Greg Kaufmann

The House Republicans' Budget Bill Guts Basic Needs Programs for the Most Vulnerable Americans to Give Tax Breaks to the Rich The House Republican budget plan would eviscerate Medicaid and food assistance and shift resources toward the wealthiest Americans.

“If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history.”

Read more from @bbkogan.bsky.social on the house Republican budget bill: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Thank you from a constituent. You are being an excellent leader when leadership is so desperately needed.

he should start Kinsky.

I'm not sure he should come back even if we take EL. Been rooting for him, but he doesn't have injuries as an excuse now. I just don't think his system works at this level and it likely contributed to the injuries to boot.

Vicario has been awful. Both goals on him.

Contributor: Deportation raids terrorized my family for decades — and we had papers A 1950s federal campaign wasn't the first or the last racist campaign to hound an entire community of Mexican Americans. The scars last through generations.

History repeating itself--and it's a history I'd imagine most folks are not aware of....
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

A few more words about this story:

We spent a lot of time rereading the NIH document rolling out this policy.

The numbers in it do not add up. The language is vague. NIH would not answer our questions about it.

These are recurring features of memos proposing sweeping change under the new admin.

📌BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been wiped off the Web.

📌MISSION: To protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices and take action against companies that break the law. We arm people with the information.

📌The working class of the U.S. are under attack.

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze.
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

i agree with your take and think above all else progressives--and really Dems writ large--need to be truth tellers, speaking clearly on both race and class, and taking actions that support advancement on both fronts. this either/or infighting is backwards thinking and ruinous.

An inspiring new California program establishes trust accounts for certain foster youth | Opinion Former foster youth: “In California a new program helping foster youth reminds me we can still do great things in the Golden State.”

Hasn't gotten much attention, but CA has quietly created the largest #BabyBonds program in the country--for foster youth & kids who lost a parent to COVID. This writer--a former foster youth herself--has been involved in creating the program and has a hell of a story. www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

The President can have his own views about these matters. He can try to make his views into policy. But he cannot seize Congress’s power of the purse. He cannot deny due process to millions of Americans. And he cannot abridge or disrupt the free speech of those who disagree. Those are the constitutional and legal transgressions of the J20 and J21 Orders. To remedy these harms, and to defend core Constitutional rights, Plaintiffs bring this suit.

BREAKING: New lawsuit challenges Trump's anti-diversity executive orders, alleging Spending Clause, vagueness (Due Process), free speech (First Amendment), and separation of powers violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Don't Believe Him Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 02/02/2025 · 14m

Love this take from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. "Optimistic" is too strong a word, but maybe encouraging. If one of your tactics for surviving Trump is looking for hope, as it is for me, then give a listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

New study by Columbia Center on Poverty and Social Policy suggests "stickiness" of intergenerational poverty is related to relative lack of income transfers in adulthood -- even if we invest in reducing child poverty.

Within Our Means is a biweekly newsletter written by Abdallah Fayyad. It interrogates how poverty manifests in the United States — how it shapes people’s lives, neighborhoods, and politics — and searches for viable solutions. Check out more of his work here.

If you grow up poor in the US, your odds of being poor in adulthood are two to four times higher than other high-income countries like Denmark, Germany and UK. #TalkPoverty @abdallahfayyad.bsky.social link.vox.com/view/67229ec...

So, uh, what's going on here?

Cory Booker On Winning the Messaging War Against Trump with Radical Empathy Podcast Episode · Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams · 01/30/2025 · 55m

Appreciated this good convo between @staceyabrams.com & @booker.senate.gov --on the scale of the challenge before us & how to fight back with love, righteous anger, empathy, organizing, & fortitude. Includes practical tips for all of us. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Trump firing the head of the CFPB is his latest attack on consumers & his latest gift to his billionaire CEO friends.

The CFPB has returned billions to people who have been victims of financial schemes. We will fight like hell to ensure it can continue to protect working people.

Translation: We want to privatize everything.

Familia puertorriqueña habría sido llevada a centro de detención en Milwaukee Hermana de una de las detenidas alega que los arrestaron por hablar español.

A three-year old, his mother, and his grandmother were speaking Spanish while shopping in Milwaukee. They’re U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico but were taken by ICE. Once in detention, the mother was able to produce ID and birth certificates proving citizenship:

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2 of the 5 are Marylanders. #MarylandStrong.

Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.

Why Won’t the Federal Government Reimburse People Whose Food Stamps Are Stolen? The disastrous consequences for working-class families.

Stealing food stamp benefits from recipients is a huge problem due largely to EBT cards lacking microchips. That’s why the federal government used to reimburse people. But the new policy ends that, in essence telling families: Tough luck. READ @devongray.bsky.social in @thenation.com bit.ly/4jo1l0v

YouTube video by PBS SoCal Central Coast Leaders Empower Migrant Families Ahead of Inauguration | SoCal Matters | PBS SoCal

Important work educating undocumented communities about their rights in preparation for Trump insanity. youtu.be/m93HsvIYDNg?...

And we will see the pressure cooker of poverty grow more intense as Trump throws people off Medicaid and food assistance, and prices likely increase with tariffs.

Oh, this is problematic: “Trump issued an order short-circuiting the security clearance vetting process for his White House staffers. Anyone on a list submitted by his White House counsel is to “immediately” be granted a Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information-level clearance good for 6 months.”

she literally writes for dense housing in places that already have modern building codes..... i also reject your description of "the masses", "sardine cans", and the idea that we should "listen to insurance companies" to find the best soloutions.

it's both, actually. there is not enough housing supply in California--rental markets are too tight & unaffordable, home ownership out of reach for far too many, and climate disaster making it worse. read the article if you didn't, Rachel does a good job laying it out.

It’s a make-or-break moment for housing in California The future of the state depends on how leaders rebuild after the Los Angeles fires.

"Without major zoning changes to allow [dense] urban development, the crisis could instead accelerate displacement as middle and working-class families are forced out of uninsurable areas with nowhere affordable to go." www.vox.com/housing/3950...

The Los Angeles Fires Burned Livelihoods, Too For many service workers, a wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood represented an economic lifeline that the fires have now severed.

Around 10,000 Latinos worked in the evacuation zones of the Palisades, making up 34 percent of the work force www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...