@calexv.bsky.social
Ah yes, gilded age upon us.
BREAKING: The Nebraska Legislature has approved a bill lowering Nebraska’s minimum wage from $15 an hour to $13.50 for young workers, and slowing down minimum wage increases for others.
February 7, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Ah yes, gilded age upon us.
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Police state.
#ToolOfTyranny
The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create “quick reaction” forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
#ToolOfTyranny
The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create “quick reaction” forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Pentagon Orders National Guard to Establish Quick-Reaction Forces for Civil Unrest, Riots
The riot control units are a major shift, underscoring the Trump administration’s push to directly involve the military in responding to demonstrations and other domestic missions.
www.wsj.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Police state.
#ToolOfTyranny
The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create “quick reaction” forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
#ToolOfTyranny
The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create “quick reaction” forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows.
LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows
LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows.
LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The GOP in the Pennsylvania state legislature has yet to agree to funding SEPTA. If they fail to make an agreement with Democrats, the agency, which provides 800,000 rides a day, will have to increase fares by 21.5% and eventually reduce service by a stunning 45%.
SEPTA will start implementing their vast service cuts this Sunday after receiving no sufficient funding from PA lawmakers. Here’s why it’s not just a “City of Philadelphia” problem.
SEPTA Crisis: Not Just a Philadelphia Problem
The SEPTA crisis isn't tied just to Philadelphia. It's tied to the region — and all of Pennsylvania. Let's wake up to that
thephiladelphiacitizen.org
August 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The GOP in the Pennsylvania state legislature has yet to agree to funding SEPTA. If they fail to make an agreement with Democrats, the agency, which provides 800,000 rides a day, will have to increase fares by 21.5% and eventually reduce service by a stunning 45%.
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BREAKING: The Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.
Trump administration reviewing all 55M people with US visas for potential deportable violations
The Trump administration says it’s reviewing all the more than 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.
bit.ly
August 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
BREAKING: The Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.
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According to ACS data, Urban experts find that at least 12 million households receive benefits through #SNAP and #Medicaid, and that impending cuts to these programs could have significant impacts on households’ health, nutrition, and more.
Dive into the #data in a new Urban Wire post.
Dive into the #data in a new Urban Wire post.
About 12 Million Households Receive Both Medicaid and SNAP. The Reconciliation Bill Puts Them At Risk.
Households that rely on both Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are spread throughout the country.
www.urban.org
August 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
Malnourished medical staff say they are struggling to provide care to injured civilians, while recovery rates are also hit by
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
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ICE agents are getting truly unprecedented access to Medicaid data, granted by CMS with the goal of locating immigrants --
A new agreement viewed by @wired.com gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical and personal data on tens of millions of Americans.
A new agreement viewed by @wired.com gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical and personal data on tens of millions of Americans.
ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data
A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.
www.wired.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
ICE agents are getting truly unprecedented access to Medicaid data, granted by CMS with the goal of locating immigrants --
A new agreement viewed by @wired.com gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical and personal data on tens of millions of Americans.
A new agreement viewed by @wired.com gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical and personal data on tens of millions of Americans.
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Louisiana officially halts a $3 billion coastal restoration funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement money, state and federal agencies confirmed. It was intended to rebuild upward of 20 square miles of land in southeast Louisiana to combat sea level rise and erosion on the Gulf Coast.
Louisiana cancels $3B repair coastal restoration funded by Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement
Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement.
bit.ly
July 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Louisiana officially halts a $3 billion coastal restoration funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement money, state and federal agencies confirmed. It was intended to rebuild upward of 20 square miles of land in southeast Louisiana to combat sea level rise and erosion on the Gulf Coast.
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Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
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Trump Admin is illegally impounding $7 billion in funding authorized by Congress for schools to support after-school, English learning, and teacher training.
Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Trump Admin is illegally impounding $7 billion in funding authorized by Congress for schools to support after-school, English learning, and teacher training.
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I am convinced, although I have no hard evidence, that ICE has gotten orders to go out and re-detain Iranians with final orders of removal, many out in the community on orders of supervision for decades as Iran wouldn't take them.
They may now be deported to Panama or somewhere random.
They may now be deported to Panama or somewhere random.
Federal agents arrested an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for more than four decades outside her Lakeview home Sunday.
Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home
Federal agents arrested an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for more than four decades outside her Lakeview home Sunday.
bit.ly
June 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I am convinced, although I have no hard evidence, that ICE has gotten orders to go out and re-detain Iranians with final orders of removal, many out in the community on orders of supervision for decades as Iran wouldn't take them.
They may now be deported to Panama or somewhere random.
They may now be deported to Panama or somewhere random.
Teen vogue!
New for @teenvogue.com: Republicans love to talk about how much they care about the American worker, but the Trump admin’s anti-worker, anti-regulatory, anti-science agenda is putting millions of workers in danger—and more of them are going to die because of it www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
The Trump Administration Is Making All of Our Jobs More Dangerous
That’s very bad news in a country where a worker died on the job every 99 minutes in 2023.
www.teenvogue.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Teen vogue!
