Randy Woodland
@randywdland.bsky.social
Retired writing teacher, living in Alabama.
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Letting people go hungry in this shutdown is a choice Trump is intentionally making.
He could tell the USDA to use contingency funds to ensure families get their SNAP benefits on November 1st, he’s just choosing not to.
He could tell the USDA to use contingency funds to ensure families get their SNAP benefits on November 1st, he’s just choosing not to.
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Letting people go hungry in this shutdown is a choice Trump is intentionally making.
He could tell the USDA to use contingency funds to ensure families get their SNAP benefits on November 1st, he’s just choosing not to.
He could tell the USDA to use contingency funds to ensure families get their SNAP benefits on November 1st, he’s just choosing not to.
If we had quick trials, he’d be in jail.
September 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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CHILDREN.
Dumping little kids with no guardianship into another country without any semblance of due process or care after the fact, on a long weekend no less, is sooo far removed from Pro-Life or Christian to be laughable if it weren't so TRAGIC.
Dumping little kids with no guardianship into another country without any semblance of due process or care after the fact, on a long weekend no less, is sooo far removed from Pro-Life or Christian to be laughable if it weren't so TRAGIC.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
August 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
CHILDREN.
Dumping little kids with no guardianship into another country without any semblance of due process or care after the fact, on a long weekend no less, is sooo far removed from Pro-Life or Christian to be laughable if it weren't so TRAGIC.
Dumping little kids with no guardianship into another country without any semblance of due process or care after the fact, on a long weekend no less, is sooo far removed from Pro-Life or Christian to be laughable if it weren't so TRAGIC.
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*Except if you use Medicaid.
**Except if you need SNAP.
***Except if you’re a federal worker.
****Except if you want union rights.
**Except if you need SNAP.
***Except if you’re a federal worker.
****Except if you want union rights.
August 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
*Except if you use Medicaid.
**Except if you need SNAP.
***Except if you’re a federal worker.
****Except if you want union rights.
**Except if you need SNAP.
***Except if you’re a federal worker.
****Except if you want union rights.
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to the fucking Hague
"When he was taken into custody Friday, immigration agents tied his dog to a tree and then unclipped his collar, allowing the animal to run loose on Sepulveda Boulevard"
An L.A. high school senior was walking his dog. Then immigration agents grabbed him
August 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
to the fucking Hague
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The International Olympic Committee needs to move the 2028 Games out of the U.S. to a country that doesn’t persecute foreigners.
What Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Means for the 2028 Olympics
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The International Olympic Committee needs to move the 2028 Games out of the U.S. to a country that doesn’t persecute foreigners.
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Trump is trying to send the jobs data into the same dark vault where he’s hiding the Epstein report
Because if the facts don’t serve him, he does everything he can to bury them
Because if the facts don’t serve him, he does everything he can to bury them
Firing the BLS Commissioner because you don't like the data is a dark day.
August 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Trump is trying to send the jobs data into the same dark vault where he’s hiding the Epstein report
Because if the facts don’t serve him, he does everything he can to bury them
Because if the facts don’t serve him, he does everything he can to bury them
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Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the jobs report makes you look bad isn’t just petty — it’s dangerous.
Public servants don’t exist to protect Trump’s ego. They exist to serve the American people with facts.
Silencing them won’t hide Trump’s failures — it only proves them.
Public servants don’t exist to protect Trump’s ego. They exist to serve the American people with facts.
Silencing them won’t hide Trump’s failures — it only proves them.
August 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the jobs report makes you look bad isn’t just petty — it’s dangerous.
Public servants don’t exist to protect Trump’s ego. They exist to serve the American people with facts.
Silencing them won’t hide Trump’s failures — it only proves them.
Public servants don’t exist to protect Trump’s ego. They exist to serve the American people with facts.
Silencing them won’t hide Trump’s failures — it only proves them.
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The new week is upon us.
We are 174 days into this presidency.
We are 12% of the way in.
We have survived some of the most absurd, ill conceived, criminal, & inhumane acts of any Presidential administration in US history.
We have stood firm.
We have no king.
We have survived.
We are the people.
We are 174 days into this presidency.
We are 12% of the way in.
We have survived some of the most absurd, ill conceived, criminal, & inhumane acts of any Presidential administration in US history.
We have stood firm.
We have no king.
We have survived.
We are the people.
July 14, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The new week is upon us.
We are 174 days into this presidency.
We are 12% of the way in.
We have survived some of the most absurd, ill conceived, criminal, & inhumane acts of any Presidential administration in US history.
We have stood firm.
We have no king.
We have survived.
We are the people.
We are 174 days into this presidency.
We are 12% of the way in.
We have survived some of the most absurd, ill conceived, criminal, & inhumane acts of any Presidential administration in US history.
We have stood firm.
We have no king.
We have survived.
We are the people.
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This is the court order Trump & Noem are appealing: Literally telling them to follow the damn law — like not grabbing people simply because they’re brown, speak Spanish, stand at a bus stop, or do construction work.
They want a police state & just don’t give a damn about the law.
They want a police state & just don’t give a damn about the law.
July 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is the court order Trump & Noem are appealing: Literally telling them to follow the damn law — like not grabbing people simply because they’re brown, speak Spanish, stand at a bus stop, or do construction work.
They want a police state & just don’t give a damn about the law.
They want a police state & just don’t give a damn about the law.
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Delaying some impacts of the big ugly bill until after midterm elections is an insult to the American people.
Republicans think voters are not smart enough to understand what they just passed.
