Mary Feeney
@mkfeeney.bsky.social
Professor, traveller, cyclist, skater, science policy junkie. Reluctant Phoenician. Interested in all things public sector
It's not just the govn't shutdown & SNAP delays. The GOP is cutting food benefits, education programs, farm subsidies, FAA services, wind & solar production, etc - while food, travel, healthcare, energy, & tariff costs increase.
Dems caving now addresses NONE of this!
Dems caving now addresses NONE of this!
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It's not just the govn't shutdown & SNAP delays. The GOP is cutting food benefits, education programs, farm subsidies, FAA services, wind & solar production, etc - while food, travel, healthcare, energy, & tariff costs increase.
Dems caving now addresses NONE of this!
Dems caving now addresses NONE of this!
Funding SNAP would be cheaper…
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Funding SNAP would be cheaper…
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The ICE raids in Chicago harm students’ ability to learn and the faculty’s ability to teach at Hispanic-serving institutions like the University of Illinois - Chicago.
Aaron Krall, President of University of Illinois Chicago Faculty United, discusses this & more in our recent AAUP TV episode.
Aaron Krall, President of University of Illinois Chicago Faculty United, discusses this & more in our recent AAUP TV episode.
November 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The ICE raids in Chicago harm students’ ability to learn and the faculty’s ability to teach at Hispanic-serving institutions like the University of Illinois - Chicago.
Aaron Krall, President of University of Illinois Chicago Faculty United, discusses this & more in our recent AAUP TV episode.
Aaron Krall, President of University of Illinois Chicago Faculty United, discusses this & more in our recent AAUP TV episode.
Requiring Target employees to become overly intrusive Trader Joe's employees will not solve the problem of Target being anti-DEI and LGBTQ+ unfriendly.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Requiring Target employees to become overly intrusive Trader Joe's employees will not solve the problem of Target being anti-DEI and LGBTQ+ unfriendly.
Reminder: SNAP benefits are around $150 a month and have substantial restrictions on how they can be used. No one is getting rich by scamming the state for SNAP benefits. It’s not worth the effort!
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Reminder: SNAP benefits are around $150 a month and have substantial restrictions on how they can be used. No one is getting rich by scamming the state for SNAP benefits. It’s not worth the effort!
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
Walmart & Amazon workers across the US depend on SNAP b/c billionaires choose to employ people at minimum wage & provide no health insurance. Most people that use SNAP are children, elderly, & working adults!
No one is "living off benefits" they are barely surviving w/ these benefits.
No one is "living off benefits" they are barely surviving w/ these benefits.
Trump on food stamp recipients: "It wasn't meant for people that could do whatever they want. The people that say, 'Well, I don't think I'll work. I'll just collect this money.'"
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Walmart & Amazon workers across the US depend on SNAP b/c billionaires choose to employ people at minimum wage & provide no health insurance. Most people that use SNAP are children, elderly, & working adults!
No one is "living off benefits" they are barely surviving w/ these benefits.
No one is "living off benefits" they are barely surviving w/ these benefits.
lowering the price of obesity drugs, while raising the price of food and health insurance.
White House strikes deals for lower prices on obesity drugs
Medicare beneficiaries will soon be able to get obesity and Type 2 diabetes drugs for a $50 copay. But there are some limitations.
www.npr.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
lowering the price of obesity drugs, while raising the price of food and health insurance.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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The sun also shines in the US, but we've decided to double down on coal and natural gas while actively blocking investments in solar, wind, and other renewables.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The sun also shines in the US, but we've decided to double down on coal and natural gas while actively blocking investments in solar, wind, and other renewables.
I am not one to judge lady politicians on their hairstyles, but if there is one thing NOT notable about the former mayor of Chicago, it would be her hair. Or rather, the notable point would be how not beautifully done and not luxurious her hair was
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I am not one to judge lady politicians on their hairstyles, but if there is one thing NOT notable about the former mayor of Chicago, it would be her hair. Or rather, the notable point would be how not beautifully done and not luxurious her hair was
Further evidence that the our failure to prosecute him the first time around explains where we are today. Brazil and South Korea both offer examples of how proper checks and balances are meant to work.
