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Karen Dolan

@karendolan.bsky.social
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Policy Wonk. Cork Dork. Policy Analyst. Political Writer. Mom to a kickass changemaker, #Poverty #Wine #TransRights #Vegan #Policy

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 10/09/2026
The Supreme Court’s decision to assist President Trump’s assault on mail-in voting is a blatantly partisan move that should alarm anyone who cares about one of the core tenets of our democracy. @karendolan.bsky.social on InsideSources:
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The Supreme Court’s Midterm Chaos Is Voter Suppression – DC Journal - InsideSources
The Supreme Court’s latest decision in Donald Trump’s assault on voting rights should alarm anyone who cares about democracy. By a 6-3 vote, the court
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Karen Dolan @karendolan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Little Known Story of SpongeBob and the Intrepid Huffy Ten-Speed Bike
How one little brown Huffy bike survived 50 years of fame, joy and heartbreak
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 20/08/2026
In a new report, Henry A. Wallace Fellow Layla Sayed and IPS expert @karendolan.bsky.social reveal just how harmful some recent and proposed cuts would be — and some alternative policy solutions that have proven effective in helping American families.
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A Perfect Storm: How Federal Policy Changes Are Increasing Economic Insecurity for America's Families - Institute for Policy Studies
A Perfect Storm: How Federal Policy Changes Are Increasing Economic Insecurity for America's Families
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Sarah Anderson @sarahanderson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Listen, Target: No bottom line can be met without a functioning democracy." - Emilia Gonzalez of @unidosmn.bsky.social Petition demanding that Target and other big corps sign a Business for Democracy Pledge: bit.ly/stepup4democracy www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_wC...
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Press Conference: Minnesota Leaders Condemn Federal Surveillance and Political Retaliation
YouTube video by Unidos MN
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Karen Dolan @karendolan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’ve had a problem with the weird new word “unalive,” but Mitch nails it #unalive #mcconnell
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 09/07/2026
On July 23, IPS invites you to join us for our 3rd Annual Henry A. Wallace Symposium, featuring speakers @raskin.house.gov, @ariassulma.bsky.social, @keyachatterjee.bsky.social, @lindsayowens.bsky.social, @aru-shiney-ajay.bsky.social, and more! Reserve your in-person or live stream tickets today!
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Forging a Democracy that Works for All - Institute for Policy Studies
IPS, The Nation, and We Build Progress in partnership with the Wallace Global Fund present the 3rd Annual Henry A. Wallace Symposium.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 21/04/2026
With many Americans still struggling in part due to last year’s cuts to federal programs, President Trump’s 2027 budget proposal throws working families to the wolves while further padding an already bloated Pentagon budget. @karendolan.bsky.social on InsideSources:
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When We Disinvest in People, We All Pay the Price – DC Journal - InsideSources
Presidents release their federal spending priorities annually in the form of a federal budget proposal. This is a moral rather than a practical document —
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 24/04/2026
We must demand robust investments in family, community, and basic human needs. These are our national values, not war and the prosecution of immigrant children, writes @karendolan.bsky.social.
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Trump's Budget Proposal Violates American Values
​If we judge President Trump’s values by this budget, we could reasonably conclude he values only Pentagon bloat, aggressive assaults against immigrant families, and stripping rights from transgender people.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 09/04/2026
NEW: The average U.S. taxpayer in 2025 paid $4,049 for weapons and war vs. only $2,492 for Medicaid, which provides health insurance to 1 in 5 Americans. New findings out TODAY from IPS @nationalpriorities.bsky.social researchers:
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Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons - Institute for Policy Studies
Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 26/03/2026
In addition to equal rights and taxing the rich, surveys show that Americans also agree on something else—we don’t want our country to be involved in regime-changing wars. It’s time for our elected officials to listen. @karendolan.bsky.social on @theprogressivemag.bsky.social
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Americans Are United Against Trump’s War
Americans agree that we want quality and affordable health care, housing, child care, and education. The Trump Administration is ignoring all of this to continue a profoundly unpopular war.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 24/03/2026
NEW: Americans are broadly united on critical issues related to our families, health, and war and peace. This administration is thumbing its nose at us with a costly, unpopular war that threatens all of these. IPS scholar @karendolan.bsky.social in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social:
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Americans Are United Against Trump’s War
Americans agree that we want quality and affordable health care, housing, child care, and education. The Trump Administration is ignoring all of this to continue a profoundly unpopular war.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The only thing that upholds any government - democratic or fascist - is people's support of it. The pillars undergirding this regime can absolutely be collapsed or crumbled - all it takes is people's refusal to be complicit. We must march through hell but we are winning.
