Laura Mauldin

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap. "I've always loved museums," she says, "but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards' We do the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
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Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

More Sneak Attacks on Social Security Today on TAP: It's hard to kill America's most loved program outright—so Trump is strangling it by stealth.

Trump’s new Social Security Commissioner said “I’m Googling Social security…What the heck’s the commissioner of Social Security?” This administration is destroying the Social Security Administration, starting at the top. From Robert Kuttner: trib.al/U08jtz2

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The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

'It can be a loss of life': First responders detail the deadly cost of rural hospital closures Across the country, hospitals are vanishing, and a new wave of Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse.

First responders detail the deadly cost of rural hospital closures. Rural hospitals are vanishing, and Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse.
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It is all eugenics and it is totally the plan.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

N.J. professor says he’s moving to Europe after death threats over antifa research Mark Bray said right-wing influencers have been targeting him on social media. Turning Point USA wants him fired.

Everything is fine

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Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

What would happen if people instead watched 24hr a day of examples of care and generosity towards others in everyday small ways? Like imagine the endorphins out there from that yall

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

A study of nearly 300,000 people published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found “that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

So according to SCOTUS it would seem that states have the right to ban gender affirmative care that professional organizations support but do not have the right to ban conversion therapy that professional organizations condemn. Professional expertise literally has no legitimacy anymore.

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

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ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

“My biggest fear is going to the hospital,” she said.

Extraordinary reporting and storytelling by Mel Leonor Barclay and @shefali.bsky.social for @19thnews.org.

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Why do I have the Sunday scaries? I mean, the government has been shut down and cities are being invaded, but everything is fine.

Pie chart showing responses to a new KFF Health Tracking Poll: 42% would go without insurance, 37% would continue with their current health insurance, 22% would get insurance from a spouse or employer.

Without the ACA enhanced premium tax credits, Marketplace premiums could more than double.

A new KFF poll finds 7 in 10 Marketplace enrollees say they could not afford their coverage if premiums doubled — and 4 in 10 say they’d likely go uninsured. https://on.kff.org/4q7ElGy

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.

The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, which could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits, according to people familiar with the plans (GIFT LINK). wapo.st/4qa8yoq

States are cutting Medicaid provider payments long before Trump cuts hit North Carolina and Idaho have cut their Medicaid programs to bridge budget gaps, raising fears that providers will stop taking patients and that hospitals will close even before the brunt of a new federal tax-and-budget law takes effect.

North Carolina and Idaho have cut their Medicaid programs to bridge budget gaps, raising fears that providers will stop taking patients and that hospitals will close even before the brunt of a new federal tax-and-budget law takes effect.

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

Yep, I ordered some clothes from the UK and DHL messaged me and said I had to pay an extra $180 for the tariffs in order to receive them so I said oh. Ok, send it back I guess. 🤷🏻‍♀️ everything is fine.

The dedication to visually representing each of the 4,304 deliveries in the background scroll is admirable and conveys the loss to food banks.

The personal interviews and portraits are concise but powerfully relate these cuts’ impact on peoples' lives.

Everyone’s’ “must read” today.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

Honey, wake up: New unconstitutional extortion just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

On Critical Race Theory by Victor Ray: 9780593446461 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial framework for understanding and fighting racial injustice in the United States. “A clear-eyed,...

And I don’t think I’ve posted my book here so: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708739...

Medicare, as of today, will no longer cover telehealth visits.

I can’t imagine a bigger slap in the face to our patients.