How could someone say this with a straight face when the US, quite literally, keeps the war machine that is Israel running?
BREAKING: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. is not involved in Israeli strikes on Iran and warns Tehran against targeting U.S. interests and personnel.
Live updates: Israel attacks Iran’s capital with explosions booming across Tehran
Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday, with explosions booming across Tehran. The attack comes as tensions have reached new heights over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
bit.ly
June 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
How could someone say this with a straight face when the US, quite literally, keeps the war machine that is Israel running?
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BREAKING: Iranian state television says the head of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard is feared dead after Israeli attack.
Live updates: Israel attacks Iran’s capital with explosions booming across Tehran
Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday, with explosions booming across Tehran. The attack comes as tensions have reached new heights over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
bit.ly
June 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
BREAKING: Iranian state television says the head of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard is feared dead after Israeli attack.
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Florida, are you listening??
Trump says he plans to phase out FEMA after 2025 hurricane season | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this year’s hurricane season, offering the clearest timeline yet for his administration’s l...
www.cnn.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Florida, are you listening??
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About 500 of the National Guard troops deployed to the Los Angeles protests have been trained to accompany agents on immigration operations, the commander in charge said Wednesday.
National Guard troops have temporarily detained civilians in LA protests, commander says
National Guard troops already have temporarily detained civilians in the Los Angeles protests over immigration raids.
bit.ly
June 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
About 500 of the National Guard troops deployed to the Los Angeles protests have been trained to accompany agents on immigration operations, the commander in charge said Wednesday.
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BREAKING: Trump announces full travel ban on people from 12 countries and a partial restriction on seven countries, which goes into effect on Monday.
Trump announces travel ban affecting a dozen countries set to go into effect Monday
President Donald Trump is again banning people from countries his administration deems dangerous from coming to America.
bit.ly
June 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
BREAKING: Trump announces full travel ban on people from 12 countries and a partial restriction on seven countries, which goes into effect on Monday.
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US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate Gaza ceasefire
US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate Gaza ceasefire
The 14 other members of the 15-nation council voted in favor of the resolution, which also called on Israel to lift all restrictions on the delivery of aid to the
www.thestar.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate Gaza ceasefire
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The GOP bill would cut $1 trillion from health care. This would kick 10.9 million people off their health insurance.
That, plus the expiration of the APTCs (and the other half of the ACA rule), lead to 16 million people losing health insurance, pushing the uninsurance rate up 4 percentage points.
That, plus the expiration of the APTCs (and the other half of the ACA rule), lead to 16 million people losing health insurance, pushing the uninsurance rate up 4 percentage points.
June 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The GOP bill would cut $1 trillion from health care. This would kick 10.9 million people off their health insurance.
That, plus the expiration of the APTCs (and the other half of the ACA rule), lead to 16 million people losing health insurance, pushing the uninsurance rate up 4 percentage points.
That, plus the expiration of the APTCs (and the other half of the ACA rule), lead to 16 million people losing health insurance, pushing the uninsurance rate up 4 percentage points.
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Nearly 14 MILLION people are estimated to lose their health insurance under Republicans' “big beautiful bill.”
That's like everyone in:
Wyoming
Vermont
Alaska
North Dakota
Montana
Maine
New Hampshire
Hawaii
West Virginia
Idaho
and Nebraska
COMBINED.
That's like everyone in:
Wyoming
Vermont
Alaska
North Dakota
Montana
Maine
New Hampshire
Hawaii
West Virginia
Idaho
and Nebraska
COMBINED.
June 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Nearly 14 MILLION people are estimated to lose their health insurance under Republicans' “big beautiful bill.”
That's like everyone in:
Wyoming
Vermont
Alaska
North Dakota
Montana
Maine
New Hampshire
Hawaii
West Virginia
Idaho
and Nebraska
COMBINED.
That's like everyone in:
Wyoming
Vermont
Alaska
North Dakota
Montana
Maine
New Hampshire
Hawaii
West Virginia
Idaho
and Nebraska
COMBINED.
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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
My report:
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
My report:
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If a former Israeli prime minister can say this, what is stopping European leaders?
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.
www.huffpost.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If a former Israeli prime minister can say this, what is stopping European leaders?
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PBS insisted on removing a 90-second segment from a documentary about Art Spiegelman that was critical of Donald Trump. Daniel Engber reports on a worrying trend in public television:
Now PBS Is Censoring a Film About Free Speech
A worrying pattern has taken hold in public television.
bit.ly
May 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
PBS insisted on removing a 90-second segment from a documentary about Art Spiegelman that was critical of Donald Trump. Daniel Engber reports on a worrying trend in public television:
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Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students
The Secretary of Homeland Security said the administration was holding Harvard accountable "for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus."
www.thestar.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students