Sarah Valerio

Corporate lawyer. Traveler / adventurer. Rescue animal advocate. Pittsburgh sports fan.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

When asked if he is concerned about the latest inflation numbers that came out this morning, President Trump responded, “No, I love it. The numbers were great. You know what I really love? I love the inflation.”

“You know why? Because as soon as this war is over — you know, I can say it now,” Trump said. “So you know we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil? Nobody knows it. You know who doesn't know about it? Iran until right now.”

Inflation topped 4% in May as the Consumer Price Index surged to its highest level in more than three years.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive https://t.co/RxH85ZDfpN

[100.1 FM and AM 1020 KDKA @KDKARadio]

Congrats to Skyler Rozell-Whitaker of Monroeville who broke the Guinness World Record for most sweaters worn at once with 50! He broke the record at the Monroeville Library Children’s Room.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Social Security is on track to become insolvent by the end of 2032, putting benefits at risk of a 22% cut. https://t.co/mLxXCy2iOY

[Reuters @Reuters]

Eight government ethics experts told Reuters the Trump family's enriching itself from an industry the president's administration regulates — and that Trump has championed — represents a conflict of interest unlike anything seen in modern American history https://t.co/59TIOkot51

[CNN @CNN]

As President Donald Trump prepares to host a UFC fight at the White House this week, his family is promoting a venture aimed at profiting off the spectacle by selling gold coins priced as high as $12,000. https://t.co/ovofTOBVEi

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Scientists at Trump’s EPA say they are being told to make chemical risks “disappear on paper.” Not to study or manage them, but to make them vanish.

When a safety test on a household chemical shows danger, supervisors reportedly ask to keep shrinking the scenario until the poison looks safe.

They have reassigned senior scientists to paperwork and handed life-and-death risk assessments to staff with less experience. They have installed former chemical industry lobbyists to run the very offices that are supposed to regulate the chemical industry.

A gift to industry, paid for with your family’s health.

They are even throwing out research on how certain chemicals hit certain communities harder, calling decades of established science “DEI.”

You can make risk disappear on paper.

The cancer does not disappear.

The birth defects do not disappear.

The infertility does not disappear.

The kids drinking the water and getting sick do not disappear.

The EPA exists to protect people, not to protect the profit margins of the people poisoning them.

Every American deserves to know what is happening. #TrumpMakesUsSick

https://t.co/5DwXgxBybt

[Sheryl Gay Stolberg @SherylNYT]

NEW: Major posts are vacant. Waves of scientists are gone. Ebola looms. How RFK Jr. manages HHS:

“If the C.E.O. lacked deep expertise in the company’s business and the leaders of its most important divisions were missing, investors would revolt."

https://t.co/QTZtLMUmUl

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out."

Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it."

The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened.
When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time.

The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie."

This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.

[WPXI @WPXI]

Jeopardy to feature ‘Pittsburghers’ category https://t.co/i8tYf7kWJ0

[CNN @CNN]

For the first time in 20 years, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a new sunscreen ingredient — bemotrizinol, or BEMT — that experts say is a safer option than many chemical ingredients currently in use in the United States. https://t.co/A8uploy6RP

[doug funnie @cryptoklotz]

-be me
-go to new dentist, since my old one retired
-new dentist: "you have three cavities"
-feel bad vibe, go get a second opinion
-"woooah - buddy, you have zero cavities. thank god you came to us. let's just do a cleaning"
-send wife to this savior second dentist
-"you have six cavities"
-wife bails on getting them filled, goes to a different dentist a year later
-"woooah gurl, you have zero cavities. thank god you didn't get them filled"

why is dentistry like this 😭

[Rep. Shontel Brown @RepShontelBrown]

Leaving this here, in case anyone is wondering why we have screwworm in the US for the first time since the 1960s.

The DOGE stupidity from Trump and Rollins will end up COSTING taxpayers money.

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

More than a dozen colleges have now crossed the $100,000/year threshold when tuition, fees, room, board, and living expenses are included:

Harvey Mudd ($104,512)
Duke ($103,975)
USC ($103,162)
Barnard ($103,000)
Washington University in St. Louis ($102,260)
Smith ($102,226)
Fordham ($102,188)
Claremont McKenna ($101,990)
Vassar ($101,051)
Wesleyan ($101,030)
Georgetown ($100,864)
Colgate ($100,224)
Haverford ($100,026)

A four-year degree at any of these schools now exceeds $400,000.

Per Ny Mag

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

Most pick sixes in NFL history

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

Several federal government X accounts, such as the U.S. State Department and Customs and Border Protection, have deleted posts from previous presidencies.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Reuters examined four Trump family crypto ventures and found a common template: The Trumps risked little up front, hyped the ventures and raked in money--all while many buyers lost big when prices later tanked https://t.co/i9nPKaMH2c @specialreports

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Social Security is expected to deplete the fund that helps pay out retirement benefits by late 2032, the program’s trustees said https://t.co/bBrYpN2wEp

[Aiden Stepansky @AidenStepansky]

Paul Skenes was driving down Perry Highway in Wexford just past seven o’clock Monday night when the Pirates superstar pitcher made a pit stop. It was a Little League field.

Skenes signed autographs for over two hours, connecting with Pittsburgh's next generation.

For @MLB ⤵️

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthletic: The first sitting U.S. president to attend an NBA Finals game, President Trump was booed louder than the San Antonio Spurs by his fellow New Yorkers. https://t.co/LWQ3Jy4NlJ