I’ll make sure that people know who is responsible for inflicting this pain.
Republicans think voters are not smart enough to understand what they just passed.
I’ll make sure that people know who is responsible for inflicting this pain.
July 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Delaying some impacts of the big ugly bill until after midterm elections is an insult to the American people.
Republicans think voters are not smart enough to understand what they just passed.
I’ll make sure that people know who is responsible for inflicting this pain.
Republicans think voters are not smart enough to understand what they just passed.
I’ll make sure that people know who is responsible for inflicting this pain.
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📣 Now that the #MAGAMurderBill is back at the House, I'm completely updating my House District-level healthcare enrollment pie charts w/the latest data, 2024 partisan lean & the population at risk of losing healthcare coverage highlighted.
First up: #ALABAMA:
acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...
First up: #ALABAMA:
acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...
House District Enrollment: Alabama (now w/hi-def PDFs!)
Over the past couple of months I've compiled a master spreadsheet breaking out enrollment in ACA plans (Qualified Health Plans & Basic Health Plans), Medicaid/CHIP coverage (both traditional & via ACA...
acasignups.net
July 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
📣 Now that the #MAGAMurderBill is back at the House, I'm completely updating my House District-level healthcare enrollment pie charts w/the latest data, 2024 partisan lean & the population at risk of losing healthcare coverage highlighted.
First up: #ALABAMA:
acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...
First up: #ALABAMA:
acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...
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Senator Angus King (I-ME) yelling to his Republican colleagues: “Shame on you guys. That was the most disgusting vote I’ve ever seen in my life.”
July 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Senator Angus King (I-ME) yelling to his Republican colleagues: “Shame on you guys. That was the most disgusting vote I’ve ever seen in my life.”
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Send love to my SSA peep.
Some 💩 went down at SSA today, and it’s not great so let’s talk about it 🫠 TLDR version: effective 7/3, 40-50% of the CSR (customer service rep) staff will be reassigned to answering the national 1800#. This decision was made without input from any regional, area, or teleservice center leadership.
July 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Send love to my SSA peep.
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Paramount has joined Disney in paying bribes to Donald Trump, the Washington Post killed its Harris endorsement, Fox News functions as Republican state media, and the X algorithm amplifies fascist content. Here's why the media has a liberal bias problem.
July 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Paramount has joined Disney in paying bribes to Donald Trump, the Washington Post killed its Harris endorsement, Fox News functions as Republican state media, and the X algorithm amplifies fascist content. Here's why the media has a liberal bias problem.
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This guy is honestly so frigging dumb.
His brain is mush
Wrf is a “friendly plane wave?”
4 year old toddler
His brain is mush
Wrf is a “friendly plane wave?”
4 year old toddler
June 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This guy is honestly so frigging dumb.
His brain is mush
Wrf is a “friendly plane wave?”
4 year old toddler
His brain is mush
Wrf is a “friendly plane wave?”
4 year old toddler
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I just can't with this. OMFG, the dumb of it all! IRS is taking a break to scream!
Katie Britt: "President Trump is gonna win the Nobel Peace Prize. No doubt."
June 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I just can't with this. OMFG, the dumb of it all! IRS is taking a break to scream!
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The same Trump judge that gutted protections for mifepristone has now gutted privacy protections for women that receive reproductive care. This ruling effectively green lights a witch hunt by red states to target women that get care.
BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has issued a ruling striking down the 2024 Biden-era HIPAA rule protecting reproductive health information from disclosure to law enforcement investigators when it was legally obtained, such as in another state.
June 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The same Trump judge that gutted protections for mifepristone has now gutted privacy protections for women that receive reproductive care. This ruling effectively green lights a witch hunt by red states to target women that get care.
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A thread about the impact of funding freezes on clinical trials:
New CNN story about clinical trials damaged by the funding freeze at Northwestern.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/h...
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www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/h...
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NIH froze funding for clinical trials at a major university. By fall, they’ll run out of funding | CNN
Northwestern University hasn’t received any funding from the NIH since the end of March. Not only could patients potentially stop receiving treatments that trials provided, the research itself could b...
www.cnn.com
June 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A thread about the impact of funding freezes on clinical trials:
Is this one “Tiny Balls”?
Reminder again: this is the 22 year old boy Trump put in charge of preventing a terror attack at home:
June 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Is this one “Tiny Balls”?
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Reminder again: this is the 22 year old boy Trump put in charge of preventing a terror attack at home:
June 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Reminder again: this is the 22 year old boy Trump put in charge of preventing a terror attack at home:
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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
June 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
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This is what it looks like without a United States Congress.
June 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This is what it looks like without a United States Congress.
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MURRAY: I want to know what's the total number of employees who left the agency as a result of the administration's personnel actions?
BHATTACHARYA: We'll get those numbers
MURRAY: I told you I was gonna ask for this. How come you don't have it?
B: My misunderstanding
M: I was being very clear
BHATTACHARYA: We'll get those numbers
MURRAY: I told you I was gonna ask for this. How come you don't have it?
B: My misunderstanding
M: I was being very clear
June 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
MURRAY: I want to know what's the total number of employees who left the agency as a result of the administration's personnel actions?
BHATTACHARYA: We'll get those numbers
MURRAY: I told you I was gonna ask for this. How come you don't have it?
B: My misunderstanding
M: I was being very clear
BHATTACHARYA: We'll get those numbers
MURRAY: I told you I was gonna ask for this. How come you don't have it?
B: My misunderstanding
M: I was being very clear