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Student Defense @studentdefense.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Today, Student Defense released a new guide on the Dos and Don’ts of AI in College Recruitment & Enrollment”

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Mornings with Zerlina. @zerlinamornings.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Good Wednesday morning! Coming up with @zerlinamaxwell.bsky.social: Community Change advisor @indivar.bsky.social, TN. State Rep. Justin Pearson and Director of the Lawyers' Committee's Voting Rights Project Rob Weiner! ☎️ 866-997-4748 📻 @siriusxmprog.bsky.social Ch. 127 siriusxm.us/Zerlina

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Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The House passed problematic legislation yesterday that could delay or block vital federal assistance to individuals and funding to nonprofit organizations, communities, and states. www.cbpp.org/blog/house-b...

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House Bill to Make Blocking Federal Funds Easier Would Take Away Help People Need to Afford Rising Cost of Basics

Ensuring that federal funding reaches eligible recipients, while preventing and addressing factual instances of fraud, is a critical part of good governance that has typically garnered bipartisan...

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economicsecurity.bsky.social @economicsecurityproject.org · 10/06/2026

1/ Today, ESP released Building Affordability, our new policy agenda on housing, which tackles the 2 causes of unaffordability: broken markets + broken incomes. ✍️ by Becky Chao, @mtkonczal.bsky.social, & @resnikoff.bsky.social, it shows how policy can expand supply while also protecting tenants.

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Indivar (Indi) Dutta-Gupta @indivar.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Debbie has been an extraordinary force for economic security--and I know that Chris Kang will build on that legacy and ensure CHN's impact for years to come.

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Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A few initial thoughts on the President’s FY27 budget. Big picture: Today’s budget isn’t a serious plan to address real issues facing families and the nation and isn’t worthy of the American people.

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Indivar (Indi) Dutta-Gupta @indivar.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I'm starting to think the cabinet is not the problem.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

it’s simply too vulnerable to nacho theft from the fans sitting behind/above you. at $1 a nacho, i’m not risking it

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Jack Smalligan @jsmalligan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

A new proposal from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) would create caps on the maximum Social Security benefit, raising serious issues. In this short piece I examine the proposal. www.urban.org/urban-wire/s...

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Social Security Needs Reform, but Capping Benefits and Indexing to Inflation Could Do More Harm Than Good

Combining dollar cutoffs with indexing changes fundamentally alters the structure and philosophy that have guided the Social Security program for the past 90…

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

There’s an unprecedented power grab unfolding in the US. An authoritarian coalition led by Trump & a network of oligarchs. Far from chaotic, each move is part of a wider strategy. Here’s how to understand & fight back. 🧵 🖋️ @rmabud.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social shorturl.at/H0f6v

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The Power Grab: The Authoritarian Coalition’s Strategy of Power Consolidation

The authoritarian coaltion is using three interlocking levers of power to consolidate control: political and institutional control, cultural and narrative power, and economic power.

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Indivar (Indi) Dutta-Gupta @indivar.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The richest country on earth, with among the highest per capita incomes and GDPs...

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Sarah Lueck @sarahl202.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Today marks the 16th anniversary of the #ACA. The law covers record numbers of people in #Medicaid and the marketplaces, bans insurer discrimination against people with health conditions, and helps millions afford their health costs. Unfortunately this is all now at risk.

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Shelby Gonzales @shelbytgonzales.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

House lawmakers are considering an anti-immigrant bill (H. R. 1958) that would put people with lawful immigration statuses at risk of deportation - potentially resulting in separation from their loved ones—due to a mistake and/or confusion related to public benefit processes.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 05/03/2026

This morning, @warren.senate.gov, Rep. Adelita Grijalva, and Rep. Jame Moylan introduced the Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act alongside experts and advocates. If passed, it would reduce poverty among SSI recipients by 60 percent. 🧵

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.

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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

CBPP's Samantha Waxman on today's Senate vote to overturn parts of D.C.'s tax law (via X): x.com/waxmansd/sta...

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United States-Japan Foundation (USJF) @usjf.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

(1/2) New Census data confirms: U.S. renters are now paying a median of $1,413/month— a $100 inflation-adjusted increase from five years ago—while homeowner costs stayed flat. This rental housing crisis demands multi-pronged approaches that consider both supply and demand.

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United States-Japan Foundation (USJF) @usjf.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Indivar Dutta-Gupta (@indivar.bsky.social)’s paper, published as part of the USJF Research series, explores what the U.S. can learn from Japan’s housing system—highlighting affordability, low homelessness, and policy lessons on zoning, housing supply, and income supports. us-jf.org/en/news/usjf...

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USJF Publishes New Paper by Indivar Dutta-Gupta (USJLP 2024, 2025) on Leveraging Japanese Housing Policy to Improve US Outcomes

USJF publishes a paper by Indivar Dutta-Gupta on leveraging Japanese housing policies to address U.S. affordability and homelessness issues.

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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

SCOOP: Nursing home companies donated $4.8M to Trump's super PAC in Aug-Sept. Their executives landed a lunch in Aug. with Trump at his NoVa golf club where they asked him to revoke a rule to increase staffing to prevent patient neglect. His administration revoked the rule a few months later.

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After Donations, Trump Administration Revoked Rule Requiring More Nursing Home Staff

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Indivar (Indi) Dutta-Gupta @indivar.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Not just appropriate, but *essential* that the Senate not continue funding the deadly status quo allowing killing with impunity and that it stops surrendering its power of the purse.

