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Emily Moore
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Policy wonk focused on health & child nutrition | ✨ RVA | Go Birds 🦅💚 | Opinions are my own, unless you agree, then they’re yours too.
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thatemilygirll.bsky.social
Tanner McKee and the Eagles healed something inside of me yesterday. FOOTBALL IS BACK BABY!!!! GO F’N BIRDS 🦅 FLY EAGLES FLY!
August 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
thatemilygirll.bsky.social
Ok WHY is Grimace at NCSL
August 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
thatemilygirll.bsky.social
I’m in a medical debt/collections war because Bon Secours fucked up my billing, told me to wait 30 days for them to fix it, and within that 30 day period, they sent it to fucking collections. I refuse to pay it. Now the collections agency calls me 4x a day.
August 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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tjsleakyroof.bsky.social
it really is insane how you just cannot use search engines to answer simple questions anymore. gleeful destruction of an incredible tool for the dumbest fucking reasons.
July 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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teamfreedomva.bsky.social
In Virginia, it is estimated that 78% of working people – about 3.4 million workers –have no guarantee that they won’t miss a critical paycheck when they need to take time off to care for themselves or a loved one. It's time for Paid Family & Medical Leave in Virginia.
July 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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dinfontay.com
NEW: Approximately 1hr after I submitted an inquiry to Richmond Police Department asking if the city's Flock Safety ALPR data had been shared with/accessed by feds, a spokesperson issued a statement acknowledging an ATF "analyst" in June "had made queries for immigration enforcement." Full release:
July 8, 2025 ATF Access to RPD License Plate Readers Terminated In June, administrators of the Richmond Police Department’s license plate reader program learned an analyst with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had been granted access to the RPD system and had made queries for immigration enforcement in violation of RPD’s operational standards. The ATF analyst’s access was immediately terminated and, moving forward, no federal agencies will have access to RPD’s license plate reader program. “ATF is a valued partner in our efforts to combat violent crime in Richmond. But their analyst should not have been granted access to our system — and absolutely should not have used it for immigration enforcement purposes,” said RPD Chief Rick Edwards. “I’ve been clear with the public, with city leadership, and within this department: the Richmond Police Department does not enforce federal immigration law, and we do not investigate a person’s immigration status. If ATF had formally requested access for that purpose, I would have denied it.” Facts and details:  The ATF analyst requested access to the RPD license plate reader program on February 7, 2025, to “assist our agents and TFOs [Task Force Officers] with investigations in and around Richmond.”  At that time of their request, the ATF was not actively involved with immigration enforcement.  The RPD administrator of the program granted access to the ATF analyst.  The RPD administrator of the program has since separated from the department.  In March 2025, the mission of the ATF changed to include immigration enforcement.  In early March, four detainees from an ICE detention facility in Farmville, Virginia escaped. In the effort to assist the investigation, the ATF analyst made numerous inquiries to RPD’s license plate reader program in an effort to apprehend the escapees. Overall, the ATF analyst queried 49 unique license plates receiving over 400 results to those inquiries.  Over a quarter of the results received related to the incident in Farmville.   The cases involved in the ATF analyst’s queries were a mixture of a) cases that the ATF traditionally investigates with RPD and other partners, e.g. firearms offenses and/or violent crime, regardless of a subject’s immigration status (35 of the 49 unique license plates) and b) cases that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) pursues regarding immigration enforcement (14 of the 49 unique license plates).  According to the ATF, all of those cases in the second group involved individuals that had committed a crime or had a criminal background.  The analyst did not include the name of the state for a license plate query which produced a result from a different state for the same license plate numbers and letters. According to the ATF, all queries made using the system were for investigations in the state of Virginia. Pursuant to the new Virginia law taking effect on July 1, 2025, other states no longer have connections to Virginia license plate information.  On June 11, the new RPD administrator received an alert from Flock Safety, the vendor of the license plate readers, that two searches from the ATF analyst inadvertently accessed Illinois vehicle data with “ICE” in the query field which is a violation of Illinois law.  Within five minutes of the new RPD administrator recognizing the ATF analyst had access to the RPD system and was using it in violation to RPD guidelines, the administrator terminated the ATF analyst’s access to the system.  An immediate audit was conducted to ensure no other federal partner or other user outside of RPD personnel had access to the license plate reader program. No other user was found to have access.  The new administrator began an internal investigation on how and when access was granted to the ATF analyst by the previous, departed manager.  Last… “We value our partnership with the Richmond Police Department and regret that this situation occurred,” said ATF Special Agent in Charge Anthony Spotswood. “Our ATF analyst accessed RPD’s system in support of ATF’s overall mission and although all the queries involved criminal activity, they were not in compliance with RPD’s guidelines. While our investigative analysts support both criminal and immigration-related efforts, the majority of these searches were directly tied to local investigations involving gun trafficking, violent offenders, and fraudulent firearms purchases. In one instance, a potential residency violation may have prompted the use of ‘ICE’ in a search field — but all queries were related to criminal activity, not civil immigration enforcement.” “It is frustrating this occurred. However, I appreciate ATF’s willingness to acknowledge what happened and clarify the nature of the searches,” said Chief Edwards. “We remain committed to working with our federal partners on the investigation and prosecution of violent crime. But moving forward, no federal agencies will have access to our license plate reader program. This tool is vital to solving serious crimes in our city, and we will ensure it is used lawfully, responsibly, and in alignment with Richmond’s values.”
July 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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cbs6-richmond.bsky.social
Seventy-one percent of Richmond's water meters are outdated and need replacement, according to the head of the city's Department of Public Utilities Scott Morris.
Is your water bill accurate? City says 71% of meters are outdated, old ones can 'underestimate consumption'
Seventy-one percent of Richmond's water meters are outdated and need replacement, according to the head of the city's Department of Public Utilities Scott Morris.
www.wtvr.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
thatemilygirll.bsky.social
Elise from RVA on jeopardy tonight! Woohoo!
July 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
It’s all a bit too much.
July 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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fooddatanerd.com
🥗 Want food assistance? Go broke first.
Powerful words from @aninajane.bsky.social.
Abolish the asset test. And means testing while we're at it.
aninaestrem.com/2024/05/13/w...
Want Food Assistance? Go Broke First
Our society believes that people must be utterly broke, without a penny to their name, to deserve social assistance. We demand that they deplete their own resources before utilizing any others. But…
aninaestrem.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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katiebergh.bsky.social
Based on new USDA data released today, 44 states would have to pay tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars under Senate Republicans' #SNAP cost-shift plan. If a state can't fully pay, they would have to cut many low-income families off SNAP or end their program altogether.
June 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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centeronbudget.bsky.social
Even with tweaks, the Senate plan would still cut health and food assistance, leave millions uninsured, and leave states struggling to fill the gaps.
Senate Republican bill would take health care and food assistance away from people to pay for tax cuts for wealthy.
July 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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centeronbudget.bsky.social
Under the Republican health agenda, about 17 million would lose health coverage and become uninsured. That's not minutiae.
July 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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joanalker1.bsky.social
We have not seen the final language but presume that the US Senate just voted 50-50 with Vance breaking the tie to pass the OBBB with over $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts.

