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Emily Moore @thatemilygirll.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Tanner McKee and the Eagles healed something inside of me yesterday. FOOTBALL IS BACK BABY!!!! GO F’N BIRDS 🦅 FLY EAGLES FLY!

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Emily Moore @thatemilygirll.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I’m in a medical debt/collections war because Bon Secours fucked up my billing, told me to wait 30 days for them to fix it, and within that 30 day period, they sent it to fucking collections. I refuse to pay it. Now the collections agency calls me 4x a day.

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

it really is insane how you just cannot use search engines to answer simple questions anymore. gleeful destruction of an incredible tool for the dumbest fucking reasons.

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Freedom Virginia @teamfreedomva.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

In Virginia, it is estimated that 78% of working people – about 3.4 million workers –have no guarantee that they won’t miss a critical paycheck when they need to take time off to care for themselves or a loved one. It's time for Paid Family & Medical Leave in Virginia.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 08/07/2025

NEW: Approximately 1hr after I submitted an inquiry to Richmond Police Department asking if the city's Flock Safety ALPR data had been shared with/accessed by feds, a spokesperson issued a statement acknowledging an ATF "analyst" in June "had made queries for immigration enforcement." Full release:

July 8, 2025
ATF Access to RPD License Plate Readers Terminated
In June, administrators of the Richmond Police Department’s license plate reader program
learned an analyst with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had been
granted access to the RPD system and had made queries for immigration enforcement in
violation of RPD’s operational standards. The ATF analyst’s access was immediately
terminated and, moving forward, no federal agencies will have access to RPD’s license plate
reader program.
“ATF is a valued partner in our efforts to combat violent crime in Richmond. But their
analyst should not have been granted access to our system — and absolutely should not
have used it for immigration enforcement purposes,” said RPD Chief Rick Edwards. “I’ve
been clear with the public, with city leadership, and within this department: the Richmond
Police Department does not enforce federal immigration law, and we do not investigate a
person’s immigration status. If ATF had formally requested access for that purpose, I would
have denied it.”

Facts and details:
 The ATF analyst requested access to the RPD license plate reader program on
February 7, 2025, to “assist our agents and TFOs [Task Force Officers] with
investigations in and around Richmond.”
 At that time of their request, the ATF was not actively involved with immigration
enforcement.
 The RPD administrator of the program granted access to the ATF analyst.
 The RPD administrator of the program has since separated from the department.
 In March 2025, the mission of the ATF changed to include immigration enforcement.
 In early March, four detainees from an ICE detention facility in Farmville, Virginia
escaped. In the effort to assist the investigation, the ATF analyst made numerous
inquiries to RPD’s license plate reader program in an effort to apprehend the
escapees.

Overall, the ATF analyst queried 49 unique license plates receiving over 400 results
to those inquiries. Over a quarter of the results received related to the incident in
Farmville.
 The cases involved in the ATF analyst’s queries were a mixture of a) cases that the
ATF traditionally investigates with RPD and other partners, e.g. firearms offenses
and/or violent crime, regardless of a subject’s immigration status (35 of the 49
unique license plates) and b) cases that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
pursues regarding immigration enforcement (14 of the 49 unique license plates).
According to the ATF, all of those cases in the second group involved individuals
that had committed a crime or had a criminal background.
 The analyst did not include the name of the state for a license plate query which
produced a result from a different state for the same license plate numbers and
letters. According to the ATF, all queries made using the system were for
investigations in the state of Virginia. Pursuant to the new Virginia law taking effect
on July 1, 2025, other states no longer have connections to Virginia license plate
information.
 On June 11, the new RPD administrator received an alert from Flock Safety, the
vendor of the license plate readers, that two searches from the ATF analyst
inadvertently accessed Illinois vehicle data with “ICE” in the query field which is a
violation of Illinois law.
 Within five minutes of the new RPD administrator recognizing the ATF analyst had
access to the RPD system and was using it in violation to RPD guidelines, the
administrator terminated the ATF analyst’s access to the system.
 An immediate audit was conducted to ensure no other federal partner or other user
outside of RPD personnel had access to the license plate reader program. No other
user was found to have access.
 The new administrator began an internal investigation on how and when access was
granted to the ATF analyst by the previous, departed manager.
 Last…

“We value our partnership with the Richmond Police Department and regret that this
situation occurred,” said ATF Special Agent in Charge Anthony Spotswood. “Our ATF
analyst accessed RPD’s system in support of ATF’s overall mission and although all the
queries involved criminal activity, they were not in compliance with RPD’s guidelines.
While our investigative analysts support both criminal and immigration-related efforts, the
majority of these searches were directly tied to local investigations involving gun
trafficking, violent offenders, and fraudulent firearms purchases. In one instance, a

potential residency violation may have prompted the use of ‘ICE’ in a search field — but all
queries were related to criminal activity, not civil immigration enforcement.”
“It is frustrating this occurred. However, I appreciate ATF’s willingness to acknowledge
what happened and clarify the nature of the searches,” said Chief Edwards. “We remain
committed to working with our federal partners on the investigation and prosecution of
violent crime. But moving forward, no federal agencies will have access to our license plate
reader program. This tool is vital to solving serious crimes in our city, and we will ensure it
is used lawfully, responsibly, and in alignment with Richmond’s values.”

