Kaaryn Gustafson
@kaaryngustafson.bsky.social
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Holy shit, a real masks-off moment. Trump's IRS says churches can continue to claim tax benefits as a nonprofit even while explicitly endorsing candidates.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Holy shit, a real masks-off moment. Trump's IRS says churches can continue to claim tax benefits as a nonprofit even while explicitly endorsing candidates.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
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My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
July 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
In calls with my mother over the last few weeks, it was clear she wasn’t doing well: entire body swollen; so tired she could barely function. Tears welled up in her eyes when she described her fatigue. Yesterday, my mother Googled her medications to check for side effects or interactions. 1/6
June 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In calls with my mother over the last few weeks, it was clear she wasn’t doing well: entire body swollen; so tired she could barely function. Tears welled up in her eyes when she described her fatigue. Yesterday, my mother Googled her medications to check for side effects or interactions. 1/6
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MY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: 'We're all just a bunch of Josés': Vance's dig at Padilla is a new low. Share, porfas!
Commentary: 'We're all just a bunch of Josés': Vance's dig at Padilla is a new low
“José” is what Vance thinks of Alex. Anyone who thinks this was a slip of the tongue doesn't know their anti-Latino history.
www.latimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
MY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: 'We're all just a bunch of Josés': Vance's dig at Padilla is a new low. Share, porfas!
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Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.
June 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.
Someone at the company admitted to me that they only make money on the sale of wheelchairs. They don’t make money on repairs and have been trying to figure out how they to avoid doing repairs altogether. 🧵⬇️
Part one of my story entitled “How is NuMotion still in business?”
June 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Someone at the company admitted to me that they only make money on the sale of wheelchairs. They don’t make money on repairs and have been trying to figure out how they to avoid doing repairs altogether. 🧵⬇️
This is where we are at this point in the decline of free speech rights. If California’s Senator can be roughed up, we are all in trouble.
June 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This is where we are at this point in the decline of free speech rights. If California’s Senator can be roughed up, we are all in trouble.
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McGovern: "You are literally taking food off kids' plates to buy Elon Musk another yacht. I guess he's getting a good return on his campaign donations ... this is not policy. This is theft."
May 21, 2025 at 5:33 AM
McGovern: "You are literally taking food off kids' plates to buy Elon Musk another yacht. I guess he's getting a good return on his campaign donations ... this is not policy. This is theft."
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THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.
So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
May 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.
So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
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I know there's a lot going on, but I would like to highlight that Mike Johnson slipped language into an otherwise routine House procedural vote yesterday that now blocks Democrats from forcing an investigation into Pete Hegseth’s Signal scandal, through October.
April 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I know there's a lot going on, but I would like to highlight that Mike Johnson slipped language into an otherwise routine House procedural vote yesterday that now blocks Democrats from forcing an investigation into Pete Hegseth’s Signal scandal, through October.
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Truly awful; and yet, not new! Been the case for many years!
What’s happening now is that Congressional democrats had FINALLY gotten support for legal services funding for unaccompanied migrant kids, and hundreds of lawyers were working on these cases — then Trump killed the funding in one day.
What’s happening now is that Congressional democrats had FINALLY gotten support for legal services funding for unaccompanied migrant kids, and hundreds of lawyers were working on these cases — then Trump killed the funding in one day.
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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t.co/lg46ijHLDF
April 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Truly awful; and yet, not new! Been the case for many years!
What’s happening now is that Congressional democrats had FINALLY gotten support for legal services funding for unaccompanied migrant kids, and hundreds of lawyers were working on these cases — then Trump killed the funding in one day.
What’s happening now is that Congressional democrats had FINALLY gotten support for legal services funding for unaccompanied migrant kids, and hundreds of lawyers were working on these cases — then Trump killed the funding in one day.
