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Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda isn’t about rule of law or economics at all

The latest immigration rule is based on obvious lies.




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On health care, is Trump malicious or just incompetent? Yes.

New cuts are actually expansions, according to Mike Pence.




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Yes, Trump’s latest Fed pick is that bad. Here’s why.

Judy Shelton is an opportunist and a quack. Senate Republicans seem to know this — but they still may be too craven to oppose her nomination.




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This latest trick from the Trump administration is one of the most despicable yet

A new policy is keeping hundreds of families from obtaining visas




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How Trump’s failure to learn from history is making your whiskey a lot more expensive

It’s another way in which the president’s supposedly narrowly focused tariffs have trickled down.




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The Trump administration’s green card Catch-22

Now immigrants can be denied green cards partly because they’re applying for green cards.




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A socialist is likely to win the 2020 election. No, not Bernie Sanders.

How the president has proved himself a more successful socialist than Sanders is likely to ever be.




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With coronavirus, Trump’s lies and his reassurances backfire

Americans have not only health risks but also economic fears.




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You’ll never guess how Trump is celebrating National Consumer Protection Week

The Trump administration continues its war on consumers




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This is the YOLO presidency

Trump’s not used to consequences, but he’s also not immune.




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Officials have spent the last few years dismantling anti-recession measures

And now, we’re woefully unprepared.




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A global recession is likely here. Lawmakers need to do their jobs.

Policymakers need to step up and do something useful — yesterday.




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America is going into an economic coma. Here’s how we (eventually) wake up from it.

A framework for how Congress should be thinking about the immediate economic challenges ahead — and the tools available to address them.




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This could be a long fight. People should be told the truth.

We won’t get better outcomes with a government that repeatedly overpromises and underdelivers.




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How Trump is sabotaging the coronavirus rescue plan

And how Congress can rein him in.




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This ‘dreamer’ is saving lives during this pandemic. She wants a chance at normal life.

Young medical students and health-care workers simply want to keep contributing in the only home they know.




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It appears the Trump administration is doing all it can to drive away health professionals

The administration’s crackdown on immigration makes it harder to staff a health-care system facing chronic worker shortages.




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The White House’s coronavirus cure is even more magical than we could have imagined

Tax cuts are the GOP’s all-purpose remedy. Even for the coronavirus.




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Trump brings his industry back to the ’80s at last

Trump's own industry — leisure and hospitality — saw all its job gains since 1988 wiped out.




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12 Free Web Development Courses to Take While in Self-Isolation

It’s rather unfortunate that the best some of us can do in a time of a global pandemic is to stay at home in order to help. Quarantines for that matter, are tough challenges for the regular person. However, they don’t have to feel like an unproductive slog, why not treat yourself to some self-improvement […]

The post 12 Free Web Development Courses to Take While in Self-Isolation appeared first on SpyreStudios.




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Tomie dePaola: We will miss him — but what a legacy!

The world lost an incredible talent with the death of Tomie dePaola. 




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Books are key to the future: an interview with Wade and Cheryl Willis Hudson

We hear a lot about diversity and inclusion these days, often as it relates to books for young readers. Just as publishing for children and teens has evolved over the years, so has adults’ perception of youth and what is appropriate for them.




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Tomie dePaola: We will miss him — but what a legacy!

The world lost an incredible talent with the death of Tomie dePaola. 




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Do publishers have the right people on the bus?

I know from talking to many of my clients that most have read Jim Collins’ book ‘Good to Great’. I have also been inspired by his research into what makes great companies great. Many of you will recall an article …




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Publishing News: Our brains on screens

Digital vs paper: ink on paper may still have the advantage In a recent edition of Scientific American, Ferris Jabr took a look at how technology is affecting the way we read and the differences between reading on screens and …




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German digital publishing – the Berlin way

My favorite number at the first TOC buchreport in Berlin on April 23rd was 20, as in 20% of the 2.4 million ebook buyers in Germany in 2012 had not bought any books in the previous twelve months, according to …




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LinkedIn as publisher

I’m drawn to LinkedIn now more than ever before. The rate of connection requests I’ve been receiving there has also been accelerating over the past few months. Maybe it’s due to all the uncertainty of the publishing industry but I …




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Why ebooks & why green e-publishing?

Perhaps you’ve also wondered why the publishing industry produces and distributes all the major climate science information available but doesn’t read it. If it did, publishing could become the standard bearer for global reduction of carbon footprints. This business challenge …




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Ending the TOC Conference, But Still Pushing Tools of Change for Publishing

O’Reilly has been publishing books since 1986, but I’ve often said that we consider ourselves more of a technology transfer company than a typical publisher. Twenty years after our first book, Unix in a Nutshell, we realized that the insights …




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oscon: RT @build_cloud: Play poker w/ Apache #CloudStack's community members above Portland's city lights at #OSCON! Register now...

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oscon: Easily Invoke Common Protocols with Twisted - Spin up Python-friendly services with 0 lines of code http://t.co/29oTkk0isW

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strataconf: A roundup from the data journalism beat http://t.co/y8RVUwHO4G Global open data, scholarships, mapping a civil war & more #strataconf

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strataconf: Can data rescue the forest elephant? Yes, with your help. http://t.co/DZBXKRdUcA Read about Elephant Listening Project & send us your ideas

strataconf: Can data rescue the forest elephant? Yes, with your help. http://t.co/DZBXKRdUcA Read about Elephant Listening Project & send us your ideas




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strataconf: Innovative ways journalists are using data to tell stories http://t.co/y8RVUwHO4G Global open data, scholarships, mapping a civil war & more

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strataconf: A detailed agenda for #StrataRx 2013 is now posted: workshops, sessions, speakers + more http://t.co/RtaRpQroaN #healthdata

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strataconf: As infrastructure gets simpler, interesting big data apps can emerge on BDAS, @Cloudera & other Hadoop distributions http://t.co/jaATalPL4P

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strataconf: The Future Is Graph Databases http://t.co/BVxOZwtoKS A Conversation with @EmilEifrem, founder of @Neo4J #strataconf

strataconf: The Future Is Graph Databases http://t.co/BVxOZwtoKS A Conversation with @EmilEifrem, founder of @Neo4J #strataconf




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Why Is It So Hard to Improve Reading Achievement?

Interesting question. Before I answer, let me ask one: What keeps Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, up at night? You know Amazon, the trillion-dollar corporation that delivers something like a 5 billion packages a year. I’m at a professional meeting. The chair asks what “levers” we have for improving reading achievement in the U.S. It’s an easy question. There are so many possibilities. The first one most folks think of is, the teacher. If teachers did better, kids would do better.




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Prior Knowledge, Or He Isn't Going to Pick on the Baseball Study

Teacher question: You wrote recently that it was a good idea to teach comprehension skills, but our school district says we shouldn’t, that it’s prior knowledge that matters. Do you know the baseball study? Have you read Natalie Wexler’s research? It is really difficult to trust research when everyone tells us something different. Shanahan's response:  I feel your pain.




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OReilly opens up learning platform access for all government agencies to help navigate the crisis




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Practical Statistics for Data Scientists

Statistical methods are a key part of data science, yet few data scientists have formal statistical training. Courses and books on basic statistics rarely cover the topic from a data science perspective. The second edition of this popular guide adds comprehensive examples in Python, provides practical guidance on applying statistical methods to data science, tells you how to avoid their misuse, and gives you advice on what’s important and what’s not.