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The "big beautiful bill" reduces the cut-off age for dependents from 18 to 7 for SNAP benefits.
Seven.
SNAP is food.
Oh, but if there are 2 parents in the house, you're exempt from this change.
Soooo... literally starving widdows and orphans... great.
Seven.
SNAP is food.
Oh, but if there are 2 parents in the house, you're exempt from this change.
Soooo... literally starving widdows and orphans... great.
May 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The "big beautiful bill" reduces the cut-off age for dependents from 18 to 7 for SNAP benefits.
Seven.
SNAP is food.
Oh, but if there are 2 parents in the house, you're exempt from this change.
Soooo... literally starving widdows and orphans... great.
Seven.
SNAP is food.
Oh, but if there are 2 parents in the house, you're exempt from this change.
Soooo... literally starving widdows and orphans... great.
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"A Big, Ugly, Destructive, Deadly Bill": Bishop William Barber Slams Bill Cutting Medicaid, Medicare
“Ugly, Destructive, Deadly”: Bishop William Barber Slams Bill Cutting Medicaid, Medicare
As a Republican-sponsored budget bill advances through Congress, we hear from Bishop William Barber about how the bill hurts low-income people. “It is about death-dealing and destruction to the poor...
www.democracynow.org
May 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"A Big, Ugly, Destructive, Deadly Bill": Bishop William Barber Slams Bill Cutting Medicaid, Medicare
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"It Is Going to Kill People": Disability Rights Activist Speaks Out on Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill"
“It Is Going to Kill People”: Disability Rights Activist Speaks Out on Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”
Over two dozen disability rights activists were arrested on Capitol Hill last week when they protested the Trump-backed Republican budget bill and its cuts to Medicaid, affordable housing and more. “We’re...
www.democracynow.org
May 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"It Is Going to Kill People": Disability Rights Activist Speaks Out on Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill"
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Trump’s Tax Scam would trade American lives for billionaire tax breaks.
New estimates show the GOP’s plan would strip Medicaid coverage from seven million people and cause more than 200,000 avoidable deaths.
New estimates show the GOP’s plan would strip Medicaid coverage from seven million people and cause more than 200,000 avoidable deaths.
House Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts and Associated Lives Lost by Congressional District
Proposals to impose work requirements on Medicaid expansion enrollees would cause large coverage losses and hundreds of avoidable deaths each year in many congressional districts.
www.americanprogress.org
May 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Trump’s Tax Scam would trade American lives for billionaire tax breaks.
New estimates show the GOP’s plan would strip Medicaid coverage from seven million people and cause more than 200,000 avoidable deaths.
New estimates show the GOP’s plan would strip Medicaid coverage from seven million people and cause more than 200,000 avoidable deaths.
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Building a culture and practice of refusal.
The professor at the Naval academy calling out an admiral. The judge in Wisconsin refusing to hold court. Greg in IT at Social Security forcing DOGE to literally drag him from his chair. American heroes showing true bravery while Senators shrug saying "what do you want us to do, we're scared"
April 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Building a culture and practice of refusal.
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A federal judge blocked the Trump admin from ending early parole & work permits for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, & Venezuelans who came to the U.S. through the CHNV parole program.
Protect workers in CHNV parole status by sharing these resources: iAmerica.org/chnv
Protect workers in CHNV parole status by sharing these resources: iAmerica.org/chnv
April 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A federal judge blocked the Trump admin from ending early parole & work permits for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, & Venezuelans who came to the U.S. through the CHNV parole program.
Protect workers in CHNV parole status by sharing these resources: iAmerica.org/chnv
Protect workers in CHNV parole status by sharing these resources: iAmerica.org/chnv
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🧵Let's do some digging into this because it is not exaggerating to call this a war against the disabled. Info will be coming directly from public facing websites of orgs referenced in the Mother Jones article. Why? Because the propaganda being spewed would have you think there's no transparency.
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The felon's war on DEI also includes the disabled.
The felon's war on DEI also includes the disabled.
State organizations that advocate for disabled residents in New Jersey and Arkansas announced that they will have to limit their work after not receiving the full funds they are owed by the US federal government.
April 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🧵Let's do some digging into this because it is not exaggerating to call this a war against the disabled. Info will be coming directly from public facing websites of orgs referenced in the Mother Jones article. Why? Because the propaganda being spewed would have you think there's no transparency.
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The Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.
As a diversity grant dies, young scientists fear it will haunt their careers
The Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.
www.npr.org
April 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.
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EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.
DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets
Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.
www.npr.org
April 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.
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they know there's going to be an apocalypse for trucking jobs due to tariffs so they're trying to stem the political damage by making it so the layoffs disproportionately affect non-english speaking truckers
"We're gonna ensure that our truckers, who are the backbone of our policy, are all able to speak English" -- Leavitt says Trump will sign an order demanding that all truckers can speak English
April 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
they know there's going to be an apocalypse for trucking jobs due to tariffs so they're trying to stem the political damage by making it so the layoffs disproportionately affect non-english speaking truckers
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🚨 STAND WITH DETAINED IMMIGRANT WORKERS! Labor & community are gathering @ the NW Detention Center in Tacoma TODAY, 3/27 to protest the detention of SEIU member Lewellyn Dixon & Alfredo ‘Lelo’ Juarez, an organizer with CJA member group Familias Unidas por la Justicia
5:30PM 1623 E J St, Tacoma
5:30PM 1623 E J St, Tacoma
March 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🚨 STAND WITH DETAINED IMMIGRANT WORKERS! Labor & community are gathering @ the NW Detention Center in Tacoma TODAY, 3/27 to protest the detention of SEIU member Lewellyn Dixon & Alfredo ‘Lelo’ Juarez, an organizer with CJA member group Familias Unidas por la Justicia
5:30PM 1623 E J St, Tacoma
5:30PM 1623 E J St, Tacoma
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🚨An SEIU 925 member at UW Medical Center has been in ICE detention since early March after being denied re-entry to the U.S. following a trip to the Philippines. She’s part of our union family — and this could happen to any of us.
