It really seems like it should be a bigger deal that 11% of states who responded to this survey identified *withdrawing from SNAP entirely* as a potential risk of the massive cost shift that's about to hit state budgets thanks to H.R. 1. aphsa.org/wp-content/u...

🚨New data: In the 8 months after H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by 4+ million (-10%) nationwide. In just the 13 states with available data, 800,000+ fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Do we at least get some new ninja turtles out of this??

guy who's really into scaffolding logging on to bluesky for the first time tonight: holy shit

I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.

This is actually a great DC night. Nice weather post-thunderstorm, people doing silly chants, applauding federal workers (maybe contractors?) for being very good at their jobs.

What if this is actually going to be a scaffold-based performance of Tonight from West Side Story

We’ve reached the summit!

One guy threw a water bottle across the scaffold to another guy! The crowd cheers!

These guys are basically characters from Busytown. No scaffold has ever been more thorough.

We’re live on the scene in Foggy Bottom, as the great scaffolding continues

NEW from @ms.now + @themarshallproject.org: ICE has detained *over 500 babies and toddlers* during Trump's second term. www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

🚨SNAP tracker update: Data through February is now available for all states. In the 7 months since H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history last summer, we estimate that SNAP participation fell by more than 3.5 million people nationwide. cbpp.org/research/foo...

NEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.

"Immigration officials confiscated the [Kindergarten-aged] boy’s stuffed dinosaur toy" sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

NEWS: A federal judge has saved the 15th Street protected bike lane (for now), saying the decision to remove the lane running from Constitution Avenue to the Tidal Basin was "arbitrary and capricious and not the result of reasoned decision-making." It was to be removed this week.

And Arizona just posted new data for March: since H.R. 1 passed in July, more than half of the Arizonans receiving SNAP have lost food assistance. Not because the economy improved. Not because they didn't qualify. Because of how the state is responding to these federal cuts.

www.politico.com/news/2026/04... She married a former US army captain a year ago. He died. Now we're holding her in a hell hole. She's 86.

A toddler nearly died at an ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas. After more than a week in intensive care, she was sent back. Sarah Stillman reports. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The US Administration has proposed a new rule that would bar almost all asylum-seekers from legally working, for at least a decade. My colleagues and I have written and submitted a detailed analysis of how this act will impact the United States economy. 🧵—>

My press conference denying the existence of the Streisand Effect has people asking a lot of questions about the Streisand Effect

We warned that H.R. 1's SNAP cost shift could drive states to make it as difficult as possible to access SNAP, leaving eligible low-income families without the food assistance they need. In Arizona, that prediction appears to be coming true — with a heartbreaking human cost:

Rosa María Carranza has worked and paid taxes for more than two decades, but a provision in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make her and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully present immigrant seniors ineligible for Medicare. Now Carranza's once secure retirement is in question. n.pr/3QmhQjr

A striking fact I learnt researching my book: For those in the bottom half, much of the real wage growth between 1979 and 2019 happened over just 7 "tight" years. For top wages, full employment wasn't a big deal. For bottom wages, it was the nearly the whole game.

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people in DC are marching to Fort McNair where Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, and other leaders of this regime are living to make it clear we want to #EndTheDCoccupation and #FireStephenMiller. #NoKings #NoKingsDC

"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births." gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

In sum, after 6 weeks of fighting over if and how to fund DHS, the Senate just approved what Dems wanted all along and left House Republicans holding the bag. No new ICE reforms, but no new ICE/CBP funding. None of Trump's voter suppression items, either. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

🎂 METRO IS 50! To mark the occasion, I went in search of our region's most fervent transit nerds, who not only love Metro, but play a critical role as a decentralized network of historians, transit archeologists, and keepers of the faith: 51st.news/metro-annive...

WATCH NOW: "The Flip Side of Affordability: Raising Wages Across the Country," featuring keynote speaker @arindube.bsky.social. https://www.youtube.com/live/m-IQw-DJnOw

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

New USDA data show 2.5 million fewer people participated in SNAP in December compared to July, when the Republican megabill (H.R. 1) enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history. This is only the beginning — even more people will lose SNAP as the full brunt of these cuts take effect.

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

"No human who has been alive during cherry blossom season ever thinks, ‘What we need is more room for cars to get around.’ It is cyclists and pedestrians that take over, and this is going to make the chaos infinitely worse." —Elizabeth Kiker, executive director of @waba.org

Since installation, road crashes reduced by 46%, bike crashes decreased by 69%, and travel times during peak hours dropped. Protected bike lanes do more than keep District cyclists and commuters safe – they also protect the millions of tourists who visit our beautiful city each year.

The largest cuts to SNAP in history will likely lead to worse health outcomes for low-income families and preventable deaths across the country, and the law’s rushed implementation timeline will only worsen these effects. https://ampr.gs/4lAwfEi

The passage of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill last summer made the largest cuts in SNAP history, leading to deadly consequences. New CAP analysis estimates that nearly 70,000 deaths could result from the expanded SNAP work requirements by 2040. https://ampr.gs/4lAwfEi

Chat, is it good to literally take $180 billion away from hungry Americans and turn it directly into bombs?

NEW: ICE detained DACA recipient Juan Chavez Velasco 12 days after his youngest child was born prematurely. The father of 3 U.S. citizen kids was driving to deliver milk to her in NICU "I never got to hold her" Juan told me, sharing his story for first time w/ @ms.now www.ms.now/news/ice-det...

Oversight will mark up Rep. Scott Perry’s bill to repeal two DC traffic laws tomorrow. Since his office routes all calls to voicemail, I walked over and got his press staffer’s contact info for all the local DC journalists who’ve asked today. You’re welcome!

41 people have died in ICE detention since the start of the second Trump administration. 12 of those deaths have occurred since January 1, 2026, roughly one every six days. Adam Sawyer and I mapped every death. Here's what the data shows. 🧵

A 31-year-old in Georgia has been arrested and charged with murder for allegedly ending her pregnancy with abortion medication.  Here’s what we know: jessica.substack.com/p/a-georgia-...

This is a really cool job!

“The woman, who has asked NBC 7 to conceal her identity because of her immigration status, was adopted from Iran at the age of 3. She has lived in the U.S. for 53 years.” www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/s...

“I wanna leave and go to the spelling bee.”

They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda