NEW: The average U.S. taxpayer in 2025 paid $4,049 for weapons and war vs. only $2,492 for Medicaid, which provides health insurance to 1 in 5 Americans.
New findings out TODAY from IPS @nationalpriorities.bsky.social researchers:
In addition to equal rights and taxing the rich, surveys show that Americans also agree on something else—we don’t want our country to be involved in regime-changing wars.
It’s time for our elected officials to listen.
@karendolan.bsky.social on @theprogressivemag.bsky.social
NEW: Americans are broadly united on critical issues related to our families, health, and war and peace. This administration is thumbing its nose at us with a costly, unpopular war that threatens all of these.
IPS scholar @karendolan.bsky.social in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social:
The only thing that upholds any government - democratic or fascist - is people's support of it. The pillars undergirding this regime can absolutely be collapsed or crumbled - all it takes is people's refusal to be complicit.
We must march through hell but we are winning.
Kat and Elliot are no Claire and Jamie #TheWayHome Fail. #ZeroChemistry #WhatWereTheyThinking #Hallmark —that’s why 🤣
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:
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:
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
youtube.com/live/6RL1Aj8...
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.
