@ldmathias.bsky.social
Lawyer, social worker, Baltimore by choice not birth, mom, wife, voter
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This is one of the most important exposés published in WSJ in several years, and it derives from intercepts and analyses by foreign intelligence services studying the conduct of Trump and his inner team. It's first and foremost a wake up call to the people of the United States.
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is one of the most important exposés published in WSJ in several years, and it derives from intercepts and analyses by foreign intelligence services studying the conduct of Trump and his inner team. It's first and foremost a wake up call to the people of the United States.
Doubling down on HBCUs. Even better - this donation and others are unrestricted allowing HBCUs to decide how to use the money.
MacKenzie Scott makes historic, $38 million donation to University of Maryland Eastern Shore
MacKenzie Scott gives $38 million to University of Maryland Eastern Shore
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore announced Friday that it received a historic donation of $38 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.
buff.ly
October 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Doubling down on HBCUs. Even better - this donation and others are unrestricted allowing HBCUs to decide how to use the money.
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Indiscriminate ICE arrests have left Baltimore’s immigrant communities in a constant state of fear and anxiety baltimorebeat.com/indiscrimina...
October 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Indiscriminate ICE arrests have left Baltimore’s immigrant communities in a constant state of fear and anxiety baltimorebeat.com/indiscrimina...
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Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
October 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
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Operation Box Wine is a go
Bondi: "Our secret weapon here in DC is US Attorney Jeanine Pirro"
August 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Operation Box Wine is a go
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Here's another example of recognizing that we can actually meet human needs and everyone benefits when we do. "Addressing violent crime as a public health issue involves going beyond arresting people after violence is committed and taking proactive and preventative measures."
The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
popular.info
July 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Here's another example of recognizing that we can actually meet human needs and everyone benefits when we do. "Addressing violent crime as a public health issue involves going beyond arresting people after violence is committed and taking proactive and preventative measures."
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Be very wary of rich people talking about the "Golden Age"...
Somehow I don't think people will get the golden trickle down they think they will.
Somehow I don't think people will get the golden trickle down they think they will.
July 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Be very wary of rich people talking about the "Golden Age"...
Somehow I don't think people will get the golden trickle down they think they will.
Somehow I don't think people will get the golden trickle down they think they will.
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Riley: Don’t tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you are doing is shitting on the middle class
July 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Riley: Don’t tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you are doing is shitting on the middle class
$110M stolen from Maryland schools, teachers and students.
The Trump administration is currently holding hostage nearly $7B in federal funding for K-12 schools--funding that was supposed to be distributed yesterday.
They've stolen $80M from Wisconsin students and teachers alone. How much have they stolen from your state?
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
They've stolen $80M from Wisconsin students and teachers alone. How much have they stolen from your state?
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
See How Much School Funding Trump Is Holding Back From Your State
The administration is holding back nearly $7 billion for English learners, after-school programs, professional development, and more.
www.edweek.org
July 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
$110M stolen from Maryland schools, teachers and students.
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Baltimore ended the first half of 2022 with 179 homicides, the worst first half of a year on record (since 1970).
Baltimore just ended the first half of 2025 with 68 homicides, which is the fewest on record.
That’s a 62 percent drop from 2022-2025
Baltimore just ended the first half of 2025 with 68 homicides, which is the fewest on record.
That’s a 62 percent drop from 2022-2025
July 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Baltimore ended the first half of 2022 with 179 homicides, the worst first half of a year on record (since 1970).
Baltimore just ended the first half of 2025 with 68 homicides, which is the fewest on record.
That’s a 62 percent drop from 2022-2025
Baltimore just ended the first half of 2025 with 68 homicides, which is the fewest on record.
That’s a 62 percent drop from 2022-2025
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NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
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If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
June 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
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How do they get away with this? The bill they passed cuts Medicaid by $793 BILLION.
$793 BILLION.
It's in the bill. They wrote it. Their own budget office says 10 million people will lose Medicaid coverage.
Just wild.
$793 BILLION.
It's in the bill. They wrote it. Their own budget office says 10 million people will lose Medicaid coverage.
Just wild.
Mike Johnson brazenly lies: "We are not cutting Medicaid. The president has said that and I have said that. We're all said that. We're strengthening the program."
June 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
How do they get away with this? The bill they passed cuts Medicaid by $793 BILLION.
$793 BILLION.
It's in the bill. They wrote it. Their own budget office says 10 million people will lose Medicaid coverage.
