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Jen Greenfield
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Assoc Prof @ U of Denver, researcher, policy specialist, social worker, mentor, learner, neurodivergent mom of twins. News junkie who believes in science, coffee, and the Oxford comma. #AcademicMama #ADHD #FosterDogs https://linktr.ee/jcgreenfield
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Increasing work requirements isn’t going to increase workforce participation. It’s going to increase hunger. I’m glad Newsweek is clear about this (and grateful I had a chance to comment in this piece).
SNAP work rules may lead to loss of benefits
New SNAP rules have raised concerns about employment and potential loss of benefits.
www.newsweek.com
Thank you. This picture makes me itch.
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“As much as we are being lied to by this administration…perhaps the most dangerous falsehoods are the ones we tell ourselves about the severity of the crisis…
Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy…it will be a resurrection and not a continuation.”

Well put by @aselrod.bsky.social
All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations
Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.
www.liberalcurrents.com
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ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.
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Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):
Damn, did not have “crying while Dr. Goodall spoke to me” on my Sunday bingo card, but here we are.
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
I took a little time away from <everything> to appreciate the mountains up close. It is peak aspen season.
“You’ve got three seconds to point that camera somewhere else, Janet.”
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Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps
Step 2: Stop measuring hunger
Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
www.wsj.com
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Pay attention to all this. There is a systemtic deterioration of the ability of the federal government to compile accurate statistics on a timely basis. And the ready and timely information is one of the reasons why our economy has been the greatest in the world for a long time.
#BLS has delayed the 2024 Consumer Expenditures Survey annual release. This is likely due to the severe understaffing in the agency.
Staff losses and hiring freeze are taking their toll.

www.bls.gov/cex/notices/...

#econsky
Consumer Expenditures 2024 Data Release to be Rescheduled
Consumer Expenditures 2024 Data Release to be Rescheduled (9/19/2025)
www.bls.gov
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This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.
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Northern lights viewed from Fleming, CO! Wow!

📸: Evolution Studios

#COwx
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“Do you acknowledge reality?”
“No, i don’t.”
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BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinois—U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants.

People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?”

This is authoritarian control in real time.
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TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be?

LADAPO: Absolutely not

T: You didn't even do a projection?

L: It's an issue of right & wrong
Oh REALLY?
Seven months after they voted to confirm anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the nation’s health secretary, some Republican senators are having second thoughts.
Why some Republicans are newly worried about RFK Jr.
GOP senators say his moves on vaccines are risky for public health. They also may be bad politics.
www.washingtonpost.com
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🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US.

Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
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this really did fall by the wayside and yet it is in fact fuckin nuts
The country is so poorly run we can’t receive packages from overseas anymore, and I’m not sure it makes the top 10 of the administration’s dumbest, unforced errors