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assistant prof of health policy & management at pitt sph. health economist. studies medicaid, health insurance, long-term care, and immigration. https://amandakreider.github.io

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Dignity in Action Rapid Response Training: When ICE Appears Stand Ready: Dignity in Action Rapid Response Training for Immigration Enforcement (ICE) Encounters

Also, for those in the Pittsburgh area, Frontline Dignity will be doing an 🧊 Rapid Response training this coming Tuesday!

www.eventbrite.com/e/dignity-in...

16.01.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Necessidades bΓ‘sicas, organized by Jessica Dias OlΓ‘, comunidade brasileira Venho aqui com muita humildade pedir ajuda e apoio. Sou mΓ£e sozinha… Jessica Dias needs your support for Necessidades bΓ‘sicas

Posting on behalf of someone in my PGH community who needs help.

Jessica is almost 9 months pregnant, caring for a special-needs child alone and struggling to meet basic needs after her husband’s deportation. Any support helps. 🀍

www.gofundme.com/f/kcdjtz-des...

16.01.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

big papers, particularly the NYT, just *love* stealing a story idea and re-reporting it without credit

05.11.2025 17:16 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

05.11.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 9774 πŸ” 1710 πŸ’¬ 370 πŸ“Œ 96
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Cuban national dies in ICE custody ICE remains committed to ensuring that all those in its custody reside in safe, secure, and humane environments. Comprehensive medical care is provided from the moment individuals arrive and throughou...

Mr. Isidro Perez was a 75-year-old Cuban man taken into ICE custody on 6/5/25 after being in the U.S. for 60 years. He had two drug possession convictions in the 80’s.

Mr. Perez was hospitalized from 6/17-6/25 and released. He died in ICE custody on June 26th.

Completely senseless.

30.06.2025 22:39 πŸ‘ 246 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 9

β€œICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

29.06.2025 14:26 πŸ‘ 11305 πŸ” 5079 πŸ’¬ 155 πŸ“Œ 133

Oh no not moved a piece of campus furniture and then put it back…I wonder what other men in leadership were doing back in college???

30.06.2025 22:57 πŸ‘ 172 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 2

decided to turn cable news on to see if it’s true and it is: tv anchors really are just interrupting conversations with dems about this bill to ask about zohran mamdani

30.06.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 648 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 24
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Chris Murphy: "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress."

30.06.2025 18:47 πŸ‘ 25814 πŸ” 7573 πŸ’¬ 638 πŸ“Œ 277

Personal stories hit different - if you'd be affected by Medicaid cuts, please call and tell your Senators!

30.06.2025 13:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Opinion | The progressive left means well, but they come across as painfully out of touch with reality. Here are some prescriptions for them that I jotted down in the charter gondola on the way to the Bezos wedding.

29.06.2025 18:01 πŸ‘ 831 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 0
This is a picture of a phone script for calling a Senator's office. It says:

"Hi, I'm [NAME], a constituent from [PLACE]. 

[If you're leaving a voicemail, be sure to leave your city, state, and zip code!! They simply won't care about your opinion as much if they can't confirm you're a constituent.]

I'm calling to urge Senator [NAME] to vote NO on the "Big Beautiful Bill" currently up for consideration in the Senate (, and to please also urge [HIS/HER] colleague Senator [NAME] to do the same.)

I have serious concerns about this legislation. The bill cuts Medicaid and SNAP to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy. These cuts will hurt our rural hospitals, and research shows Medicaid work requirements strip coverage from vulnerable people without increasing employment. In fact, CBO just estimated that the bill would cause nearly 12 million Americans to lose their health insurance while adding over $3 trillion to the debt. 

The bill also shifts Medicaid costs to [YOUR STATE NAME], which could force cuts to services for older adults and people with disabilities.

Please urge Senator [NAME] to vote NO. 

Can you share my concerns with [HIM/HER] and let me know [HIS/HER] position? 

Thank you."

This is a picture of a phone script for calling a Senator's office. It says: "Hi, I'm [NAME], a constituent from [PLACE]. [If you're leaving a voicemail, be sure to leave your city, state, and zip code!! They simply won't care about your opinion as much if they can't confirm you're a constituent.] I'm calling to urge Senator [NAME] to vote NO on the "Big Beautiful Bill" currently up for consideration in the Senate (, and to please also urge [HIS/HER] colleague Senator [NAME] to do the same.) I have serious concerns about this legislation. The bill cuts Medicaid and SNAP to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy. These cuts will hurt our rural hospitals, and research shows Medicaid work requirements strip coverage from vulnerable people without increasing employment. In fact, CBO just estimated that the bill would cause nearly 12 million Americans to lose their health insurance while adding over $3 trillion to the debt. The bill also shifts Medicaid costs to [YOUR STATE NAME], which could force cuts to services for older adults and people with disabilities. Please urge Senator [NAME] to vote NO. Can you share my concerns with [HIM/HER] and let me know [HIS/HER] position? Thank you."

