BREAKING: President Trump Announces Executive Order to Cut Prescription Drug Prices by Up to 80%
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The Arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka: A Dangerous Precedent
On May 9, 2025, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility, a private prison operated by GEO Group. Baraka attempted to join a congressional delegation’s tour to inspect conditions at the facility, which reopened under a controversial $1 billion, 15-year contract with ICE. Federal authorities claimed Baraka ignored warnings to leave, charging him with misdemeanor trespassing. Baraka, however, maintains he …
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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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They want me arrested.
They want me silenced.
I'm not going anywhere.
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Networks must be more cautious when reporting Trump’s so-called “deals.” His announcements often follow a familiar, deceptive pattern: declare a major breakthrough, only for the details to later reveal that nothing has actually changed. In the meantime, he gets the headlines he wants, the press amplifies the illusion, and the markets react based on fiction—not fact.
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
🧪 Why We Failed at Testability (and What We Learned!) 😱
Back in 2018, we thought we had nailed testability and automated testing. We transitioned from manual regression testing and drastically reduced our reliance on automated UI tests. 🙌
As a team, we built testability into our codebase, giving us real-time insights into changes in behaviour allowing us to quickly adapt, release, or dive deeper with exploratory testing. It felt like we were winning! 🎉
But by 2020, things had shifted. Our automated testing had stopped, and the team had reverted back to manual regression testing. 😔 What happened?
Here’s what I learned: The issue wasn’t technical. Implementing testability was actually the easy part. The challenge was working as a team to embrace testability, which needed a whole new way of working — and that’s where Leadership comes in.
💡 Leadership was the key to making testability successful. Want to know what leadership behaviours made the difference?
🧠 Creating psychological safety,
⚠️ Learning from failure,
👯 Working across discipline boundaries and
🖼️ Positively framing the work
📢 Check out this week’s post which dives into each behaviour and how to foster them in your teams is Quality Engineering Newsletter:
Why we failed at testability
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