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Maggie Dickinson

@mag2d2.bsky.social
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Writing about shoplifting food, CUNY for life, mother of twins and cats

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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Academic friends - link here to make a public comment on proposed rule to revoke tax exempt status for colleges and universities supporting Black students with any scholarships or campus programs - basically trying to re-segregate higher ed. Small thing you can do today to say fuck that.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/31/p...
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Pastor Calls for Remains of Freed Slaves to Be Reinterred, Urges City to Landmark Site
As many as 300 African American slaves and freed slaves have been buried at the Queens site, which has since been turned into a parking lot.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! We’re out in Nashville to remind everyone that Starbucks has become the poster child for corporate greed. If you support workers, it’s time to BOYCOTT STARBUCKS until they stop stonewalling the over 12,000 union baristas fighting for a fair contract!
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When, in January 2025, I wrote that the Trump administration was segregationist folks said I was exaggerating. I would have *loved* to be wrong about this but the unfortunate evidence remains on my side. This is just racism, pure and simple.
nytimes.com
Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Food stamps and work are not opposites. Most non-disabled adults on SNAP work. Their jobs do not pay enough. When people lose a job, SNAP is often all they have until they find another one. 2/3 of SNAP recipients are children, elderly or disabled.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented
SNAP participation nationwide fell by more than 4.5 million people (nearly 11 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and April 2026, based on the latest month of data.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 21/07/2026
Hunger can't be separated from the criminalization and incarceration of vulnerable populations. Kicking people off SNAP—especially as the cost of living skyrockets—is a crisis.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The "defund the police" cost Democrats countless elections claim always sits awkwardly with the fact that peak "defund" activism was 2020, the year that Democrats won their first federal governing trifecta since 2008.
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Mid-Hudson Valley DSA @mhvdsa.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
ICE is leasing a 32k sq ft warehouse near Stewart Airport to detain our kidnapped neighbors‼️ Show up on 7/13 at 5:30 to rally outside Newburgh Town Hall then give public comments. Together, we kept ICE out of Chester. Together, we’ll block ICE from Newburgh. Abolish ICE!
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Leah Douglas @leahjdouglas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Last year, Trump canceled the country's "gold standard" food insecurity survey. Without it, assessing whether his cuts to SNAP make hunger worse could be much harder. Nearly 5 million people have lost SNAP benefits since last July, when HR1 passed. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
reuters.com
Trump cut to food security survey could make measuring US hunger harder
President Donald Trump's cancellation last year of a government food security survey could make it difficult to assess whether ​his cuts to the food stamp program lead to a rise in U.S. hunger, especi...
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Update on ICE lease of warehouse in Newburgh, NY: "The Town of Newburgh will pursue all available legal options to prevent this facility from being established in our community." — Gil Piaquadio, Supervisor of the Town of Newburgh www.townofnewburghny.gov/cn/news/inde...
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ICE DETENTION FACILITY OPPOSED BY TOWN OF NEWBURGH - Town of Newburgh News
Town of Newburgh, NY official web site
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Nothing says "intellectual freedom" like forcing students to take mandatory conservative indoctrination classes. Shout-out to all the embarrassing academics who believe any of this was in good faith.
chronicle.com
A Flagship’s Civics Center Saw Low Enrollment. Now Students Will Be Required to Take Classes There.
A provision in the Iowa state budget will require all students at the University of Iowa to complete two classes at the Center for Intellectual Freedom to get their degree.
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Arizona's SNAP rolls have fallen 52% and we haven't even seen the full effects of these SNAP cuts.
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
and since the USDA no longer collects national data on hunger and food insecurity, we'll have no way of knowing the impact of kicking several million people off of SNAP
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The straightforward effect of adding more administrative burden on stores will be that fewer stores will accept SNAP. These are the equivalent of abortion TRAP laws, like mandating the width of a corridor.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll. People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.
slate.com
It Could Lead to Tens of Thousands of Deaths. In the Meantime, It’s Wreaking Havoc on Americans’ Sanity.
Imagine not being able to feed your kid because of a mistake on a piece of paperwork.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 08/04/2026
We are in the middle of a subscription drive for our new food and culture site. We are worker-owned, have no investors or VC money, and will never use gen AI to make any written, visual or audio work. If that sounds good to you, sign up for a paid subscription or donate today! www.weareravenous.com
weareravenous.com
Ravenous Is a New Worker-Owned Food Culture Media Company
For too long, food media has felt toothless. Help us take a bite out of it.
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
wow.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Everything is so stupid and there will come a day when folks look back on the persecution of trans folks with the same moral disgust as other crimes against humanity. No one needs protection from trans women. We all need protection, tho, from violent hateful bigots. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...
nytimes.com
Olympic Committee Announces a Broad Ban of Transgender Athletes in Women’s Events
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
wow.
