When birthdays are not guaranteed, we celebrate every moment and fight like hell for many more. We want medically complex kids to celebrate more birthdays. 🥳 Can you help us? If you are in a position to do so, please support our work. Your donation is greatly appreciated. www.tinyurl.com/ll9years

"A sweeping federal spending package signed by President Donald Trump last year — his “big, beautiful bill” — is expected to slash Medicaid funding by about $1 trillion over the coming decade, just as many states are already struggling with rising costs." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing. 
ICE accused Wendy Hernandez Reyes of leaving her child with a violent uncle, but she says her son would still be alive if officers hadn’t detained and deported her.

The rural hospital crisis is killing people and rapidly escalating. The Republican cuts to Medicaid are basically going to be the end of hospital services in the rural US.

What moms want this Mothers' Day is affordable housing, affordable healthcare, affordable childcare, and affordable groceries. 💐

The hardest part about grief is the loss of all the memories you didn't get to make. There is so much about my life I wish I could have shared with my mom these past 21 years. May Mothers' Day land gently for those who find today bittersweet. 💕

That's my emotional support Hungarian election result.

Those are my four emotional support astronauts. 🌖🌎❤️

In other news: THIS is way better news...

Proud to stand with Stacey Abrams, Mychal Threets, Jenn Stowe, and all the #ReadThemHome national partners, as we continue our national online vigil to end the inhumane detention of children and families.

While Trump is destroying the Middle East and our NATO alliance, these folks won't ever let anyone forget that what matters first to everyone is whether they can feed their families, pay their bills, afford health care, provide child care, buy clothing... the stuff we all need. go.bsky.app/FpeMh5Y

Happy to have joined the #ReadThemHome crew in this effort — many thx to @staceyabrams.com, @domesticworkers.bsky.social, @aft.org, @seiu.org, @neatoday.bsky.social, and all partners Special s/o to @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social & all the volunteers The work continues —> bit.ly/readthemhome

🚨 Call To Action-APRIL 2 📍Live Stream Online 🛑 Stop Detaining Children & Families ⏰ 12 Hour Vigil- 8 a.m. CDT Join the protest using reading of children’s books as an act of care, resistance, & demand for change 📕 #ReadThemHome Join the live stream on readthemhome.org

Tomorrow (April 2nd, International Children's Book Day), I will be in Dilley, Texas, outside the South Texas Family Residential Center, where children and families are being held indefinitely. At 5 pm, I will be reading from my books as part of a poignant vigil. #ReadThemHome #EndFamilyDetention 1/

I’m outside the Dilley detention center today reading my book out loud to help #EndFamilyDetention ❤️‍🩹 Do your part. Read aloud. Share your video. Tag #ReadThemHome. Help us bring these kids home. @domesticworkers.bsky.social @fwd.us @neatoday.bsky.social @seiu.org

Today, SEIU members are joined with our partners in Dilley, TX where children & families are being held indefinitely. We’re launching the #ReadThemHome campaign—reading children’s books aloud for kids in Dilley and across the country who aren’t allowed to just be kids. Tune in: www.readthemhome.org

A msg from @elenahung.bsky.social — who is outside the Dilley Detention Center as part of #ReadThemHome The trauma children in detention carry doesn't disappear when the cell door opens. The anxiety, regression, loss of language — that damage is real and it is lasting. END FAMILY DETENTION!

Kids should be kids. Close Dilley ❤️‍🩹 Join the #ReadThemHome campaign: read aloud, share your video, and take action. readthemhome.org 📖🏡

I am in Dilley, Texas right to help draw attention to the fact that children are currently locked up and detained at the Dilley Detention Center. That’s right: CHILDREN. DETAINED. #ReadThemHome 1/

HAPPENING NOW: @elenahung.bsky.social reads children's books as part of the #ReadThemHome campaign. Reading aloud offers a powerful contrast between the horrors of the Dilley #Immigration Detention Center and the beauty of letting kids be kids. LEARN MORE: bit.ly/readthemhome

Children should not be detained, ever. Not really sure how else to say that... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As my colleague Andy Schneider explained there is a complex administrative process CMS has to follow to preemptively withhold or retrospectively disallow federal #Medicaid funding for a state like MN. It would be unlawful to just unilaterally halt federal funding: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/01/16/c...

