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Maureen Conway

@maureenc.bsky.social
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Interested in job quality, employee ownership, and economic systems that support human dignity. Also urban planning, pastel painting, food, books, sports and lots of other stuff. Views my own.

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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Great match, but doesn’t Rybakina look taller than Sabalenka? They’re both described as 6’0”. #USOpen
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Why does public policy only try to on train people for good jobs & “encourage work” in bad jobs? In the wake of the Industrial Revolution we built a middle class by making bad jobs better We need to do the same today #LaborDay #JobQuality federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2...
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The forgotten goal of labor policy: Make work better | Federal News Network
Maureen Conway, the vice president at the Aspen Institute, explains how Congress and agencies can pull certain policy levers to support essential workers.
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Some Leftists Are Boycotting This Film. Everyone Should Watch It. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
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Opinion | Some Leftists Are Boycotting This Film. Everyone Should Watch It.
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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SNAP Cuts Could Lead To 70,000 Avoidable Deaths
New state estimates reveal expanded work requirements could result in tens of thousands of avoidable deaths across the country by 2040.
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I live in the DC metro area and stuck with @washingtonpost.com despite questionable editorial decisions But if they’re gutting local coverage why bother? Now I just need a nice sudoku book for my beloved so he’ll let it go… Read @katierobertson.bsky.social &co www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/b...
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Washington Post Plans Cuts to Reshape Newsroom
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Fascinating! Regardless of what you think about chatbots and their feelings, it’s a relief to hear about a serious effort to embed concern for humanity rather than profit maximizing in an LLM. Tech needs humanities majors!! @caseynewton.bsky.social @kevinroose.com podcast.app/will-chatgpt...
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Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constitution - Hard Fork
<p>Ads are coming to ChatGPT’s free and low-cost subscription tiers. We explain what they’ll look like, why OpenAI is taking this approach and whether the company can court advertising dollars without...
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Retail trade lost jobs. In December. In other news, manufacturing employment is down, and leisure & hospitality is the sector that added the most jobs, followed closely by healthcare Not looking great for folks trying to earn a living... www.bls.gov/news.release...
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Employment Situation Summary - 2025 M13 Results
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
"Democrats can oppose Trump’s efforts without rallying around a flawed institution that has put the interests of the most powerful ahead of those of the most vulnerable" Indeed Read @brookings.edu Aaron Klein on the need to reform the Fed in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...
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Trump Almost Has a Point About the Federal Reserve
The central bank has long abused its power in ways that benefit the financial sector at the expense of everyone else.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.” -Zohran Mamdani
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
And that’s a wrap on 2025 Politics—I wouldn’t know where to start but Michelle Cottle @nytimes.com has a bracing, dark humor summary “Here’s hoping 2026 brings many more displays of political grit.” Indeed, we need them www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
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Opinion | The 2025 Politics Yearbook: Most Likely to Be Extreme and Chaotic
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
"Francisco" sent this from where he was harvesting celery near Bakersfield CA. It was 42°, damp and cold when he began working at 7am. Walking through the celery and bending over to harvest it made his clothes damp and cold. He worked an 8 hour day earning CA min wage. #WeFeedYou
Farm workers harvesting celery
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o... Can the professional class develop empathy and respect for the working class without having an experience like at @briangroh.bsky.social in @nytimes.com? Wondering what that would take
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Opinion | When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
the US’s dismal performance at sharing the fruits of its success with the less well-to-do in its society is not some bug in American capitalism. It is a feature Read Eduardo Porter in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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China has brought millions out of poverty. The US has not – by choice
Despite the US’s economic success, income inequality remains breathtaking. But this is no glitch – it’s the system
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Beautiful piece from Tatiana Schlossberg @newyorker.com Reflections: -Many unseen ways public investment/reg’n shapes our planet & lives -Gov’t investment serves public good more than private (greed-motivated) does -Grateful to be unrelated to RFK Jr www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Don’t buy Starbucks coffee. Don’t buy Windmill Mushrooms. Solidarity forever! #NoContractNoCoffee No compres café de Starbucks. No compres hongos de Windmill Mushrooms. ¡Solidaridad para siempre!
