Sanders: Billionaires Are Waging War—And Stealing America. | Velocity Economics This is Bernie Sanders speaking to the third mass mobilization in nine months — each one larger than the last. He's delivering a speech that names exactly what's happening in America right now, and...

Bernie just eviscerated the billionaire class & their trillion-dollar wars—Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg are all named.

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Rallies planned in thousands of US cities for 'No Kings' protest against Trump | Velocity Economics Saturday, thousands of rallies will hit all 50 states in what organizers hope will be the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. More than 3,200 events planned. Millions expected. The movement...

Massive protests are hitting all 50 states Saturday, aiming for millions against Trump & the war in Iran. #nokings

#Politics #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Idaho passes legislation criminalizing transgender use of public bathrooms | Velocity Economics Idaho just made it a felony to use the wrong bathroom. Not a policy violation. Not an administrative fine. A felony. Five years in prison for a second offense. That's the same criminal category as...

Idaho just criminalized being #transgender in public, making it a felony (up to 5 years) for a second bathroom offense. They’re literally equating using the wrong restroom with vehicular manslaughter.

#SocialPolicy #CriminalJustice #VelocityEconomics

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Senate rejects bid to suspend rules and move contraception bill to immediate third reading A motion to suspend the Senate rules and immediately take SB 13-96 (concerning contraception rights) to third reading failed after a contested series of explanations and appeals; the floor announced the final tally as 12 ayes, 16 nays, 2 not voting.

In a dramatic showdown, the Arizona Senate voted down a motion to fast-track a pivotal contraception bill, revealing deep divisions over procedural norms and social policy.

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CachyOS Censors A Linux distribution just told its users that asking about age verification makes them "radicals" who deserve to be censored. Let me be extremely clear about what happened here: people asked "are you....

CachyOS, a popular #Linux distro, is banning users for simply *asking* about age verification. They claim these questions are “radical” – it’s censorship disguised as moderation.

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Zohran Mamdani Proves MAGA's A Democratic Socialist mayor just did the thing MAGA claims to want — cut government waste, save millions, make government more efficient — and they're losing their minds because the wrong person did....

NYC's Zohran #Mamdani Proves MAGA's "Fiscal Responsibility" is a Lie

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Rethinking East Asia's welfare model: Nan Yang & @stefankuehner.bsky.social's #fsQCA study challenges the Productivist Welfare Capitalism thesis: buff.ly/Pa7icaZ

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces initiative to speed affordable housing development | Velocity Economics A socialist mayor just announced he's going to build housing. Not "incentivize developers." Not "study the feasibility." Build actual apartments and actual homes on city-owned land, fast enough that.....

NYC's #Mamdani is actually building 1000+ affordable units—rentals *and* homes—on city land, cutting project timelines to crush developer delays

#Housing #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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TSA chief says nearly 500 officers have quit, warns travel problems will outlive any shutdown deal | Velocity Economics They've been working without pay for 40 days. Sleeping in their cars. Selling their blood plasma. Taking second jobs. Nearly 500 just said fuck this and quit during this shutdown alone — 1,500 total.....

TSA chief says nearly 500 officers have quit, warns travel problems will outlive any shutdown deal. Trump blames Dems & wants to send in the National Guard while staff sell plasma to survive.

#Politics #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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A score between 0 and 3. Below 1.0 means your income doesn't cover what it costs to survive. Above 1.0 means it does. Above 3.0 you exit the scale entirely - cost of living is no longer relevant to your daily life. Ontario welfare scores 0.21.
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Crowded Democratic race for California governor could open door for Republicans | Velocity Economics The Democratic Party is about to get locked out of the governor's race in its safest state because it can't stop cannibalizing itself — and instead of consolidating around someone who can win,...

California Democrats are so busy fighting each other (and spending Tom Steyer’s millions) that they might send two Republicans—including a sheriff seizing ballots—to the general election.

#Politics #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Today our colleague Kilian Van Looy presented his research “The Curious Case of the Flexi-Job Scheme in Belgium” at the #CSBLunchSeminar series.

#FlexiJobs #LabourMarket #SocialPolicy #Research

Jewish volunteer ambulances set on fire outside London synagogue in antisemitic attack | Velocity Economics Three people walked up to volunteer ambulances parked outside a synagogue at 1:36 in the morning and set them on fire. The explosions woke the neighborhood. Four of the organization's six ambulances.....

London: masked attackers torched ambulances serving the Jewish community, destroying £500k worth of vehicles.

#CriminalJustice #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Huerta's Silence. Trump's Files. America Against Women. | Velocity Economics A woman waited 60 years to say she was raped by the man who built her life's work. Dolores Huerta, 95, a civil rights icon who spent decades organizing farmworkers, finally named what Cesar Chavez...