It's URGENT that we hit the phone lines this weekend re: the "Big, Beautiful" Senate bill, especially if you're a constituent of Sen. Paul (KY), Tillis (NC), Johnson (WI), Collins (ME), or Hawley (MO).

If you aren't sure what to say, I've drafted a script.

www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

29.06.2025 18:02 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...

Instead of piling on and sharing that op-ed that, for some reason, tries to put a silver lining on Trump's slashing of NIH funding, I'm sharing this @propublica.org piece that more accurately demonstrates the vastness of the damage being done to health research.

13.06.2025 23:08 πŸ‘ 80 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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University of Utah student is being held at Colorado immigration detention center A 19-year-old University of Utah was detained by immigration agents last week in Colorado and is now being held at an immigration center there.Β β€œWe’re not in jail with her, but we feel like it," said the brother of Caroline Dias Goncalves.

β€œWe can’t do anything,” Caroline Dias Goncalves' relative said. β€œWe’re scared. We’re not in jail with her, but we feel like it.”

Her mom hasn’t stopped crying since she learned her daughter was being held and her dad is pacing constantly.

12.06.2025 22:15 πŸ‘ 240 πŸ” 118 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 21

Just gonna leave this here.

www.wweek.com/news/courts/...

The worker sued privately. There were protests at the local Marriott. There were no consequences.

10.06.2025 13:13 πŸ‘ 2292 πŸ” 712 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 12

If Gen Z really wants to dunk on millennials, they should learn about Foursquare and go around saying stuff like, "I hear you're the mayor of this Panera Bread."

06.06.2025 15:05 πŸ‘ 5025 πŸ” 784 πŸ’¬ 97 πŸ“Œ 132
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BREAKING: Trump just waived dozens of our nation's most important enviro laws to wall off the stunning San Rafael Valley, all while border crossings are at their lowest point in decades.

This is a death sentence for jaguars, ocelots & other wildlife.

I shot this footage out there last month:

06.06.2025 16:17 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

Area Yes Men Stunned As Masterful Gambit Fails To Materialize

05.06.2025 20:57 πŸ‘ 363 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1

the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender

just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

25.03.2025 15:58 πŸ‘ 10413 πŸ” 2168 πŸ’¬ 98 πŸ“Œ 110

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

05.06.2025 20:15 πŸ‘ 35272 πŸ” 8123 πŸ’¬ 614 πŸ“Œ 253

Elon may have killed 320,000 people and counting, but he’s also into austerity, so kind of balances out

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When Nobody Comes to Fix the Bridge - Truthdig The decline and fall of a superpower, one piece of collapsed infrastructure at a time.

Every 7.5 minutes, an American man thinks about the Roman Empire. Albeit now with an increasingly dreadful sense of recognition.

05.06.2025 17:59 πŸ‘ 923 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 16

He and his husband were terrorized by homophobes who murdered him, in case you didn't know, which you very understandably might not given the headlines.

04.06.2025 11:07 πŸ‘ 779 πŸ” 241 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1

new SINNERS theory dropped

04.06.2025 12:54 πŸ‘ 282 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Musk isn't a visionary. He's a dipshit with a lousy sense of risk. Yes, the Sun will steadily brighten and in a billion years or so make it too hot for us to live here, but we're already making it too hot for us to live here right now. And Musk is siding with the people bent on making that worse.

04.06.2025 05:15 πŸ‘ 420 πŸ” 57 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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Using court documents to study whether sharing the same leaders make firms more likely to collude finds that collusion increases by a factor of 10 after the arrival of a common board member or executive, from Herrera-Caicedo, Jeffers, and Prager https://www.nber.org/papers/w33866

04.06.2025 13:00 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If we want to prevent the worst possible outcomes of these tools, we need regulatory guardrails yesterday. But with capitalism and global competition for AI dominance, we have a perverse incentives problem. So we’re getting the opposite.

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Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It) β€œWe can say, β€˜Do it in anime, make it PG-13.’ Three hours later, I’ll have the movie.”

Every article I read lately about AI points to people using it privately, with or without ethical concerns, because of a fear of being left behind the competition.

www.vulture.com/article/gene...

04.06.2025 13:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Like, this is hilarious. Honestly.

04.06.2025 12:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0