Lowell.PhD

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics. 

Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages.

Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare...

This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

Disgusting.

Q&A: Nutrition expert discusses pioneering program terminated by USDA Here’s a Q&A with a nutrition expert who created an after-school program for NYC middle-schoolers who take on adult responsibilities, like meal preparation. This spring, the USDA terminated it.

It's exceedingly hard to argue that the administration & MAHA are committed to improving nutrition when they're simultaneously cutting everything from SNAP-Ed to innovative community nutrition work - cements the perception that food dyes are public health theatre.
www.healthbeat.org/newyork/2025...

Here, Vought doesn’t dispute slow-walking release of NIH grants from congressionally appropriated funds so that they can be cancelled in a couple of months through pocket rescission, thereby bypassing congress to enact huge cuts to NIH research.

more like this, please.

How Trans People Can Update Their Passports — And Why to Do It Now With a federal ban on passport gender marker changes currently blocked, THE CITY spoke with legal experts in NYC about how trans, nonbinary and intersex people can file these updates.

If you’re looking to update your U.S. passport to accurately reflect your gender, the window may soon be closing. For many, an accurate passport is more than just a confirmation of identity, it’s necessary to travel safely.

DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

"The Zaynab Project is a women-led, 100% volunteer-run nonprofit operating directly from within Gaza. We are part of the very communities we serve. No middlemen, no marketing costs, no admin fees — just local teams delivering urgent relief to those most in need."

Bluesky post from Mariame Kaba (July 25, 2025, at 9:17 PM): I don't have the spoons for this anymore but I really think that a blue state moratorium on any immigrant jails is the campaign to run at this time. Organize state and county legislatures and electeds to reject any new detention centers.

Read and share this post from @prisonculture.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/pris...

The solution to rapidly escalating fascism and broadly unrolling ignorance is simply not an Epstein file

An Exec Order is targeting the disabled and homeless

The EO (Ending Crime and Disorder on American Streets) is criminalizing homelessness and wants to institutionalize people with mental health or those who have a substance abuse problem

The ACLU condemns this action
#SheShed

Social media post by ACLU: BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities. (July 24, 2025, at 5:20 PM)

Who’s in the Epstein files (hint: it’s all of them) is less important than the Trump decision to criminalize and disappear anyone who does not have a house or has an addiction or “mental health” disability.

In fact, 20 years in, might these files mainly be a sensational distraction?

More than 40 percent of Americans are facing financial hardship (graph of % of Americans having difficulty paying household expenses, from 2020 to 2024)

Military contractors can expect $470 billion from the bipartisan budget agreement in FY2024. The bill adopts Biden's $886 billion military spending request. Graph: Military spending on contractors + Other military spending (2008 - 2024)

In 2022, CEOs were paid 344 times as much as a typical worker in contrast to 1965 when they were paid 21 times as much as a typical worker. To illustrate just how distorted CEO pay increases have gotten: In 2021, CEOs made nearly eight times as much as the top 0.1% of wage earners in the U.S. Sep 21, 2023

The dramatic increase in CEO compensation during the pandemic is remarkable. While millions lost jobs in the first year of the pandemic and suffered real wage declines due to inflation in the second year, CEOs' realized compensation jumped 30.3% between 2019 and 2021. Oct 4, 2022

50 million people go to bed hungry every night

There are 30 vacant housing units per unhoused person

The entire houseless population could be housed for the price of one aircraft carrier

And 41% of Americans *with* houses are struggling to keep them

It remains incredibly strange that COVID killed over 1 million Americans prematurely and yet the growing consensus on both the Right and even significant portions of the center is that we overreacted.

I can't believe that's the takeaway for one of the largest mass casualty events in US history.

-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence

These are the foundations of real freedom.

The fundamental choice has not been as stark since World War II: democracy and freedom, or dictatorship and tyranny.

Trump and his sycophants are siding with the latter. The rest of us must loudly, proudly, and boldly proclaim our allegiance to the former.

Can’t make this up.

It's not hard to imagine a scenario where migrant workers in the US are detained in ICE raids, thrown into Trump's migrant camps, then are sent off to work at the same farms and orchards they were originally picked up from, with the state taking what would have been their wage.

With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?

Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?

Our new concentration camps?

Our dying economy?

Our ditching due process?

Our corruption?

Our broken legislature?

Our corrupt SCOTUS?

Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly

Trump administration withholds over $6 billion for after-school, summer programs—and more Day camp providers and schools are warning that a Trump administration funding freeze could wreck summer for low-income American families and wipe out some after-school programming next year. The ...

“Trump administration withholds over $6 billion for after-school, summer programs—and more”

Of course, the kids of the wealthy don’t need the programs, and Republicans couldn’t care less about the other kids.

House Republicans Pass Budget Bill, Gutting Medicaid and SNAP House Passes Sweeping GOP Budget Overhaul with Major Cuts to Medicaid, Safety Net Programs

BREAKING: House Republicans Pass Budget Bill, Gutting Medicaid and SNAP

Mike Johnson just said if you are for reducing the deficit, this bill is for you.

The bill adds 3-4 trillion dollars to the deficit.

They just lie.

That’s it. They did it. We’re F’ed.

Republican Budget Bill Signals New Era in Federal Surveillance | TechPolicy.Press To advance the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement priorities, the Republican budget bill is set to fund a major expansion of federal surveillance.

Measures in GOP budget bill signal may a new era in AI-powered government surveillance — opaque tech means basis for law enforcement actions against individuals could become "very difficult to unwind," @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social tells @techpolicypress.bsky.social.

Yet another horrifying new step in our dystopian reality.

YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones FREE America protests IGNITE July 4th RESISTANCE!

HEADS UP!

This is FREE AMERICA weekend.

This 4th of July, engage in peaceful acts of resistance to oppose this growing authoritarian regime.

Details:

Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes being tortured in the El Salvador mega prison, where Trump sent him without due process — admittedly by mistake.

As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.

NYTimes text. For '60 Minutes, a Humbling Moment at an Uneasy Time for Press Freedom After a concession to President Trump, the country's most popular TV news program faces the prospect of new ownership and a chilled First Amendment environment.

The editors at NYTimes continue to insist on democracy-washing euphemisms.

We are witnessing a fascist consolidate power and wage war on every aspect of American democracy - especially truth-tellers and #PressFreedom

NYT:
“uneasy time for press freedom”

“chilled first amendment environment”

And for the life of me, I can't convince my mom, aunt & uncle and siblings of this 👇👇👇 no matter how hard I try.

The Trump administration deports people without due process to a foreign concentration camp where they are tortured, as it asks for millions to do it more. If democracy is to survive, the people responsible need to suffer consequences and be kept from power.