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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million from an emergency food assistance program that delivered meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks across the country.

Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 9d

It takes an awful lot for Senate Republicans to reject a Trump nominee — but E.J. Antoni was that bad.

The fiasco makes the White House’s incompetence even more obvious. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

E.J. Antoni’s failed nomination makes the White House look even more incompetent

It’s not often that Senate Republicans muster the courage to tell Donald Trump and his team, “Whoa, hold on, we can’t go that far.”

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 17d

I'm in the market for a beautiful Italian sandwich that will fix my life

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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 18d

I think we could save a lot of time by just making a template for all of our statements: "[Today's bullshit] is dangerous, offensive, inaccurate."

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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · 29d

Ugh, hope you and your students are okay.

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Gbenga Ajilore @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social · Sep 5

Looking specifically at Black women, this group has experienced the most layoffs this year.

This was highlighted recently in this @nytimes piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u... (4/9)

In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit

www.nytimes.com

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 24

President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.’s local police is unprecedented. “The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George,” a legal scholar said.

What’s Life Like in Washington, D.C., During Trump’s Takeover?

Late-summer days and nights amid troops on the streets of the nation’s capital.

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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · Aug 15

I sat on a DC superior court grand jury for 6 weeks in 2023 and out of about 60 cases where we took votes (nearly all for multiple charges), we only *didn’t* return an indictment for one charge. We still indicted the person in question for other stuff. The AG staff were pissed and made fun of us.

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · Aug 12

🚨ALERT: ICE & other feds raided the Home Depot parking lot on Rhode Island this morning (8/12) and detained approx 15 people who were both workers and shoppers.

Multiple agencies were involved and the cowards were masked. 1/

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · Aug 11

small brain: retrocession of dc to maryland
medium brain: dc statehood
galaxy brain: "reduc[e] the size of Washington, D.C., to an area encompassing only a few core federal buildings and then admit the rest of the District’s 127 neighborhoods as states" harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation - Harvard Law Review

For most of the twenty-first century, the world’s oldest surviving democracy has been led by a chief executive who received fewer votes than his...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Jul 1

Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's.

And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.

Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · Jun 29

For 6 months, Dem leaders have downplayed or refused to frontally address many of Trump's worst abuses by saying those are "distractions" from the Dems focusing on economic issues. But as Trump's tax bill is being voted on, Jeffries is attacking a Dem ...over a phrase that Dem doesn't even use.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 29

Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Jun 29

The Senate Republican bill would cut SNAP by $186 billion - 22% by the final year. This would be by far the largest SNAP cut in history and would rip food assistance away from millions of households, including families with kids and veterans.

graph showing SNAP would be cut by 22% by 2034 in the Senate Republican bill

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Gbenga Ajilore @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social · Jun 25

"Rural hospital fund?"

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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · Jun 25

CAP’s edition of InProgress today features me highlighting how Senate Republicans are racing to the finish line to pass the largest-ever cuts to health care and food assistance. Questions about the Big, “Beautiful” Bill? I’ll do my best to answer here.

my1.americanprogress.org/personalizat...

Friend, the Senate’s Big, “Beautiful” Bill is even more extreme—and they’re racing to the finish line to pass it

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Jun 25

Amber Thurman. Candi Miller. Josseli Barnica. Nevaeh Crain. Porsha Ngumezi.

On the third anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, revisit our reporting about the women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans:

Life of the Mother

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, doctors warned that women would die, but lawmakers who passed state abortion bans didn’t listen. The worst consequences are now becoming clear.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Jun 14

The first person arrested by the Marines is an Army veteran who was on his way to work at the Veterans Administration. It appears he was arrested for crossing a yellow line which the Marines did not realize was not designed to exclude federal employees from reporting to work.

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows

Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · Jun 13

@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."

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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · Jun 12

This is super important. Maybe the most insidious threat to poor and working-class in the whole big beautiful bill? SNAP promises you won’t starve whether you live in New York or Mississippi. By shifting billions in costs to states, SNAP is no longer the federal guarantee millions rely on.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Jun 12

Like the House version, they're pushing costs onto states. These are less extreme than the House version, but the biggest problem still remains: by being a shared model, states can drop out of the SNAP program, dooming their people to starvation.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Jun 10

Tariffs & ICE raids are connected insofar as they are attempts to blame economic & social conditions entirely on the actions of foreigners while attempting to paint domestic enemies as a traitorous fifth column working with the foreigners to undermine the country

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Sara Estep (she/her) @saraestep.bsky.social · Jun 9

This one was emotional. I read thousands of project abstracts that could've helped fix the problems that cause so many Black women to die in childbirth, encouraged young girls to become engineers, and helped women escape abuse. Years of progress, gone. www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

How the Trump Administration’s DOGE Cuts Are Harming Women

A new analysis by the Center for American Progress shows DOGE has cut at least $3 billion in grants for research, education, and other programs that help women and girls—especially women of color.

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Pitchfork Economics @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social · Jun 3

The GOP’s tax bill isn’t just a giveaway to the rich—it’s an attack on SNAP, a key anti-poverty tool and economic engine. @lilyroberts.bsky.social from @americanprogress.bsky.social explains how these cuts would deepen poverty and destabilize communities.

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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · Jun 4

Missed this last week: new research shows that sicker, older people were hardest hit by SNAP paperwork requirements in CT. But people who had incomes (so were obviously working!) lost SNAP too.

Jacob Wallace @jacobwswallace.bsky.social · Jun 2

RESULT 2: Sickest folks hit hardest by work requirements

Disenrollment risk was

≈2× higher for people with diabetes

and

≈5.5× higher for older adults (40-49) with ≥3 chronic conditions

Concerning evidence the sickest and most vulnerable folks are screened out by work requirements.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · May 20

In the budget reconciliation bill, House Republicans are trying to cut SNAP by $295 billion. This would cut it in third in what would be by far the largest SNAP cut in history.

This would rip food assistance away from millions of people, including households with children as young as 7 years old.

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Lily Roberts @lilyroberts.bsky.social · May 14

Groceries cost a ton in AK. Grocery stores are at risk of closing if Alaskans lose SNAP, which means that everyone will have to travel farther. The state will face $$ penalties bc of the state's error rate, not individuals committing fraud. Begich will vote for this! www.politico.com/live-updates...

Alaska Republican supports GOP SNAP plan — that hits his home state hard

Alaska would have to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in food aid costs under a House GOP proposal for its megabill.

www.politico.com

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