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Imagine not spending $60m dollars to get back $450m bc you don’t care enough about kids to actually try and understand how the policy works: Abbott vetoes summer food aid program, forgoing $450M in federal funds www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
Abbott vetoes summer food aid program, forgoing $450M in federal funds
Texas is one of a dozen states that doesn't participate in the Summer EBT program that gives low-income children meals when school is out.
www.houstonchronicle.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Imagine not spending $60m dollars to get back $450m bc you don’t care enough about kids to actually try and understand how the policy works: Abbott vetoes summer food aid program, forgoing $450M in federal funds www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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1. Trump's tax cuts overwhelmingly help the rich
2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor
3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income
Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.
The anti-Robin Hood.
2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor
3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income
Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.
The anti-Robin Hood.
June 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
1. Trump's tax cuts overwhelmingly help the rich
2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor
3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income
Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.
The anti-Robin Hood.
2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor
3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income
Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.
The anti-Robin Hood.
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NEW @vanityfair.com: When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops,
@fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
@fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...
www.vanityfair.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
NEW @vanityfair.com: When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops,
@fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
@fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
Didn’t know that I needed this as badly as I did…Thank you Cory Booker.
April 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Didn’t know that I needed this as badly as I did…Thank you Cory Booker.
Can’t believe I just canceled my @washingtonpost.com subscription started in February 2018. What’s the best alternative for real journalistic news - already a @nytimes.com subscriber - to replace the coverage of WaPo?? The latest interference of Jeff Bezos was the last straw. #news #journalism
February 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Can’t believe I just canceled my @washingtonpost.com subscription started in February 2018. What’s the best alternative for real journalistic news - already a @nytimes.com subscriber - to replace the coverage of WaPo?? The latest interference of Jeff Bezos was the last straw. #news #journalism
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If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
www.theatlantic.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Banned from school by the Taliban, Afghan women fear President Donald Trump’s suspension of foreign assistance will deny them a last chance at an education.
Trump’s foreign aid pause imperils education programs for Afghan women
U.S.-backed initiatives that allowed thousands of Afghan women to study online or abroad are in jeopardy after Trump’s suspension of foreign aid.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Banned from school by the Taliban, Afghan women fear President Donald Trump’s suspension of foreign assistance will deny them a last chance at an education.