WTAF Daily

WTAF Daily

@patiod.bsky.social

Interviewer, writer, Quaker, Skeptic's Guide fan, Philadelphian, servant to my weird little dog.

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Being without power in the heat we've been having is deadly.

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Tens of thousands of people in Indiana are entering a second week without power after a deadly storm toppled trees and power lines. Schools remain closed and businesses have been unable to reopen. n.pr/4xXEmQy

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I've talked to Minneapolis DA Mary Moriarty several times, including a few months ago. Former public defender with no qualms about charging abusive cops. She has also been threatened by the Trump administration, is not seeking reelection, and doesn't back down. Shit's about to get real.

Kudos to the people who sent out handwritten postcards to PA voters urgng us to vote YES to retain our Democratic Supreme Court justices 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 This wave is for you!!!

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An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

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The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly. We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

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The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court. This is not deportation. This is ethnic cleansing.

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Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.

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We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

Phillip Anderson@phillipanderson.bsky.social

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

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We cannot abandon this young man- a gay makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison, by a disgraced former Milwaukee cop with major credibility issues He is Andry Hernández Romero. God knows what will happen to him. Call your representatives. Call the WH. We care

"If you no longer wish to receive war plans from Pete Hegseth, text STOP to unsubscribe." - post on the Fox "News" story about the Signal debacle The comments are actually pretty great - lots of folks rationalizing, but lots trolling, too. Plus conspiracies galore, of course

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In 1954, the federal corporate tax rate was 52%. It's now 21% Due to tax breaks, corporations usually pay far less than the official rate The US collects less revenue from corporations, relative to the size of the economy, than most other advanced countries Make corporations pay their fair share

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🇨🇦 Jasmine Mooney: I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped. I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky.

theguardian.comI’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnappedI was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

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Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...

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No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

LinkedIn sometimes serves up jobs they think you would be qualified for based on your profile. I'm a market researcher specializing in health care. Here's what Linked in recommended for me today, and I'm wondering what word in my background triggered this suggestion