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Abby Kirkman
@abbykirkman.bsky.social
Quilter ✂️ Traveler ✈️ Baker of Things 🍞 Wilson 🐶 Reader of Books 📚 Social Work and Politics 💁🏻‍♀️

Upstate New York 🌻
Well, it’s official, one of the most effective programs under SAMHSA/HHS has been canceled by the Tr*mp administration. We have helped over 100,000 people experiencing homelessness access benefits, we are in every state, we save money at every level, we are extremely effective, and we are canceled.
July 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Federally funded projects are being cut left and right and this asshole spent how much on a parade that hardly anyone attended? Make it make any f’ing sense!
June 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Hypocrisy! Just a few months ago my MAGA father yelled at me about the debt as justification for cutting programs to people who need it the most (including funding for my job), but now he and others like him are the first to praise this debt ballooning ‘beautiful bill.’ Hypocrisy.
May 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
But… her emails.
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6
March 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Jesus Christ on a cracker 🤯
BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I am not being hyperbolic when I say that this will have a severe and dangerous impact on everyone; poor, rich, black, white, blue and especially red states. SSA is already operating at only 40% staffing capacity.

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February 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My friends in TA are losing their livelihoods and good work because of keyword searches and their personal beliefs and advocacy. We are living in a police state.

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DOGE Cites ‘DEI,’ LinkedIn Profiles It Doesn’t Like In Killing Off HUD Contracts
DOGE is moving to cancel all awards for some Housing and Urban...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I spent the last week training social workers from across the country to assist vulnerable populations; we had amazing federal partners there. Yesterday they were fired, no reason given, their work and mission not considered, just gone. The carelessness and incompetence of this admin is beyond.
February 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
War in Ukraine still happening? Grocery prices still high? Are we “great again”?
a black cat is holding a nail file in front of a brick wall
ALT: a black cat is holding a nail file in front of a brick wall
media.tenor.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Welp, there goes our websites.
February 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This. Over the past two weeks we have been ordered to scrub our website on everything from DEI to LGBTQ+, we’re no longer able to use the term gender, and even information about pay equity is gone.
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies — NPR
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
apple.news
January 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It’s dark days over here for federal contractors. Especially those of us who, oh I don’t know, help underserved and marginalized populations!
January 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
So let me get this straight. If we’re now just ignoring the constitution (e.g. birthright citizenship), hypothetically, a future president could just, EO the second amendment? Huh.
January 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Is there peace in Ukraine yet? No? I thought that was supposed to be day 1. Pardoning domestic terrorists took priority? Damn. Never saw that coming. 🙄
January 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Goddamnit Snoop!

*pours Cali Red down the drain while sobbing*
January 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I’ve been a loyal MoJo watcher since it debuted in 2007 (the future government major watching in her dorm at W&M) but their antics this past month has proven that even the ‘know your value’ crew has its limits.
I missed Mika Brzezinski's very bizarre on air apology for a comment David Frum made on air about Pete Hegseth's drinking. You can watch it in this clip. And it's weird for reasons @joshtpm.bsky.social lays out in this post: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...
December 6, 2024 at 3:34 AM