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Emily Moore @thatemilygirll.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Elise from RVA on jeopardy tonight! Woohoo!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

It’s all a bit too much.

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Based on new USDA data released today, 44 states would have to pay tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars under Senate Republicans' #SNAP cost-shift plan. If a state can't fully pay, they would have to cut many low-income families off SNAP or end their program altogether.

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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Even with tweaks, the Senate plan would still cut health and food assistance, leave millions uninsured, and leave states struggling to fill the gaps.

Senate Republican bill would take health care and food assistance away from people to pay for tax cuts for wealthy.

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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Under the Republican health agenda, about 17 million would lose health coverage and become uninsured. That's not minutiae.

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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We have not seen the final language but presume that the US Senate just voted 50-50 with Vance breaking the tie to pass the OBBB with over $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts. A sad day.

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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 30/06/2025

🥗 The list of awful and horrifying provisions of the reconciliation bill is just staggering. How can we hurt as many people as possible, as cruelly as possible, with the sole justification to further enrich the already stinking rich?

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Ty Jones Cox @tyjonescox.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The federal government would still be turning its back on the 50-year national commitment to ensure that the lowest-income families in every state have access to the food assistance they need. See how much each state could owe: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

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Research Note: Senate Republican Leaders’ Proposal Risks Deep Cuts to Food Assistance, Some States Ending SNAP Entirely | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

States, which must balance their budgets every year, would struggle to absorb these substantial new costs.

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Ty Jones Cox @tyjonescox.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Under the slightly revised version, each state’s unfunded mandate would be based on error rate data that is 3, rather than 2 years old. States would know the share of SNAP benefits they are being forced to absorb a year earlier. But no one should think this fixes this policy.

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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 18/06/2025

I don’t know how and don’t even care, but this administration needs to be ended. It is evil and profoundly destructive.

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Emily Moore @thatemilygirll.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I am so distressed around everything happening with budget reconciliation and literally ~EVERYTHING ELSE.~ Our org is closed for collective rest for the next 3 days and I am so torn b/t needing to keep up with everything & truly needing to disconnect for a few days for my own well-being.

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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 12/06/2025

🥗 A huge problem with work requirements is that they disregard care work as work. Raising a child is work. Caring for an ill partner or elderly parent is work. Grandparents caring for grandkids are working. But they would be cut off of SNAP unless they work 20 hours/week in addition to care work.

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Emily Moore @thatemilygirll.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

"An internal memo and emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block the data transfer, citing legal and ethical concerns." THIS is unconscionable. This follows USDA requesting state data on SNAP enrollees dating back to January 2020.

apnews.com

Trump administration gives personal data of immigrant Medicaid enrollees to deportation officials

President Donald Trump's administration has released to deportation officials the personal data for millions of Medicaid enrollees, including their immigration status.

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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 09/06/2025

🥗 SUN Bucks is coming to Virginia again this summer! Families who qualify will receive $120 per school aged child for grocery costs over the summer, when school is out. More here from @thatemilygirll.bsky.social of @voicesforvakids.bsky.social: vakids.org/posts/sun-bu...

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SUN Bucks Supports Food Security for Young People During the Summer | Voices for Virginia's Children

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Emily Moore @thatemilygirll.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

RICHMOND: The Market @ 25th is providing free lunch to kids this summer! Starting TODAY June 9 - Aug. 15 Mon - Fri, 12p - 2p The Market @ 25th Community Room Children 1 - 18 years old FREE Nutritious Lunches to Consume Onsite

WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE?
• Starting June 9 through Aug. 15
• Mon - Fri, 12p - 2p
• The Market @ 25th Community Room
• Children 1 - 18 years old
• FREE Nutritious Lunches to Consume
Onsite

This summer, The Market © 25th is partnering with Feed More to bring free, nutritious meals to children in our community! *All children from ages 1 - 18 are welcome to swing by our Community Room from 12p - 2p, Monday through Friday, from June gth to August 15th and partake!

*Parents bringing children receive a voucher for $5 off a purchase of $50 at The Market ® 25th, usable immediately, as well as a 10% discount off a future purchase if they check out with AppCard using their phone number.

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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 04/06/2025

🥗 important point on the precarity and inflexibility of the kinds of jobs people who need Medicaid are likely to have

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Student Defense @studentdefense.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

"We have no idea what the government's up to—who's going to have access to this data, for what purposes, and whether USDA is going to keep it internal or whether USDA is going to share it with other federal agencies for other purposes.” – Madeline Wiseman, Student Defense Counsel

npr.org

Lawsuit challenges USDA demand for food stamp data as some states prepare to comply

The suit claims that efforts to get sensitive information about food aid recipients from states violates federal privacy laws.

