Nothing says "intellectual freedom" like forcing students to take mandatory conservative indoctrination classes. Shout-out to all the embarrassing academics who believe any of this was in good faith.

Arizona's SNAP rolls have fallen 52% and we haven't even seen the full effects of these SNAP cuts.

and since the USDA no longer collects national data on hunger and food insecurity, we'll have no way of knowing the impact of kicking several million people off of SNAP

The straightforward effect of adding more administrative burden on stores will be that fewer stores will accept SNAP. These are the equivalent of abortion TRAP laws, like mandating the width of a corridor.

For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll. People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.

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wow.

Everything is so stupid and there will come a day when folks look back on the persecution of trans folks with the same moral disgust as other crimes against humanity. No one needs protection from trans women. We all need protection, tho, from violent hateful bigots. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

wow.

Texas AAUP press release: aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-au...

I laughed so hard

This document is one of the great political failures of our time. It must be immediately denounced by all people of good will. And it will be a major scandal if any "civil rights" organization gives cover to this capitulation to fascism.

Hours after I first posted this article, I was told that several VA nurses who are members of AFGE will attend the union’s annual legislative conference in Washington next week to raise the issue of kicking the National Border Patrol Council out of AFGE and the AFL-CIO. I hope they succeed.

It is abuser logic all the way down. "Don't make me hurt you" and then "See what you did?"

David French argued Renee Good's murder is an example of the US having two sytems of law: orderly for friends & belligerent for foes. @victorerikray.bsky.social corrects him: US law has always promised fascism for non-whites & those who stand with them. groupthreat.com/p/americas-d...

We're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them. This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! https://bit.ly/4big77u

It's straight from the fascist playbook to create chaos and then demand unquestioned authority to stop the chaos.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

It's always been abolish ICE. For the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE than oppose it. But Republicans are proposing hundreds of millions in funding for this lawless agency. I'll oppose this bill. We cannot give more money to an agency responsible for terrorizing our communities.

“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov Anything less than cutting ICE's budget is complicity with the terror and mayhem that agency is sowing in Minnesota and across the country. Not another dime.

This is why I told y'all that messaging that centers training is/was a mistake. You cannot train away the mission, the racism, or the impunity. This shit just makes the violence more expensive. Also, if this is true, it's a bitch ass move by Senate Dems, and people should be harsh af about it.

The shooting in Minnesota is a reminder that while authoritarian governments may justify abuses of power by directing them at scapegoats or vulnerable populations, the goal is ultimately to deploy them against anyone they wish to www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Our study, using over 400 volunteer shoppers, found that Instacart offered different prices to different shoppers on 74% of the grocery items tested.

Admiral Holsey resigned rather than follow illegal orders. Bradley, could have said no, but he did not

people are so smart and creative.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

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I know this man does not care (and maybe enjoys toying with folks on SNAP) but parents are trying to figure out how they are going to feed their kids. The level of stress and anxiety every time some confusing new report comes out is its own form of cruelty.

They are bringing back the poorhouse.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

The magnitude of 42 million people losing SNAP all at once is hard to fathom.

Extremely true.

As a person who twice barely avoided getting kidnapped and sent to conversion therapy by my own family members it is very disheartening to hear that conversion therapy is still being discussed. Last i checked the only thing it converts is living kids to dead ones.

Literally welfare reform for public housing. Clinton opened this pandora's box in 1996 and this was always where it was headed - start with cash assistance and then use work requirements and time limits to gut every inch of the safety net.

"[T]he first major successful BDS campaign at an academic sociological association, as realized through the suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society." "The struggle for a free Palestine continues, and we call on all scholars to join us." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

The only thing with a chance of defending higher ed is a network of organized faculty and staff. We're the ones who actually believe in our mission. Most admin and trustees don't. Those who do are welcome, but they are rare. It's only us. And a lot of us are already active. So if you're not, join!

Read this whole thread. The EO is a huge regressive step. And Brian's not wrong to be worried about this point in particular. The major theme of Trump II social policy is old-style Poor Law thinking, down to the indoor versus outdoor relief distinction.

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The Orwellian myth at the heart of industrial agriculture? That environmental destruction is actually conservation. This must-read essay traces how productivism – the obsession with yield – fuels ecocide & colonialism, while failing to 'feed the world'. 📖 spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...

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Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

Actual indoctrination in the classroom. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

if any other country suddenly moved to expel half a million - HALF A MILLION - nonwhite immigrants, reporters would call that a crime against humanity. forced transfer of population falls under that designation; it's also one of the defining aspects of genocide. i'm incandescently angry over this.

I am remembering a moment when Congress was up in arms about plagiarism charges that were no where near as clear cut.

Withdrawing the incredibly successful pandemic social welfare programs is one of the less talked about facets of our descent into overt fascism.

There is no need for Medicaid work requirements because almost everyone who can work is working. What we are getting instead is Medicaid work *reporting* requirements, where people lose coverage because of administrative burdens.

They are running the welfare reform playbook on SNAP - pushing funding onto the states adding work requirements. SNAP has become the safety net of last resort over the last 25 years and now they are shredding it while cutting $ for food banks. They are legislating hunger.

This student is so brave. And also - watch the faculty who cheer her on and those who squirm.