Dolores Huerta revealed decades-long rape by Cesar Chavez, mirroring Trump’s shielded abuse allegations.

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The group behind Project 2025 has a chilling new plan for America’s women | Velocity Economics The Heritage Foundation just published their sequel to Project 2025, and this one drops the pretense entirely. They're not talking about tax policy or regulatory reform anymore. They're explaining,...

The Heritage Foundation, the group behind #Project2025, has a chilling new plan for America’s women. Force women into traditional roles by gutting childcare, attacking divorce rights, and even banning IVF.

#SocialPolicy #Politics #VelocityEconomics

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‘We are not done’: Abughazaleh ends campaign with call to action | Velocity Economics A 26-year-old progressive challenger just lost a congressional primary after AIPAC, dark money groups, and the entire institutional weight of the Democratic establishment came down on her campaign....

AIPAC & the Democratic establishment crushed the 26-year-old progressive, Kat Abughazaleh, but she’s vowing to primary everyone who enabled it.

#Politics #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Our March newsletter is out! In this issue, we feature ARK publications, updates and activities, with a focus on minority ethnic people.

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Child vaccination rate drops sharply in Michigan under RFK Jr's influence | Velocity Economics Michigan's toddler vaccination rate dropped three percentage points in a single year — about 13 times faster than the normal annual change over the past 18 years. The only times it fell faster were...

RFK Jr's anti-vax crusade is tanking childhood immunization rates in Michigan—rates are down 4% for white toddlers and 4.6% for Hispanic kids.

#Healthcare #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Trump says presidents should not have learning disabilities, criticizes Newsom | Velocity Economics The President of the United States just spent multiple days arguing that people with dyslexia shouldn't be allowed to run for president. Let that sink in. Not a policy disagreement. Not a debate over....

Trump is openly saying people with dyslexia (like Newsom) are unfit to be president, pushing blatant ableism as political strategy.

#Politics #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says | Velocity Economics A 41-year-old Afghan man who fought alongside U.S. Special Forces for sixteen years dies within 24 hours of being arrested by ICE while taking his kids to school. The government says his tongue...

Mohammad Paktyawal, an Afghan vet who fought *with* US Special Forces for 16 years, was arrested by #ICE and died within 24 hours.

#SocialPolicy #CriminalJustice #VelocityEconomics

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Minneapolis grapples with lingering trauma, economic damage after ICE surge | Velocity Economics The federal government sent 3,000 immigration agents into Minneapolis, killed two American citizens, rounded up 4,000 people, and left behind $203 million in economic damage. That's the bill they...

ICE descended on Minneapolis, killed Americans, detained 4000, and caused $203M in damage—now families are skipping cancer treatment from fear. The terror isn’t over: ICE still has 400 agents there.

#SocialPolicy #Economics #VelocityEconomics

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Amid wave of kids’ online safety laws, age-checking tech comes of age | Velocity Economics They sold you "protecting children" and built a surveillance infrastructure that tracks everyone. Australia banned teenagers from social media in December. Within three months, companies locked 4.7.....

Australia banned teens from social media & now 4.7 million accounts are locked—they’re building a global ID system disguised as child safety. Gavin #Newsom & even #Trump are into it.

#Technology #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Trump's portrayal of migrants as criminals may incite hate crimes, UN racism body warns | Velocity Economics A UN committee just warned that the President of the United States is using language that incites hate crimes. The White House response? "No one cares what the biased United Nations' so-called...

Trump’s actively inciting violence against migrants—the UN says his language echoes patterns before mass atrocities. The White House just dismissed it, doubling down on deporting 1,600 people *daily*.

#Politics #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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We are excited to announce the release of the March issue of the Eastern European Social Policy Network (EESPN) #newsletter! 🌐

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The Children of Kazakhstan Concept: Reality and Barriers to Implementation - The Times Of Central Asia The 2026-2030 Children of Kazakhstan Concept, approved by the Kazakh government, introduces new standards for the protection of children’s rights. The

Kazakhstan launches a new child protection strategy but experts warn major implementation challenges remain timesca.com/the-children-of-kazakhst... #Kazakhstan #CentralAsia #ChildProtection #ChildRights #ChildWelfare #SocialPolicy

American Ignorance Isn't Funny. It's Imperialism. | Velocity Economics A YouTuber reacts to Americans who don't know the rest of the world exists, and the whole video is proof that treating this shit like entertainment is how it stays normalized. This isn't "Americans.....

American ignorance isn’t a joke—it’s a feature of US imperialism. Our schools & media actively create a worldview where America is the center & everywhere else is an afterthought.

#Media #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Longer lives bring new questions—how societies care for the elderly, sustain dignity in old age, and respond to growing social isolation.
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#ElderlyCare #AgingPopulation #PakistanSociety #SocialPolicy #PublicHealth