Andrea Vaghy
@avaghy.bsky.social
I’m a social worker focused on workforce development, employment, labor markets and job quality and equity. Mom of teenage twins. Old movies, film podcasts, tv and pop culture are my thing. Detroit will always be home.
Attn media types: Here’s a @transjournalists.org guide to reporting on the supreme court decision … www.transjournalists.org/covering-sup...
Covering the Supreme Court's ruling on trans athletes
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox that states can restrict athletes’ participation on sports teams based on “biological sex.” The court held that ...
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By itself, this is both impeachable and cause for radical reform. The GOP Supreme Court does not even bother to explain the majority of its decisions. It's apparently too much to ask they at least barf up dishonest, unprincipled, poorly-reasoned excuses for their arbitrary exercise of power.
ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.NEW: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
When I was 13, my grandparents gave me stock in Hershey’s candy as a bar mitzvah gift because I liked candy. I had to sell it this year when I married an FDA employee. Because, as we all know, the federal government is very concerned about financial conflicts of interest.
Rick Stengel@rickstengel.bsky.social · last mo.It took 250 years, but we finally have a chief executive who understands the full money-making possibilities of the Oval Office. Another thing the Founders did not count on. #Happy250th
I'm on this new diet where I cut out carbs and sugar and yearn for the sweet release of death
Trump’s reflecting pool is so murky that when people toss in coins…they immediately disappear into an LLC registered in Delaware.
If Iran wants reopening to move forward, they'll ignore Israeli activity in southern Lebanon. If Iran wants to scuttle the process, they'll cite Israeli activity in southern Lebanon. It's a useful card for them — yet another way they ran circles around the US in these negotiations.
Rich Burroughs@somewhattolerable.com · 2mo agoI just don’t understand how people think even keeping the strait open is going to work when Netanyahu is not going to stop in Lebanon. Trump can’t control him.
Iran seems to understand something about Trump no one else does, the pointlessness of making a 'deal' with someone who ignores the rules
Our whole city is cheering for the Knicks tonight. So it’s only right that we bring the Knicks to the whole city. Tonight, Game 5 will be streaming on 130 LinkNYC kiosks. Let’s go Knicks.
Seeing a lot of posts lately on the benevolence of robber barons. It has to stop. They were terrible, screwed their workers, cheated to build their businesses and never paid enough taxes. The fix was unions, more taxes on the rich, gov’t regulations and worker protections not their charity.
Surreal to do an interview with BBC World Service in the middle of last night discussing how the world’s first trillionaire is also the world’s most prominent Far Right agitator.
i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building
NYT photographer Alex Kent got a picture of the construction workers at the Kennedy Center with the rainbow appearing behind them last night. “After a night of storms, both political and meteorological, workers began removing President Trump’s name from the white marble facade”
The world’s first trillionaire is a killer. Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering via @theverge.com www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...
The world’s first trillionaire is a killer
Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.
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Trump’s inflation flippancy gifts Dems ready-made midterm ads www.axios.com/2026/06/11/t...
Trump's inflation flippancy gifts Dems ready-made midterm ads
Trump and congressional Republicans are living in different universes.
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The president took your money illegally and he won’t give it back
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew: The Trump admin said it intends to appeal an April court order that requires it to refund all of the tariffs collected under the slate of duties declared illegal by the Supreme Court. In short, the gov has said it can't/won't do this for all of the tariffs automatically.
You, and the people you work for, are destroying the most-respected, the highest-rated, the most-profitable show on this network
Trump fired federal workers and hollowed out the agencies. But Trump's people cannot delete the actual laws. Every single executive order he signed can be wiped out on Day One. Read why the damage isn't permanent, and how we fix it: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/everything...
"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...
We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots
“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...
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Trump used tariffs to rob from the poor & give to the rich. Americans paid for the tariffs in higher prices, but refunds will be going to corporations. Ford expects a $1.5 billion payback, & General Motors expects $500 million. Both companies plan to use the cash to boost their own earnings.
Trump’s $166 Billion Corporate Enrichment Scam
How Trump’s illegal tariffs created a reverse-Robin Hood scheme on steroids
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Impeachment is the political remedy for this political crisis. Tell Congress to reclaim their power and get moving. Now.
The solution isn't a ballroom. Here are some ideas: 1. Stop the MAGA propaganda machine that blurs the line between fact and fiction 2. Stop the right wing extremist violent rhetoric, including from the president 3. Common sense gun laws 4. Break up the corporate media conglomerates 1/
You know, instead of debating how we should go overboard to protect the one man who's the most hated provocateur of malevolent violence in the entire nation, we could just remove him from office through the normal procedures.
