Gina Meronek

Cross-posting here for help with #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI linguistic schemas errors - who has skill with the LSDL standard that seems to be short on doco? www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftF...

A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.

This is exactly the wrong lesson to take. "Core Dems are furious that the party is failing, but don't worry, they'll probably come back." Taking voters for granted is exactly how we end up in this mess to begin with. And the longer voters feel ignored, the more of them won't come back.

The fish is rotting from the head down, now the Coast Guard is competing with ICE for despicable. Aggressively bullying a 60 year old fisherman in a wee fishing boat?!?! Nearly drowning him?!? WHAT THE ACTUAL F**K . www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

There's no way this is just about "finances," given that they had plenty of finances to bribe Trump. A shame. Colbert is so funny and kind and generous, especially to writers.

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

I am unreasonably excited about #PowerBI Organizational Themes. Not only does it give us a way to make applying custom themes easier for the authors, it supports the reports created in the service AND desktop. Theme all the things! powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/p...

Mosquitoes are a theme of concentration camp degradation and environmental torture, appearing repeatedly from the first accounts of camps in 1890s Cuba up through today. It's not by chance that Everglades detainees can't sleep due to mosquitoes and are subjected to them when they are wet and naked.

“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.

Fellow #FL #Florida folks, this article is a great reminder that we have paths to build coalitions against the detention center nightmare inside Big Cypress. Protecting the Everglades is essential and may gain more traction w otherwise reluctant folks. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/07/13/b...

BREAKING: Massive ICE raid ongoing at a farm in Camarillo, Ventura County, CA. Local news reports that an unknown number of workers have been detained. Almost 20% of US strawberries come from the county. US food supply at risk from Trump’s fascist thugs & Stephen Miller’s quota.

While he demands a bill that will destroy lives, industries, education, and our future. This is not sane. Will no business or corporate leader of substance say it?

The current US admin seems hell bent on destroying trade from every angle. First, completely bananas tariffs & now picking a fight with the country that controls petroleum exports. Expect an expensive 2025, it's one terrible decision after another from this president. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"25 Palestinians were killed that morning waiting for aid trucks. Hamza brought Hatem’s body back to Gaza City & buried him beside their mother, who was killed by an Israeli sniper in Aug 2024. Their brother, Khalid, 21, died in a Jan airstrike while evacuating wounded civilians on his horse cart."

🎉 We are celebrating Juneteenth with recipes from The Juneteenth Cookbook by Alliah L. Agostini with Chef @taffyelrod.bsky.social‬ and illustrated by Sawyer Cloud! Follow along with Alliah and her grandparents as they explore the holiday through food! #BookSky #Cookbooks #KidLit #Juneteenth

“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.

This photo. ICE is a gang.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

BREAKING: US Senator Alex Padilla attacked by Kristi Noem’s Goons

In moments like these, I go to Frederick Douglass. Here are his words in a letter written after visiting Robert E. Lee’s abandoned plantation in 1863:

We should never let ourselves get desensitized to this. It can’t be overstated how outrageously unpresidential and un-American it is for Donald Trump to speak to the US military like they’re his partisan personal army.

I have a shrieking migraine so calling my reps offices isn't on the table. Enter @resist.bot - let's me edit and re-edit my thoughts about ICE cruelty and send to my rep and senators with ease.

BREAKING: LAPD didn’t just “detain” someone. They surrounded him, beat him, and jumped him — like a gang. On camera. On horses. While he screamed for help. Unarmed. Cornered. Alone. If that’s not state violence, what the fuck is?

THAT HAMILTON REUNION MADE ME SO HAPPY!!! #TonyAwards

Hamilton's Original Cast Reunion #Tonys #TonyAwards

Hamilton still slaps as much as it did from day one, and LMM is a goddamn generational talent, and I cannot wait for what he does next. #tonys

#Hamilton #Tonys That was beautiful. 🥰

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

I want to remind everyone that without Elon Musk, we wouldn't be in this situation where our academic institutions, science enterprise, and democracy are being dismantled, and millions of additional people around the world are going to die. We want both of them to lose horribly in this fight.

Last year, Illinois abolished requiring prior authorization for inpatient mental health care — and now, we're extending it to outpatient care. Patients and their doctors should be in control of decisions about their care, not insurance companies.

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

“Democrats in Congress should decide whether they are physically and mentally up to the task of stopping the Republican effort to tear down America’s institutions—or make way for those who are.” newrepublic.com/post/195617/...

Dear Americans, Republicans in the House just passed the largest transfer of wealth in history to the top 1%. Those of us with the least amount of money will suffer the most.

“The $400 million private jet that the government of Qatar gifted to Donald Trump is the Michael Jordan’s house of private planes,” says Chris Hayes. “It turns out, no one wanted to buy Qatar’s hand-me-downs… it looks like Qatar finally found a sucker to pawn it off to.”

Remember that the ICE agents claimed they were looking for a totally different person before they smashed this guy’s car windows? And how he had asylum already? Well, looks like that might not have even been a ruse. ICE didn’t even file a notice to appear in court, they clearly had nothing on him.

A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.

I do love David Tennant and his response to this question in the Guardian today.

@npr.org EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Agriculture is demanding states hand over personal data of food assistance recipients — including Social Security numbers, addresses and, in at least one state, citizenship status, according to emails shared with NPR.

1. President Trump has fired the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden. The position of Librarian of Congress is so apolitical that only 14 people have held the role since 1802. Hayden, who was the first woman and Black American to serve as Librarian of Congress, has held the position since 2016

This is going to increase home insurance costs across the board. Given inadequate data , insurers will almost always err on the side of overcharging. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/c...

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

Car seats are literally required to take your new baby home from most US hospitals and - generally - used often isn't an option because of safety standards. The article's chart really drives home the point of just how cruel the current US tariff policy is for new parents in the US.

These kind of moves just make no sense. They appear to be only punitive, only help rich people, and I don’t understand how this is anything a republican or conservative would think is an awesome move. Make it make sense

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

There is no aborted fetus debris in the MMR vaccine, or in any vaccine at all. It is worth noting that the Catholic Church, one of the most staunch anti-abortion organizations in the world, has a formal policy that encourages all vaccinations.