Disgusted by this Administration’s ongoing attacks on the state of Minnesota - now an unlawful act to withhold federal Medicaid funding preemptively. Medicaid serves children, people with disabilities etc.

Very few people will get me to leave my warm, comfy bed and go outside in this icy snow; @mariatown.bsky.social & @lachimusic.bsky.social did! Thrilled I got to spend the evening listening to their conversation on all things disability, including Lachi's new book "I identify as blind."

Hello, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social! My name is Juan Escalante, and I am an immigrant rights advocate 👋 I am still up and working on the West Coast, so I'd be more than happy to give you a crash course on why this is a bad ask Let's talk

We could have health care and help people survive and thrive or ... Americans shot and killed in broad daylight by masked officials. 🤔

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:

“Denying disabled people accommodations is denying their basic rights. On multiple occasions, ICE has engaged in inhuman treatment when apprehending people who are disabled.”

THE MONEY FUNDING MASKED ICE AGENTS 👇 IS THE SAME MONEY THAT COULD’VE FUNDED #MEDICAID FOR MEDICALLY COMPLEX AND DISABLED CHILDREN

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What could the physician have done? Checked vital signs. Sometimes a pulse is slow or thready or there are subtle signs of life. Administer CPR. Open the airway. Staunch the bleed. Why the %#*^ would you keep a doc away?

Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.

Where does Venezuela go from here? No one seems to know—including the Trump Admin While Trump clearly stated his desire for the U.S. to commandeer Venezuela’s oil, the actual future of the country under U.S. influence doesn’t give Venezuelans self-determination My latest via @prismreports.org

Federal immigration agents have now shot and killed multiple people since Trump took office a year ago. Today alone marks the second deadly ICE shooting IN A WEEK. An off-duty shot and killed a 43-year-old father in CA on Dec. 31.

Since Noem became head of DHS and ICE further reduced standards for joining the agency while White House officials such as Stephen Miller demanded enforcement quotas, there has been a huge uptick in horrendous violence from ICE. This was predictable, yet it remains shocking and unacceptable.

TODAY, an ICE agent killed a person ONGOING, ICE is using #Medicaid records to further terrorize families while expanding their mass deportation efforts

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

Many of you have called or texted to ask my thoughts on the rapidly developing situation in #Venezuela I hope this blog post helps shed light on where our focus should be in the coming days —> doubleclick.blog/the/ REMEMBER: Talk to Venezuelans about Venezuela!

Once again: elections have consequences

Are we at war with Venezuela?!? I don't know. You don't know either. It sure would be nice to have a legitimate Pentagon press corps right about now.

CNN: We have major breaking news. CNN just learning of explosions in Caracas, Venezuela… We have now have CNN's own teams that have personally witnessed explosions.

just thinking about every american media outlet that said something along the lines of "legal experts say there is likely no legal basis for bombing venezuelan boats" and not HEY THIS IS FUCKING ILLEGAL AND AGGRESSIVE

New Year, Same Me. … because consistency, reliability, and loyalty also matters to the people I love. 😉

Sending love to everyone with depression, anxiety, CPTSD, PTSD, trauma, OCD, and other mental health conditions. May the holidays land gently. ❤️‍🩹

THIS

"It’s important to me to tell our story so people understand the true faces of Medicaid and learn intimately about the people whose lives will be ripped apart by Medicaid cuts." Forever grateful to all the brave families who share their stories publicly, helping put a face on #Medicaid.

Head Start is a 60-year-old US Department of Health and Human Services program that, among other things, creates inclusive and accessible classrooms for children with disabilities. But those applying for funding were told by the Trump regime to avoid the words "inclusion" and "disability." 🤡

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry