1/ We have a major investigation into Maximus, a company massively profiting off Trump's war on the poor motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
2/ Maximus is the biggest contractor that administers things like work requirement and means testing for SNAP (food stamps) and public assistance. Trump and the GOP want to roll out ever more onerous requirements to millions of Americans. motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
3/ The company got its initial traction during Clinton-era workfare programs. But that's nothing compared to today's bonanza motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
5/ It will not shock you that a company that makes its money trying to make poor people jump through hoops is Kafkaesque motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
6/ Like the "welfare-to-work" programs before it, the plans that Maximus administers don't seem to do much to help people find work, but rather punish them for being poor and kicking them out of food stamp and Medicaid. Oh, and are super racist motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
7/ Lest you think this move to means test won't apply to you, consider how broadly the Trump administration is trying to draw the boundaries of "welfare" motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
8/ Also, just as with voting, the GOP is fanning fears of all-but-nonexistent "fraud" to kick people who qualify for Medicaid or food stamps off the rolls motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
9/ Except that with bogus claims of voter fraud, there's no straight up profit. Policing bogus claims of benefit fraud, however, means beaucoup bucks for Maximus: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
11/ You know how the GOP loves to talk about saving money and cutting red tape? Companies like Maximus exist only to CREATE red tape and regulations. But those are on the poor, so no biggie. (Also, Mike Pence has an outsized role here) : motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
12/ Maximus doesn't really help people. It just skims money off an apparatus designed to punish the poor, and privatize government functions. motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
13/ So I've hit some highlights. But you should read this entire investigation by @TMMcMillan and produced with @theIFUND. Because pushing back against this kind of bogus policing of benefits is going to be a major battle for the next two years: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
14/ This was a major feature in the issue out on newsstands now. Your support helps us make this kind of deep dive into a little known massive effort to overhaul poverty programs:
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obviously this is deadly serious, but it is also morbidly humorous how these descriptions of Putin's mental health describe that of literally everybody rn
1/Hey, I wrote about the San Francisco school board recall. tl;dr it's a lot more complicated, and more local, than a lot of the takes floating around would imply: motherjones.com/politics/2022/…
2/ Whether you're seeped in the SF school board controversies or new to them, I hope this will add some context motherjones.com/politics/2022/…
3/ Is this one of those things you have to say (probably) or an actual fact. 🤔
I though Moliga might survive, but the anger on so many issues that the board engendered swamped them all.
And Boudin should be worried, tho' different coalition pushing for his recall. All incumbents, frankly. @sfbos in particular should pull its head out of ass. It won't.
Every *single* precinct voted to recall Collins, except two, both of which have tiny voting/overall populations (as in 2 votes in one on west side, 12 votes in one in south side).sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/…
quasi obsessed with this logo/bug at NYT. How they took the five rings and made three podiums (blue, red, green), a medal (yellow), and used the black for the "Beijing" slug.
As @ReadyDavidM notes, you can also read this as 2-0-2-2🤯
The five rings represent a 1913 take on the five inhabited continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania*, and the Americas**.
*aka Australia, NZ
**Europeans downgraded us a whole continent. Even though arguably Europe is merely a peninsula of Asia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_s…
Once again, the @sfbos—particularly @AaronPeskin and @conniechansf—is doing everything in its power to ensure we are locked in a permanent state of not enough housing, pushing rents and evictions and homelessness ever higher. Just insane. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/May…
When you insure that no housing developments are built—even when 25% or more of units are affordable—you are not being progressive. You're throwing a can of gasoline on a regional crisis of epic proportions and benefiting the rich most of all.
If you live in Oakland and you wonder why rents there have gone through the roof, look to @sfbos (and all the towns on the peninsula)
3/ There is no more vital topic, and we don't silo it off from the rest of the newsroom, or treat it like an afterthought. But we want candidates to tell us how they'd like to approach the beat in 2022. motherjones.com/jobs/climate-r…