Felicia Krieg
@feliciakrieg.bsky.social
North Country, NY native. Animal lover. Dessert person. Cinephile. Politics nerd. Experience in journalism, comms, marketing. https://linktr.ee/feliciakrieg
Medicaid work requirements were always going to be cruel. Then, the White House intervened (likely) and made the definition of who can be exempt based on disabilities/health much stricter. This is going to kill people. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The White House just made Medicaid work requirements even worse
"It’s hard not to think that the cruelty of the policy is the point."
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NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.
The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
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Everyone should read this story. Swalwell is a rapist and an abuser. He must resign and drop out of the governor’s race immediately. This should not be a controversial position. The evidence is ample and I wish he had been charged with crimes. People like him think they’re untouchable.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4mo agoCNN: Four women describe sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her
A 50 percent reduction for ER visits and hospitalizations is hugely significant. Vaccines are amazing.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4mo agoExclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.
As the U.S. pulls out of providing billions of dollars of aid for programs globally, China is moving in to take America's place and is building global relationships. www.npr.org/2026/04/04/n...
Reporting on China's move to provide global aid as U.S. pulls out : Consider This from NPR
As the U.S. pulls out of providing billions of dollars of aid for programs globally, NPR's reporters find out what that looks like on the ground - and how China is moving in to take America's place.Fo...
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The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death was a homicide
County medical examiners announced the ruling on Wednesday. New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating.
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The cruel cuts to SNAP and Medicaid from the 2025 Big Beautiful Bill must be reversed. These programs are for the poorest and most vulnerable among us. They can’t afford to lose this assistance. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Congressional Delay of SNAP Cost Shift Urgently Needed to Protect Food Assistance for Low-Income Families
The Republican megabill enacted in July will require most states to pay a share of SNAP food benefit costs — for many states, potentially hundreds of millions of dollars a year — for the first...
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“Violating the law would be a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison. A second offense within five years would be a felony, carrying up to a five-year prison sentence.”
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo agoBreaking News: Idaho criminalized using bathrooms, locker rooms or changing rooms, that do not correspond to a person’s sex at birth, including at private businesses.
“Police do not get warrants to search Flock’s network of cameras either locally or nationwide.” We live in a dystopian government surveillance state.
404 Media@404media.co · 4mo agoThe fact that police in Georgia did use Flock cameras for traffic enforcement highlights yet again that, essentially, law enforcement agencies are able to use these cameras for whatever they want. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/police-used-...
Some Democrats claim to be allies of the LGBTQ community and then they speculate about Lindsey Graham’s sexuality in a homophobic way. It’s creepy and in direct conflict with what Democrats say they stand for. Makes more sense to criticize Graham for his politics instead of meaningless trolling.
Journalism school rules for objective coverage do not apply anymore (at least on this issue) because media literacy is gone. Reporters have a duty to spell things out more for public. You can’t simply air an unhinged clip of Trump or print a rant and call it a day. Source psychologists.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago"The best example of the news media deciding somebody is unfit for office, because of their mental fitness or unfitness, is how they treated Biden in 2024. Biden was old and rational. Right now, Trump is old and irrational, but he’s not getting the same kind of treatment." — @markjacob.bsky.social
The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Period poverty is a widespread issue. Nearly 1 in 4 students struggle to afford menstrual products in the US, and rising cost due to inflation will likely only make that number increase
Ian Weissman, DO@drianweissman.bsky.social · 5mo agoMenstrual products have become more expensive over the past few years, in part due to rising inflation and new tariff policies. The average price of those products — which includes tampons and sanitary pads — has risen nearly 40%. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/22/m...
Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.
Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them
Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.
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Lawmakers have consistently shown they use privileged, secret information in their stock trading. Congress must pass the Restore Trust in Congress Act to stop them from making decisions in their own financial interest, instead of doing what’s best for the American people. thehill.com/opinion/cong...
It’s time for Congress to deliver and ban insider stock trading
The Restore Trust in Congress Act, which would ban members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from trading and owning individual stocks during their tenure in office, is supported b…
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Many are casting blame on parents who won’t vaccine their kids instead of trying to understand what’s going on here. Disinformation is rampant online. News literacy is rare. The health care system has failed a lot of families for complicated reasons. Blaming parents is helping none of this.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5mo agoDoctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other safe and routine care for babies.
A legit snowstorm on the first day of spring is really unfair and should be illegal. It is normal for my area but it doesn’t matter. It is the principle.
really just overwhelmingly shaken by the bravery of these women to tell their stories, despite it all. plus the careful & brave investigation by these reporters www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...
Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
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“Paktyawal is at least the 12th person this year to die in ICE custody under President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, compared with more than 30 last year, the highest in two decades.”
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 5mo agoMohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, a father of six who worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, had no known health issues when he was detained in Texas, his family said.
This is terrifying. Women must have bodily autonomy, just like men. Abortion is NOT murder. A fetus is NOT a person.
Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 5mo agoHorrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her. @pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb
“We are fearful that this is a prototype for other studies,” said @cdelawalla.bsky.social. My latest on the unlikely researchers at the heart of US vaccine policy: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Experts fear ‘unethical’ vaccine trial in Africa is ‘prototype’ for US studies under RFK Jr
Danish researchers whose work on effects of vaccines has been called into question are at center of US vaccine policy
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The point of CEOs is to develop a vision for a company and execute it. Story says CEOs second guessed their decisions if they differed from AI. There’s many good ways to make a decision. Don’t they read case studies and industry publications? Seems like these people don’t belong in their jobs.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5mo agoOutsourcing their what now?
“At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome.” apnews.com/article/suic...
Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility
The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.
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Periodic reminder: Binance reportedly helped $1.7B flow to Iran-linked entities. When internal investigators flagged it, Binance fired them. Balance is a major business partner of Trump’s.
Binance Fired Staff Who Flagged $1 Billion Moving to Sanctioned Iran Entities
Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance’s founder, the company dismantled a probe and suspended the investigators. Binance denied that the inquiry ended or that staff were fired for the concerns.
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And yet the myth that Covid does not harm children persists. Children cannot protect themselves. It is adults’ responsibility to do so. The world gave up on mitigating Covid.
CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social · 5mo agoBabies with COVID-19 develop more serious disease than those with RSV, US data reveal Children under 2 hospitalized for COVID-19 are more likely to die or become seriously ill than babies with RSV, according to a new study. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
