/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

While Spending Billions on Iran War, Trump Quietly Moves to Boot Millions More Off Food Aid
The change sought by the US Department of Agriculture would curb broad-based categorical eligibility in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Broad-based categorical eligibility allows states to automatically qualify residents for SNAP if they are already enrolled in other aid programs, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, thus reducing administrative hurdles and costs.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-food-aid-cuts

A new lawsuit calls for 'immediate' student-loan forgiveness for borrowers enrolled in Biden's affordable repayment plan
The SAVE plan, created by former President Joe Biden and intended to allow cheaper payments and a shorter timeline to debt relief, has been blocked since the summer of 2024 due to litigation. However, a court declined to rule on President Donald Trump's proposed settlement that would have eliminated SAVE, and the borrowers said in their lawsuit that it means the department should process debt relief for eligible borrowers through the plan.
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-lawsuit-save-plan-immediate-student-loan-forgiveness-borrowers-trump-2026-3

New York judges add new obstacle for low-income tenants with housing vouchers
A New York appeals court on Thursday struck down a landmark state law that bans discrimination against people who use government assistance to pay their rent, delivering a major setback to tens of thousands of low-income renters looking for apartments — and to local and statewide efforts to house them.
https://gothamist.com/news/new-york-judges-add-new-obstacle-for-low-income-tenants-with-housing-vouchers

West Virginia can ban Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery, US court rules
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld West Virginia's ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgeries, the latest victory for Republican-led states seeking ​to curb the procedures amid an ongoing national battle over transgender rights.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/west-virginia-can-ban-medicaid-coverage-gender-affirming-surgery-us-court-rules-2026-03-10/

Who’s Leading Trump’s IRS as Tax Dodgers Run Wild? Apparently No One
A group of Senate Democrats on Monday accused the Trump administration of “evading or ignoring” federal law by leaving the decimated Internal Revenue Service without a permanent leader during tax season, further enabling rich tax dodgers to run wild with no accountability.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-irs-cuts

Oregon cost of living report shows rising debt, financial hardship across the state
Data collected by State Treasurer Elizabeth Steiner shows 73% of Oregonians have cut down on expenses to pay for food, and 53% say they still struggle to pay bills. Steiner said nearly half of Oregonians cannot afford a $500 emergency expense. “By the end of the month, they’ve run out of money and until they get their next paycheck — and so as a result, more Oregonians are using credit cards to pay for essential things like food or gas or utility bills,” Steiner said.
https://www.kptv.com/2026/03/06/oregon-cost-living-report-shows-rising-debt-financial-hardship-across-state/

This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes
The curriculum presents Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee as “champions of anti-communism”; it denounces collectives; and it extolls the value of private property and the acquisition of individual wealth. Cuba comes in for a particular drubbing: it is described in the curriculum as a key “exporter of revolutionary internationalism,” which, of course, is depicted in negative terms.
https://truthout.org/articles/this-fall-florida-students-will-be-forced-to-take-anti-communist-classes/
https://archive.ph/89waL

Behind the Hunger Strike: Swift Justice Continues Fight for ‘Prisoners’ Rights’
On November 20, 2025, Kenneth “Swift Justice” Traywick started starving himself. Known to the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) as prisoner 00177252, the 50-year-old had recently been transferred from Limestone Correctional Facility to Bullock Correctional Facility — and quickly observed “excessive force” used by the guards, particularly against those held in the ‘mental health dorm.’ As documented by Alabama Political Reporter, his hunger strike began after the “prison reform activist” started speaking out; as confirmed by ADOC, an altercation occurred November 20, 2025, between Traywick and a corrections officer, “resulting in an administration of chemical spray to the face.” Traywick was “contained and escorted” to the healthcare unit, where his strike began. He was prepared; this wasn’t his first strike. Unicorn Riot spoke with Traywick — at ADOC-enforced 15-minute intervals — about his most recent protest, and how it connects to the larger historical and current movements to improve prison conditions and reduce recidivism in Alabama and across the United States. During our conversations, he spoke at length about his fellow ‘inside’ activists Melvin Ray, Robert Earl Council (aka Kinetic Justice) and Raoul Poole, three incarcerated whistleblowers featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary “The Alabama Solution.” The “bombshell investigation” “exposes a hidden world of violence and corruption” that Traywick says he has witnessed and experienced for the last 16 years.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/behind-the-hunger-strike-swift-justice-continues-fight-for-prisoners-rights/

Keir Starmer Is Too Spineless to Keep UK Out of Iran War
While you were sleeping, more civilian locations in the Iranian capital of Tehran were hit with massive explosions, while Israel carried out dozens of airstrikes on towns in southern and eastern Lebanon. It really is anything to distract from the Epstein Files for US “president of peace” Donald Trump – and, of course, the fulfilment of a long-held ambition for Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Since the US and Israel launched their war of aggression last weekend, more than 1,300 people have been killed in Iran. This includes at least 180 children, the majority massacred in an airstrike on a girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, on Saturday. US military investigators now believe their own country was responsible. This is the illegal war that prime minister Keir Starmer seems determined to draw Britain into, despite claiming that he has “learnt from the mistakes of Iraq”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/03/06/keir-starmer-is-too-spineless-to-keep-uk-out-of-iran-war/

Campaign against La France Insoumise: the labour movement must respond!
Since the death of neo-fascist activist Quentin Deranque in Lyon on 14 February, following a clash between fascist and antifascist groups at a La France Insoumise (LFI) meeting, the right and far right have been trying to exploit the situation to cause maximum damage to LFI. All the bourgeois media are following the government and reactionary politicians in accusing LFI of supporting ‘political violence’. To make the picture complete and more frightening, they add the ritual – and no less absurd – accusation of ‘antisemitism’. The minute of silence for Deranque at the Palais Bourbon was one of the high points – if one can call it that – of this offensive against LFI and the ‘radical left’. It was a truly astonishing spectacle: a tribute from members of parliament to an activist who had been involved with Action Française, and who is both a monarchist and an antisemite! The cynicism and hypocrisy of this propaganda operation are obvious. The accusers have absolutely no problem with violence, as long as it serves their class interests. For example, when police officers killed El Hacen Diarra – a Mauritian migrant worker – on 15 January, the right, the far right, and the government looked the other way. In general, they do not defend the victims, but the police.
https://marxist.com/campaign-against-la-france-insoumise-the-labour-movement-must-respond.htm

Isreal is going on the offensive while critically short of soldiers.