Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
Minnesota has sued to halt CMS' unlawful, punitive effort to block federal #Medicaid funding through a "deferral". My colleague Andy Schneider takes a look at the lawsuit and how CMS isn't following its own regulations. A court hearing is scheduled for tomorrow: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/03/06/c...
As promised my colleague Andy Schneider with a *must read* blog taking a deep dive into the Trump Admin's latest unprecedented effort to block federal #Medicaid funding in order to punish Minnesota. A few key takeaways to follow (1/x): ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/03/02/c...
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
The @ACLU has filed a class action damages suit against federal & state officers over an Idaho immigration raid last October. 200 armed officers raided a horse-race festival, detaining 400 Latinos for 4 hrs. All adults & many teens ziptied & searched.
1/8
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PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated.
Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...
I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
People aren't so easily sorted into disabled (in the sense of totally unable to work) and non-disabled. All kinds of conditions limit the types of work someone can do and how many hours they can work.
🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.
it does feel fundamentally dysfunctional, right, to beg lawmakers to use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law
--avg. net premium hikes: 102% (more than double)
--over 70,000 PA enrollees have already dropped coverage (~15% of all 2025 enrollees)
...and more, including enrollment & avg rate hikes by HOUSE DISTRICT.
🚨 PENNSYLVANIA: More ugly #ACA data caused by Republicans letting the enhanced tax credits expire:
acasignups.net/26/01/23/pen...
What’s this old thing
New in the Federal Register, CMS has taken the next regulatory step toward withholding federal Medicaid dollars from Minnesota, following its January 6 letter to Walz
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-00512.p...
As Evan reminds me, the state subsidy program for low-income enrollees is mostly being paid for by retooling the *existing* program which ELIMINATED deductibles altogether for enrollees up to 250% FPL.
In other words, over 800K just saw their deductibles skyrocket as well.
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i'm sure being known as Justice Kavanaugh Stop is a minor inconvenience with a brief duration and he will be promptly free of it
USDA plans to give Palantir a no-bid contract for AI "data integration" for the National Farm Security Action Plan which notably highlights SNAP 'fraud.'
So Palantir AI will ingest "key user data previously submitted by applicants" to "conduct security checks."
It'll cost up to $300 million.
This guidance would mean that people who originally entered as refugees or asylees, or who were "paroled into the US," could never become eligible for SNAP even if they became permanent residents. That's definitely not what HR 1 said.
The law is clear on who can receive SNAP benefits, yet the Trump Administration is trying to strip rightful recipients of the support they need to feed their families.
www.fox2detroit.com/news/dana-ne...
You really gotta follow up on an underspecified claim like “we found 186k dead people.”
People die every day, and the government is always going to be some amount behind in working out the administrative consequences, but that doesn’t mean the deceased’s EBT accounts were somehow used for fraud.
They cut out more than refugees and asylees, though. Non-citizen eligibility for SNAP was narrowed to Lawful Permanent Residents, Cuban & Haitian Entrants, and COFA Migrants (people from Micronesia, Palau, and Marshall Islands). FNS doesn't seem to have their website updated, but here's a source.
Yes, this is in line with what the state agencies were told. Most of the Ukrainians in my area were parolees, so they are losing eligibility.
Some states got full benefits out after the courts ordered them to. The White House is saying that was illegal. But it would also be illegal to claw back those benefits. The net result is that some SNAP users got full benefits, and some did not depending on how aggressively their state acted.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
UPDATE: Justice Jackson temporarily blocks SNAP benefits order to allow appeals court to rule.
DOJ asked SCOTUS for a stay as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments. Jackson's order came a little past 9 p.m.
Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
