The OBBBA was signed on July 4th a year ago. This is a great summary of some of the changes it will make. The SNAP changes (4 million lost coverage and counting) are already happening. Medicaid changes were timed to occur after the midterms, but may be even worse.

“In Jim Comey’s misguided attempt to preserve the independence of the FBI, he set in motion a series of events that has basically undone the 50 years of reform and traditions and independence that had been carefully carved out and guarded since Watergate." — @vermontgmg.bsky.social

They Came for the Schools by Mike Hixenbaugh A conservative school board victory in a Texas suburb sparks a "Christian" nationalist movement that spreads across the country, threatening to reshape and undermine America's public education system. #BookSky

“There was … a violent effort to rip up the sealant.”

Trump is now talking about his Washington construction projects *more often* than topics like wages and health care He invoked his DC building projects on nearly 80% of days in June analysis with @ence.bsky.social and Lydia Sidhom

“Once all of the law’s major provisions are fully phased in, Congressional Budget Office estimates show, the poorest households will end up with roughly $1,200 less each year on average, while the wealthiest Americans will gain about $13,600.”

One year after Trump signed his “big, beautiful bill,” it has begun reshaping the country. At least 4 million people have lost food stamps. Millions more will lose healthcare. Refugees and other legal immigrants are getting kicked off the safety net. And the wealthiest Americans have gotten richer.

This is well worth taking the time to read

Important reporting, careful and beautiful writing, and devastating details about what’s at stake for those losing Medicaid support and with the Trump admin abandoning the right of disabled Americans to live at home

For a half-century, U.S. policy has pushed to keep disabled Americans out of institutions. Now Rebecca Anger and many others fear that era could be coming to an end. Here's my latest on the Trump administration's growing attacks on Medicaid-funded home-care programs.

Wow, this piece by @pamelacolloff.bsky.social: Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty

A 57-year-old North Carolina mother is in knots over student loan repayment changes adopted in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” and going into effect this week. She estimates her monthly student loan payments could jump from $150 to $713. www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

I just noticed that HHS Civil Rights office has deleted its webpage about the Supreme Court's 1999 landmark Olmstead decision, which guaranteed the rights of disabled people to live in their homes rather than being institutionalized. It was live on May 25. Now it's "PAGE NOT FOUND"

“For ICE to come to me over a social media post just feels very 1984 to me,” she said. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

The government has a formula that decides whether safety rules are worth passing. And that formula was rewritten to put a new price on your life: zero dollars. #PublicHealth #EPA #News #Trump #climatechange

Trump, per a GOP source, wanted to talk at a recent meeting about his own D.C. building projects rather than legislation to bring down home prices nationwide. “I don’t care about housing,” he said. Now he’s refusing to sign the bipartisan bill.

After days and days of news coverage and footage showing workers pouring harsh and highly corrosive chemicals into the algae-filled Reflecting Pool, the president would like you to believe that vandals were the ones who did it.

America 250: Former Olympian David Hearn Arrested for Touching the Reflecting Pool

Other professional sport organizations might fine an athlete for smearing Michelle Obama like Josh Hokit did -- but the UFC has an "anti-woke" reputation to protect that allows its stars to praise Hitler and spout homophobic hate.

“I’m his fan. I believe Trump is a good president,” said the woman, whose asylum seeker husband was arrested by ICE during their honeymoon visit to a Trump hotel property and held for three months in an immigration detention center. However, she said, “What happened to my family wasn’t fair.”

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

After @deldeib.bsky.social documented devastating stories of babies who died as a result of parents’ misplaced skepticism of newborn vitamin K shots, one of the doctors who helped stoke those fears now says he was wrong.

Meanwhile, in Cleveland

I think this is what NYC must have felt like during the events seen in the documentary Ghostbusters

Basketball

My god. Feeling a lot better about that 22-point collapse by the Cavs.

New Medicaid rules may force doctors to do something they were never trained to do: determine which patients with HIV, cancer and other conditions are too sick to work. Doctors told me this will be especially hard bc the energy/mobility of the chronically ill fluctuates day-to-day.

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

For the 2026 time capsule: Amid an emerging national home care crisis, researchers in Hew Hampshire have developed a robot — it looks like iPad attached to a Roomba — to provide companion care for people with intellectual and physical disabilities.

Maybe I shouldn’t have started my summer off this way. A great book so far. Enraging. But enlightening. @mikehixenbaugh.com

Why some of us are paying $1,000 extra for groceries each year so people can relax in the Chase lounge at airports. From @spettypi.bsky.social:

Of the policies discussed here, there's one that's been covered very little: In 2027, the Trump admin will eliminate coverage for transition care, or what they call "sex rejection treatments," for federal employees and postal service employees — with no exceptions. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It was about protecting children, they said

Shotgunning a beer with your team down nine while your fiancé sits by mortified is the most Cleveland thing I’ve ever seen

Again and again, girls say they warned church leaders about their children’s pastor. They said he made them strip naked and perform stretches. That he’d drugged them. That he’d hidden a camera in the bathroom. Yet, for 15 years, Tony Waller was allowed to remain in ministry in the Assemblies of God

Bummer that the Cavs’ strategy of simply not guarding the Knicks’ hottest shooter isn’t working

Which past mistakes has Paxton admitted to and owned?

Modern day slavery in Southlake, Texas. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

That Cavs collapse hit like a dagger to the chest and the worst part is I’ve involved my 10-year-old in this suffering

“FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED”

Single moms with hungry kids have been kicked off food stamps in Arizona and elsewhere. Disabled Americans across the country are bracing for deep Medicaid cuts that they fear could force them out of their homes and into institutions. Meanwhile, in Washington:

The Trump DOJ has set up a $1.776 billion dollar reparations fund available to Jan. 6 rioters:

Be sure to read @mikehixenbaugh.com's latest story: Families caring for disabled relatives face unthinkable choices as Medicaid cuts loom, via @nbcnews.com

Incredible that Nolan discovered the location of Homer’s grave

My family depends on Medicaid funding to support the needs of our two sons with Fragile X syndrome, their profound intellectual disabilities, epilepsy, & assorted other health needs. The parts of this story that hit home: -shaving my 18 yr old son -toileting both boys -stripping beds most mornings

Please read and share this story. Grateful to @nbcnews.com for running this series on how cuts to Medicaid will dramatically alter how families care for disabled sons, daughters, and spouses. Great work, @mikehixenbaugh.com, and thank you for reporting. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"To be clear," the leaders of one the nation's biggest and most powerful children's hospitals wrote of their decision to capitulate to GOP officials bent on stripping transgender children of their rights, "we are settling to protect our resources."

Millions of Americans are paid through government programs to care for disabled family members. Now that lifeline is under attack on multiple fronts: Trump’s $1 trillion Medicaid cuts, strained state budgets & growing attacks from the right framing the programs as wasteful. My story on the fallout

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

“It seems the Supreme Court is picking winners and losers, not doing law.” The Supreme Court has frequently admonished judges not to interfere in election cases when the process is already underway, but it is now being accused of doing exactly that, @lawrencehurley.bsky.social writes