The biggest losers in Trumpβs megabill: Recipients of food aid, Medicaid users, college borrowers and EV drivers
23.05.2025 13:30 β π 44 π 17 π¬ 10 π 1@jamiescoop.bsky.social
Retired investigative journalist with 33 years of experience probing public corruption, policing and the judicial system in TN. Currently working as an investigator for the indigent.
The biggest losers in Trumpβs megabill: Recipients of food aid, Medicaid users, college borrowers and EV drivers
23.05.2025 13:30 β π 44 π 17 π¬ 10 π 1Harvard University has sued the Trump administration over its decision to revoke its eligibility to enroll foreign students.
23.05.2025 13:55 β π 255 π 44 π¬ 19 π 11President Trumpβs plan to expel alleged gang members to El Salvador relies on the countryβs prison director, whom U.S. officials have sanctioned for secretly negotiating with the same criminal groups
23.05.2025 14:01 β π 37 π 24 π¬ 3 π 5This is good news. For once, our governor did the right thing.
23.05.2025 14:10 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Media Matters, a left-leaning watchdog group that publishes reports on conservative media and social media platforms such as Elon Muskβs X, said it received a civil investigative demand letter from the Federal Trade Commission.
23.05.2025 14:07 β π 222 π 92 π¬ 18 π 25I'm ready to dump X but I use it these days mainly to follow legitimate news sites and keep up with the goings on in this topsy-turvy world. I'd appreciate any suggestions on sites to follow. I've found the biggies - NYT, Washington Post, Huffpost, etc - but I'm short on TN news sites
22.05.2025 22:31 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Kagan is not impressed with the majority's explanation for the Federal Reserve exception. You can almost hear her incredulity in these graphs. @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...
22.05.2025 21:45 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0I donβt mean to be a caricature, but this just isnβt law. The Supreme Court is always making policy. But this is beyond. βThis dicta in an emergency order will reassure the markets but just uh trust us on the law here ok no weβre not overruling Humphreyβs yet and when we do weβll spare the fed.β
22.05.2025 21:16 β π 1719 π 514 π¬ 58 π 50The US Administration is now explicitly threatening similar illegal, authoritarian assaults on every university in the country.
Our entire system of higher education is under attack. The powers being used as weapons are perversions of the public trust.
Former McKinsey partner jailed for deleting emails on US opioid work
https://www.ft.com/content/5e769fdf-8e80-4686-8118-53ac0b1a6f58
WATCH: βTrump misrepresented the facts. This is not even in South Africa.β
@france24 does the fact-check on Trumpβs Oval Office βWhite Genocideβ Oval Office ambush πΊπΈ networks havenβt.
Lies, outdated footage, etc.
Full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mti6...
Republicans want to force new federal workers to choose between losing job protections and paying for them. One union official calls it "criminal extortion."
22.05.2025 22:18 β π 14 π 12 π¬ 1 π 1A judge ordered the Department of Education to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs two months ago. But will they return? www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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