Catherine Rampell

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

This is dark

The National Association of Home Builders explains what happens if we make inputs for home construction, such as Canadian lumber, more expensive.

Congrats everyone, we now have 35% tariffs on Canada for no apparent reason

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind.
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

ICE raids have 'overwhelmed' coastal California communities

Communities in three California counties "overwhelmed" as ICE raids ramp up in the region.

The 2024 U.S. economy in a nutshell

Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office.
How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

Had to doublecheck the date on this

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Stephen Miller’s Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid

When ICE agents arrested over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.

A new era of government censorship has begun.
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned

Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework.
Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there
prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead

It took just two months to drive two of our closest and most important allies into China's arms.

Civil servant source says DOGE has made agencies much less efficient: "Work has ground down to a stunning degree and management is spending a significant amount of time responding & preparing to respond to the chaos incited by the never ending barrage of EOs & accompanying memos"
Many make no sense🧵

Looking forward to learning how appointing an accused child-sex-trafficker as AG and a suspected Russian asset as DNI will lower the price of eggs

"when his church refused to integrate, he left to help found a new one that welcomed everyone"
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/o... many lovely factoids I didn't know about Carter, in this eulogy from @nickkristof.bsky.social

Opinion | Jimmy Carter Deserved Our Thanks and Respect, Not Our Sneers

We in the media and chattering class jeered at a man who probably improved more lives over a longer period than any recent president.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish

A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.

Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns.
He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response | CNN Politics

The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

guys they're going to stop feeding TSA's bomb-sniffing dogs, per Fox News nat security correspondent: