Cory Dodds

She needs to start holding campaign events and meeting actual voters. I don’t know her values or what she stands for because she hasn’t given any statements with substance.

Schumer must go. Immediately.

It’s a failed party. Time to move on and find better options. Change from within is naive and impossible.

City leaders announce food drive to support families affected by SNAP cuts Mayor Linda Gorton said she hopes it will be the biggest food drive in Lexington’s history.

Mayor Linda Gorton said she hopes it will be the biggest food drive in Lexington’s history.

Homeowners in a rural Kentucky county are still recovering from April flooding. The government wants to buy them out. McLean County is one of six Kentucky counties participating in a buyout program from the state and federal governments following April’s historic flooding.

Homeowners in rural McLean County in Kentucky are still recovering from April flooding. The government wants to buy them out. From WKU:

Student journalists in Appalachia! 🚨 PAID writing opportunity before end of the semester: 100 Days in Appalachia is assembling a series of dispatches on the biggest issues facing campuses. Pieces are short, not as heavy a lift reporting-wise. Email rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com & I'll share info.

Movement Law Under Fascism As fascist tendencies intensify across the United States, social movements continue to organize against the forces of state repression. Legal scholars must stand with these movements…

Drop everything and read it

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I am grateful to be quoted in this article detailing SNAP disqualifications in Kentucky (among the highest in the U.S.). Case law (see Shahid v. DHHS) and federal regulations are clear that states must have more than transactional evidence to disqualify an individual for SNAP fraud.

Periodic reminder: student journalists in Appalachia, young writers in Appalachia, young folks in Appalachia who see something happening in their community they want to write about! Please pitch. (If you need pitch advice, message me! There's guidance in the link below but glad to brainstorm.)

We're hiring an Eastern Kentucky reporter at @kentucky.com!

This position will be based in EKy, and will have the freedom to cover any number of issues: the environment, the coal industry, economic challenges, the cultural landscape and so much more: mcclatchy.rec.pro.ukg.net/MCC1008MCLTC...

Screenshot that says: To be clear, if you support the ongoing proposed slashing of: Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, funds to help low income folks pay their utilities, and the defunding of public television, public radio, job corp, cancer research, etc – all so the billionaire class can get a deficit busting tax break – I don’t expect to persuade you to support my candidacy.

Spotted on Ned Pillersdorf's website. According to prior reporting, he recently announced his campaign for Kentucky’s 5th Congressional District.

Ned is the real deal. If anyone can win that district, it’s him.

Inject the second paragraph of this footnote directly into my veins.

(And then send it to the nine firms that have bent the knee.)

The attacks on law firms and lawyers must stop. Full stop.

On behalf of race and law centers, @seiu.org, @aftunion.bsky.social, @aaup.bsky.social, and several advocacy organizations, we offer our thoughts on why it must stop.

www.law.uci.edu/centers/kore...

A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural…

Many students at Southern Illinois University come from families that are poor, or barely middle class, and depend on scholarships.

Vice Chancellor Paul Frazier says the way DEI has been politicized ignores what it actually does: “Poor doesn’t have a color.”

With @capitolnewsil.bsky.social

US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

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Circling back to this—it should be apparent who the right wing Democrats are in the Senate. At least 10 of them!

Disabled kids from poor families already face disparities when it comes to enforcement of 504s/IEPs, as many can't afford lawyers to sue if schools fail to follow plans.

Important piece
“attending to rural disadvantage& strengths reframes rural disparities as amenable to action instead of inevitable consequences of geography, poverty or demography. Achieving thriving rural communities requires attention to the complex forces shaping health at the geographic margins”

The largest purchaser of wine is the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.
The shelves of Kentucky whiskey, American beer and California wine are now empty.
The LCOBO was doing a brisk business - good news for Canadian, French, Spanish, Australian, Chilean.
Sucks for Kentucky and California.

Cutting Medicaid and federal programs are among 4 key Trump administration policy changes that could make life harder for disabled people Tracking disability policies has long been challenging − this will become a harder task under the Trump administration.

People may not think of Musk's attacks on federal workers as a disability issue. But consider SSI or SSDI clients, who can already wait years on an application, or spend hours on hold trying to get questions answered.

As DOGE shuts offices and lays off workers, we can expect that to get worse.

Judicial restraint and Andrew Jackson notwithstanding, I’m a little surprised we haven’t seen a show cause order yet. Will this do it?

Man, you really don’t understand politics or political history of our nation.

Thought you and you rightwing Democrat buddies said the Medicaid cuts weren’t happening.

Just a few weeks ago, the ABA said they stood with the rule of law. What changed?

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) Information

If you:

-are a Kentuckian living in KY
-who has taken/is taking an SSRI & it's played a big role in your life (pos or neg)
-& would be willing to share that publicly

I'd love to hear from you.

My email is sladd@kentuckylantern.com

Please share.

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It’s not optimism; Kentucky politics are nuanced. To be a credible here, one has to be genuine and authentically from KY. Nat’l and KY dems continue to struggle to find candidates that can communicate effectively. Our bench is limited because Dems keep writing off rural places like KY.