March 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🚨An SEIU 925 member at UW Medical Center has been in ICE detention since early March after being denied re-entry to the U.S. following a trip to the Philippines. She’s part of our union family — and this could happen to any of us.
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Tacoma! Join us on Sat, 3/29, to demand the release of immigrant workers detained by ICE, including @seiu.org union siblings Remeysa and Lewelyn. Like many others, they were torn from their families and lives without due process. This admin will not silence us. We won’t back down!
March 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Tacoma! Join us on Sat, 3/29, to demand the release of immigrant workers detained by ICE, including @seiu.org union siblings Remeysa and Lewelyn. Like many others, they were torn from their families and lives without due process. This admin will not silence us. We won’t back down!
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Since our administration would not fight the Trump administration in court, the faculty had to assume the responsibility of doing so to protect academic freedom.
www.reuters.com/world/us/col...
www.reuters.com/world/us/col...
March 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Since our administration would not fight the Trump administration in court, the faculty had to assume the responsibility of doing so to protect academic freedom.
www.reuters.com/world/us/col...
www.reuters.com/world/us/col...
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Undocumented immigrants pay nearly $100B in taxes and receive no benefits or representation. Trump is about to explode the deficit by using the SSA to find and deport them. www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/20...
IRS nears deal with ICE to share addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants
The move toward information-sharing comes as President Donald Trump pushes his administration to use every resource to conduct what he hopes will be the largest mass deportation of immigrants in U.S. ...
www.washingtonpost.com
March 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Undocumented immigrants pay nearly $100B in taxes and receive no benefits or representation. Trump is about to explode the deficit by using the SSA to find and deport them. www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/20...
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🚨This might be Story of the Year.
It should be shared everywhere.
“I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family & even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly 2 weeks. Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there.”
It should be shared everywhere.
“I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family & even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly 2 weeks. Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there.”
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
🚨This might be Story of the Year.
It should be shared everywhere.
“I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family & even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly 2 weeks. Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there.”
It should be shared everywhere.
“I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family & even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly 2 weeks. Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there.”
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This is, BTW, the case for 100% of "reinstated" fed employees I've personally spoken with. None are actually back at work and serving the public as they were previously and there is a widespread assumption that "re-firings" will occur as soon as a legal mechanism is found.
Anyone celebrating federal employees getting reinstated, you need to dig deeper: the people I know who have been reinstated in a number of agencies were immediately put on administrative leave, which means the Administration is organizing a work-around to continue reducing the federal workforce.
a woman standing in front of a window with the words just so you know
ALT: a woman standing in front of a window with the words just so you know
media.tenor.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This is, BTW, the case for 100% of "reinstated" fed employees I've personally spoken with. None are actually back at work and serving the public as they were previously and there is a widespread assumption that "re-firings" will occur as soon as a legal mechanism is found.
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Six weeks ago, this group started organizing in Montana.
They just hosted a town hall with over 700 people to strategize on taking local actions to defend our democracy.
We’re organizing everywhere because Musk and Trump have no mandate for what they’re doing.
They just hosted a town hall with over 700 people to strategize on taking local actions to defend our democracy.
We’re organizing everywhere because Musk and Trump have no mandate for what they’re doing.
March 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Six weeks ago, this group started organizing in Montana.
They just hosted a town hall with over 700 people to strategize on taking local actions to defend our democracy.
We’re organizing everywhere because Musk and Trump have no mandate for what they’re doing.
They just hosted a town hall with over 700 people to strategize on taking local actions to defend our democracy.
We’re organizing everywhere because Musk and Trump have no mandate for what they’re doing.
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A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
March 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
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90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.
A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
www.sciencefriday.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.
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Subject: Urgent: Protect Library and Museum Funding — Oppose Elimination of IMLS
March 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Subject: Urgent: Protect Library and Museum Funding — Oppose Elimination of IMLS
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ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.
No one knows why he was detained.
No one knows why he was detained.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.
No one knows why he was detained.
No one knows why he was detained.
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Before Mahmoud Khalil's detention last week, ICE came for a Columbia PhD student. She had nothing to do with the Gaza protests, but was arrested last spring during a roundup while trying to walk home. Charges were dismissed. The State Department still revoked her visa.
How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Before Mahmoud Khalil's detention last week, ICE came for a Columbia PhD student. She had nothing to do with the Gaza protests, but was arrested last spring during a roundup while trying to walk home. Charges were dismissed. The State Department still revoked her visa.
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I have never agreed with anything more
Our leaders don't have to be politicians. Politics imposes perverse incentives and limitations.
Politics follows shifts in culture. It's time to do a shit ton of cultural and political work.
So shout out to the writers, the artists, the imagination workers.
Politics follows shifts in culture. It's time to do a shit ton of cultural and political work.
So shout out to the writers, the artists, the imagination workers.
As long as it's the right women. Some women in politics have proven to be idiots.
March 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I have never agreed with anything more