Sharon Jin
@tazj.bsky.social
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Chart re big beautiful budget betrayal: % SNAP “shift” to states. Note “red” states w/Republican US senators. Ask them & Govs (41 have balanced budget amendments) how they’re going to handle 50 or 100 or 500 million increases to pay for ⬆️ grocery costs for kids, vets & seniors
June 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Chart re big beautiful budget betrayal: % SNAP “shift” to states. Note “red” states w/Republican US senators. Ask them & Govs (41 have balanced budget amendments) how they’re going to handle 50 or 100 or 500 million increases to pay for ⬆️ grocery costs for kids, vets & seniors
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Trump is shutting down Job Corps—kicking vulnerable young people out of housing, job training, and education programs with zero plan.
Don’t tell me this man gives a damn about the working class when he’s gutting the very programs that help folks get on their feet.
Don’t tell me this man gives a damn about the working class when he’s gutting the very programs that help folks get on their feet.
thehill.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Trump is shutting down Job Corps—kicking vulnerable young people out of housing, job training, and education programs with zero plan.
Don’t tell me this man gives a damn about the working class when he’s gutting the very programs that help folks get on their feet.
Don’t tell me this man gives a damn about the working class when he’s gutting the very programs that help folks get on their feet.
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Trump, Musk and Rubio have sent millions of the poorest people in the world to their death. On purpose.
Why? For tax cuts for billionaires? To appease Putin? What is the possible justification for this?
Trump, Musk and Rubio have sent millions of the poorest people in the world to their death. On purpose.
Why? For tax cuts for billionaires? To appease Putin? What is the possible justification for this?
SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
June 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Trump, Musk and Rubio have sent millions of the poorest people in the world to their death. On purpose.
Why? For tax cuts for billionaires? To appease Putin? What is the possible justification for this?
Trump, Musk and Rubio have sent millions of the poorest people in the world to their death. On purpose.
Why? For tax cuts for billionaires? To appease Putin? What is the possible justification for this?
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Reminder:
When companies pay less than a living wage and don’t offer healthcare, their workers are forced to rely on taxpayer-funded social safety nets like Medicaid and SNAP.
That’s not a handout to workers.
That’s a handout to the companies exploiting them.
When companies pay less than a living wage and don’t offer healthcare, their workers are forced to rely on taxpayer-funded social safety nets like Medicaid and SNAP.
That’s not a handout to workers.
That’s a handout to the companies exploiting them.
REPUBLICANS: You need to get a job to receive Medicaid
AMERICANS: What if my job doesn't offer healthcare?
REPUBLICANS:
AMERICANS: What if my job doesn't offer healthcare?
REPUBLICANS:
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media.tenor.com
May 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Reminder:
When companies pay less than a living wage and don’t offer healthcare, their workers are forced to rely on taxpayer-funded social safety nets like Medicaid and SNAP.
That’s not a handout to workers.
That’s a handout to the companies exploiting them.
When companies pay less than a living wage and don’t offer healthcare, their workers are forced to rely on taxpayer-funded social safety nets like Medicaid and SNAP.
That’s not a handout to workers.
That’s a handout to the companies exploiting them.
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Who voted for this?
Cuts now hitting cancer research www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/t... By @angusrohan.bsky.social and @jasonmast.bsky.social
Despite its cancer-fighting mission, NCI starts to feel Trump administration budget ax
Trump cuts are hitting the National Cancer Institute, affecting a hotline for patients, cancer.gov, advisory panels, clinical trial recruitment.
www.statnews.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Who voted for this?
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This is like a satire of the US political press, so desperate to punch left rather than right that they are ginning up a "scandal" about a retired pol with no role in the party while Trump & crew lay waste to the republic.
How can anyone look at this and still take that profession seriously?
How can anyone look at this and still take that profession seriously?
May 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is like a satire of the US political press, so desperate to punch left rather than right that they are ginning up a "scandal" about a retired pol with no role in the party while Trump & crew lay waste to the republic.