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For this story, I reached out to 42 institutions to gather biomedical graduate admissions data. Those that said class size would decrease reported an average drop of about a third. “The future of the enterprise is jeopardized," Suzanne Ortega, president of the Council of Graduate Schools, told me. 👇
NIH has scaled back new grants by more than $2 billion, according to a @statnews.com analysis based on great data reporting by @jaspar.bsky.social. As @mmolteni.bsky.social writes, the true dimensions of the damage may take years to fully come into view.
www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...
www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...
NIH grants plummeted $2.3 billion in Trump’s first months, as federal-academia partnership crumbles
The NIH has scaled back its awards of new grants by at least $2.3 billion since the beginning of the year, a STAT analysis shows.
www.statnews.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
For this story, I reached out to 42 institutions to gather biomedical graduate admissions data. Those that said class size would decrease reported an average drop of about a third. “The future of the enterprise is jeopardized," Suzanne Ortega, president of the Council of Graduate Schools, told me. 👇
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An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records
The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
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Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...
Nightmare, indeed. Be on the lookout for state bills to have the DMV collect disability status for drivers and children. Model legislation has already been drafted and is posted on the ALEC website. See THE SAFEGUARDING AMERICAN FAMILIES EVERYWHERE (SAFE) ACT. alec.org/model-policy...
April 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Nightmare, indeed. Be on the lookout for state bills to have the DMV collect disability status for drivers and children. Model legislation has already been drafted and is posted on the ALEC website. See THE SAFEGUARDING AMERICAN FAMILIES EVERYWHERE (SAFE) ACT. alec.org/model-policy...
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Fuck these people. Just that simple.
May their names live in infamy for decades tocome.
May their names live in infamy for decades tocome.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Fuck these people. Just that simple.
May their names live in infamy for decades tocome.
May their names live in infamy for decades tocome.
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NEW at @motherjones.com: HHS plans to cut federal funding to the state protection and advocacy agencies who investigate abuse in group homes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
HHS plans to cut funds used to investigate abuse at group homes
Disability rights watchdogs are the latest targets of the Trump administration's defunding spree.
www.motherjones.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
NEW at @motherjones.com: HHS plans to cut federal funding to the state protection and advocacy agencies who investigate abuse in group homes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Then you may want to make sure that your state legislature isn’t entertaining the SAFEGUARDING AMERICAN FAMILIES EVERYWHERE (SAFE) ACT, introduced in FL last year and listed as model legislation by ALEC. alec.org/model-policy...
April 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Then you may want to make sure that your state legislature isn’t entertaining the SAFEGUARDING AMERICAN FAMILIES EVERYWHERE (SAFE) ACT, introduced in FL last year and listed as model legislation by ALEC. alec.org/model-policy...
Yikes!
For @motherjones.com, I wrote about how tariffs may soon hit medical devices and how it may affect disabled people on Medicaid. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Tariffs are about to hit lifesaving medical equipment
"It's really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable...who need technologies to live."
www.motherjones.com
April 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Yikes!
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Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important:
He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
Donald Trump authorizes U.S. military to take control of land on southern border
President Donald Trump issued a memorandum Friday giving the U.S. military jurisdiction over federal lands at the southern border.
www.usatoday.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important:
He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
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🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.
April 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.
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BREAKING: DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed.
The lawsuit against the Mississippi state Senate alleged a brazen pattern of racial discrimination against a Black woman, but AAG Harmeet Dhillon ended the case.
New, at Law Dork —>
The lawsuit against the Mississippi state Senate alleged a brazen pattern of racial discrimination against a Black woman, but AAG Harmeet Dhillon ended the case.
New, at Law Dork —>
DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed
The lawsuit alleged a brazen pattern of racial discrimination against a Black woman, but AAG Harmeet Dhillon ended the case. Also: A look at the bigger picture at DOJ.
www.lawdork.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
BREAKING: DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed.
The lawsuit against the Mississippi state Senate alleged a brazen pattern of racial discrimination against a Black woman, but AAG Harmeet Dhillon ended the case.
New, at Law Dork —>
The lawsuit against the Mississippi state Senate alleged a brazen pattern of racial discrimination against a Black woman, but AAG Harmeet Dhillon ended the case.
New, at Law Dork —>