On Thursday, the HHS moved to eliminate the Administration for Community Living (ACL), a subsidiary established in 2012 to support disabled and aging people.
The shutdown, part of wider cuts, will mean “more people forced into institutional settings.”https://t.co/1k9RdfIneM
It's increasingly clear these guys were thrown in prison in El Salvador because they had tattoos the administration didn't understand or just lied about while evading any due process where their claims could be questioned. https://t.co/ryAYQmfICC
SCOOP @MotherJones: Nancy Mace's so-called "victim hotline" isn't a hotline—it's a voicemail box that nobody answers (I called 3x today).
South Carolina victims service providers DO NOT want survivors to call it—call state or national hotlines instead!
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New feature! I wrote about the decades-long fight over raw milk, and the man who hopes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might be about to change everything for him: https://t.co/uT5G9Ppsh4
On this day in 1942, boxing legend Muhammad Ali was born. He refused to be drafted into the US army to fight in the imperial war on Vietnam🇻🇳:
“My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America…shoot them for what? They never called me n*****, they never lynched me…how can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.”
Taylor Cadle was 12 years old when she was sexually abused by her adoptive father —but law enforcement in Polk County, Florida decided she was the criminal and charged her with lying.
Part of her probation was writing an apology to her abuser. https://t.co/qW40S3lSXw
When 12-year-old Taylor Cadle said she was sexually abused, a detective threatened her with going back to foster care and accused her of lying. To vindicate herself, Taylor pulled out her phone and hit record. https://t.co/jX2pMwuRk9
In an internal Q&A shared yesterday with staff, the Washington Post says it will accept the resignation of any employee who does not wish to return to the office five days a week
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies issued a somewhat muted response to the racist troll messages that Black voters got nationwide. Researchers say they think they know how these people were targeted: https://t.co/LZKr5jCE02
I often think about this: younger people in the US and other wealthy nations are far more likely to have a zero-sum mindset—the idea that someone’s gain means a loss for others—compared to older generations. From our paper on zero-sum thinking (full 🧵 https://t.co/N4ajOWD3lH)
"The reversal aimed for was profound: a reversal of the ideas of the people who simply, in ordinary everyday life, have to calculate how to survive." https://t.co/uKUuCrxZdb
A labor of love by @msjpauly and me, for @MotherJones: on trans rights under a Trump vs. Harris administration, the courts, the power of the presidential pulpit, and the "most anti-LGBTQ election since 2004." https://t.co/VAFhWvmmoV