How can anyone look at this and still take that profession seriously?
How can anyone look at this and still take that profession seriously?
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Three words should guide our work as Democrats: Make Life Better.
Make life better—for the working mom trying to stay afloat.
Make life better—for workers fighting for higher wages and paid leave.
Make life better—for young people dreaming of a real future.
That’s our work.
Make life better—for the working mom trying to stay afloat.
Make life better—for workers fighting for higher wages and paid leave.
Make life better—for young people dreaming of a real future.
That’s our work.
May 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Three words should guide our work as Democrats: Make Life Better.
Make life better—for the working mom trying to stay afloat.
Make life better—for workers fighting for higher wages and paid leave.
Make life better—for young people dreaming of a real future.
That’s our work.
Make life better—for the working mom trying to stay afloat.
Make life better—for workers fighting for higher wages and paid leave.
Make life better—for young people dreaming of a real future.
That’s our work.
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About half of all births are covered by Medicaid.
Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.
Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.
May 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
About half of all births are covered by Medicaid.
Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.
Over a third of all kids have health care thanks to Medicaid.
More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.
So understand this: when the GOP attacks Medicaid, they attack families in every community.
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A good human explanation of the consequences to Trump and Elon's war on cancer cure research. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Is Waging A New Kind Of War. It Could Put Your Family In Danger.
"It’s not just my daughter’s future on the line. It’s the future of every family counting on science to save the people they love."
www.huffpost.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
A good human explanation of the consequences to Trump and Elon's war on cancer cure research. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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This was the point in the @propublica.org story on pricey cancer drug Revlimid where i got angry.
The price has gone up 26 TIMES since 2006.
Yet, @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social found a deposition where a top exec admits the drug has ALWAYS cost just $.25 to make.
www.propublica.org/article/revl...
The price has gone up 26 TIMES since 2006.
Yet, @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social found a deposition where a top exec admits the drug has ALWAYS cost just $.25 to make.
www.propublica.org/article/revl...
May 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This was the point in the @propublica.org story on pricey cancer drug Revlimid where i got angry.
The price has gone up 26 TIMES since 2006.
Yet, @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social found a deposition where a top exec admits the drug has ALWAYS cost just $.25 to make.
www.propublica.org/article/revl...
The price has gone up 26 TIMES since 2006.
Yet, @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social found a deposition where a top exec admits the drug has ALWAYS cost just $.25 to make.
www.propublica.org/article/revl...
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To Democrats, the point of expanding Medicaid to cover more people is...to expand Medicaid to cover more people.
To Republicans, the point is...to DENY coverage to as many people as possible by including as many barriers & hurdles ot it as possible.
THE PARTIES ARE NOT THE SAME.
To Republicans, the point is...to DENY coverage to as many people as possible by including as many barriers & hurdles ot it as possible.
THE PARTIES ARE NOT THE SAME.
May 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
To Democrats, the point of expanding Medicaid to cover more people is...to expand Medicaid to cover more people.
To Republicans, the point is...to DENY coverage to as many people as possible by including as many barriers & hurdles ot it as possible.
THE PARTIES ARE NOT THE SAME.
To Republicans, the point is...to DENY coverage to as many people as possible by including as many barriers & hurdles ot it as possible.
THE PARTIES ARE NOT THE SAME.
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May 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Beautiful baby girls can’t have 30 dolls if they die of heart defects.
May 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Beautiful baby girls can’t have 30 dolls if they die of heart defects.
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What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.
Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...
Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research
The following is very important news about the Trump White House’s unfolding...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.
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Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has identified over 19,500 children who have been forcibly deported to Russia, Belarus, or occupied territories. So far, only 1,300 of them have been safely brought back.
As Russia trains abducted children for war, Ukraine fights uphill battle to bring them home
Around the world, abducting a child is a serious crime punishable by years behind bars.
