Why do corporate PR people insist on only sending comments at the very last minute before my deadline? Do they think it will somehow delay the story? Is it some kind of power trip?

For Second Year in a Row, Trump Budget Seeks to Slash WIC Fruit and Vegetable Benefits for Millions President Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget calls for sharply reducing the fruit and vegetable component of WIC’s food benefits for new and expecting parents and young children. We estimate the proposed...

You can also see the lie of this being about "health" given that the administration is at the same time is trying to cut fruit and vegetable benefits from WIC www.cbpp.org/blog/for-sec...

A mom and widow who had benefits cut because of a mistake on a form. A home health aid making $13/hour who said food pantries are so overwhelmed, they couldn't help. A student who said SNAP access supported eating disorder recovery.

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That to me implies he's decided not to have kids at all. I don't know what his plans are!

For so long childcare was a "women's issue," just about moms. Then men started taking it up, but often as fathers. Now it's a mainstream reality that universal childcare will benefit everyone in the long run. We all started as kids! And today's kids will be future grown ups.

Beyond it being exciting to see an important policy being made real in NYC, the other groundbreaking thing about Mamdani loudly and doggedly supporting universal childcare is that it's not coming from a woman or even a parent. It's being championed by a childless man.

KitKat, Gatorade or granola bars? What’s banned under new SNAP rules is mixed. Many GOP states are enacting soda and candy bans for food stamp purchases amid MAHA’s healthy food efforts. Some retailers and SNAP users find the new rules complicated.

This article frames the Republican push to limit what people can buy with food stamps as part of RFK's agenda but in reality this has long been a conservative goal and it's always been about punishing the poor, not about health www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Trump wants to continue the DC occupation in 2027

Some evidence for the theory that undoing the pandemic-era safety net was at least one cause of the vibecession

Domestic violence organizations turn away thousands each day. Julia was one of them. An already underfunded system is under even more stress, as cases have gotten more complex and the Trump administration has sown confusion.

Hope you'll spend some time w/ this incredible piece by @jazzmyth.bsky.social. It reveals how the underfunded system set up to protect domestic violence survivors is unraveling under immense strain. Expertly done & w/ a lot of heart, told through the eyes of a survivor.

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Courts keep saying this and yet here's the EEOC, the federal agency tasked with protecting Americans from employment discrimination, denying that trans people are protected or that they even exist www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“Vought la[id] out his belief that the money Congress appropriates each year is to set a topline limit.” That is not what it says in the constitution my man!

Really good example here as to how Vought (and Republicans) lie about fraud in Medicaid and SNAP, while completely ignoring $725 billion in annual tax fraud (which is ~total federal spending on Medicaid and SNAP annually).

The View From Inside Trump’s DHS Dozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration.

"H.S.I. used to investigate companies violating labor laws. Now, instead of going after the business owners, they would be going after the employees. They had to hit 5 workplaces every single day. It started with anything that sounded even vaguely Hispanic and then became completely indiscriminate"

DOGE destroyed much of our government and killed a lot of people, but on the plus side it also cost the government a ton of money

Federal grants can save the lives of abuse victims. $200 million is sitting unspent. Changes made by the White House are preventing the distribution of funds meant to help survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and trafficking. This year’s grants are missing too.

Federal grants can save the lives of abuse victims. $200 million is sitting unspent.

@jazzmyth.bsky.social reports

It also means any private-sector claim of gender identity discrimination will automatically be dismissed. Trans and other gender nonconforming workers can still go to the courts, but that takes a lot of time and resources.

The immediate effect of this recent EEOC decision is that federal agencies can now deny employees access to bathrooms aligned with their gender identities without repercussion, which means workers are likely to suffer acute health problems.

The EEOC Is No Longer Protecting Federal Workers From Gender Identity Discrimination Recent decisions mean the agency will no longer process claims regarding harassment, the denial of bathroom use, or discrimination in hiring, firing, or promotion on the basis of gender identity.

The EEOC has officially reversed its decades-long position that workers are protected from gender identity discrimination by federal anti-discrimination law and says trans people don't exist www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"Not only is the state first out of the gate, its government plans to do it without hiring any additional staff" Omfg

With sexual abuse, more often than not when there's smoke there's so much fire

Your Loved One Is Stuck in Immigration Detention. It Will Cost $25,000 to Get Them Out. After a run-in with the police that ended in his arrest, Andry’s...

Under the second Trump administration's immigration crackdown, far more people are having to pony up bond money to get out of detention--and the amounts they have to cobble together have absolutely skyrocketed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/under-t...

Harmeet Dhillon Is Not Wasting Any Time She arrived at the Department of Justice with radical changes in mind. One year later, she has completely reshaped the Civil Rights Division.

I profiled Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who pushed out roughly 70 percent of the Civil Rights Division's lawyers, turned DOJ's civil rights enforcement on its head, and is now reportedly in the running for attorney general

I run here multiple times a week. Almost every time so many cars blow through this red light I can barely count them

Can This Chaotic Brooklyn Plaza Be Car-Free? Mamdani Says Yes.

Absolutely incredible news www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...

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What a fun message to get from my health insurance provider as I attempt to file a claim

States Pay Deloitte, Others Millions To Comply With Trump Law To Cut Medicaid Rolls - KFF Health News The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will add red tape and restrictions for those seeking Medicaid and SNAP benefits. And the costs to update computer systems that determine eligibility for those programs w...

Consulting companies like Deloitte and Accenture will reap $6 million in fees from just five states thanks to the new Medicaid restrictions passed by Republicans kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

The administration so supposedly consumed with concern about fraud in government programs dropped 900 cases of federal program or procurement fraud and over 100 health care fraud cases www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump Is Illegally Withholding Food From Needy Families - The American Prospect The White House claims it cannot fund food stamp benefits for November. But not only is there a contingency fund meant to be used in this exact fashion, but it’s illegal for the Trump administration t...

On the legal requirement he ignored to fund food stamps: prospect.org/2025/10/29/t...

It's notable what Trump is willing to do and not do during a shutdown. Last shutdown he refused to fund food stamps even though the law required it. Now he's ignoring the law and unilaterally paying TSA agents. bsky.app/profile/josh...