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1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️

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Not to be like, "Look at egg prices!" but... look at egg prices. www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...

Jane Goodall was the commencement speaker at my college graduation, and the main thing I remember from her speech was when, in signature fashion, she greeted us in "chimpanzee." What a legend. youtu.be/Vr350j7Ya5E?...

PRO PUBLICA: “.. at least three of Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages. * Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer .. * Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy .. * EPA administrator Lee Zeldin @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Rising inequality is turning US into an autocratic state, Ray Dalio warns www.theguardian.com/business/202...

An appeals court ruled most of Trump's tariffs are illegal, opening the door for the possibility that the U.S. govt will have to pay back the money its collected so far. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

Fed's Waller: "After accounting for these revisions and what we will learn in a couple of weeks, the data are likely to indicate that employment actually shrank over those three months." www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

ICYMI: Billionaire ⁦‪Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has received a “limited” conflicts-of-interest waiver from the White House allowing him to temporarily retain massive financial holdings. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Costs for businesses and prices for consumers are rising, and that money is going to the government.

"Since the first quarter of 2023... AI spending propped up the economy while consumer spending stagnated." www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

This @propublica.org piece from April, about Trump's attack on all the measurements that matter, feels particularly relevant today.

The immensity of this reporting cannot be overstated. @propublica.org made an archive of reported, fact-checked info on each of the individuals sent to prison in El Salvador. Trump admin knew that only *six* had been convicted of violent offenses.

Calling it. Connecticut will crown itself the BBQ Capital of the United States if this guy wins. www.courant.com/2025/07/22/c...

Caregivers are notoriously difficult to find and keep, not only because the work is difficult, but because of poverty-level wages and limited benefits. Nationwide, immigrants make up nearly 20% of the child care workforce. In NYC it's 40%, in LA it's nearly 50%. hechingerreport.org/americas-chi...

Can confirm: “If you’re used to L.A., a regular street in Connecticut feels like a national park,” Mr. Barua said. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

And here's our coverage: ctmirror.org/2025/06/14/n...

Images by @shahrzadrasekh.bsky.social from today’s rally in Hartford CT.

Lamont weighing veto or seeking revisions to controversial housing bill he might call a special session ctmirror.org/2025/06/09/c...

NEW: The Trump administration's fiscal year 2026 budget request's appendix says with no details: "The President's Budget proposes to reorganize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce" www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

"...the errors in the report were characteristic of the use of generative artificial intelligence, which has led to similar issues in legal filings and more." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

Rep. Joe Courtney: “This isn’t really a gift. ...You’d basically have to tear the plane down to the studs and rebuild it to meet all the survivability, security and communications requirements of Air Force One. It’s a massive undertaking—and an unfunded one at that.” www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

The number of Americans buying self-defense insurance—dubbed 'murder insurance' by critics who believe it can encourage the use of deadly force—has soared in recent years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

University of Connecticut has not, as of yet, signed on to this list. Several other colleges and universities in CT -- public and private -- have.

Friendly reminder that one quarter of negative GDP growth does not mean we're in a recession. ctmirror.org/2024/06/10/u...

Ugh. It's happening. The economy shrank in the first quarter, at an annual rate of -0.3%. The good news: Consumption and investment remained strong. Think of this as a hard-to-interpret report due to -- **all of this**. Remember, this is the average of Q1, and the real concern is about Q2.

Attention, CT foodies! My next guest in @ctmirror.org entrepreneur event series This Could Work, is Jason Sobocinski. Founder of Haven Hot Chicken, Jason has also had a hand in other tasty startups like Olmo, Black Hog Brewing, Mystic Cheese Co. and Caseus. Join us! ctmirror.org/2025/04/18/r...

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

The showdown with Harvard is wild. It’s not just an Ivy — it’s possibly the most recognized and revered name in higher ed in the world, truly one of this country’s most valuable exports.

“I cry to my wife every night. There’s nothing fun about any of this." ctmirror.org/2025/04/15/c...

I’m sooo happy about UConn!!

Shout out to college kids taking intro macro this semester.

Musk’s offer of free Starlink for the White House puzzled some former officials. But it immediately struck @propublica.org 's @reneedudley.bsky.social & Doris Burke as the potential Trump-era iteration of a business maneuver they’d recently spent months reporting on.

Who lost their jobs at the FDA? The people who determine if a costly drug is ready to be a generic The people who test food and drugs for contaminants and deadly bacteria in several labs were let go The people talking to overseas drug safety regulators to get ahead of foodborne illness & deaths

Americans earning $250,000 or more annually — the top 10% of earners — now account for nearly 50% of all U.S. spending, the highest since 1989. qz.com/trump-tariff...

Thanks I hate it. www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-stora...

Connecticut Republican lawmakers called for the creation of an inspector general’s office to investigate unethical behavior and alleged corruption in state government, citing local news stories about alleged waste and fraud. ctmirror.org/2025/03/27/c...

Zeldin went on to say: “We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.” ctmirror.org/2025/03/27/e...

NEWS: ESPN announced that it is ending its Los Angeles edition of “SportsCenter” and relocating the production of that show to its headquarters in Bristol, Conn. @andrewmarchand.bsky.social has more: www.nytimes.com/athletic/623...

"More than 40% of the CSCU system’s $611 million total reserve came from the community colleges, where tuition this fall was up 11% from two years earlier." ctmirror.org/2025/03/25/c...

Firing 300,000 federal workers would save the US govt ~$35Bn. But it would reduce GDP by ~$119Bn that, with the ~$3Bn in unemployment claims, a net economic loss of $87Bn. "That would be an outcome that is bad for everybody." Analysis from @iata.org — yes, IATA. www.iata.org/en/publicati...

Do data centers create jobs? The tallies are in and the conclusion is: Meh. www.wsj.com/tech/ai-data...

From WSJ: During two months that shattered records for presidential transitions, healthcare executives wrote among the largest checks. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

In light of Trump's pause on enforcing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, thought I'd see if any companies with CT connections were involved in FCPA cases. Looks like RTX Corp (2024), Gartner (2023), Alexion (2020), United Technologies (2018), GE (2010). Interesting docket: www.sec.gov/about/divisi...

At an aerospace suppliers conference last week, one consultant joked, “Thank God we have a stable political and regulatory environment to help us through these difficult times,” to laughter. He said industry was blindsided by the tariffs on Canada and Mexico. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

“If the product is free, you are the product.”

To offer some context/scope… thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

Watching the Fox broadcast of UConn v. St. John’s, and I’m pretty sure that’s Benjamin Zachs, chief operating officer of local CT Cannabis retail chain Fine Fettle.