"changes to SNAP are happening alongside cuts to Medicaid. It leads to what Allen calls a “terrible synergistic effect” of people’s food being taken away and people getting sick because of it while health care is stripped away."
Eligibility unchanged: its all policy change via administrative burdens
Going to keep sharing this, because something I heard from sources is many felt like, after SNAP paused for the first time ever over the fall when the Trump admin refused to fund benefits, lots of people were talking about it. Now, people are still struggling but it feels like attention moved on.
A new report shows that Trump appears to support medical fraud, as long as corporate executives and other elites are the ones committing it. buff.ly/cn3eT0r
"particularly" is a funny way to spell "exclusively"
SCAM ALERT: Scammers are using text messages to target residents with fake DPS collection notices. Do not respond to them.
@gracemarion.bsky.social reports:
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Child sitting in front of razor wire reading a book with IDF soldiers in the background.
Palestinian children in the West Bank were prevented from going to school by Israeli security forces who closed a road in the middle of the night and set up razor wire.
The children tried to cross through the razor wire and were reportedly tear-gassed.
Photo by @the_andrey_x
nearly all of these MAHA influencers are being compensated by tobacco companies, and very few disclose it. in many cases, they are marketing to children. nicotine pouches harm child brain development.
Now that the Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to refund companies what they paid in tariffs, yet there are still tariffs in place, what's the plan? Consumers continue to fork money over to corporations who will later get another refund?
Why are Republican lawmakers suddenly so fired up about Sharia law again?
A GOP consultant gave Josh a pretty candid answer to that question.
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2. Because of longstanding and ongoing processing delays at USCIS, noncitizen workers have long faced a risk that their EADs will expire before the agency processes their applications for renewal. To mitigate that risk, the agency has, since 2016, provided automatic work permit extensions to workers in certain EAD categories who had timely filed renewal applications in the same category as their current EAD. 3. On October 30, 2025, however, defendant USCIS, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR) that sharply increases the risk that hundreds of thousands of people will lose work authorization solely due to USCIS's own persistent backlog. The IFR abruptly eliminated automatic work permit extensions for all EADs as of the IFR's date of publication. EAD holders who filed or will file to renew on or after October 30, 2025, will lose work authorization on the expiration dates printed on their current EADs, regardless of how long their renewal application has been pending at USCIS.
4. Plaintiff Jane Doe1 brings this case to challenge the IFR eliminating automatic work permit extensions. Ms. Doe, a citizen of Mexico who has lived in the United States for nearly ten years, is a survivor of domestic violence who was granted immigration relief in the United States under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Ms. Doe is the sole caregiver and financial provider for her eight-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen. Ms. Doe has relied on the automatic work permit extension in the past to maintain her employment while USCIS processed her renewal 1 Plaintiff is concurrently filing a motion to proceed under a pseudonym. Case 1:26-cv-01336 Document 1 Filed 04/20/26 Page 2 of 23 3 application. She applied in November 2025 to renew her current EAD, which expires at the end of June 2026. USCIS has not yet processed her renewal. Because of the IFR, she is at substantial risk that her work authorization will lapse, leaving her unable to work, to pay her bills, and to provide for her daughter.
5. The IFR is unlawful. USCIS violated the procedural requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by making this change immediately effective, without providing notice or an opportunity for public comment. Although USCIS invoked the APA's good-cause and foreign-affairs exceptions to notice-and-comment rulemaking, its rationales are unfounded. USCIS cited national security concerns and the need to vet applicants for immigration benefits, but a lapse in an EAD does not affect an individual's immigration status or their ability to remain in the United States. And critically, applicants for EAD renewals have already been vetted for work authorization. 6. The rule is also arbitrary and capricious. It contravenes USCIS's statutory obligation to safeguard the nation's economic security; disregards the factual record underlying a December 2024 rulemaking on the same subject; rests on unsupported speculation contradicted by USCIS's own actions; and ignores the foreseeable and substantial harms to workers, families, employers, and the broader economy.
BREAKING: A woman in the U.S. legally from Mexico for nearly a decade sues over the Trump administration's immediate change in Oct 2025 to work authorization renewals (employment authorization documents, or EADs), ending extensions even when renewal processing is delayed based on USCIS backlog.
17 Mollie reposted Sean Davis ~ @seanmdav X.com Elena Kagan is a psychopath. At the very moment conservative justices were at risk of being assassinated following the Dobbs leak (but before its official release), Kagan tried to delay the release of the opinion. Maybe in the hopes one of her colleagues would be murdered and the pro-life majority would evaporate. Kagan screamed so loudly at liberal ally after Dobbs leak th...
For book promo, Mollie Hemingway is boosting conservative influencers floating the idea that Elena Kagan’s pace of work was part of an elaborate plot to get Sam Alito murdered. This is the kind of poison the conservative justices’ media diets are pumping into their brains. Don’t care for it at all.
Yes, Israel is destroying Lebanon's breadbasket. This is why I have been saying that Israel's goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.
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Prescient.
“Mr. Obama had been one of just 22 senators to vote against Chief Justice Roberts’s confirmation in 2005, saying that the nominee had ‘far more often used his formidable skills on behalf of the strong in opposition to the weak.’”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
In #Lebanon, many families have taken refuge in shelters without proper access to water and sanitation.
Elena Fernandez, our Deputy Logistics Coordinator in #Beirut, reports:
*The video was created on April 13, 2026.
#Lebanon ceasefire: Humanitarian scale-up urgently needed. We continue to call for an urgent scale-up of humanitarian aid and unhindered access of aid to people in need across the country.
Read our full statement: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/lebanon-huma...
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
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Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote.
They found one. One.
And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.
A question for American historians: were the Robber Barons of the 19th century as corrupt as the technofascist billionaires of the 21st century?
Thanks to fallout from the war in Iran, "countless businesses [in Asian countries] are verging on insolvency. Governments are taking on enormous debt to slow inflation. By year’s end, in the most dire projections by the United Nations and others, millions across Asia could be pushed into poverty."
Recall the Supreme Court held there was a constitutional right to stand on a public sidewalk and scream homophobic rants at a soldier's funeral as long as you're a bunch of right-wing religious freaks, but apparently it's a crime to stand on a public sidewalk and smirk while Black.
Since everyone who knows my #science is sending me this article: YEP, THEM KIDS GOT RHABDOMYOLYSIS-INDUCED ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY! And their risks for Stroke, Hypertention, Reproductive Risk, Demetia, and Death (SHReDD) just skyrocketed. GOOD JOB, ASSHOLE COACHES.
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Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
Weird how they never do this in areas where Trump won!
DOJ Office of Civil Rights seem very focused on districts with a lot of Black voters.
Time to write to these corporations and ask them why they are destroying our multi-religious history.
You can plate it and serve it you like but it’s impossible to disguise that this is just shit scraped from the toilets of 20th century totalitarians
Starting to become increasingly clear that rejection of Palantir needs to be a litmus test for anyone who wants to lead a local law enforcement agency. Start calling your Mayors, City Councils, and City Managers.