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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 01/06/2025

🥗 @danzibel.bsky.social and @studentdefense.bsky.social thank you for your work to defend SNAP recipients' personal data from USDA's illegal demands! Critically important work.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This is the hardest thing to explain after coming back from a trip, that my favorite part was just walking around a new city seeing what there is to see.

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Emily Moore @thatemilygirll.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Three things I’ve been advocating for: no cuts to Medicaid, no cuts to SNAP, no banning the tush push. At least one of those things has gone my way this week.

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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The House will now take next step on reconciliation + Medicaid cuts at 1am Weds. Yes you read that right. Many of the (growing) cuts target the ACA adult expansion group. ICYMI a new rigorous study finds that expansion has saved lives literally; 21% ⬇️ in mortality www.nber.org/papers/w33719

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Saved by Medicaid: New Evidence on Health Insurance and Mortality from the Universe of Low-Income Adults

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Emily Moore @thatemilygirll.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

“Finalizing” (lol because is anything final in this work these days) our analysis of the impacts of the House Medicaid and SNAP proposals and attending the VA Commission to End Hunger Meeting — the bottom line is Virginians will suffer under these proposals. We must fight.

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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

House E & Commerce Ctte all night Medicaid markup over The Committee voted on party lines for at least $625 billion in Medicaid cuts thru a series of complex policy changes. I'm deeply dismayed that the House is rushing to cut Medicaid w/o understanding the full impact + no complete CBO score.

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Many SNAP participants work unstable, low-wage jobs that have unpredictable hours & no benefits like paid sick leave. SNAP's work requirement takes food away from workers who are between jobs, working inconsistent hours, or get tangled in the red tape of reporting work hours.

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Waivers of SNAP's work requirement are vital because many unemployed workers need more than the 3-month limit to find a new job, especially when the economy is weaker. But even when the unemployment rate is <5%, 1 in 3 unemployed workers need 15 weeks or longer to find work.

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Gideon Lukens @gidlukens.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The Ways and Means committee bill includes a slew of expansions of tax-advantaged health savings accounts – totaling more than $40 billion/10y – that mostly benefit high-income people and do nothing to address the problems people face affording care. www.cbpp.org/blog/five-re...

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Five Reasons Lawmakers Should Reject Expansions of Health Savings Accounts | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Expanding health savings accounts (HSAs) is a key element of Republicans’ health care policy agenda. Ostensibly, HSAs allow people enrolled in certain health insurance policies to set aside money...

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Ty Jones Cox @tyjonescox.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The House Ag bill released tonight would take away or cut #SNAP food benefits for millions of low-income people struggling to afford groceries—families w/ children, seniors, ppl w/ disabilities, veterans & workers in low-wage jobs.

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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 12/05/2025

🥗 SNAP Map: 1-month % change in participation, January-February 2025, by state app.datawrapper.de/edit/w2tzx/p...

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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Guess what? There are in fact hundreds of billions of dollars of Medicaid cuts in the bill…

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Emily Moore @thatemilygirll.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The combined impacts (discussed on page 2 of the CBO markup) estimate 13.7 million uninsured by 2034. Horrific.

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Emily Moore @thatemilygirll.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I might be reading the most depressing E&C budget markup ever….but at least I’m sitting outside drinking coffee and listening to the birds chirp???

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Michael A. Shea @michaelashea.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

New York is now the 9th state to offer universal free school lunch. Their gov signed the bill this morning. Virginia should quickly become the 10th. We have the money. GA back in session later this year. (h/t @fooddatanerd.com for highlighting NYS story.) www.foodservicedirector.com/k-12-schools...

foodservicedirector.com

New York becomes the latest state to offer universal free school meals

This fall, over 2.7 million students in the state will now receive free breakfast and lunch each day at school.

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Emily Moore @thatemilygirll.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I just want a Republican to answer one question for me: Why are you pushing people to have children that will ultimately die young or suffer lifetime consequences from the impacts of poverty and hunger, preventable illness like measles, or lack of health care all together?

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Leran @leran.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

“Solve poverty and you’ll reduce SNAP the right way.” @povertylawyer.bsky.social #SNAPMatters

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

when i learn how to meal plan beyond one (1) meal it's over for you all

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Leran @leran.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

“It’s a choice, a conscience choice to cut $230 billion from SNAP. It’s a conscience choice to not feed children at school.” - @repjahanahayes.bsky.social #SNAPmatters

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TCI @tcifiscal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

BREAKING: Per Richmond Times-Dispatch, Rep. Wittman "would not support cuts that would trigger the 'kill switch' in Virginia law," which would automatically kick ~630,000 people off health coverage via Medicaid expansion. This is very encouraging! #ProtectMedicaid

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Wittman: Cuts to federal share of Medicaid costs 'a no-go'

Rep. Rob Wittman, R-1st, said he has expressed his concerns about the proposals to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.

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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 06/05/2025

🥗 hunger and poverty are policy choices. Let’s choose differently. #hungerpc25 #agsky

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Emily Moore @thatemilygirll.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Hunger in America is a public policy choice.

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