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Karen Dolan @karendolan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Kat and Elliot are no Claire and Jamie #TheWayHome Fail. #ZeroChemistry #WhatWereTheyThinking #Hallmark —that’s why 🤣
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 20/11/2025
NEW: Women and children are facing heightened poverty in the U.S., with nearly 13.6% of women and 13.4% of children living in poverty in 2024. Trump-GOP policies are set to make it worse. New analysis from IPS scholars @karendolan.bsky.social and Ta'Kyla Bates:
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FACT SHEET: Federal Policy Threatens Women and Children with Poverty - Institute for Policy Studies
FACT SHEET: Federal Policy Threatens Women and Children with Poverty
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 25/09/2025
NEW: Trump has baselessly claimed unfettered permission to slash spending already approved by lawmakers. These repeated "pocket recissions" are unconstitutional, illegal, and must be rejected. IPS scholar @karendolan.bsky.social:
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Trump Replaces GOP’s Pocket Constitutions with Unconstitutional ‘Pocket Recissions’ – DC Journal - InsideSources
During the rise of the GOP “Tea Party” on Capitol Hill, conservative members of Congress proudly displayed pocket Constitutions in their suit jackets. The
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 09/09/2025
NEW: The U.S. Census just released its annual data on poverty, income, and health insurance for 2024. It shows stagnation for most people, but a 4.2% income jump for those at the top — trends that will be majorly exacerbated by the Trump-GOP big, brutal bill. IPS scholar @karendolan.bsky.social:
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The 2024 Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance data from the U.S. Census indicates some negative trends for families, even as it’s eclipsed by the devastation looming from the Reverse Robin Hood cuts ...
This continues the trend of disappointing numbers since the successes of 2021 in reducing childhood and overall poverty.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Today it was confirmed that the president told the world's most infamous pedophile and child sex trafficker: "We have certain things in common." For any other president, it would be the biggest scandal of their lives, possibly career-ending. For Trump, it's just Monday.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/09/2025
CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/09/2025
Yesterday, President Trump said of RFK: “I like the fact that he's different." Yes. RFK is *different.* He’s the first HHS secretary to actively endanger children by undermining what doctors & scientists around the world know to be true: Vaccines have saved millions of lives.
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Data shows us that Black women are disproportionately impacted by federal workforce cuts. Why is this the case? CBPP Chief Economist @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social provides analysis on the August #JobsReport released this morning. www.youtube.com/shorts/3R8t4...
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Black Women Have Been Hit Hard By Federal Workforce Cuts According to August Jobs Report
YouTube video by Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 02/09/2025
NEW: Trump promised an anti-war presidency. Instead, he’s expanding the “forever wars” in the Middle East, East Africa, the Caribbean, and here at home. Resisting Trump must include resisting his militarism. Azadeh Shahshahani of Project South and IPS scholar Khury Petersen-Smith in @newsweek.com:
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Trump Promised an Antiwar Presidency. He's Delivered the Opposite | Opinion
From bombing the Middle East to deploying troops on U.S. soil, wars under President Donald Trump are becoming more deadly and expansive.
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Karen Dolan @karendolan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
@americanhomeshield.bsky.social you’re basically committing fraud now. It’s been almost 6 weeks that you have not provided me service and I’ve paid you thousands. Anyone else getting screwed by this horrendous company? I know there are. Pls report them to BBB
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Immigrants aren’t stealing your jobs. But employers are stealing $50 billion in wages from workers each year.
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Bitch McConnell™ @tiffmc1013.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Cal Poly Pomona canceled a job fair because ICE and the FBI signed up as employers.
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Karen Dolan @karendolan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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I want to outlive this regime. Will cancer let me?
It might have no choice
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Karen Dolan @karendolan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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I want to outlive this regime. Will cancer let me?
It might have no choice
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
So let me get this straight: Jack Smith investigates a guy who tried to overturn an election and incited an insurrection… and he’s the one being investigated? We’re not a serious country. We’re a banana republic with better branding…but that’s going to shit, too.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
we are currently watching an entire political party run cover for the most notorious sex trafficking ring in modern human history
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/07/2025
ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/06/2025
Senate Republicans are trying to jam through their “Big Beautiful Bill" that would kick 17 MILLION people off of their health care. I’m on the Senate floor to say NO. youtube.com/live/6RL1Aj8...
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Why we can’t let the “Big Beautiful Bill” pass.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/06/2025
In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?” 🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season. Brilliant timing.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Just a reminder that while her ex nonstop soils himself in public with tasteless displays of wealth and look-at-me, thirsty nonsense, Mackenzie Scott has given away close to $20 billion to 1,600 charities, no strings attached and without any need for recognition.
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Sarah Lueck @sarahl202.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
New Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers confirm what we already knew – the reconciliation bill is getting worse, not better. The Senate bill will cut health care more deeply than the House bill and leave more people uninsured. www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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Estimated Budgetary Effects of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Relative to the Budget Enforcement Baseline for Consideration in the Senate
As posted on the website of the Senate Committee on the Budget on June 27, 2025
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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Karen Dolan @karendolan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Sign our letter telling your U.S. Senators to VOTE NO on the Republican Big Bad Betrayal Bill and instead prioritize families and our economy over billionaires. #MomsSky action.momsrising.org/sign/SenateR...
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Speak out against the harmful Republican budget & tax bill.
Sign our letter telling your U.S. Senators to VOTE NO on the Republican Big Bad Betrayal Bill and instead prioritize families and our economy over billionaires.
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Ty Jones Cox @tyjonescox.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
There is confusion about whether the Parliamentarian has indicated that a slightly revised version of the #SNAP cost-shift to states in the Senate Republican bill complies with the Byrd rule. But what’s clear is: the provision’s harmful impact is unchanged.
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Karen Dolan @karendolan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Donate to Karen's Cancer Support, organized by Wendy Shenk-Evans
Our friend Karen was recently diagnosed with advanced stage ovarian cancer that has spread to… Wendy Shenk-Evans needs your support for Karen's Cancer Support
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BlueCrew community @libertyovergov.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
At 92, Willie Nelson was moved to tears after an eight-minute standing ovation at the 2025 Outlaw Music Festival in Phoenix. Thousands chanted “Forever Willie,” honoring the legendary singer with a powerful outpouring of love and gratitude. #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #BlueCircleFamily 💙💙
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief. Nor will we ever. Church and State are, and must remain, separate." --President Ronald Reagan, whom I usually never quote
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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/05/2025
BREAKING: The Trump administration just announced it has filed charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver, who was demanding accountability on behalf of the people she was elected to represent. President Trump is trying to bully people into silence. We won’t let him.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 14/05/2025
By large majorities, Americans across the political spectrum oppose cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other safety net programs, as well as deportations that separate families and target Dreamers who came here as young children. @karendolan.bsky.social in @us.theguardian.com:
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American women and children are in crisis. Republicans are about to make it worse | Karen Dolan
Donald Trump’s budget could gut Medicaid, cut food assistance for millions and lead to 40,000 kids losing childcare
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