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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 28/10/2025

KY’s Beshear joins legal challenge to Trump administration’s planned shutdown of SNAP food assistance in November. Food banks in Kentucky were already feeling pressure. @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/28/k...

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KY’s Beshear joins challenge to Trump administration’s shutdown of SNAP food assistance • Kentucky Lantern

Gov. Andy Beshear is one of two dozen officials suing the Trump administration over its halt of food benefits to 42 million Americans.

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Seth Drake @sethdrakeky.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

LGBTQ+ Kentuckians know that #PRIDE is about courage. The courage to live authentically. To love openly. To speak out, even when it’s hard. This June, let us celebrate our community’s strength and recommit to building a Commonwealth that upholds our dignity, not denies it. 🏳️‍🌈

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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 20/05/2025

Even though overdose deaths have declined over the last three years, Kentucky still has one of the highest rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) in the United States, according to a national report released today. @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/05/20/k...

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KY still pays price for one of nation's highest rates of opioid use disorder, says new report • Kentucky Lantern

Though overdose deaths declined over the last three years, Kentucky still has one of the highest rates of opioid use disorder in the country.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/05/2025

Republicans in Congress are looking for cuts to Medicaid to help offset the costs of extending tax cuts. But the leading plans would increase the share of Americans who are uninsured, a review by the Congressional Budget Office estimated.

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G.O.P. Plans to Cut Medicaid Would Save Billions but Leave More Uninsured, Budget Office Says

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House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats @houseforeign.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

USAID should be an independent voice for US soft power, and any efforts to reorganize it must go through Congress. RMs Meeks, Shaheen, Frankel, Schatz letter to USAID acting Administrator:

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ACLU of Kentucky @acluofky.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

All students are guaranteed the right to attend school. Every child has the right to an education, regardless of immigration status, as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and upheld by the Supreme Court. buff.ly/4aIOMc0

Jefferson County Public Schools welcomes all students.
JCPS will not take any action that might discourage students from enrolling and participating in school, or that might lead to the exclusion of students, based on immigration status.

Jefferson County Public Schools protects student privacy.
JCPS does not ask about or disclose immigration status. The Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) prevents schools from releasing students' education records, including information about immigration status.

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WDRB+WAVE @wdrbnews.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"The Constitution grants us the power of the purse. This is money that has already been put in the bank accounts by Congress. It has already been spent."

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US representative from Kentucky calls Trump administration's federal loan pause unconstitutional

U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey, D-KY, called President Donald Trump's pause on federal grants and loans unconstitutional.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law" 2025 House Appropriations Chair: "Appropriations is not a law."

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Sergio Martínez-Beltrán @sergiomarbel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The @aclu.org & immigrant rights orgs have filed a lawsuit challenging Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. “We will not let this attack on newborns and future generations of Americans go unchallenged,” said ACLU ED Anthony D. Romero. “We will ultimately prevail.”

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