Immigrant kids “who have fled violence, trafficking, and abuse” woke up Saturday without the legal support they were promised, said one legal service provider. “We know what happens to children who go to court without an attorney,” said another advocate. “In one word, it is deportation.”

Gut Punch to Immigrant Kids: Trump Administration Strips Legal Assistance from Vulnerable Children

Children “who have fled violence, trafficking, and abuse” woke up Saturday without the legal support they were promised, said one legal service provider.

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FAA proposal would waive 13 laws governing rocket launch and reentry licenses, &protections under Natl Env Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, National Historic Preservation Act, & coastal and marine mammal protections. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

SpaceX is planning a rocket-launching spaceport in coastal Louisiana. Here are the plans.

After months of speculation, a source close to the deal has confirmed an 18-mile stretch of coastal south Louisiana called Pecan Island will be the site for a new space port for Elon Musk's SpaceX.

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From @ewburak.bsky.social how pregnant & postpartum #Medicaid enrollees could lose their coverage due to work reporting requirements. While they are supposed to be exempt, they could fall through the cracks and get disenrolled due to the complex/onerous process: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/07/22/n...

Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

And here’s the entirely foreseeable result of a law that imposes massive penalties if states give families the wrong amount of SNAP benefits, but no penalties if they make it virtually impossible for eligible families to get benefits in the first place.

Nebraska Examiner@nebraskaexaminer.com · 2w ago

ICYMI: May through June marked the sharpest single-month participation drop — nearly 6,000 — since at least 2014, says watchdog group Nebraska Appleseed. From Cindy Gonzalez

Horrifying.

Teddy Wilson@reportbywilson.bsky.social · 2w ago

ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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86 people in a single ICE holding room, "all jostling for space in a closet of humanity that smelled of sweat, urine and feces." What would we call it anywhere else? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I have worked at numerous facilities where over 90% of the nurses and CNAs (nursing assistants) were immigrants — primarily from The Philippines as well as Nigeria, Cameroon, and other African countries. The US healthcare sector simply cannot function without massive amounts of immigrant labor.

Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 2w ago

Eldercare is hard work, severely underpaid that was already understaffed. Since Medicaid is "the primary payer" of this work, it's unlikely there will be a huge increase in wages to attract non-immigrant workers. Are Americans prepared to quit their jobs to take care of their elders? Many have.

The world may have moved on from Minneapolis but its immigrant community continues to struggle. We spoke to single mothers who hid from ICE for months, ran through their savings, and now can’t pay to renew their DACA applications. At least dozens are in this situation. 19thnews.org/2026/07/ice-...

Single mothers lost months of income hiding from ICE — and now can’t afford to renew immigration papers

They survived ICE's takeover in Minneapolis. But now their DACA protections are set to expire, leaving dozens scrambling to afford hundreds of dollars in fees to maintain their legal status.

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This new rule is a direct attack on lawful immigration, and it may punish parents if their U.S. citizen children access any number of benefits intended to help afford food, housing, and health care services they need & are eligible for. www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

Public Inspection: Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility

Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility

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Mamdani's focus on state capacity represents a form of civic education about what govt does in an age of bureaucracy-bashing. He also connects improving state capacity to his core policy goals on housing, childcare, consumer and worker protection. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...

P.S. The decision to terminate the government's longstanding annual food insecurity survey came shortly after the President signed the deepest SNAP cuts in history into law.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4w ago

The Trump administration has been dramatically reducing the amount of federal data available to the public—and “this new reality risks clouding our understanding of the economy, public health, and the environment,” @willgottsegen.com argues:

@bostonglobe.com with an impact/immigrant-centric frame. A+ 4/

Even in Massachusetts: “We don’t know how bad it’s going to be, but we know it’s going to be bad.”

Massachusetts health leaders scramble to prevent 300,000 from losing Medicaid coverage - The Boston Globe

Vulnerable state residents will face new guidelines and restrictions in the coming year.

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New from @pamherd.bsky.social and I: Trump has added work requirements to Medicaid, expanded them in SNAP. Now he is going after public housing. You can do something about it: take 5 mins to write a public comment opposing this change. Instructions enclosed.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

The Trump plan to add work requirements to public housing

Here is something you can do about it

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The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll. People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.

It Could Lead to Tens of Thousands of Deaths. In the Meantime, It’s Wreaking Havoc on Americans’ Sanity.

Imagine not being able to feed your kid because of a mistake on a piece of paperwork.

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SSA hired <100 employees in all of 2025 — the lowest ever, and less than 2% of average annual hiring. As a result, some offices have been so short-staffed, they were forced to close their doors to people seeking service, sometimes for hours & sometimes for weeks. www.cbpp.org/research/soc...

Trump Administration Personnel Policies Harming Social Security Customer Service, Risk Lasting Damage

New data from the Office of Personnel Management reveal more about how the resulting short-staffing of critical functions is degrading service for the largely older, bereaved, and severely disabled pe...

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OPINION: "Most pregnant women in the United States aren’t meeting dietary recommendations. This is especially true for women living in rural communities," Bethany Barone Gibbs and Alex Crisp write.

Opinion | Low-Income Pregnant Women Can’t Easily Obtain ‘Real Food’

Bethany Barone Gibbs and Alex Crisp write about low-income pregnant women have less access to healthy whole foods.

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As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.

Seung Min Kim@seungminkim1.bsky.social · 5mo ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.

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Because housing assistance is drastically underfunded, only 1 in 4 eligible low-income households receive it. Providing it to all who qualify would cost $118 billion a year—a tiny fraction of the proposed $1.5 *trillion* defense budget for 2027. Poverty would fall 13% overall and 23% for children.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 5mo ago

did a little back of the envelope math for how much all this shit is costing. on the order of $1-2 billion per day just in direct spending, maybe 10 times that much in indirect effects

H.R. 1 slashed federal funding for SNAP & imposed those costs on states as a massive unfunded mandate. A reminder of what's at stake as the House Agriculture Committee debates an amendment to delay this cost shift: CBO says these costs could drive states to end SNAP altogether.

Restarting tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is not going to be quick even with US military escorts and government insurance schemes, experts tell the FT www.ft.com/content/e006...

In his book,”Tattoos on the Heart,” Fr. Gregory Boyle advocates for a “compassion that can stand in awe of what the poor have to carry rather than stand in judgment at how they carry it.” I thought about that a lot as I read & reread this astounding book by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

I don't think it's widely understood how many people in their 50s are going to lose health coverage because of the new Medicaid work rules at a time in their lives when their medical needs are likely to increase.

KFF Health News@kffhealthnews.org · 6mo ago

Republicans have suggested that Medicaid work rules are aimed at younger people, but their likely to hit middle-aged adults hard. Researchers say many will be more expensive to treat when they turn 65 and qualify for Medicare.