Windmill Farms mushroom workers standing in front of a Starbucks in Washington State holding signs that say: windmill mushroom workers support striking Starbucks workers #NoContractNoCoffee and Boycott Windmill indmill mushrooms #NoContractNoMushrooms
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Trump wants you to believe your struggle is your neighbor’s fault. But workers know better. We see the truth: the folks cleaning our hospitals, caring for our elders, and harvesting our food aren’t the problem… losing them is. www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/14/m...
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Mass Deportations Aren’t Helping Workers, They’re Tanking the Economy
Donald Trump rode back into office by leaning on the same faux populist refrain he weaponized a decade ago: immigrants are “taking your jobs!” Since then,
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 15/11/2025
THIS IS HUGE: No Kings Alliance just announced they're going to mobilize in support of our striking baristas. No kings in the White House, No kings at work! www.commondreams.org/news/starbuc...
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'Don't Cross the Picket Line': No Kings Alliance Backs Starbucks Boycott During Workers Strike | Common Dreams
The No Kings Alliance stands in solidarity with Starbucks workers on strike for fair pay and contracts, highlighting CEO-worker pay disparity.
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Brilliant! Read @winterjessica.bsky.social The problem that men & women share is an econ system that devalues a & dehumanizes them. Hard work doesn’t work when work doesn’t pay. In the face of this econ injustice, centrist D’s ideas stir neither hope nor passion www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
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Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 10/11/2025
this is literally never not accurate
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A Good Jobs Agenda: 1. start focusing on services, instead of manufacturing, as the main provider of jobs. 2. take aim at technological innovation, deploying government programs to redirect it in a more worker-friendly direction. Read @drodrik.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
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Opinion | This Is What a Good Job Looks Like
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
NFP = conservatives trying to trick women into unplanned pregnancies and justifying it by saying women are just selfish for not wanting children. Then they blame women for having kids they can’t afford—which they can’t in a country that impoverishes working people www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
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The MAHA-Fueled Rise of Natural Family Planning
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Taking the Republican principle of government by the rich and for the rich to a whole new level… Read @jessedrucker.bsky.social @nytimes.com How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Hopefully no one’s missing the real story: that 42million people - 1 in 8 in the “richest country in the world “ - are on Food Stamps. And this is not new. We require everyone who can to work and that is also not new. The problem is the jobs. #FixWorkNotWorkers www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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Supreme Court Temporarily Allows Trump to Curtail Food Stamp Funding
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“Christianity is a love story, and the love Christians are called to show their neighbors is not perfunctory and pale, but passionate and sincere.” Thx Elizabeth Bruenig for writing. It should be all Christians opposed to Trump @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The Catholic Church and the Trump Administration Are Not Getting Along
The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2025
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Had the opportunity to visit the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. Incredibly moving and powerful. Can’t recommend enough. Much appreciation to @eji.org
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INET - Institute for New Economic Thinking @ineteconomics.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The richest Americans control $46 trillion in wealth—but many pay little or no federal tax. 👉 youtu.be/aLKacgW6YOI 👀 @bostoncollege.bsky.social professor Ray Madoff explains how the U.S. tax code has built a new aristocracy in her new book "The Second Estate" from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"She’s the rare expert whose proposals have been opposed across the ideological spectrum, including by the Council on Foundations, Independent Sector, and Philanthropy Roundtable." Does @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social really think the ideologies of the rich represent the full ideological spectrum?
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The original thoroughbred of hockey. @bwoar.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Please read this about AI. It's also about me and my profession. Every word is true. I'm in a position where I can, and do say my piece without fear - the VCs simply don't care. Many of my tech friends feel they have to keep mum about their professional views on AI, or risk losing their jobs.
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
This is rapidly becoming true in academia too. There's firm opposition in the humanities, but I fear we're being overwhelmed by administrators who've already bought the pitch and by our colleagues in technical fields who sincerely think it's something their students need to learn how to use.
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Such a great, peaceful and patriotic crowd in DC today! Lots of flags and much disdain for the constant stream of lies from the GOP and their overlord #Nokings #FreeDC
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Huge crowd in DC #NoKings
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GretchenD @gbdonart.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The cure is Jesse Welles’ Join Ice. (Just heard this on KALW.) youtu.be/OjGHf7OvglM?...
