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Andrew Leahey boosted:

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”

Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS

Andrew Leahey boosted:

Btw, if Republicans cut Medicaid, be prepared to see disabled elderly homeless people. Medicaid pays for about 2/3 of America’s nursing home beds. When the money stops, those people are evicted, an ambulance is called, and they wind up in the ER. They have nowhere to go, no funding for another nursing home, and no emergency medical problem. Sooner or later they stop being boarded in the ER and wind up on the streets.

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This is disgusting and will become increasingly regular as Trump ramps up his deportatiin efforts throughout the country. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/us-citizen-detained-ice-real-id

Andrew Leahey boosted:

Where to go for a PhD? Change of interest from non-US students.

Source: Economist, 2025 https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/05/21/america-is-in-danger-of-experiencing-an-academic-brain-drain #science #uspol

I don’t hate “them” I just love “us” is the most panicked, stupid, last minute half-assed defense of every -ism I can imagine.

And yet people still gobble it up and regurgitate it.

There is a line beyond which you’re no longer publishing words of hate mongers to make sure they don’t get to flourish in the shadows and you’re just boosting their message.

I’d say … essentially giving them an op-ed is on the wrong side of that line.

Andrew Leahey boosted:

Me, 1996: No, "Goodtimes" is a hoax, an email can't run computer code or give you a virus

Me, 2000, miserable: Microsoft did something weird and now emails can give you a virus. Bubbleboy is real

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Me, 2010: No, the "Enhance" bit from CSI is not real. There aren't algorithms that can add information to an image.

Me, 2025, miserable: Microsoft did something weird and now the "Enhance" button is real, but the details are fake. Law enforcement IS using it and innocent people will go to prison

Andrew Leahey boosted:

Big day for the destruction of the US:

The GOP budget will increase the deficit by $2.3 trillion over a decade, boost the incomes of the richest 10% and cut the incomes of the poorest 10%.

Senate Repubs will change Senate rules to push through dangerous legislation.

Cryptocurrency is going to steal money from you and me to bolster its Ponzi scheme and protect crypto bros.

Medicare and Medicaid are going to be severely cut.

Andrew Leahey boosted:

We're ready for Microsoft Recall and the automatic screenshots it takes of everything on your desktop.

Signal Desktop on Windows now includes support for a new "Screen security" feature designed to block screenshots of your Signal chats.

https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

Shocking, I know, but the Republican plan to eliminate clean energy tax credits is a bad idea. For red states, for blue states, for the economy, for the world, etc.

https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/republican-plan-to-ax-bidens-green-tax-credits-is-self-sabotage

Making illegal campaign contributions to Bruce Springsteen again, I see?

Andrew Leahey boosted:

This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.

Table showing the massive cuts in federal science funding for EPA- 54.5%, NASA -24%. NOAA - 24%, NSF -56%, USGS- 38% etc.

Andrew Leahey boosted:

Two days ago, I wrote a newsletter entry about the state of Alien Enemies Act litigation. See https://heidi-says.ghost.io/the-latest-legal-developments-in-trumps-effort-to-use-the-alien-enemies-act-to-disappear-venezuelans/. Today, the Supreme Court weighed in, as I said it might, using the situation in the Northern District of Texas to do so. Its opinion is at https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a1007_g2bh.pdf. 1/ #LawFedi

Andrew Leahey boosted:

This is the way.

A high school freshman track athlete took second place behind a trans athlete, and a Republican leader used the situation to push hateful propaganda. The girl responds:

"I don't feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points... No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby."

May 14, 2025
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons | chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, | ran the fastest 1,600-meter race | have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school's standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that | achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don't feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

Andrew Leahey boosted:

Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance?

Turns out they’re illegal.

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

#TCF #consent #data #privacy #EU #GDPR #BigTech #maliciousCompliance #SiliconValley #adtech #technoFascism

Andrew Leahey boosted:

Hold on, I'm just defragging my tulip field 🌷

An arial photo of a tulip field with long multi coloured rows, including one row which is apparently half pink, half red

It's the worm, it holds itself to a higher moral standard and was able to speak for a moment.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/14/robert-f-kennedy-jr-vaccine-question-congressional-hearing/83624022007/

Andrew Leahey boosted:

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of Trump Media stock the same day Trump unveiled new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according to records obtained by ProPublica.

https://www.propublica.org/article/pam-bondi-trump-media-stock-tariffs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #StockMarket #Stocks #Tariffs #Economy #USPolitics

The Leaheys have a storied history of criticizing tax policies.

$BEACHWOOD - A year ago. Marie and Kevin Leahey moved here from Bayonne, in hopes of escaping soaring taxes and the high cost of living. Now, saddled with property taxes that rose $800 (more than 50 percent) in TAX VIGNETTES the past year alone, they're starting 10 think that the only real escape is 10 leave New Jersey. This year, they will be spending $2,300 — exactly 10 percent of their household income — on property taxes for their two-bedroom Spar A venue home. They have their sights set on Utah and Colorado, where they ve heard that property taxes on much larger homes are only a fraction of what they're paying. With property taxes what they are, making ends meet hasn't been easy. Eating out has become a luxury they can't afford. And Leahey has taken a second job. Next month, after making the commute from a Jersey City school where he is a special education teacher, he will make his nightly trek to a supermarket in Lacey Township, where he was recently hired as a part-time worker. Leahey has cerebral palsy, and his wife worries about how long his health will hold up when he starts burning the candle at both ends. "We're all going to be homeless- that's the next thing." Mrs. Leahey said. "Sometimes you wonder whether it pays to be on the up and up, and do everything as you're supposed to do. "How many times are they going 1o hit the same old stone and try to get blood out of it?"$

Andrew Leahey boosted:

“Somebody’s Watching Me” – What You Need to Know About California’s Proposed AI Employee Surveillance Laws https://natlawreview.com/article/somebodys-watching-me-what-you-need-know-about-californias-proposed-ai-employee?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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