creepy, like eyes in a painting that just follow you everywhere.

Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 16d

This is on the front page of HUD's website. After a check of other cabinet agencies, it appears that, as of a minute or two ago, it appears that HUD is the only one to have this.

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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 20d

A recent memo by the head of the Trump administration’s fair housing office claims that the Fair Housing Act doesn’t create protected groups, only protected individuals. So HUD won’t look at how lenders behave in neighborhoods. This is a massive change. Gift link ⬇️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Housing Department's Redlining Retreat Grants Mortgage Lenders a Reprieve

An internal memo tells staff to focus on discrimination against individuals, not neighborhoods, in a potential threat to redlining cases.

www.bloomberg.com

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 20d

Couple of interesting CFPB filings went for White House review this week.

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 28d

I felt like the timeline could use a brief change a pace, so I just wanted to share this press release that came to my inbox.

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · Sep 16

This is in the case brought by New York State, not the feds.

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · Sep 16

Also, one of the good things about actors like Redford appearing in Marvel movies is that it gives you a way to introduce kids to great old movies if you try. "Oh, that guy who plays the secretary of defense in this Captain America movie? You'll love him in Sneakers or Butch & Sundance."

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Evan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · Sep 16

Robert Redford is one of those actors/directors that I liked to pretend I wasn't into. My parents loved him, so he must've been uncool! Then, I make a list of my favorite movies and he keeps popping up and I have to concede they were right.

Happy trails, Sundance Kid. Say hi to Paul.

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Todd Phillips @tphillips.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'm up in @bloomberglaw.com arguing that the recent push to reshape bank supervision, and Matters Requiring Attention in particular, "is the wrong remedy, resulting from [a] misdiagnosis of MRAs’ problems."

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