Withholding SNAP administrative funds is a serious matter for states. It sets up a dynamic where fed govt delivers benefits but state systems struggle to get them to participants. During Nov SNAP fiasco many states spent their own funds to help participants. But that can’t be the norm. 🥗

Our latest report found that most of the corporate ballroom donors have entered into government contracts totaling $279 BILLION over the last five years and face federal enforcement actions by the Trump Administration. Take a look: www.citizen.org/news/three-o...

Proud to be supporting @rephaleystevens.bsky.social in filing articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. WE NEED YOUR HELP for the long fight ahead of us. Go to standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr and sign your name to our petition! stevens.house.gov/media/press-...

"Frozen russian assets" is a quite abstract term. This illustration picture should make it easier to comprehend...

Please, I'd like to be transported to Greenbelt, MD! wapo.st/44VjDjV

Despicable! "'Governments should condemn Israel’s unlawful moves against UNRWA and urgently act to stop further abuses,' HRW added.: www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

"Self-hobbling" is not something we women should do, IMO. I won't wear them. But this is a fascinating article about high heels, especially amongst Trump women. www.newsweek.com/trump-melani...

"if Democrats keep speaking in the political language Texans actually recognize (through steel, through story, through community, through moral clarity) then maybe the map in front of them is wider than anyone has been willing to admit." open.substack.com/pub/redstate...

RFK Jr. has thoughts about breastfeeding. I have thoughts about paid parental leave.

This morning I spent time looking up citations for a student. By the time I got to the third (with zero results), I asked where they got the list, and the student admitted they were from Google’s AI summary. Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?

BREAKING: Donald Trump reveals his long awaited Healthcare Plan. 1. BE WHITE 2. OR RICH 3. OR JUST DON'T GET SICK

“ACIP has recommended a universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine since 1991, after realizing a risk-based strategy wasn’t working. Annual hepatitis B infections among infants and children have dropped 99% from 16,000 to less than 20.”

My 30-something son recently asked how I had become such a passionate supporter of civil rights and social justice. I thought back to my childhood. It was 1963, I was 12 years old, watching the evening news. I saw dogs

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Who else AGREES with Matthew?! 🤚

"The U.S. is no longer acting as an independent power; it is functioning as a Kremlin satellite, executing Russia’s strategic agenda step by step. Nothing about this resembles negotiation," Trump Has Turned the U.S. Into Moscow’s Newest Satellite State open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...

RESISTANCE is alive and well in the United States Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches of 2017, but research shows they are far more numerous and frequent — while also shifting to more powerful forms of resistance . wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi...

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

I was today years old when I first read this short speech by President Truman to the NAACP. It was delivered in 1947 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. “Our immediate task is to remove the last remnants of the barriers which stand between millions of our citizens and their

Arrest Prosecute Jail

Trip 39 to DC may be my last. I've said that to myself on every trip, now I'm saying it out loud. The truth is, it's extremely difficult on my body to make these journeys & always act like it's the last one. I know how CRUCIAL it is to have YOUR voice heard & will virtually advocate & NEVER GIVE UP!

BREAKING: Admiral Bradley told Lawmakers this about the Caribbean boat attacks. They did the unthinkable! krassencast.com/p/breaking-a...

Trump has abused our Mountain Mama, WV, and I hope he burns in the coal-fired part of Hell. (I never say things like that, but this is an exception.)

President Biden brings the crowd to its feet, reminding America he delivered 16 million jobs and drove unemployment to a 50-year low — achievements Trump never came close to. The contrast couldn’t be clearer: Biden was a REAL President.💙

Himes last night: "I don't want to get specific here, but there was no radio. There were two individuals clinging to flotsam." "There was no means for them to communicate, other than the fact that the fire and the smoke was fairly well visible for a long distance around, but there was no radio."

that is not true. Petitioners may sue vaccine manufacturers after going through the NVICP, and the NCVIA does not grant immunity for cases of negligence or fraud. We are off to a good start when a lawyer lies about the law in the field he directly litigates. Insane choice of presenter.

I have always loved this building, The Executive Office Building, more recently named for Eisenhower. I signed the petition, having little faith this will do any good if the current inhabitant of the WH decides to tear it down.

The birth dose was first thought unnecessary, but added after kids kept dying of Hep B. When the birth dose was added, deaths dropped dramatically. RFK Jr. is unnecessarily repeating a lethal protocol.

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

I would like for US to do this kind of thing, too. After we get rid of Trump and his retinue. First things first.

"Justice Kagan’s dissent drips with disdain—in a polite, professional way, which makes it all the more compelling." Re SCOTUS TX gerrymandering case. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has permitted Texas to keep its newly redistricted, GOP-favorable congressional map in 2026. Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Reports now said that Kegbreath told Admiral Holsey that the military will follow all order & not to question any of them. Holsey stated the strikes are illegal & Kegbreath said do it or step down & retired. Holsey step down & retired. allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...

Point 1 on the ID of the pipe bomb suspect from January 6 is the tenacious dogged law-enforcement work. A huge and very difficult achievement if they have the right person. Point 2 is he is obviously a bird of a feather with the Jan 6 hordes that Trump has pardoned and extolled as American heroes.

What a guy! "Dock of the Bay" and "Midnight Hour" are two of my top favorites! Now I have an addition to my (extremely short) bucket list: The Stax Museum of American Soul Music in

ACIP has successfully cut out presentations from any career scientists at CDC, which used to be the only place one could find facts during the 2025 meetings. Instead we will have presentations by such people as ACIP member and vaccine opponent Vicky Pebsworth and anti-vaxxer Mark Blaxill.

NYT sues Pentagon over First Amendment violation. The Guardian, New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, CNN, Reuters, the Associated Press, NPR, HuffPost and trade publication Breaking Defense are among the US outlets that refused to sign the agreement. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

All corporate CEOs should understand: If you agree to attend an event at the White House, you are very likely to be filmed nodding appreciatively at a delusional racist rant. If you're ok with that, go. If not, you probably should stay away.

"Close your eyes and imagine this exact moment: Trump walks into a press conference, ready for his big show. He steps up to the podium, looks out… and the room is almost empty. No CNN. No MSNBC. No ABC, CBS, NBC. No major national papers.

The Great American Fraud open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

Oh what a tangled web we weaver. (.... and profitable too!) Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Fascinating history of service dogs: allofusdha.org/research/his...

POWERFUL and persuasive letter to the editor to protect caregivers' SNAP benefits.

We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.

We cannot coast into this. Aftyn's volunteers worked damn hard, and we will have to work damn hard, too.

Public money requires public accountability. Tennessee’s universal voucher law diverts money from public schools and lets voucher-funded private schools dodge accountability standards — that’s why ACLU-TN and our partners filed suit. 💥