But when the kidnapper is Russia, justice remains a distant hope. So does the child’s return home.
Since the s...
kyivindependent.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has identified over 19,500 children who have been forcibly deported to Russia, Belarus, or occupied territories. So far, only 1,300 of them have been safely brought back.
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Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today:
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
May 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today:
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
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The DOGE coup continues.
Hearing now that every National Science Foundation grant is having to go through a new “DOGE review”. So existing grants and long term science and technology research having to undergo review by one of Elon’s interns. Huge percentage not passing their muster.
May 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The DOGE coup continues.
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I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
An international trucking logistics firm is buying as much as *** $20 MILLION *** worth of President Donald Trump’s crypto coins to influence the administration’s trade policy.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Company Boasts Spending Up To $20 Million On Trump Crypto Coin To Buy Influence
The arrangement puts money in Trump’s pocket in return for the opportunity to change policy — exactly the sort of pay-to-play scheme critics warned about.
www.huffpost.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
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this is legitimately evil
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
www.reuters.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
this is legitimately evil
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Why would anyone do horserace coverage of an election that already happened, based on an imaginary scenario?
Bad enough to focus on horserace over substance leading up to an election—wrongly focusing on the odds, rather than the stakes, as @jayrosen.bsky.social put it—but doing it now? Abdication.
Bad enough to focus on horserace over substance leading up to an election—wrongly focusing on the odds, rather than the stakes, as @jayrosen.bsky.social put it—but doing it now? Abdication.
I truly have no idea what you’re supposed to do with the information that the imaginary scenario where Kamala is currently president is doing worse in job performance polling than the current scenario where Trump is president
May 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Why would anyone do horserace coverage of an election that already happened, based on an imaginary scenario?
Bad enough to focus on horserace over substance leading up to an election—wrongly focusing on the odds, rather than the stakes, as @jayrosen.bsky.social put it—but doing it now? Abdication.
Bad enough to focus on horserace over substance leading up to an election—wrongly focusing on the odds, rather than the stakes, as @jayrosen.bsky.social put it—but doing it now? Abdication.
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If you're frustrated that not even Donald Trump is held responsible for what comes out of Donald Trump's mouth, yet every elected Democrat has to answer for everything any lefty rando anywhere might say, know that it's because media outlets like the New York Times insist it must be that way.
No. It is not the job of ordinary citizens to show perfect message discipline.
It is the responsibility of actors with agenda-setting power — like, say, national newspapers — not to treat random-ass people exaggerating as a threat equivalent to the madman president.
It is the responsibility of actors with agenda-setting power — like, say, national newspapers — not to treat random-ass people exaggerating as a threat equivalent to the madman president.
May 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
If you're frustrated that not even Donald Trump is held responsible for what comes out of Donald Trump's mouth, yet every elected Democrat has to answer for everything any lefty rando anywhere might say, know that it's because media outlets like the New York Times insist it must be that way.
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I suspect this slogan would not have been tremendously popular:
"Trump 2024: Your kids are going to get fewer toys and the ones they do get will cost more"
"Trump 2024: Your kids are going to get fewer toys and the ones they do get will cost more"
Trump on China: "They made a trillion dollars with Biden selling us stuff. Much of it we don't need. Somebody said, 'oh, the shelves are gonna be open.' Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more."
April 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I suspect this slogan would not have been tremendously popular:
"Trump 2024: Your kids are going to get fewer toys and the ones they do get will cost more"
"Trump 2024: Your kids are going to get fewer toys and the ones they do get will cost more"
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Feels like we’re in a surreal political moment where our elites desperately want to capitulate to a despot but the aspiring dictator is so dumb and bad at things that we’re still kinda free despite the best efforts of all involved.
April 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Feels like we’re in a surreal political moment where our elites desperately want to capitulate to a despot but the aspiring dictator is so dumb and bad at things that we’re still kinda free despite the best efforts of all involved.
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20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant.
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant.
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...