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New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
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Case in point: the South isn't perfect (no region is), but folks would do well to remember that gerrymandering and voter suppression make our region look redder than it actually is. NY gave us Trump and CA gave us Reagan. Regional politics aren't simple, and writing places off can't be the move rn.
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Case in point: the South isn't perfect (no region is), but folks would do well to remember that gerrymandering and voter suppression make our region look redder than it actually is. NY gave us Trump and CA gave us Reagan. Regional politics aren't simple, and writing places off can't be the move rn.
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Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'..."
October 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'..."
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Oh hey, check this out. They talk the same way in their private chats as they do on Twitter www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Oh hey, check this out. They talk the same way in their private chats as they do on Twitter www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."
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October 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."
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"I do tonight"
Jimmy Kimmy
Jimmy Kimmy
September 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"I do tonight"
Jimmy Kimmy
Jimmy Kimmy
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called yesterday's decision about nationwide injunctions "an existential threat to the rule of law."
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Supreme Court Put Nationwide Injunctions to the Torch
That isn’t the disaster for birthright citizenship that some fear.
www.theatlantic.com
June 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called yesterday's decision about nationwide injunctions "an existential threat to the rule of law."
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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White owners of small businesses in the trades are, in essence, the prototypical Trump voters. This is going to backfire eventually
Stockton, CA: Heavily armed masked kidnappers drove up in an unmarked car and pulled a landscaper out of his truck and kidnapped him. When the landscaping company owner asked the men what they were doing, the kidnappers assaulted him and pulled out a metal baton.
June 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
White owners of small businesses in the trades are, in essence, the prototypical Trump voters. This is going to backfire eventually
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Footage of the Minnesota assassin Vance Luther Boelter, a life long registered republican and "Christian" nationalist incel that hated women. He's 100% MAGA.
June 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Footage of the Minnesota assassin Vance Luther Boelter, a life long registered republican and "Christian" nationalist incel that hated women. He's 100% MAGA.
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Arturo Obrego, a 77-year-old army veteran who hitchiked from Huntington Beach is going viral for getting hit with wooden baton by officers on horses and knocked down during today’s peaceful “No Kings” protest in DTLA. @TheGlutster ran into him at Union Station a couple of hours after the incident.
June 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Arturo Obrego, a 77-year-old army veteran who hitchiked from Huntington Beach is going viral for getting hit with wooden baton by officers on horses and knocked down during today’s peaceful “No Kings” protest in DTLA. @TheGlutster ran into him at Union Station a couple of hours after the incident.
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With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.
It's mind-blowing how little attention this extraordinary statement has received. It's briefly mentioned in a couple news articles, but this MSNBC opinion piece is the only extended discussion of it I've seen: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
June 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
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We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
June 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
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The suspect remains at large & was impersonating a police officer when he shot the victims in an “act of targeted political violence.”
Tragically both Rep. Melissa Hortman & her husband, Mark, have died.
Sen. John Hoffman & his wife, Yvette, remain hospitalized.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Tragically both Rep. Melissa Hortman & her husband, Mark, have died.
Sen. John Hoffman & his wife, Yvette, remain hospitalized.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Minnesota politician shot and killed, another injured in 'politically motivated assassination'
The assailant, who is still at large, allegedly impersonated a police officer.
www.nbcnews.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The suspect remains at large & was impersonating a police officer when he shot the victims in an “act of targeted political violence.”
Tragically both Rep. Melissa Hortman & her husband, Mark, have died.
Sen. John Hoffman & his wife, Yvette, remain hospitalized.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Tragically both Rep. Melissa Hortman & her husband, Mark, have died.
Sen. John Hoffman & his wife, Yvette, remain hospitalized.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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PSA for everyone going to protests
June 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
PSA for everyone going to protests
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The hypocrisy of the highest order.
June 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The hypocrisy of the highest order.
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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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What makes good leaders unusual isn't that they've figured everything out, but that they've arranged things so that they can, from time to time, gain a real insight that they can leverage to dramatic effect, as opposed to solely managing a slow loss of control or lashing out blindly and recklessly.
May 31, 2025 at 3:37 AM
What makes good leaders unusual isn't that they've figured everything out, but that they've arranged things so that they can, from time to time, gain a real insight that they can leverage to dramatic effect, as opposed to solely managing a slow loss of control or lashing out blindly and recklessly.
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The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
April 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
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it’s not often you see a screenshot where Andrew Yang is the one making sense
I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation
April 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
it’s not often you see a screenshot where Andrew Yang is the one making sense
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These are the kind of memes currently circulating on Chinese social media.
Trump bringing manufacturing back to America…
Trump bringing manufacturing back to America…
April 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
These are the kind of memes currently circulating on Chinese social media.
Trump bringing manufacturing back to America…
Trump bringing manufacturing back to America…
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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There are basically no cops here, just tens of thousands of people orderly protesting our fascist government from the New York Public Library to Madison Square Park. Volunteers are moving people in the right direction. It’s beautiful.
April 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
There are basically no cops here, just tens of thousands of people orderly protesting our fascist government from the New York Public Library to Madison Square Park. Volunteers are moving people in the right direction. It’s beautiful.
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NWS has issued over 700 warnings for severe t-storms, tornadoes or flash flooding since 8am Wed. All while short-staffed. Truly incredible work, as always!
April 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
NWS has issued over 700 warnings for severe t-storms, tornadoes or flash flooding since 8am Wed. All while short-staffed. Truly incredible work, as always!