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Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · 16h

PAA and Government Affairs Committee member Colleen Heflin, alongside colleagues, authored this op-ed piece in The Hill: Now is not the time to stop measuring food insecurity buff.ly/sFy8n7u

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Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · 2h

Join letter to congressional leaders rejecting USDA's decision to halt data collection and release of food security reports. Support restoring funding for the Food Security Supplement in the Current Population Survey.

Individuals: buff.ly/m2pb60w
Organizations: buff.ly/VLQjNjg

Individual Sign-on to PAA FFS Letter

Please click the link to complete this form.

form.jotform.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 15h

I mean...
Isn't it *always* the ones who scream loudest who are really just telling on themselves?

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 16h

Only Betas talk like this.

Politico @politico.com · 22h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 18h

Sign on. What are you waiting for?

APDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 19h

✅ TAKE ACTION: If you're concerned about the termination of the Food Security Supplement, there's a new way you can take action.

@popassocamerica.bsky.social is circulating a sign-on letter.

Individuals can sign on here: form.jotform.com/252865538947...

Individual Sign-on to PAA FFS Letter

Please click the link to complete this form.

form.jotform.com

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 23h

This is basically the premise in the FL case against the 2020 Census, too.

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 1d

Some of my favorite books are depressing (see, for example, Tolstoy's Hadji Murad) BUT those are *not* the books I want to read right now.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly very impressed by Newsmax, the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner.

They deserve credit precisely because they’re standing up for journalistic principle notwithstanding their ideological inclination.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity is the only way

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 1d

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 1d

Oh! Love the branding...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity is the only way

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 1d

This is a sign of immense weakness. It’s like a mobster asking others if they’d be interested in a shakedown because their first targets didn’t cooperate.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 1d

No. Drugs. You need drugs to make sense of it.

If AI wrote it, we'd announce that as the time of death for AI.

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 1d

Omg yes!
(My hot take was also a dunk on Ulysses.)

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 1d

The emdash is perfect.

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 1d

Vacant vacation homes in North Carolina falling down?
Viral videos.

Major, life-threatening storm in Alaska sweeping homes and possibly people out to sea?
*crickets*

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-...

Alaska hit by severe flooding that carries away homes

Alaska State Troopers said it received reports of "at least eight homes being pushed from their foundations."

www.cbsnews.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-...

Alaska hit by severe flooding that carries away homes

Alaska State Troopers said it received reports of "at least eight homes being pushed from their foundations."

www.cbsnews.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 1d

United we stand...

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

Reps for CNN, Reuters, The AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR all say that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign, either — a potentially significant sign of MAGA dissension.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

At ASPR, analysts with top-secret clearances who work with intelligence agencies on biodefense, emerging CBRN threats, were fired. They focused on threats from “state actors, any type of threat, whether it it’s intentional or accidental,” said a former HHS official. 4/4.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

At CDC, of about 1,300 laid off, about 740 have been rescinded. Another 600 or so are still fired. That includes a team that does day-to-day operations for a key health and nutrition survey (NHANES). 2/4

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

At CDC, one of the offices within Office of Science that usually signs off on high-profile agency scientific publications, including the flagship MMWR, still RIFd 3/4

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: More than half of the roughly 1,300 layoffs notices at @CDCgov have been rescinded. But analysts with top-secret clearance working on biodefense preparedness at another health agency have lost their jobs, per sources. Our story 1/4
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit

More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs.

www.washingtonpost.com

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 1d

Unhinged literary opinion: anyone who claims to have loved Ulysses must be lying.

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