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Join Ice
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"It’s not that we need to throttle technology, but the balance is out of whack." Isn't it time for a #SlowTech movement? Read Dustin Guastella @teamsters.bsky.social Local 623 in @theguardian.com
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b... I guess it really is time to unsubscribe from the Post. There are still a number of fine journalists there, but the number is shrinking and they can’t say what they think. Sad
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Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
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Natalie Foster @nataliefoster.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
To make sure AI serves workers we need bold action: corporate regulation, worker voice + sectoral bargaining. More on AI and power from the @rooseveltinstitute.org @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social in this post for the @eop.aspeninstitute.org: www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/w... #FutureOfWork
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Worker Power in the Age of AI Monopolies: Why We Need Structural Solutions Now
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"The paradox is that bad news for workers has become good news for markets." Well, actually this isn't really new... companies have been hell bent on strategies to have fewer people work harder for less for a long time qz.com/stock-market...
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Stocks rally on Fed interest rate cut hopes as 'jobless expansion' takes hold
Markets are celebrating weak jobs data as a guarantee of Fed interest rate cuts and fatter corporate margins. But are record highs here to stay?
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Men may be doing worse than they used to, but women are still doing worse than men by many measures. Instead of creating special programs for men, maybe ask why we have an economy in which most people can't succeed...? Read @emilypeck.bsky.social in @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/09/09/d...
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The gender pay gap is getting wider, reversing progress
It's the second consecutive year that the gender wage gap widened.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/08/2025
The GOP isn't just the party of low taxes for billionaires, they're the party of low wages for workers.
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Corey Frayer @csfrayer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Townsend d. Jelena Ostapenko 7-5 6-1 Taylor was on a mission today. She’s into the 3rd round of the U.S. Open for the first time since 2023. World #1 in doubles… but let’s not forget she’s a pretty special singles player too. ✅4th Grand Slam R3 Tay Tay came to play. 🇺🇸❤️
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
My cousin’s son has leukemia—which is not only life threatening and emotionally devastating but in the US it’s also expensive. It’s a disgrace that the US economic/healthcare system drives people to crowd funding to pay for care, but that’s where we are. If you can help… gofund.me/0e1022f2
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Donate to Support Henry's Fight Against Leukemia, organized by Colleen Arsenault
Dear Friends, Family, and Kind Supporters, I’m reaching out with a he… Colleen Arsenault needs your support for Support Henry's Fight Against Leukemia
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Jordan Barab @jbarab.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
"They treat you like cannon fodder." U.S. wildfire fighters suffer high rates of cancer and other diseases, but use no respirators, unlike other countries. The US Forest Service hides the problem and opposes regulations to require respirator use. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
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Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/08/2025
Trump has made no comment. The White House has found the time to post a video of the arrest of that guy who threw a sandwich at a cop, but nothing about a cop killed defending the government's own employees. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose district includes parts of Atlanta, has also said nothing.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Attacking federal employees and making data disappear are two themes of this administration. So this is a twofer: the annual survey of federal employees has been cancelled. Obvious reason is to hide big declines in worker morale, engagement and satisfaction. federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...
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After months of postponing, OPM opts to fully cancel 2025 FEVS
The cancellation comes after OPM indefinitely delayed FEVS earlier this year, due to the Trump administration’s “urgent” changes for federal employees.
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
A sad day for the “land of the free.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
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Over 60,000 Are in Immigration Detention, a Modern High, Records Show
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Alas, billionaires would rather donate a farm to a university than recognize the fundamental human rights of farm workers. Read @melissagomez.bsky.social in @latimes.com Appreciate @ufw.bsky.social work for fair wages and working conditions www.latimes.com/california/s...
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California's richest agricultural family is shuttering a farm the UFW sought to unionize
Wonderful says the nursery in Wasco, Calif., was losing money. Some question whether the company is laying off hundreds of workers to send a message to others.
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Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Another Trump official officially renounces any claim to professional integrity. Kevin Hassett’s behavior is appalling www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Hassett Defends Firing of Top Labor Official Over Weak Jobs Numbers
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
After a visit to TrustCon, I wrote about the near-total failure of trust and safety leaders to defend human rights after conservatives successfully bullied platforms into submission www.platformer.news/trustcon-tru... www.platformer.news/trustcon-tru...
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