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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kennedy took money for the Office of Minority Health and used it for his own security detail. And now, his anti-vax push will disproportionately harm Black, Latino, and Indigenous children who rely on Medicaid to pay for their vaccines talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rfk-jrs...

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RFK Jr’s Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already demonstrated his Department of Health and...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 05/10/2026

Because of federal rules, children covered by Medicaid won't be able to access vaccines that are no longer recommended by the federal government, even as children with private insurance will.

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RFK Jr’s Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already demonstrated his Department of Health and...

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“.. We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First there was "the negro problem." Now racists are trying to coin a new version: "the Indian question." one of endless examples of why solidarity among Black people and other people of color, along with any socially vulnerable group, would benefit everyone.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this whole federal student loan thing is a MESS. I opted into a new, approved plan, and yet just got a "FINAL NOTICE" from my servicer about needing to switch plans? seriously just leave me alone!!!

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What I find significant about today's jobs report is not only the paltry 29,000 jobs added in September but the downward revisions for the two previous months. July's revision takes that month from 21k jobs gained to 10k jobs lost. www.bls.gov/news.release...

A screenshot from the BLS Employment Situation release reads: The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for July was revised down by 31,000, from +21,000 to -10,000, and the change for August was revised down by 29,000, from +162,000 to +133,000. With these revisions, employment in July and August combined is 60,000 lower than previously reported.

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A proposed change to a key tax form could be used to accomplish a long-time Republican objective: to shift power in Congress by excluding most immigrants from the process that determine's a state's congressional representation

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New IRS Citizenship Question Could Make It Easier for Census Bureau to Shift Political Power

A proposed change to a key tax form could help the Trump...

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Glad to share this 1st piece by @educationwork.newamerica.org's Virginia Spinks about how the Trump admin is messing with the #Census, threatening rural areas, democratic representation, & civil rights enforcement. Shoutouts to reporting from @hansilowang.bsky.social and @laylaayanna.bsky.social!

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Census Changes Threaten Fair Funding and Representation

Policy changes at the U.S. Census Bureau threaten the agency’s impartiality, increase underrepresentation, and erode federal funding.

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In the Weekender: I break down the different flavors of GOP midterms cope @laylaayanna.bsky.social on Republicans blaming data center opposition on China -The Nvidia CEO not knowing his own address -The cancelation of Freedom Fest w/Kid Rock and more talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

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The Midterms Look Bad for Republicans. How Are GOP Candidates Coping?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026

NEW: Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped publishing the narratives.

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The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move

Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: Missouri Dismisses Hail-Mary Lawsuit to Gain More Political Power, Confident Trump Admin Will Do *What it Wants *What it Wants is to 1) violate the 14th Amendment 2) exclude immigrants from the census and 3) take political power and federal funds from Democratic states.

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Missouri Dismisses Hail-Mary Lawsuit to Gain More Political Power, Confident Trump Admin Will Do What it Wants

The state of Missouri early this year sued the Department of Commerce...

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: Census Bureau ordered staff to halt all external events related to the 2030 Census amid the agency’s release of a controversial, unprecedented rule proposal aimed at excluding immigrants from the count, according to a copy of an email obtained by TPM. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

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Exclusive: Census Bureau Directs Staff to Keep Quiet During Comment Period for Controversial New Rule

Leadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external...

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external events related to the 2030 Census amid the agency’s release of a controversial and unprecedented rule proposal, according to a copy of an email obtained by TPM. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

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Exclusive: Census Bureau Directs Staff to Keep Quiet During Comment Period for Controversial New Rule

Leadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external...

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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“At first, I thought it was a mistake because it seemed like such a bad idea,” said a tax expert about the Census Bureau's new plan to change who gets counted in the census and where:

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Exclusive: Commerce Overruled Treasury Concerns in Push to Narrow Census Count

Before the Trump administration issued its rule aiming to reshape the Census...

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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This new @laylaayanna.bsky.social article has a very easy to understand explanation of the problems with shifting the 2030 Census’s residence rule from “where you live and sleep most of the time as of April 1” to your tax return address or ”where you spent most of your time January through March.“

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Census Bureau wants to use your tax data to identify where you live even though officials from Treasury (IRS) told them not to. Census moved forward anyway. Why? To exclude most immigrants from being counted and shift political power to Republican states talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

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Exclusive: Commerce Overruled Treasury Concerns in Push to Narrow Census Count

Before the Trump administration issued its rule aiming to reshape the Census...

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Aaaand the Trump tirade has come talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My @talkingpointsmemo.com investigation into Marshall Rawson among the many disturbing stories about the GOP's Nazism listed in this @jamellebouie.net piece www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o...

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Opinion | The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End

The Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream.

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” he told me. “And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This story has been updated with quotes from Warsh's presser. *Spoiler alert: He refused to discuss conversations with Trump but did touch on Fed independence.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is a big deal on its own. But hard to overstate the level of fail on Trump's part. He committed various high crimes to boot the old Fed chief and finally appoint his own nepo-by-marriage-Fed Chief, all to get soft money policies. And now his new guy has raised rates. Sad.

