CEPR hosted a Hill briefing last Friday titled: "Cuba in Crisis: What Congress Needs to Know" Here, former Obama aide @rhodesben.bsky.social discusses how sanctions hamstring Cuba's economic reform and why @democrats.org should be more outspoken on the use of sanctions as collective punishment.

Fossil fuels and deforestation are driving climate change. But clean energy investment, stronger pollution rules, and zero-deforestation commitments across both public and private sectors will make the difference. More from @mattsedlar.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4nXTbP8

88 profitable corporations paid $0 taxes last year. Meanwhile, capital gains breaks keep protecting the wealthy while workers pay in full. @itep.org  @amyhanauer.bsky.social breaks down the three biggest problems with the US tax code. #econsky full #mostlyeconomics ep: https://bit.ly/4tVbbuW

Tensions between Ecuador and Colombia have reached new heights after President Petro asserted that a bomb from Ecuador killed 27 Colombians amid ongoing joint military operations with the US Andres Arauz goes in depth on this week's From D.C. Across the Americas FULL: https://tinyurl.com/2dbxh355

Conditions in #Cuba are rapidly deteriorating as Trump's de facto oil blockade brings life on the island to a halt. After traveling to Cuba last week, CEPR expert Michael Galant analyzes the situation on this week's episode of "From D.C. Across the Americas" FULL VIDEO https://tinyurl.com/uh34wjhy

🚨 NEW EPISODE of CEPR's Expert Video Series "From D.C. Across the Americas" This week, Francesca Emanuele on the oil siege of #Cuba  "The claim that Cuba constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. security is an absurd premise that does not withstand serious scrutiny."

Congress just reintroduced the Healthy Families Act—7 days of paid sick leave for private sector workers. Wild that in 2026 this is still a fight. Massive thanks to @delauro.house.gov & @sanders.senate.gov  for leading the charge alongside 165+ congressional members. Working people deserve better.

"The challenges we face today, from drug trafficking to mass deportations to mass migration to climate change, cannot be solved through domination and military intervention. They require real partnerships based on mutual respect and mutual collaboration." -  @velazquez.house.gov

🚨 NEW Episode: "From D.C. Across the Americas" This week, Alex Main on Trump's right-wing "Shield of the Americas" Summit this Saturday "This is really to reward Trump's regional allies who have invested a lot of political capital to help advance his regional agenda" FULL: https://bit.ly/3NmbsYt

Private sector union membership has collapsed — from 16.5% in 1985 to just 5.9% today. That's barely a third of what it was. West Virginia, Indiana, and Michigan were hit hardest. Workers have been losing power for 40 years. More from @hcbrown.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4rmZKL5

For the first time in nearly 25 years, the Charger has been driven on the road. Still plenty of work ahead. Need to bleed the brakes and adjust the drums. Right front ride height needs to come up for tire clearance.

The drone came to wake him up, but ultimately made him go back to sleep.

Would you give Leny your food?

Happy St. Patrick's Day!♡

IF ONLY THE ADULTS IN GOVERNMENT COULD BEHAVE SO MATURELY #DoBetter #LoveNotHate

🎞️ Stop Right Now, Spice Girls

RTS right now... Absolutely unreal 🥳🥳🥳 #Serbia #Protest #Freedom

Trump MAGA 8 Ball Sinatra #Magic8Ball #Decisions #Blame #Excuses #RatPack @wisewonders.bsky.social @corrina.sheshed.rocks @itistherealjas.bsky.social @gaspatient.bsky.social @afforsyth.bsky.social @kaplanikids.bsky.social @sabeet.bsky.social @jwlee3427.bsky.social @paula2168.bsky.social

Iranian regime is reportedly training children, including some as young as ten, to operate Kalashnikov rifles.

Yellow comes out as Rossi grinds to a halt on the front straight Rossi says on the radio his hybrid died, "thanks Honda" he adds #Indycar

#knicks #cavs #explore #fyp #BreakingNewsUSA Full story: https://jqjo.com/article/v6lh4sr5

Providing suspenseful horror and sheer action across both its protagonists, Resident Evil: Requiem is yet another @capcomusa.com banger that survival horror fans will absolutely love 🧟 Our review (85/100!): www.gamersheroes.com/honest-game-...

🕹️ Free now on steam 🕹️ Free now until: Apr 13 • Graveyard Keeper • Chamber Survival

Hasan Piker’s interview with Ashley St. Clair Reviewing verified iMessages from October 2024, the data shows Elon Musk framing geopolitical cycles as an unlisted "chessboard" maneuver, explicitly citing a "10,000 lasers in space" satellite architecture to project absolute operational defiance.

It is hard to overstate how insane Ice is for a regular ability. Good lord.

The Shia LaBeouf and Mia Goth divorce was kept secret for a full year — and it changed everything. While Shia LaBeouf spiraled into another arrest, Mia Goth quietly booked Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, Marvel's Blade, Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, AND Star Wars. This is the story of how one

#QuietPiggy Love this sooooooo much 🤣😂 #TikTok @ amayes.me

Anime girls really know how to apologize. We added lots of amazing ero toys to the site, in time for our big Fiscal Year-End Sale. Browse them here! jli.st/3Gxns2g Sauce is World's End Harem.

The cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying. This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you. In the US Senate, I’ve got plan to ban it.

“We’re feeling cr*p as a country. It felt like someone just lifted us all up a bit”. “I don’t think people are feeling jollier having seen speeches about checks and balances.” Are you feeling 'jollier' having watched the King’s Congress speech?

🌧️ Algunos puntos de Ourense registraron granizo de más de dos centímetros Los vientos muy fuertes complicaron la situación ↘️ /provincia/tormentas-electricas-sacuden-ourense-semana-alerta_1_20260524-4288618.html

Everyone has a version of what happened. Most of them are wrong. Episode 2: The Poisoned Story is live. Season 2 is just getting started. 🎧 Listen now on YouTube & all podcast platforms

Happy birthday Wreckless Eric 🎂🌎🌍🌏

Fuck the ICEtapo Instagram: crookedmedia

'Skyward Journey' (2018) By: Dan Vogt (QLD) For: Mobile Gather lost birds, draw wind currents to guide them, and lead them on their long journey home...

IDF-Sprecher: In der Bekaa und im gesamten südlichen Libanon: Die IDF griff über Nacht mehr als 100 terroristische Infrastrukturen und Aktivisten der Hisbollah an.

They won't allow children to go to school or return home. They harass, kill rape, torture and disfigure defenseless children, women and men. But when it comes to fighting armed men in a fair fight, the spineless, gutless cowards run & hide behind America... IDF Zionist thugs acting like Nazi's👇🏼👿

BREAKING: Labor and Hunger Strike continues at Delaney Hall torture center in Newark, New Jersey. Against state law, there are no doctors or medical staff in the facility. Governor Mikie Sherill has deployed state police to protect ICE from accountability instead of arresting the ICE thugs.

🤔Did you know that the Europe’s leading computational biology conferences returns to Switzerland? After ECCB 2019 in Basel, ECCB is 🔙, and for the very first time, in #Geneva 🧬 From bioinformatics to AI-driven biology, join 1,000+ experts 👉 Early-bird until 31 March: eccb2026.org/registration...

WE HAVE A NEW GAME, MELVINS THIS IS WHY MARCHMENT GOT SALTY WITH HIM A LITTLE WHILE AGO BECAUSE HE IS HIM AND HIM IS HE AND HEEEEEEEEE’S…MATT SCHAEFER

ATTENTION FILMMAKERS AND STORYTELLERS! Submissions are open for Bloomberg Green Docs 2025—the global short documentary competition exploring bold ideas to tackle the clmate crisis. DETAILS @ bloomberg.com/greendocs

Taking on a new challenge (From the @MSU_Basketball account on the other site)

She was reading from the manifest. Trumps name was not mentioned. He walked right into that and showed his guilt.

woman misidentified in a raid the “Christian” response? Rom 13 says obey the state…  That's what love is NOT. #ChristianNationalism #SacredRebellion #DoBetter #ProtectTheVulnerable If you want even more heat — shorter punchlines, harder edges, or satire dialed to eleven — I can turn the knob again.

It's Saturday! 📺 Post a cartoon TV series you love.

All these people that were talking about the economic decline of Russia are completely wrong! Nothing shows more activity than the smokestacks of factories. They even ran out of smokestacks, so they improvised free-air smoke plumes.

Prusament Ultraglow isn't just for toys! 🌟 It’s perfect for practical safety gear, like these ISO 7010 Emergency Exit Signs by Drunken Monkey. Printed in PETG Ultraglow Green and Jungle Green. www.printables.com/model/871474...

Am I holy enough for you?

🇺🇦Q: Will the US help Ukraine with Patriot missiles? 🇺🇸Hegseth: Where we can help Ukraine, we have, where we can enable Europe to do more, we have.

Gratuitous booby post BTW, have you seen my blue shoes? 😏😉 they are quite spectacular

Friday Weight check #22 #keto

spawn inside me dude.. fin cartwheels with @mireuvt.bsky.social on simple fish adventure 🦁🐟

Intersection at Dire Marsh is one of the most stressful spots. Something bad always happens here 🙃 Played it very safe waiting for this thief as I needed to make it across to Quarantine. Should have fired the recall+ earlier but otherwise clean stuff~

TONIGHT at 9 on SOPBS: Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution Exploring how the American Revolution affected Britain, with sabotage, espionage and political unrest reshaping the empire.

A puncture repair kit would be better for the girlfriends of computer buffs.

#OVERWORKCHAOS || “but what if I called?” || #mannys

Der Lagebericht des BSI zur IT-Sicherheit in Deutschland 2025 verdeutlicht Sicherheitsgefahren der Bundesverwaltung. Öffentliche Einrichtungen profitieren von DSGVO-konformen Lösungen deutscher Anbieter, die ausschließlich in Deutschland hosten: mailbox.org/de/oeffentli... #Digitalisierung

Die SPD muss Haltung zeigen und für die Klimaschutzziele einstehen. Sie müssen einfach nur stehenbleiben und die aktuelle gesetzliche Regelung verteidigen. ✍️ Hier die Petition von FFF unterschreiben: weact.campact.de/petitions/re...

Amen.

Remembering Tony Thompson (September 2, 1975 – June 1, 2007)🕊💙 #HiFive 🗣I know that we don't know each other well...