Sydney Jones Wellborn
@sydney-jw.bsky.social
Former restaurant lifer, aspiring housing researcher. Trained as a social worker at Temple University, currently learning the ways of planning and spatial analytics at UPenn. You'll learn to love my never-ending questions.
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Roughly 12 million Americans are expected to lose their health insurance over the next decade—and now they'll get to watch their credit scores collapse too.
This country is a machine for manufacturing needless suffering.
This country is a machine for manufacturing needless suffering.
Federal judge reverses rule that would have removed medical debt from credit reports
Federal judge reverses rule that would have removed medical debt from credit reports
A federal judge in Texas removed a Biden-era finalized ruled by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have removed medical debt from credit reports.U.S.
apnews.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Roughly 12 million Americans are expected to lose their health insurance over the next decade—and now they'll get to watch their credit scores collapse too.
This country is a machine for manufacturing needless suffering.
This country is a machine for manufacturing needless suffering.
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Friends, we need to see the FY2026 budget, the one Congress is putting together now, as a major opportunity to make the Rs own all the crazy and dangerous shit they are doing to the country. We all need to get very, very loud and make them own it all (and hopefully block some of it too).
Climate change is fueling catastrophic floods, but Trump's administration is cutting the tools we need to fight back.
NOAA labs, NASA satellites, FEMA grants & local warning systems are on the chopping block.
Result? Communities will be caught unprepared when disaster strikes.
zurl.co/vUw4Z
NOAA labs, NASA satellites, FEMA grants & local warning systems are on the chopping block.
Result? Communities will be caught unprepared when disaster strikes.
zurl.co/vUw4Z
Why Texas’ floods are a warning for the rest of the country
The disaster that unfolded in Kerr County, Texas, shows how many communities will struggle to prepare for extreme weather as the federal government pulls back.
zurl.co
July 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Friends, we need to see the FY2026 budget, the one Congress is putting together now, as a major opportunity to make the Rs own all the crazy and dangerous shit they are doing to the country. We all need to get very, very loud and make them own it all (and hopefully block some of it too).
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You just can't say it enough times: lots of Americans are going to suffer and die so that people they don't want to be Americans will also suffer and die.
July 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
You just can't say it enough times: lots of Americans are going to suffer and die so that people they don't want to be Americans will also suffer and die.
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🧵 As @crampell.bsky.social lays out so well, the Trump Administration is erasing “from records of both America’s past and present,” Black people and other groups who have strengthened the fabric of this nation throughout its 250-year history. (1/17) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
Opinion | Here are the people Trump doesn’t want to exist
Women, people of color and those in the LGBTQ+ community are main targets.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🧵 As @crampell.bsky.social lays out so well, the Trump Administration is erasing “from records of both America’s past and present,” Black people and other groups who have strengthened the fabric of this nation throughout its 250-year history. (1/17) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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I’m very proud to see our paper, Choice Denied: Impact of Income and Credit-Based Tenant Screening on the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program, co-authored with Anisha Gade and Forrest Hangen, finally published in Housing Studies (Open Access)!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Choice denied: impact of income and credit-based tenant screening on the Housing Choice Voucher program
The Housing Choice Voucher program supports over 2.5 million households by subsidizing rent payments within the private housing market. However, challenges arise due to exclusionary practices, unde...
www.tandfonline.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I’m very proud to see our paper, Choice Denied: Impact of Income and Credit-Based Tenant Screening on the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program, co-authored with Anisha Gade and Forrest Hangen, finally published in Housing Studies (Open Access)!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....