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The grocery store is playing songs I burned onto CDs in high school and it’s hurting my feelings.

We do know what works & the new Exec Order not just allowing but incentivizing communities to actively harm people ISN’T IT!

Helping people pay rent & giving them access to support services ends homelessness. We must protect people and join the fight against this inhumanity.

Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes - National Homelessness Law Center Trump’s new Executive Orders direct states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes (WASHINGTON, D.C - March 28th) Everybody needs a safe place to live. Across America, sky-high rents are…

BREAKING: Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. Criminalization doesn’t help anyone – we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts. #HousingNotHandcuffs

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Trump's Labor Department proposes more than 60 rule changes in a push to deregulate workplaces The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations adopted under previous presidential administrations.

"The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances."

The House Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, Science & Related Agencies today marked up its FY2026 spending bill, allotting $1.677 billion to the Census Bureau.

That’s well below the $2 billion Census stakeholders recommended. (2/7) thecensusproject.org/wp-content/u...

Webcam: Sled Dog Puppies - Denali National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)

I was just informed that Denali National Park has a sled dog puppy cam and you might also need this information

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The 2021 Child Tax Credit expansion involved automatic deposits of cash into bank accounts of most eligible families. Our study finds that this reduced administrative burdens & boosted CTC take-up, but disparities remained. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @pamherd.bsky.social 1/

Underappreciated aspect of Senate Republicans' unfunded mandate for SNAP: they're setting states up to fail. The amount is tied to a state's SNAP error rate. But the bill:
-Cuts federal $ for strategies that reduce errors *in half*
-Adds new & error-prone red tape requirements

Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of 'devastation' from megabill

Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”

Opinion | Our State Cannot Survive This Bill

From AK state legislators: "the shift in costs from the federal government to the state [in the OBBBA] will plunge our budget into a severe deficit, cripple our state economy and make it harder to provide basic services."

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o...

The White House is touting tax benefits for tipped workers in the reconciliation bill, but 2 million tipped workers could be among those at risk of losing health coverage because of the #Medicaid and #ACA marketplace cuts in the bill. (1/3) www.nbcwashington.com/news/busines...

Remember when people refused a life-saving vaccine because they were convinced the government would use a microchip to track them…

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

Robodebt used administrative data to identity potential welfare overpayments. At the heart of the Robodebt algorithm was a faulty assumption: that people's income was stable. (Current US proposals for work reporting requirements in Mediciad make the same faulty assumption). The assumption was reasonable for those with salaried jobs, but unreliable for welfare recipients working changing or sporadic hours. Bad Assumptions = Bad Outcomes

One of the bad assumptions that fueled automation in the Robodebt case was that people had steady jobs with consistent salary that would allow the averaging of income estimates. Just want to note that Congress is making the same bad assumption in its proposal for Medicaid work requirements.

In West Virginia, Medicaid is a lifeline. GOP cuts could devastate the state. GOP states are particularly reliant on a program that President Donald Trump and other Republicans have targeted for deep spending reductions.

In West Virginia, #Medicaid is a lifeline. GOP cuts could devastate the state. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

May every single human being on this planet be safe.

May every single person be protected from harm.

May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

Misunderstood sleeper issue in OBBB cld mean the end of #SNAP as a national food assistance program available in all states. The cost-shift drafting means a state that can’t pay its share of benefits loses ALL fed $; a state that can only pay ½ has to cut enrollment by about ½.

What children in poverty could lose from the 'Big Beautiful Bill' Republicans want to change or reduce key social safety net programs that provide healthcare, food benefits and financial assistance for millions of children.

Republican lawmakers want to change or reduce key social safety net programs that provide healthcare, food benefits, and financial assistance for millions of children.

Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman.
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

Research Note: Senate Republican Leaders’ Proposal Risks Deep Cuts to Food Assistance, Some States Ending SNAP Entirely | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities States, which must balance their budgets every year, would struggle to absorb these substantial new costs.

Low-income families could lose food assistance entirely if their state can’t afford new #SNAP cost-sharing rules proposed in the Senate Agriculture Committee’s reconciliation proposal. See how states could be impacted: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

2025 Budget Impacts: House Bill Would Cut Assistance and Raise Costs for People With Disabilities | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities House Republicans’ budget reconciliation legislation would take away health coverage and food assistance from many millions of people, including people with disabilities, significantly raising...

People with disabilities could face higher costs and greater hardship under the House Republican bill, which cuts #Medicaid, #ACA marketplace coverage, & #SNAP while also threatening timely disability benefits through #SocialSecurity staffing reductions. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

Trump Budget’s Caps on Grad School Loans Could Worsen Doctor Shortage The proposed limits on federal loans fall well below the costs of medical school. Critics say this could deter students from pursuing medicine.

President Trump’s proposed budget restricts loans that students rely on to pursue professional graduate degrees, making the path to becoming a physician harder. Critics say this could deter students from pursuing medicine even as doctor shortages loom.

Trump wants to eliminate a 105-year-old office that supports women Staffers see the proposal as part of an effort to fundamentally reshape America's workforce.

Today is the Women’s Bureau’s 105th anniversary, and what did DOL Secretary Chavez DeRemer get for WB? Zero. Literally. Her FY26 budget eliminates it. I talked to @motherjones.com‬’s @juliannemcshane.bsky.social‬ about how GOP attacks on WB hurt women 🧵 #SaveWB www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In a new @GtownLawPovCntr analysis, we ran the numbers to reveal the unfair tradeoffs in the "big, beautiful bill" which takes health care & food away from the many to pay for tax cuts for the few.

We also ran numbers by state. The results are staggering.
www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/food-...

The frame of "left-leaning economists" isn't useful here and serves to undermine a robust evidence base. Right-leaning economists would read the evidence on work requirements the same way.

Where people's opinions diverge is on how *acceptable* it is to kick eligible people out of a program.

Reconciliation Bill and End of Enhanced Subsidies Would Cut Health Care Provider Revenue and Spike Uncompensated Care The House of Representatives passed, and the Senate is now negotiating, a budget reconciliation bill that would impose federal funding cuts on Medicaid and the ACA Marketplaces.

Health care providers would lose $1 trillion in revenues and uncompensated care would increase $278 billion between 2025-34 due to House Republican reconciliation bill and expiration of premium tax credits. (1/3) www.urban.org/research/pub...

Y’all, the Trump or MAGA accounts in House tax bill are not @booker.senate.gov and @darrickhamilton.bsky.social’s baby bonds proposal. Baby bonds are for narrowing the racial wealth divide. These accounts are for widening it. www.kiplinger.com/taxes/gop-pr...

Small victories!

Monthly work hours requirements for programs like SNAP and Medicaid are poorly matched to the volatile nature of employment in the service sector. Learn more in new research from @hamiltonproject.org: www.brookings.edu/articles/wor...