Virginia Carr Schneider
@virginiacs.bsky.social
Public Policy PhD Candidate at GSU studying poverty & safety net policy. Dog enthusiast.
What a nightmare.
December 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
What a nightmare.
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Yet again conservatives are melting down about the foreseeable consequences of conservative policies. We’re in a death spiral now where they tank the economy and cut welfare, then fearmonger about the resulting increase in visible poverty and addiction.
August 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Yet again conservatives are melting down about the foreseeable consequences of conservative policies. We’re in a death spiral now where they tank the economy and cut welfare, then fearmonger about the resulting increase in visible poverty and addiction.
I’ll forever be grateful for my liberal arts education. I wish everyone had the chance to learn and explore the way I did. Education is (should be) about more than employability, but LA is good for that too!!
ironically the education for its own sake, Enlightenment-coded, Great Books-ass liberal arts degree is one of the better employment bets you can make. learn how to read, write, think critically, develop curiosity so you can pick up new skills quickly, etc etc
"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...
That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
August 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I’ll forever be grateful for my liberal arts education. I wish everyone had the chance to learn and explore the way I did. Education is (should be) about more than employability, but LA is good for that too!!
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Hard to understand how violent this is. There were people here that were wiped out aggressively and this celebrates that.
If there is daylight between this administration’s propaganda and that of the third reich, you would not be able to slide a greeting card through it.
If there is daylight between this administration’s propaganda and that of the third reich, you would not be able to slide a greeting card through it.
The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”
July 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Hard to understand how violent this is. There were people here that were wiped out aggressively and this celebrates that.
If there is daylight between this administration’s propaganda and that of the third reich, you would not be able to slide a greeting card through it.
If there is daylight between this administration’s propaganda and that of the third reich, you would not be able to slide a greeting card through it.
Administrative burdens and an enhanced police state go hand in hand to push the poor into deeper poverty while the rich get infinitely richer. Poverty is not an accident, and this bill widens the gap *on purpose*. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
How the reconciliation bill would change America
An assault on the poor, on freedom and the future
open.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Administrative burdens and an enhanced police state go hand in hand to push the poor into deeper poverty while the rich get infinitely richer. Poverty is not an accident, and this bill widens the gap *on purpose*. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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“Who’s going to do all our labor?” is not the reason you should have a problem with ICE and deportations.
Being a laborer is not the extent of worth of Mexicans living in America
People have the right to just BE. It doesn’t have to benefit you
Being a laborer is not the extent of worth of Mexicans living in America
People have the right to just BE. It doesn’t have to benefit you
June 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“Who’s going to do all our labor?” is not the reason you should have a problem with ICE and deportations.
Being a laborer is not the extent of worth of Mexicans living in America
People have the right to just BE. It doesn’t have to benefit you
Being a laborer is not the extent of worth of Mexicans living in America
People have the right to just BE. It doesn’t have to benefit you
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If the positions “everyone should have healthcare, education, food, and housing” and “we should kill democracy and instead be ruled by billionaires within a violently enforced racial hierarchy” are equally extreme for you then neither centrist nor “moderate” are words I would use to describe you.
June 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
If the positions “everyone should have healthcare, education, food, and housing” and “we should kill democracy and instead be ruled by billionaires within a violently enforced racial hierarchy” are equally extreme for you then neither centrist nor “moderate” are words I would use to describe you.
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Congress? You awake?
June 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Congress? You awake?
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Happy Mother's Day. It's a moral outrage that we're the only industrialized country without paid family and medical leave.
May 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Happy Mother's Day. It's a moral outrage that we're the only industrialized country without paid family and medical leave.
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Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported
April 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported
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Also, universities aren't 'dependent' on federal funds. It's a partnership between the government and universities to fund pathbreaking health, scientific, engineering, and countless other innovations, and just as importantly, to train the scientific workforce. We're all sunk if this collapses.
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
April 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Also, universities aren't 'dependent' on federal funds. It's a partnership between the government and universities to fund pathbreaking health, scientific, engineering, and countless other innovations, and just as importantly, to train the scientific workforce. We're all sunk if this collapses.
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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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I have a hard time with the way we let Bill Clinton still be a thing.
April 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I have a hard time with the way we let Bill Clinton still be a thing.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
March 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
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“Things might be bad for a little while, but we’re okay with that, because we know that in the end these policies will drive markets into a deadly tailspin and push the economy to a point of no return."
theonion.com/trump-says-r...
theonion.com/trump-says-r...
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...
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March 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“Things might be bad for a little while, but we’re okay with that, because we know that in the end these policies will drive markets into a deadly tailspin and push the economy to a point of no return."
theonion.com/trump-says-r...
theonion.com/trump-says-r...
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Probably an unpopular opinion but alot of times “the left talks down to regular people” translates to “I refuse to read or learn how anything works but you need to weigh my trash ass dipshit opinion equally to entire entire fields of experts.”
March 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Probably an unpopular opinion but alot of times “the left talks down to regular people” translates to “I refuse to read or learn how anything works but you need to weigh my trash ass dipshit opinion equally to entire entire fields of experts.”
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Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead
March 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead
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Most people are not political scientists using formal definitions. So I am curious when is the moment that people tell themselves "oh, I live under an authoritarian government now." Because what else is this?
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
March 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Most people are not political scientists using formal definitions. So I am curious when is the moment that people tell themselves "oh, I live under an authoritarian government now." Because what else is this?
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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We have actual Nazis at the highest joysticks of power, and these op ed clowns are still writing these “intolerant left is to blame” pieces. I swear to god I’m losing my shit.
None of these pieces, none of them, say explicitly what perspectives are left out. Why is that? Why is no one specific?
None of these pieces, none of them, say explicitly what perspectives are left out. Why is that? Why is no one specific?
February 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
We have actual Nazis at the highest joysticks of power, and these op ed clowns are still writing these “intolerant left is to blame” pieces. I swear to god I’m losing my shit.
None of these pieces, none of them, say explicitly what perspectives are left out. Why is that? Why is no one specific?
None of these pieces, none of them, say explicitly what perspectives are left out. Why is that? Why is no one specific?
He should be remembered by his utter spinelessness and ineffective party leadership when democracy needed him most.
JUST IN: Sen. Mitch McConnell won’t seek reelection in 2026, ending long tenure as Republican power broker: cnn.it/3CMqYYA
Sen. Mitch McConnell won’t seek reelection in 2026, ending long tenure as Republican power broker | CNN Politics
Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell is announcing on Thursday that he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decadeslong tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes but ultimately ceded...
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February 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
He should be remembered by his utter spinelessness and ineffective party leadership when democracy needed him most.
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Reading some of these news stories about regular right wing people people freaking out with regret. It really does confirm just how dumb people are man.
“I voted for border security (?) but now we all lost our jobs.”
Motherfucker they announced all of this shit. All of it.
“I voted for border security (?) but now we all lost our jobs.”
Motherfucker they announced all of this shit. All of it.
February 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Reading some of these news stories about regular right wing people people freaking out with regret. It really does confirm just how dumb people are man.
“I voted for border security (?) but now we all lost our jobs.”
Motherfucker they announced all of this shit. All of it.
“I voted for border security (?) but now we all lost our jobs.”
Motherfucker they announced all of this shit. All of it.
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NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall.
That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.
That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.
February 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall.
That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.
That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.
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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.
February 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.