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Further evidence that the our failure to prosecute him the first time around explains where we are today. Brazil and South Korea both offer examples of how proper checks and balances are meant to work.
What about the Venezuelan Christians in boats that he’s ordered killed, the Christians he sent to Ecuadorian prisons, or the many Christians ICE is terrorizing?
Trump says US troops could be on the ground in Nigeria and says, "they're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria, and they have other countries also. You know that. That part of the world. Very bad. They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. Not gonna allow that"
November 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
What about the Venezuelan Christians in boats that he’s ordered killed, the Christians he sent to Ecuadorian prisons, or the many Christians ICE is terrorizing?
Hakeem Jeffries, out here making a strong case that AI should definitely take some jobs!
Hakeem Jeffries says Zohran Mamdani is not the future of the Democratic Party.
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Hakeem Jeffries, out here making a strong case that AI should definitely take some jobs!
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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
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Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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A data-sharing agreement that gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy, security or privacy, experts say.
By @jenafifield.bsky.social
By @jenafifield.bsky.social
DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks
A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans' Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and privacy, experts say.
www.propublica.org
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A data-sharing agreement that gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy, security or privacy, experts say.
By @jenafifield.bsky.social
By @jenafifield.bsky.social
Phoenix streets are dangerous. Halloween has the highest pedestrian death rate & car crashes all year. Kids are 3X more likely to be killed by a car on Halloween!! What follows? Advice for kids to be more careful. No advice for drivers to slow down & take extra care or PHX to design safer streets
Expects urge caution to prevent pedestrian fatalities on Halloween
According to Yomy Castillo with the Arizona Department of Health Services' Injury Prevention, kids on foot are three times more likely to be killed by a motor vehicle on Halloween than any other day o...
www.kjzz.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Phoenix streets are dangerous. Halloween has the highest pedestrian death rate & car crashes all year. Kids are 3X more likely to be killed by a car on Halloween!! What follows? Advice for kids to be more careful. No advice for drivers to slow down & take extra care or PHX to design safer streets
Russell Vought and the OMB insist they have the authority to freeze, redirect, & refuse to spend Congressionally appropriated funds for 10 months, but then somehow lack the authority to cover SNAP with emergency funds.
Everything is punitive with this administration.
Everything is punitive with this administration.
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Russell Vought and the OMB insist they have the authority to freeze, redirect, & refuse to spend Congressionally appropriated funds for 10 months, but then somehow lack the authority to cover SNAP with emergency funds.
Everything is punitive with this administration.
Everything is punitive with this administration.
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"People come up to me, and say, 'You know, thank you for deciding not to run. I really appreciate it.' They like me. They appreciate the step that I'm taking. We have talented, young, progressive leaders that are more than ready. I love to think about making space for them," says @smith.senate.gov.
October 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"People come up to me, and say, 'You know, thank you for deciding not to run. I really appreciate it.' They like me. They appreciate the step that I'm taking. We have talented, young, progressive leaders that are more than ready. I love to think about making space for them," says @smith.senate.gov.
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Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
You can only have 20 people living in a home next door to JD Vance if 17-19 of them are white children advancing his pro-creation agenda.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
You can only have 20 people living in a home next door to JD Vance if 17-19 of them are white children advancing his pro-creation agenda.
Does this mean we get Obama for a third term? He’d be younger and fitter in his third term than Trump was in his first!
US president muses about a third term in office despite the constitution barring him from doing so.
Trump rules out VP run in 2028, but says he ‘would love’ a third term
US president muses about a third term in office despite the constitution barring him from doing so.
bit.ly
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Does this mean we get Obama for a third term? He’d be younger and fitter in his third term than Trump was in his first!
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Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people:
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
Q: One theory on how you might try to serve a 3rd term is that you could run at the vice president
TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.
TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people:
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
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Remarks from last week’s press conference in Little Village after more ICE presence and aggression.
October 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Remarks from last week’s press conference in Little Village after more ICE presence and aggression.