Maggie Dickinson
mag2d2.bsky.social
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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Pantries and meal programs exist everywhere and this is where people who lose SNAP will turn. No need to reinvent the wheel. These organizations need money and volunteers.
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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.
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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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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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.
It's not at all alarmist to expect that the new network of detention centers will be used to confine unhoused people—and to extract free labor from them. Everything in this executive order points in that direction.
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The Orwellian myth at the heart of industrial agriculture?

That environmental destruction is actually conservation.

This must-read essay traces how productivism – the obsession with yield – fuels ecocide & colonialism, while failing to 'feed the world'.

📖 spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...
The Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World” – Spectre Journal
Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the "feed-the-world" approaches to feed security.
spectrejournal.com
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We just dropped a completely new merch store, and we couldn't be more excited!

100% of proceeds go toward the strike fund for union Starbucks workers. ✊🔥

SHOP NOW - www.unioncoffeegear.com
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Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.
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if any other country suddenly moved to expel half a million - HALF A MILLION - nonwhite immigrants, reporters would call that a crime against humanity. forced transfer of population falls under that designation; it's also one of the defining aspects of genocide. i'm incandescently angry over this.
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I am remembering a moment when Congress was up in arms about plagiarism charges that were no where near as clear cut.
Withdrawing the incredibly successful pandemic social welfare programs is one of the less talked about facets of our descent into overt fascism.
During the pandemic, the US implemented the most effective social welfare policies in our history -- programs that worked because they were big enough, simple, and universal. And then we withdrew them. This remains imo the central economic-policy story of our times. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/3hou...
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There is no need for Medicaid work requirements because almost everyone who can work is working.
What we are getting instead is Medicaid work *reporting* requirements, where people lose coverage because of administrative burdens.
They are running the welfare reform playbook on SNAP - pushing funding onto the states adding work requirements. SNAP has become the safety net of last resort over the last 25 years and now they are shredding it while cutting $ for food banks. They are legislating hunger.
This student is so brave. And also - watch the faculty who cheer her on and those who squirm.
WOW: Absolute RESPECT to Cecilia Culver for delivering a courageous, and kickass, commencement speech that calls out her university's complicity with genocide
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE6w...
STANDING OVATION!!! | Cecilia Culver, The George Washington University 2025 Commencement Speech
YouTube video by EverydayPal
www.youtube.com
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Here is a clip of the student's speech.
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“Feeding yourself is protection, but it’s also declaring sovereignty. And in a prison geography, declaring sovereignty is declaring war.”

Nylah Iqbal Muhammad on the struggle for food sovereignty while incarcerated in the latest @hammerandhope.bsky.social

hammerandhope.org/article/food...
The Struggle for Food Sovereignty While Incarcerated
Prison food has become a tool of carceral control.
hammerandhope.org
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At least 12 students at Rutgers have had their visas changed, revoking their residency without explanation. This is happening at universities across the county.

These revocations can lead to detention and deportation. This won't stop with students. This is a crisis.

www.nj.com/education/20...
Rutgers slams ‘chilling’ termination of about a dozen international students’ visas
The university’s president offered a statement of support for international students and scholars.
www.nj.com
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Since our administration would not fight the Trump administration in court, the faculty had to assume the responsibility of doing so to protect academic freedom.

www.reuters.com/world/us/col...
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UPDATE: Palestine Studies Search is back up! They could delay us and annoy us, but they could not keep us down.

Please apply, share with friends, cannot wait to meet our new colleagues.

hrsa.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp/erecruit...