Just wild.
$793 BILLION.
It's in the bill. They wrote it. Their own budget office says 10 million people will lose Medicaid coverage.
Just wild.
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The reconciliation bill's hikes in farm subsidies "are brazen.... the GOP doesn’t just spare millionaire farmers from cuts, they aggressively expand inefficient farm giveaways by $57 billion." And they "lavished the biggest subsidy increases on GOP parts of the country." [Chris Edwards, @cato.org]
GOP Bill Hikes Farm Subsidies
The Republican Party’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes large cuts to taxes and small cuts to welfare programs. Getting less media attention are the wasteful spending hikes in the bill (e.g., $57 b...
www.cato.org
June 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The reconciliation bill's hikes in farm subsidies "are brazen.... the GOP doesn’t just spare millionaire farmers from cuts, they aggressively expand inefficient farm giveaways by $57 billion." And they "lavished the biggest subsidy increases on GOP parts of the country." [Chris Edwards, @cato.org]
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How now-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem felt about a president potentially federalizing the National Guard one year ago:
June 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
How now-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem felt about a president potentially federalizing the National Guard one year ago:
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A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
May 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
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When I interviewed KKK leaders in Arkansas, this is what they said too. “We don’t hate anyone. We just love our own people.” Then they burned a cross.
“Social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly,” JD Vance tells our columnist Ross Douthat in this episode of “Interesting Times.” “That’s not because I hate the migrants or I’m motivated by grievance. That’s because I’m trying to preserve something in my own country.”
Opinion | JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies
The vice president joins Ross Douthat in Rome to discuss immigration, trade and the new pope.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
When I interviewed KKK leaders in Arkansas, this is what they said too. “We don’t hate anyone. We just love our own people.” Then they burned a cross.
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Horsford: They are cutting healthcare for 13.7 million Americans. The largest cut to healthcare in U.S. history to give tax cuts to billionaires and to big corporations. This is your priority.
May 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Horsford: They are cutting healthcare for 13.7 million Americans. The largest cut to healthcare in U.S. history to give tax cuts to billionaires and to big corporations. This is your priority.
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Just in districts represented by members of the House Agriculture Committee, almost 1.3 million people live in households at risk of losing some amount of food assistance under this expanded work requirement.
This policy doesn't increase employment. It just increases hunger.
This policy doesn't increase employment. It just increases hunger.
The House Republican Ag bill would take food assistance from parents with kids over 6 & older adults who can’t meet harsh work requirements. Nearly 11M people live in households at risk of losing #SNAP under this provision. State & congressional-district data: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Expanded Work Requirements in House Republican Bill Would Take Away Food Assistance From Millions: State and Congressional District Estimates | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
One of the harshest cuts in the House Agriculture Committee bill would take food assistance away from people — including, for the first time ever, parents with children over the age of 6 and adults ag...
www.cbpp.org
May 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Just in districts represented by members of the House Agriculture Committee, almost 1.3 million people live in households at risk of losing some amount of food assistance under this expanded work requirement.
This policy doesn't increase employment. It just increases hunger.
This policy doesn't increase employment. It just increases hunger.
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I don't think it's fully appreciated just how much Trumpism is a celebration of ignorance. Trump not only never learns but proactively avoids it. It's a braindead movement from the top down.
May 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I don't think it's fully appreciated just how much Trumpism is a celebration of ignorance. Trump not only never learns but proactively avoids it. It's a braindead movement from the top down.
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Harvard can end the war with our administration if they’ll simply reject special status and bring back the meritocracy.
by Jared Kushner and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
by Jared Kushner and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
April 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Harvard can end the war with our administration if they’ll simply reject special status and bring back the meritocracy.
by Jared Kushner and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
by Jared Kushner and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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~5.6 million U.S. citizen children live with an undocumented family member, 4.7 million have an undocumented parent in the home, and 2.7 million have only undocumented parents in the home. Where do these children end up if their parents are detained/deported?
www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
What will deportations mean for the child welfare system?
5.62 million U.S. citizen children live with an undocumented parent, siblings, grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins, or family friends.
www.brookings.edu
April 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
~5.6 million U.S. citizen children live with an undocumented family member, 4.7 million have an undocumented parent in the home, and 2.7 million have only undocumented parents in the home. Where do these children end up if their parents are detained/deported?
www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...
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A desperate sign of weakness, not of strength.
April 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A desperate sign of weakness, not of strength.