A sad day.
July 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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fooddatanerd.com
🥗 The list of awful and horrifying provisions of the reconciliation bill is just staggering. How can we hurt as many people as possible, as cruelly as possible, with the sole justification to further enrich the already stinking rich?
June 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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tyjonescox.bsky.social
The federal government would still be turning its back on the 50-year national commitment to ensure that the lowest-income families in every state have access to the food assistance they need. See how much each state could owe: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Research Note: Senate Republican Leaders’ Proposal Risks Deep Cuts to Food Assistance, Some States Ending SNAP Entirely | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
States, which must balance their budgets every year, would struggle to absorb these substantial new costs.
www.cbpp.org
June 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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tyjonescox.bsky.social
Under the slightly revised version, each state’s unfunded mandate would be based on error rate data that is 3, rather than 2 years old. States would know the share of SNAP benefits they are being forced to absorb a year earlier. But no one should think this fixes this policy.
June 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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fooddatanerd.com
I don’t know how and don’t even care, but this administration needs to be ended. It is evil and profoundly destructive.
June 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
thatemilygirll.bsky.social
I am so distressed around everything happening with budget reconciliation and literally ~EVERYTHING ELSE.~ Our org is closed for collective rest for the next 3 days and I am so torn b/t needing to keep up with everything & truly needing to disconnect for a few days for my own well-being.
June 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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fooddatanerd.com
🥗 A huge problem with work requirements is that they disregard care work as work. Raising a child is work. Caring for an ill partner or elderly parent is work. Grandparents caring for grandkids are working. But they would be cut off of SNAP unless they work 20 hours/week in addition to care work.
fooddatanerd.com Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · Jun 12
🥗 "If enacted, these proposals would inflict long-term harm on children, older adults, veterans, military families, and low-wage workers — the very people SNAP is designed to support."
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June 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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fooddatanerd.com
🥗 "Under this bill, the grandmother would need to find and maintain a 20-hour-per-week job to keep her benefits, even though she’s already providing critical, unpaid care."
frac.org/blog/senate-...
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June 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
thatemilygirll.bsky.social
"An internal memo and emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block the data transfer, citing legal and ethical concerns."

THIS is unconscionable. This follows USDA requesting state data on SNAP enrollees dating back to January 2020.
Trump administration gives personal data of immigrant Medicaid enrollees to deportation officials
President Donald Trump's administration has released to deportation officials the personal data for millions of Medicaid enrollees, including their immigration status.
apnews.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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cbs6-richmond.bsky.social
For some Central Virginia students, the end of the school year means the end of access to two guaranteed free meals a day. FeedMore aims to help them this summer.
FeedMore offering summer meals to Central Virginia kids in need
For some Central Virginia students, the end of the school year means the end of access to two guaranteed free meals a day. FeedMore aims to help them this summer.
www.wtvr.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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fooddatanerd.com
🥗 SUN Bucks is coming to Virginia again this summer! Families who qualify will receive $120 per school aged child for grocery costs over the summer, when school is out.
More here from @thatemilygirll.bsky.social of @voicesforvakids.bsky.social:
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SUN Bucks Supports Food Security for Young People During the Summer  | Voices for Virginia's Children
vakids.org
June 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
thatemilygirll.bsky.social
RICHMOND: The Market @ 25th is providing free lunch to kids this summer!

Starting TODAY June 9 - Aug. 15
Mon - Fri, 12p - 2p
The Market @ 25th Community Room
Children 1 - 18 years old
FREE Nutritious Lunches to Consume Onsite
WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE? • Starting June 9 through Aug. 15 • Mon - Fri, 12p - 2p • The Market @ 25th Community Room • Children 1 - 18 years old • FREE Nutritious Lunches to Consume Onsite This summer, The Market © 25th is partnering with Feed More to bring free, nutritious meals to children in our community! *All children from ages 1 - 18 are welcome to swing by our Community Room from 12p - 2p, Monday through Friday, from June gth to August 15th and partake! *Parents bringing children receive a voucher for $5 off a purchase of $50 at The Market ® 25th, usable immediately, as well as a 10% discount off a future purchase if they check out with AppCard using their phone number.
June 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM