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Claire Lane retweeted
Welp.
Democrats have just flipped control of the City Council in Lynchburg, Virginia.
That's the home of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.
Claire Lane retweeted
Donald Trump set another record.
There’s NEVER been an election (since polling began in the United States) where voters said “corruption” was their top worry.
Until now.
Claire Lane retweeted
SNAP enrollment has fallen to a 17-year low, with 5 million fewer recipients, including 2 million children. @crampell explains how cuts to food assistance helped pay for tax breaks:
“This is literally about starving the poor to fatten the rich.”
Claire Lane retweeted
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
Such a despicable, hateful way to end the month dedicated to love, freedom and pride in our community 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
SCOTUS Concludes Pride Month by Allowing States to Ban Trans Students From Girls’ Sports Teams jezebel.com/scotus-concludes…
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Claire Lane retweeted
Clarence Thomas argued the 14th Amendment was written narrowly for former enslaved people and doesn't apply broadly today. Using that same logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets and doesn't apply to AR-15's, but somehow, he's never made that argument.
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Birthright citizenship is clear in the Constitution. The Trump Administration knew that, but they brought this case because they wanted to see just how far they could take their extreme anti-immigration agenda.
This ruling should never have been so close.
Claire Lane retweeted
The first paragraph of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s concurrence is a devastating takedown of Justice Thomas’s heinous opinion:
“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.”
Senator Collins doesn’t regret voting for Justice Kavanaugh. Apparently she also doesn’t care about American women’s bodily autonomy if they don’t live in Maine (ie nearly every American woman).
Claire Lane retweeted
Yeah...that's not at all how it works.
Sincerely,
Your friendly neighborhood SNAP policy analyst
Miller: The way most welfare works in most states and most places is we take your word for it. If you say your kids are hungry, you are going to get food stamps. We don't check if you even have kids. You will just start getting the checks.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
SNAP requires verification of household composition and members' identities through documentation such as birth certificates, school records, or other proofs, not solely on an applicant's word. fns.usda.gov/snap/recipient… snapguideny.org/applying-for-s… mass.gov/info-details/p…
Claire Lane retweeted
Some good news today.
South Carolina has chosen NOT to move forward with gerrymandering for the time being.
AND a court has blocked Alabama’s gerrymander.
The fight continues. But these small victories are important.
Keep the faith.
This Farm Bill violates the longstanding coalition that brings together all parts of our food system (conservation, agriculture & people) by utterly leaving out hungry people & locking in the devastating SNAP cuts in HR 1 for years to come. #WADems should all vote NO.
215-211-1, House GOP leaders narrowly muscle through budget resolution for immigration funding — after holding the vote open for more than 5 hours
Kevin Kiley voted present
House will debate farm bill amendments now
Farm bill amendment votes and final passage set for tomorrow.
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New USDA data released today: H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history last July. By January, more than 3 million fewer people were receiving food assistance. Nationwide, SNAP caseloads fell by more than 8% in just 6 months — despite no improvement in economic conditions.
ALT Change in SNAP participation between January 2024 and January 2026, showing a sharp decline after H.R. 1 enactment in July 2025.
