Karen Dolan

Kat and Elliot are no Claire and Jamie #TheWayHome Fail. #ZeroChemistry #WhatWereTheyThinking #Hallmark —that’s why 🤣

FACT SHEET: Federal Policy Threatens Women and Children with Poverty - Institute for Policy Studies FACT SHEET: Federal Policy Threatens Women and Children with Poverty

NEW: Women and children are facing heightened poverty in the U.S., with nearly 13.6% of women and 13.4% of children living in poverty in 2024. Trump-GOP policies are set to make it worse.

New analysis from IPS scholars @karendolan.bsky.social and Ta'Kyla Bates:

Trump Replaces GOP’s Pocket Constitutions with Unconstitutional ‘Pocket Recissions’ – DC Journal - InsideSources During the rise of the GOP “Tea Party” on Capitol Hill, conservative members of Congress proudly displayed pocket Constitutions in their suit jackets. The

NEW: Trump has baselessly claimed unfettered permission to slash spending already approved by lawmakers. These repeated "pocket recissions" are unconstitutional, illegal, and must be rejected.

IPS scholar @karendolan.bsky.social:

The 2024 Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance data from the U.S. Census indicates some negative trends for families, even as it’s eclipsed by the devastation looming from the Reverse Robin Hood cuts ... This continues the trend of disappointing numbers since the successes of 2021 in reducing childhood and overall poverty.

NEW: The U.S. Census just released its annual data on poverty, income, and health insurance for 2024.

It shows stagnation for most people, but a 4.2% income jump for those at the top — trends that will be majorly exacerbated by the Trump-GOP big, brutal bill. IPS scholar @karendolan.bsky.social:

Today it was confirmed that the president told the world's most infamous pedophile and child sex trafficker: "We have certain things in common."

For any other president, it would be the biggest scandal of their lives, possibly career-ending.

For Trump, it's just Monday.

CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.

But we do need your time. ⏰

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More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

Yesterday, President Trump said of RFK: “I like the fact that he's different."

Yes. RFK is *different.*

He’s the first HHS secretary to actively endanger children by undermining what doctors & scientists around the world know to be true:

Vaccines have saved millions of lives.

YouTube video by Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Black Women Have Been Hit Hard By Federal Workforce Cuts According to August Jobs Report

Data shows us that Black women are disproportionately impacted by federal workforce cuts.

Why is this the case? CBPP Chief Economist @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social provides analysis on the August #JobsReport released this morning. www.youtube.com/shorts/3R8t4...

Trump Promised an Antiwar Presidency. He's Delivered the Opposite | Opinion From bombing the Middle East to deploying troops on U.S. soil, wars under President Donald Trump are becoming more deadly and expansive.

NEW: Trump promised an anti-war presidency. Instead, he’s expanding the “forever wars” in the Middle East, East Africa, the Caribbean, and here at home.

Resisting Trump must include resisting his militarism. Azadeh Shahshahani of Project South and IPS scholar Khury Petersen-Smith in @newsweek.com:

@americanhomeshield.bsky.social you’re basically committing fraud now. It’s been almost 6 weeks that you have not provided me service and I’ve paid you thousands. Anyone else getting screwed by this horrendous company? I know there are. Pls report them to BBB

Immigrants aren’t stealing your jobs.

But employers are stealing $50 billion in wages from workers each year.

Cal Poly Pomona canceled a job fair because ICE and the FBI signed up as employers.

I want to outlive this regime. Will cancer let me? It might have no choice

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I want to outlive this regime. Will cancer let me? It might have no choice

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So let me get this straight: Jack Smith investigates a guy who tried to overturn an election and incited an insurrection… and he’s the one being investigated?

We’re not a serious country. We’re a banana republic with better branding…but that’s going to shit, too.

we are currently watching an entire political party run cover for the most notorious sex trafficking ring in modern human history

ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.

Why we can’t let the “Big Beautiful Bill” pass. YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

Senate Republicans are trying to jam through their “Big Beautiful Bill" that would kick 17 MILLION people off of their health care.

I’m on the Senate floor to say NO.

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In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”

🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.

Brilliant timing.

Just a reminder that while her ex nonstop soils himself in public with tasteless displays of wealth and look-at-me, thirsty nonsense, Mackenzie Scott has given away close to $20 billion to 1,600 charities, no strings attached and without any need for recognition.

Estimated Budgetary Effects of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Relative to the Budget Enforcement Baseline for Consideration in the Senate As posted on the website of the Senate Committee on the Budget on June 27, 2025

New Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers confirm what we already knew – the reconciliation bill is getting worse, not better. The Senate bill will cut health care more deeply than the House bill and leave more people uninsured. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Speak out against the harmful Republican budget & tax bill. Sign our letter telling your U.S. Senators to VOTE NO on the Republican Big Bad Betrayal Bill and instead prioritize families and our economy over billionaires.

Sign our letter telling your U.S. Senators to VOTE NO on the Republican Big Bad Betrayal Bill and instead prioritize families and our economy over billionaires. #MomsSky action.momsrising.org/sign/SenateR...

There is confusion about whether the Parliamentarian has indicated that a slightly revised version of the #SNAP cost-shift to states in the Senate Republican bill complies with the Byrd rule. But what’s clear is: the provision’s harmful impact is unchanged.