@servelan@newsie.socialTrump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states | Trump administration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/trump-administration-childcare-funding-freeze
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states (Carter Sherman/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/trump-administration-childcare-funding-freeze
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p89#a251231p89
@servelan@newsie.socialWA Head Start closures leave thousands of families without childcare – KIRO 7 News Seattle
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/wa-head-start-closures-leave-thousands-families-without-childcare/CZTFPLJAOBEDJI65BCZAGU32E4/
@wraithe@mastodon.socialRivers father turning out to be running what basically amounts to the “The Deadly Childcare Assassination Squad”
(with apologies to “Kill Bill”)
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s administration is freezing more than $10bn in federal childcare and family assistance funds to
California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York,
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said,
citing what it called concerns about fraud and misuse.
The Trump administration has threatened federal funding cuts to organizations and states over a number of issues since taking office
– ranging from alleged fraud in programs of states governed by…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialVenezuela. Greenland. Discussing canceling 2026's midterm elections. Now child healthcare.
He's flooded the news with so much PURE EVIL, no one's talking about Epstein any more.
☑️ Trump administration halts more than $10bn for childcare and family assistance
https://www.
@hex@kolektiva.socialSo in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineWere they perchance inspired by the Dutch government? (The shameful false accusations of childcare benefit fraud, which all but ruined numerous families, known in the Netherlands as the #toeslagenaffaire – still not fully resolved and remedied.)
@UP8@mastodon.social✊🏽 Socialist Politics Can Break Through to Asian Immigrants
#politics
@cdarwin@c.imCalifornia and four other Democratic-led states are suing the Trump administration over its decision to freeze $10 billion in child-care and family assistance.
The lawsuit alleges the freeze is based on unsupported allegations of social services fraud and violates Congress’ spending power.
Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta decried the freeze as a part of Trump’s political vendetta against blue states at the expense of vulnerable families and children.
The $10-billion funding freeze foll…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDeWine defends Ohio's childcare oversight after GOP calls for fraud probe (Anna Staver/Plain Dealer)
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/01/dewine-defends-ohios-childcare-oversight-after-gop-calls-for-fraud-probe.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p69#a260102p69
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deI absolutely agree with Kristi Noem that it was an “act of domestic terrorism”. Federal officers arbitrarily murdering civilians in the street fits the definition of terrorism quite well. #Minnesota
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social"In 2020, Berlin passed a law that resulted in a five-year rent freeze [...] for 90% of the flats in the city. While the law offered relief to about 1.5 million households who had seen rents rise by an estimated third in the six years prior, it was ruled as unconstitutional in 2021 after Germany’s highest court sided with landlords and property investment lobbyists who had argued it was inappropriate and illegal for the state to meddle with the private market."
@fgraver@hcommons.social“Here, taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/europe-zohran-mamdani-policies-normal?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialEuropeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ | Zohran Mamdani | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/europe-zohran-mamdani-policies-normal
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHHS escalates Minnesota fraud fight, prompting fear among daycare providers (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5670535-minnesota-childcare-funding-freeze/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p4#a260104p4
@cdarwin@c.imVideo shows Woman fatally shot by ICE agent during raid
Democrats slam Trump’s justification for immigration agent killing woman during ICE raid
and call for investigation
Governor Tim Walz denounces Trump’s ‘propaganda machine’
and issues ‘warning order’ to prepare state’s national guard
Trump blames victim in lengthy social media post
House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, said:
“This heinous killing must be criminally investigated to the full e…
