Lily Roberts
@lilyroberts.bsky.social
Assorted econ policies at Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Opinions are mine unless they're actually David Byrne lyrics.
"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump administration concedes it canceled research grants in blue states
The administration said 284 research grants were canceled because they were in states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024.
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More than 4.5 million people — including at least 1.5 million kids — have already lost access to SNAP in the wake of the deep cuts in last year's reconciliation law. There’s still time to make improvements to this bill & this unfolding hunger crisis demands a stronger response.
Sharon Parrott@sharonparrott.bsky.social · 4d agoIn the face of the child hunger crisis unfolding in plain sight, Chair Boozman’s farm bill proposal falls short on SNAP, despite including a step in the right direction, and further changes are needed before the legislation moves forward.
The SNAP cuts are already causing kids far more harm than most expected, despite Republican claims that kids would be protected. Yet, this proposal uses deeper SNAP cuts down the road to offset the 1-year payment delay even while Rs press for farm relief without offsets.
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Harnessing anti-data center sentiment is good but unless it can be funneled into getting tech giants to pay for grid upgrades as part of going in they're just going to keep building them in the poorest parts of the South www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
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the real discrimination is doing anything to fight discrimination, you see apnews.com/article/eeoc...
US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...
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1/2 Arizona is offering an early warning of what SNAP cuts look like in practice. As states respond to new federal requirements and penalties tied to last year’s budget law, hundreds of thousands of eligible Arizonans have reportedly been dropped from the program. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps
Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
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Almost a year after Trump’s domestic policy bill passed, at least 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits. In Arizona, the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 200,000 since July 2025 — a 55% decline.
More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
propublica.org
1/4 While we commemorated (or avoided celebrations of) America 250, another anniversary passed: a year ago on July 4, the One Big “Beautiful” Bill Act became law. We don’t have to project its impact on people or economic growth anymore, as the evidence comes in: equitablegrowth.org/the-one-big-...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, one year later: Parsing the evidence on the law’s consequences so far
One year after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was passed, research shows that its cuts to social programs negatively impact U.S. families.
equitablegrowth.org
1/ @lilyroberts.bsky.social on the #OBBBA's impact, a year later: "Families, communities, and states will have to shift resources to compensate for federal defunding of social programs, and are likely to spend less on education and economic investment." equitablegrowth.org/the-one-big-... -🧵-
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, one year later: Parsing the evidence on the law’s consequences so far
One year after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was passed, research shows that its cuts to social programs negatively impact U.S. families.
equitablegrowth.org
Flyovers here in NC DC are so loud that car alarms went off and the house shook.
It really seems like it should be a bigger deal that 11% of states who responded to this survey identified *withdrawing from SNAP entirely* as a potential risk of the massive cost shift that's about to hit state budgets thanks to H.R. 1. aphsa.org/wp-content/u...
🚨New data: In the 8 months after H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by 4+ million (-10%) nationwide. In just the 13 states with available data, 800,000+ fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
guy who's really into scaffolding logging on to bluesky for the first time tonight: holy shit
I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.
This is actually a great DC night. Nice weather post-thunderstorm, people doing silly chants, applauding federal workers (maybe contractors?) for being very good at their jobs.
What if this is actually going to be a scaffold-based performance of Tonight from West Side Story
One guy threw a water bottle across the scaffold to another guy! The crowd cheers!
These guys are basically characters from Busytown. No scaffold has ever been more thorough.
We’re live on the scene in Foggy Bottom, as the great scaffolding continues
NEW from @ms.now + @themarshallproject.org: ICE has detained *over 500 babies and toddlers* during Trump's second term. www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump
On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.
ms.now
🚨SNAP tracker update: Data through February is now available for all states. In the 7 months since H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history last summer, we estimate that SNAP participation fell by more than 3.5 million people nationwide. cbpp.org/research/foo...
NEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Has Harmed Scores of Kids With Tear Gas, Pepper Spray
In several cities, judges have chastised federal officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”
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"Immigration officials confiscated the [Kindergarten-aged] boy’s stuffed dinosaur toy" sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals
Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.
sahanjournal.com
NEWS: A federal judge has saved the 15th Street protected bike lane (for now), saying the decision to remove the lane running from Constitution Avenue to the Tidal Basin was "arbitrary and capricious and not the result of reasoned decision-making." It was to be removed this week.
And Arizona just posted new data for March: since H.R. 1 passed in July, more than half of the Arizonans receiving SNAP have lost food assistance. Not because the economy improved. Not because they didn't qualify. Because of how the state is responding to these federal cuts.
Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social · 4mo agoH.R. 1’s unprecedented cost shift to states is already driving far deeper SNAP cuts than anticipated as states scramble to reduce costs. Congress must delay this unfunded mandate for all states before even more struggling families lose food assistance.
www.politico.com/news/2026/04... She married a former US army captain a year ago. He died. Now we're holding her in a hell hole. She's 86.
France seeking release of 86-year-old French widow detained by ICE
“Given her age, we really want her to get out of this situation as soon as possible,” a French official said.
politico.com