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Texas AAUP press release: aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-au...
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UT Austin Closing Ethnic, Gender and Area Studies Departments
Social: X @TexasAaup and Bluesky @texasaaup.bsky.social
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I laughed so hard
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This document is one of the great political failures of our time. It must be immediately denounced by all people of good will. And it will be a major scandal if any "civil rights" organization gives cover to this capitulation to fascism.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Hours after I first posted this article, I was told that several VA nurses who are members of AFGE will attend the union’s annual legislative conference in Washington next week to raise the issue of kicking the National Border Patrol Council out of AFGE and the AFL-CIO. I hope they succeed.
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
It is abuser logic all the way down. "Don't make me hurt you" and then "See what you did?"
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
David French argued Renee Good's murder is an example of the US having two sytems of law: orderly for friends & belligerent for foes. @victorerikray.bsky.social corrects him: US law has always promised fascism for non-whites & those who stand with them. groupthreat.com/p/americas-d...
groupthreat.com
America's "dual state" is a racial state
ICE's terrors draw on an American traditions of racial violence
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National Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
We're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them. This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! bit.ly/4big77u
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National Nurses United outraged by murder of VA registered nurse by immigration agents, demand abolition of ICE
NNU issued the following statement in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, RN: “The nation’s nurses, who make it their mission to care for and save human lives, are horrified and outraged that immig...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It's straight from the fascist playbook to create chaos and then demand unquestioned authority to stop the chaos.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
It's always been abolish ICE. For the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE than oppose it. But Republicans are proposing hundreds of millions in funding for this lawless agency. I'll oppose this bill. We cannot give more money to an agency responsible for terrorizing our communities.
White text on a black background has the words "Reform, retrain, defund" crossed out. Below, white text reads "Abolish ICE."
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov Anything less than cutting ICE's budget is complicity with the terror and mayhem that agency is sowing in Minnesota and across the country. Not another dime.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is why I told y'all that messaging that centers training is/was a mistake. You cannot train away the mission, the racism, or the impunity. This shit just makes the violence more expensive. Also, if this is true, it's a bitch ass move by Senate Dems, and people should be harsh af about it.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The shooting in Minnesota is a reminder that while authoritarian governments may justify abuses of power by directing them at scapegoats or vulnerable populations, the goal is ultimately to deploy them against anyone they wish to www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Trump administration has repeatedly targeted small and politically disempowered populations—Haitians, Somalis, trans people—in order to justify abuses of power. But its abuses of power are not limited to those communities. What the government can do to the most vulnerable among us, it can also do to you.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Our study, using over 400 volunteer shoppers, found that Instacart offered different prices to different shoppers on 74% of the grocery items tested.
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Rob @robwagner.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Admiral Holsey resigned rather than follow illegal orders. Bradley, could have said no, but he did not
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
people are so smart and creative.
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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 09/11/2025
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️
No.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I know this man does not care (and maybe enjoys toying with folks on SNAP) but parents are trying to figure out how they are going to feed their kids. The level of stress and anxiety every time some confusing new report comes out is its own form of cruelty.
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
They are bringing back the poorhouse.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The magnitude of 42 million people losing SNAP all at once is hard to fathom.
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Extremely true.
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Princess Pretty Girl @princessprettygirl.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
As a person who twice barely avoided getting kidnapped and sent to conversion therapy by my own family members it is very disheartening to hear that conversion therapy is still being discussed. Last i checked the only thing it converts is living kids to dead ones.
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Maggie Dickinson @mag2d2.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Literally welfare reform for public housing. Clinton opened this pandora's box in 1996 and this was always where it was headed - start with cash assistance and then use work requirements and time limits to gut every inch of the safety net.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 03/08/2025
"[T]he first major successful BDS campaign at an academic sociological association, as realized through the suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society." "The struggle for a free Palestine continues, and we call on all scholars to join us." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
mondoweiss.net
International Sociological Association bars Israeli public institutions from membership over refusal to condemn genocide
The suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society by the International Sociological Association marks a significant milestone in the international academic boycott of Israel.
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The only thing with a chance of defending higher ed is a network of organized faculty and staff. We're the ones who actually believe in our mission. Most admin and trustees don't. Those who do are welcome, but they are rare. It's only us. And a lot of us are already active. So if you're not, join!
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Read this whole thread. The EO is a huge regressive step. And Brian's not wrong to be worried about this point in particular. The major theme of Trump II social policy is old-style Poor Law thinking, down to the indoor versus outdoor relief distinction.
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