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Indivar (Indi) Dutta-Gupta @indivar.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I'm proud to work with the @studentdefense.bsky.social team and support its high-impact work protecting and supporting college students. Learn more about their recent work and successes, even in a truly challenging environment 👇👇👇

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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 26/11/2025

Ambulance companies often negotiate with patients over large bills. “But you shouldn’t have to work so hard for it,” says an Ohio mom who was billed $9,250 for her toddler’s transport between hospitals. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Not Serious Enough To Turn on the Siren, Toddler’s 39-Mile Ambulance Ride Still Cost Over $9,000 - KFF Health News

After her son contracted a serious bacterial infection, an Ohio mother took the toddler to a nearby ER, and staffers there sent him to a children’s hospital in an ambulance. With no insurance, the fam...

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 19/11/2025

We’re investigating to expose potential government-funded payments to former senior Trump officials Michael Flynn and Stefan Passantino. The American people deserve to know if public power is being used to financially benefit people with ties to the president.

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MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger @mazonusa.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

This week, the Trump administration announced plans to reinstate the “public charge” rule, which is designed to scare immigrants away from seeking public assistance, including help from SNAP. We opposed this rule in 2019, and we will continue to fight this harmful proposal every step of the way.

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Advocates Warn Public Charge Rule Will “Deny Immigrants Fair Chance at American Dream”

This week, the Trump administration announced its intention to reinstate their highly controversial “public charge” rule, which would use lawful immigrants’ participation in “means-tested public benef...

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Indivar (Indi) Dutta-Gupta @indivar.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The VP could not possibly be more incorrect. The evidence is clear that immigrants REDUCE housing costs: "Cracking Down, Pricing Up: Housing Supply in the Wake of Mass Deportation" by Troup Howard, Mengqi Wang, Dayin Zhang :: SSRN share.google/xYBZFxX0zHzr...

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Chad Bolt @chadderr.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The Trump Admin's shameful attacks on kids with disabilities are happening on every front: legislation (OBBB), regs, and RIFs. The Social Security Administration's new proposed rule to limit SSI eligibility is yet another example. 1/ firstfocus.org/update/recen...

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Recent Actions by the Trump Administration Target Children with Disabilities

Proposed rules, reductions in force, threaten roughly 100,000 children who rely on Supplemental Security Income, plus others in need of support and

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Indivar (Indi) Dutta-Gupta @indivar.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

It's hard to overstate how much the Trump Administration has done to Make China Great Again: "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than the U.S. makes from exporting fossil fuels..." citing @theeconomistnews.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...

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Tackling Climate Change Without the U.S.

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Indivar (Indi) Dutta-Gupta @indivar.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

While the President goes on a spending spree to build a ballroom in the White House and bailout his buddy in Argentina, and personally refuses to release federal funds to feed millions of hungry Americans, look who he's showering with gratuitous tax cuts...

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MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger @mazonusa.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It’s validating and truly powerful to see the order requiring the Trump administration to fully fund and issue SNAP benefits by tomorrow. Now, we must keep the pressure up to make sure the Trump administration drops this unconscionable appeal and immediately releases SNAP contingency funds.

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Leading Anti-Hunger Advocate Responds to SNAP Ruling: ‘Enough Is Enough’

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 06/11/2025

Private planes make up nearly 12% of all flights. And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports. People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

What we know, 10:20pm —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —Dems keep PA supreme court —Larry Krasner & Bragg win — GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy —Dems sweep Orlando council —ME anti-mail vote measure loses

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Historical perspective on Virginia election results- Abigail Spanberger is on track to win by the largest margin of any Democratic candidate for Governor since 1961, before the integration-era party realignment. Democrats will win their largest House of Delegates majority since 1987. A BIG night.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2025

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 04/11/2025

We’re back in court today because President Trump is refusing to fully fund SNAP benefits. We’re filing a motion asking the court to force the administration to comply with their order and ensure 42 million people won’t go hungry.

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MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger @mazonusa.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

After two straightforward and consistent federal court orders, the next steps for the Trump administration are abundantly clear. Not partial payments. Not late payments. Not in a day, or a week, or a month. Fully funded, immediately. Read our full statement: mazon.org/news/mazon_s...

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Following Court Rulings, Leading Anti-Hunger Advocate Demands Immediate and Full Funds for SNAP

Following a pair of federal court orders requiring the Trump administration and its U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to immediately release funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 30/10/2025

UPDATE: We obtained new records showing the FHFA may have misused federal investigative power for political gain – including when accessing mortgage data for Sen. Adam Schiff, Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook & NY AG Letitia James. The American people deserve the FULL truth. We will get it.

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Democracy Forward Obtains Records Regarding FHFA’s Politicized Investigations of Public Officials - Democracy Forward

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Ty Jones Cox @tyjonescox.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Today’s rulings confirm what’s been clear all along: the Administration has been sitting on billions of available dollars that it is legally required to use to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans who need SNAP to afford their groceries.

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Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The Administration is legally required to use contingency reserves to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans who need #SNAP to afford groceries, despite USDA Sec. Rollins’ claim that the Administration is unable to do so. My statement: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

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Trump Administration Is Legally Required to Provide SNAP in Shutdown, Contrary to Its Claims

Secretary Rollins’ claim that the Trump Administration is unable to deliver November SNAP benefits during a shutdown is unequivocally false. The Administration is legally required to use contingency r...

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