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Federal Reserve voted unanimously to raise interest rates for the first time since 2023, even after Trump has continued attacking the the central bank's independence and threatened to stop trade if the Fed didn't lower rates. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

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Trump’s Threats to Stop Trade Couldn’t Keep the Fed from Hiking Interest Rates

The Federal Reserve opted to raise interest rates by one-quarter of a...

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The government has paid out $134.7 billion out of an estimated $166B owed in IEEPA tariffs refunds to businesses. The third and final main refund phase will launch next month. It’s only for submissions from “plaintiffs for which the Court has ordered reliquidation.”

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Did you know you've been helping to pay for tariff refunds for foreign companies? Even as prices remain elevated for U.S. shoppers, at least 17 publicly-listed Chinese companies have netted about $160 million talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chinese...

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Foreign Companies Have Netted Millions in Tariff Refunds. Taxpayers Foot Part of the Bill

International companies are getting tariff refunds — with added, taxpayer-funded interest. People...

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"In a series of October 2023 posts, Rawson appeared to defend slavery, writing ... 'God did many ‘racisms’ too.' ... Rawson argued there were biblical justifications for the institution of putting people in chains."

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When I was reaching out to Rawson’s campaign donors, I ended up stumbling upon a story in of itself: Josh Doggrell was fired from Alabama police department in 2015 over his involvement in League of the South When I searched his name I found out… he’s now a Lt. in an Alabama sheriff’s office

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.

The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Voters in Florida nominated a man who marched alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia for a seat in the Florida House.

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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.

The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Republicans may not control the White House in 2030, but, if they do, the Trump administration is thoroughly laying the groundwork for them to screw deeply with the Census, with implications for how political power is apportioned in Congress and the Electoral College

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Census Quietly Changes Charter for Key Policy Committee, Opening Door for Political Interference

As the Census Bureau wades deeper into politics, governance changes at an...

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Latch - Disclosure ft Sam Smith was a cultural reset

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Trump administration has officially proposed a rule that would completely eliminate the collection of race and ethnicity data from the 10-year Census. It's unprecedented and would be an "economic disaster" for the U.S., experts told TPM.

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Trump Admin Officially Moves to Reshape National Political Power With New Changes to 2030 Census

A version of a federal rule proposing to exclude certain noncitizens from...

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

WSJ: The States on the Front Lines of the Trade War With Canada By Alana Pipe and Jeanne Whalen The latest Canadian tariffs on $20 billion of U.S. exports went into effect Tuesday. A handful of U.S. states are likely to feel a big effect. Gift link! @jeannewhalen.bsky.social

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The States on the Front Lines of the Trade War With Canada

The latest Canadian tariffs on $20 billion of U.S. exports went into effect Tuesday. A handful of U.S. states are likely to feel a big effect.

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As Canada's retaliatory tariffs take effect against the US this week, I wrote about the way Trump's trade policies are hurting his base (and his party) in states with toss-up Senate races talkingpointsmemo.com/news/abandon...

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‘Abandoned by the President:’ Trump’s Economic Policies Keep Hurting His Rural Base

On Monday afternoon, Craig Moss was testing out a new silage chopper....

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Steven Ruggles @stevenruggles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"I mean, that’s just dumb" Steven Ruggles, a professor at the University of Minnesota

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Over the weekend, it sort of hit me why there are so many right-wing conspiracy theories about the way the Census was conducted: it measures the population of each state—core to political power in America. Alleging Dems rigged it gives GOP permission to counter-rig it. Like elections.

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Stop the Steal’s Wonky Sibling

A Permission Structure for a Power Grab As Allegra wrote over the...

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

ICYMI: How the Trump administration might be taking cues (and making actual policy!?!) from a right-wing conspiracy theory rooted in complete misinformation about a wonky statistical method. The policies stand to disenfranchise voters, eliminate data, etc etc talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-b...

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How a Baseless, Right-Wing Social Media Panic Led to Dramatic Changes at the Census Bureau

When longtime Indiana politician Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) lobbed a powerful allegation...

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Republicans and assorted social media influencers are claiming, falsely, that bureaucrats used the 2020 census to hand seats in Congress to Democrats. @laylaayanna.bsky.social looks at where this myth came from and how it's informing Trump admin policy.

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How a Baseless, Right-Wing Social Media Panic Led to Dramatic Changes at the Census Bureau

When longtime Indiana politician Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) lobbed a powerful allegation...

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is a fascinating story about a kind of wonky, census corollary to Trump's 2020 big lie. Republicans are claiming bureaucrats used the 2020 census to hand seats in Congress to Democrats. That is, of course, not true — but the myth is now making its way into Census Bureau policy.

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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Right-wingers have spun a complex statistical method (that they don't understand) into a completely baseless conspiracy theory that has spread from the courts, to social media, to the White House. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-b...

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How a Baseless, Right-Wing Social Media Panic Led to Dramatic Changes at the Census Bureau

When longtime Indiana politician Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) lobbed a powerful allegation...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 31/08/2026

@hunterw.bsky.social on the pardons of Jan 6 rioters and the fact that election denier candidates like Republican Tom Smith in Michigan attended Trump's speech on Jan 6: "The [Jan 6] conspirators never really left the Hill, and now we're bringing them back." www.tiktok.com/@huntersfeed...

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Trying to share an important story #fyp #dc #washingtondc #nyc #television

TikTok video by Hunter Walker

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