Avery Hudson

GOP rule has brought the US to its third highest budget deficit in history (behind only 2020 and 2021, when the federal government was providing stimulus funding amid the COVID pandemic).

"This new tactic is yet another desperate attempt to use fear to suppress the vote in immigrant communities by an administration bent on hanging onto power." #ICE #votersuppression #elections #trumpregime

Since 2015, US households' costs for drinking water have risen twice as fast as groceries. #affordability

BDS WIN: NYC rejects Israel bonds! After over a year of growing pressure from the Break the Bonds NYC campaign, City Comptroller Mark Levine has finally backed down from his dangerous and irresponsible pledge to reinvest the city pension fund in Israel Bonds.

Round-trip flights in the US are up 31% from last year. #travel #tourism #inflation

“We all knew it was a matter of time before something happened around here because the ICE presence was so pervasive.” NYC Council Member Pierina Sanchez #massdeportation #marblehill #KingsbridgeAssociates #WashingtonSquarePartners #target gothamist.com/news/residen...

"We're the only major country in the world losing visitation." --Geoff Freeman, president and CEO of the US Travel Association #tourism #worldcup #trumpregime

"Tesla ignored multiple requests for comment." Typical. #cybercabs

"NYPD representatives did not respond to questions about the catnapping, and did not say whether the assailants would be charged with a feliney." #bodegacats

“It’s over for doctors, human doctors.” - Vinod Khosla (billionaire father/financial backer of Neal Khosla, CEO of AI "healthcare" company Curai Health) #medicare #fda #RFKJr #MehmetOz #ChrisKlomp #primarycare #FinnKennedy #corruption

“Leaving this to individual towns doesn’t make any sense. Data centers create problems that don’t stop at municipal boundaries, whether it’s pollution or straining the grid and driving up everyone’s electric bills.”

25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.

“He loves to build,” Mr. Lutnick said. “This is what he enjoys. So late at night, 11 o’clock at night, he calls me and wants to talk about things he’s building, because it’s fun for him.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/u... #trumpregime

"I hang out with losers because it makes me feel better." -US President Donald Trump

US employers expect health-plan costs to rise by 11% in 2027, the steepest hike in at least two decades. #inflation #affordability #midterms

"Kalena Wise recently closed down her cafe in Ennis because of staff shortages and rising operation costs, but she will probably still vote Republican." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/u...

Today marks one year since the United States began an unlawful campaign of lethal military strikes targeting vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, claiming 227 lives. US officials should be urgently held to account for these killings. Read more: https://bit.ly/4cnFJ2t

"He added that the disaster was a 'brutal reminder' for those living in Himalayan valleys that changes in the climate mean 'events like this may happen again.' ” #climatecrisis #glaciers

"The Garden State has seen an average of about 2.5 tornadoes a year since 1950, according to state climatologist data. But four have already been recorded thus far this year and three last year." #climatecrisis

South Korean farmers harvesting potatoes this summer found they had already cooked in the ground. #agriculture #climatecrisis #heatwaves

If the US were an advanced country with a functioning public health infrastructure, wouldn't our government be putting incentives in place now for development of a vaccine against West Nile virus? #NIH #FDA #CDC #vaccination #mosquitoes #climatecrisis #drought

"In 2023, the EPA under the Biden administration proposed creating stronger cybersecurity guidelines to better safeguard the nation’s water supply from hackers.... The EPA rescinded the order after Republican-led states and industry groups sued to block its enforcement." #voteblue

Only 7,133 registrations for Tesla's Cybertrucks in the US this year since May (a slower pace than the Edsel, which Ford discontinued in 1959, two years after launch). #elonmusk

Living in Miami now costs more than living in New York City. #affordability #inflation #insurance #taxes

“We expect an increase in prevalence as climate change creates warmer weather and drier conditions in some parts of North America.” #wildfires #airpollution #climatecrisis

“The bottom line is high prices are going to remain in place.” #energycosts #artificialintelligence #datacenters

Humans have long worked to beat the heat, especially in the tropics and in deserts. More and more parts of the world are having to learn the lesson of those strategies. #climatecrisis

"An unprecedented heat wave had abruptly descended on the Pacific Northwest, and Shandas, a geography professor at Portland State University, understood exactly what that meant: Many of his fellow citizens were about to die." #climatecrisis

Brilliant live album! #hurrayfortheriffraff

"Today, nearly 40 percent of homes are within five miles of at least one operational data center, Pew found, and more of them are creeping closer." #ai #datacenters #noisepollution

"Fuel prices are one of the most visible signs of the economy’s health, and can have an outsize impact on Americans’ wallets." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The "freedom ballot" was same strategy used in 1963 where 83,000 Mississippians cast their ballot in the Freedom Vote (when African Americans were denied legal vote). They voted at Sunday church services, beauty parlors, pool halls. See @mhimovement.bsky.social snccdigital.org/events/missi...

“Historically, allowing regimes to collect lists of Jewish people has not boded well for their safety.”

Offline (re)reading: Doktor Faustus

WTF? "Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026 This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views..." #journalism #ai

Somebody say puppet! #SergeyBrin #GerelynGilbert-Soto #MAGA www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

It has to be said. There's way too much AI slop on @bsky.app. My first step will be to mute/block any accounts that show up in my timeline sharing AI-generated content. If that doesn't work and I keep getting AI slop via Bluesky, I'll close my account. Life is too short.

"The NYC Solar Schools Program shows what’s possible when we commit, unapologetically, to a just and sustainable future for all of us." - NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani #cleanenergy #solarpower #democraticsocialism

"The announcement offered no reason for the sudden departure of Mr. Nunes." #devinnunes #truthsocial #trumpregime

"Americans are deeply angry at the constellation of economic forces buffeting them, starting with higher prices and diminished job prospects." #inflation #unemployment #trumpeconomy

Three-quarters of the U.S. is now dealing with some level of drought or dryness, including most food-producing areas. #climateemergency www.agweb.com/weather/60-u...

"Rates of rotavirus have been steadily increasing since January.... Still, vaccination rates have slipped." #publichealth #cdc

"Since the 2024 presidential election, interest among U.S. citizens in moving abroad has spiked, and Americans left in record numbers last year, many in search of lower living costs." #trumpeconomy #costofliving #standardofliving #emigration

"I think that people, a lot of people, when they call us, they were like, 'Oh my goodness, thank God, I actually got a person to speak to.'" #librarians

“It has been a big inconvenience for the neighborhood and it has not made anything safer.” #columbiauniversity

"The Arctic is warming four times faster than the global average." #climatecrisis

In other words, "Just give us a blank check."

Commonsense guidance from AP Stylebook: " 'boots on the ground' - Avoid this jargony term, often used by U.S. politicians. It can be used in quotes."

"The price of regular gasoline in the United States jumped 25 percent from February to March, the highest monthly percentage increase on record." #inflation #trumpwars

Offline Reading: Samuel Johnson - A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology, ed. David Crystal