Ken Parker
@kenissuaq.bsky.social
No relationship to the comics character, if not a shared propensity to side with the underdog. Likes and RT's are not endorsements.
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Millions are set to lose food assistance even after the shutdown ends. Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” delivers the largest SNAP cuts in history, with new work rules that could push 2.4 million people off benefits. @reyannaj.bsky.social reports on what’s at stake.
The Shutdown May Be Over, But Millions Are Still Set to Lose Food Stamps
Trump and the GOP's "Big Beautiful Bill" passed earlier this year includes the largest cuts to SNAP in history. And those cuts are starting now.
inthesetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Millions are set to lose food assistance even after the shutdown ends. Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” delivers the largest SNAP cuts in history, with new work rules that could push 2.4 million people off benefits. @reyannaj.bsky.social reports on what’s at stake.
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
@jvp.bsky.social: Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib introduced a resolution in Congress that recognizes the Israeli government’s genocide against Palestinians and calls for accountability. She has already been joined by 20 of her colleagues.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
@jvp.bsky.social: Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib introduced a resolution in Congress that recognizes the Israeli government’s genocide against Palestinians and calls for accountability. She has already been joined by 20 of her colleagues.
✍️ Write to your member of Congress: jvpa.tools/lhkTCY
✍️ Write to your member of Congress: jvpa.tools/lhkTCY
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The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters. n.pr/3LT0ecL
The struggle to preserve the Palestinian olive and date harvest
The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters. n.pr/3LT0ecL
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A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
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Thank you to Senator Ron Wyden for letting us know the MAGA Senate Republicans are trying to slide a nationwide abortion ban into the shutdown negotiations.
Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it.
F the patriarchy.
Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it.
F the patriarchy.
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Thank you to Senator Ron Wyden for letting us know the MAGA Senate Republicans are trying to slide a nationwide abortion ban into the shutdown negotiations.
Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it.
F the patriarchy.
Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it.
F the patriarchy.
“Delegates to the climate conference in Brazil must accelerate commitments to rapidly developing a low-carbon economy. There is no Planet B.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The ‘implementation COP’: why the Belém summit must ratchet up climate action
Delegates to the climate conference in Brazil must accelerate commitments to rapidly developing a low-carbon economy. There is no Planet B.
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
“Delegates to the climate conference in Brazil must accelerate commitments to rapidly developing a low-carbon economy. There is no Planet B.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Excellent resource from @progressivemass.bsky.social to find out where your MA legislators stand as we move toward the mid-terms.
scorecard.progressivemass.com
scorecard.progressivemass.com
Legislative Scorecard - Progressive Mass
Are your Massachusetts representatives fighting for your progressive values?
scorecard.progressivemass.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Excellent resource from @progressivemass.bsky.social to find out where your MA legislators stand as we move toward the mid-terms.
scorecard.progressivemass.com
scorecard.progressivemass.com
"MA has a higher GDP than Sweden. We can meet the needs of all of our residents. We just need the political will to do so."
Instead of cutting jobs we should be passing the Corporate Fair Share Act to raise revenue.
Learn about the bill from @progressivemass.bsky.social & contact your state legislators today to urge its passage:
www.progressivemass.com/issues/corpo...
Learn about the bill from @progressivemass.bsky.social & contact your state legislators today to urge its passage:
www.progressivemass.com/issues/corpo...
Report: Mass. Gov. Healey mulling buyouts for state employees
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"MA has a higher GDP than Sweden. We can meet the needs of all of our residents. We just need the political will to do so."
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Winter is coming, yet a $4 billion program that helps nearly 6 million low-income households with their energy bills is on hold due to the government shutdown.
“Pipes will freeze, people will die” if the shutdown continues, said one expert.
“Pipes will freeze, people will die” if the shutdown continues, said one expert.
Shutdown halts $4 billion program to help poor people heat their homes
Millions of Americans apply each winter for help with their energy bills, but the funding is in limbo.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Winter is coming, yet a $4 billion program that helps nearly 6 million low-income households with their energy bills is on hold due to the government shutdown.
“Pipes will freeze, people will die” if the shutdown continues, said one expert.
“Pipes will freeze, people will die” if the shutdown continues, said one expert.
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VOTE YES on 3 to divest Somerville tax dollars out of companies complicit in the ongoing occupation, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine.
This includes divesting from surveillance technology and weapons manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin.
This includes divesting from surveillance technology and weapons manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin.
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
VOTE YES on 3 to divest Somerville tax dollars out of companies complicit in the ongoing occupation, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine.
This includes divesting from surveillance technology and weapons manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin.
This includes divesting from surveillance technology and weapons manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin.
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Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition
www.vox.com/politics/466...
www.vox.com/politics/466...
The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi
Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.
www.vox.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition
www.vox.com/politics/466...
www.vox.com/politics/466...
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NEVER FORGET: In July 2025, the GOP passed the BBB with $75B in additional, multi-year funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
BUT the GOP Congress will NOT negotiate to EXTEND ACA Subsidies for 20M+ Americans for $32B. #GOPPriorities
BUT the GOP Congress will NOT negotiate to EXTEND ACA Subsidies for 20M+ Americans for $32B. #GOPPriorities
October 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NEVER FORGET: In July 2025, the GOP passed the BBB with $75B in additional, multi-year funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
BUT the GOP Congress will NOT negotiate to EXTEND ACA Subsidies for 20M+ Americans for $32B. #GOPPriorities
BUT the GOP Congress will NOT negotiate to EXTEND ACA Subsidies for 20M+ Americans for $32B. #GOPPriorities
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Muslim British Journalist Sami Hamdi has been abducted by ICE. He was already in the U.S. legally on a visa, but was abducted while attempting to fly from San Francisco to Florida on a domestic flight. Laura Loomer is taking credit for getting him abducted due to his criticism of Israel and the US.
October 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Muslim British Journalist Sami Hamdi has been abducted by ICE. He was already in the U.S. legally on a visa, but was abducted while attempting to fly from San Francisco to Florida on a domestic flight. Laura Loomer is taking credit for getting him abducted due to his criticism of Israel and the US.
Is Boston as creative? @mayorwu.boston.gov @indivisible.org @jonathancohn.bsky.social
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October 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Is Boston as creative? @mayorwu.boston.gov @indivisible.org @jonathancohn.bsky.social
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24 million Americans are about to see their health insurance premiums double.
40 million Americans are about to see their SNAP benefits expire.
But I'm glad to her he's fully focused on his ugly-ass gold ballroom.
40 million Americans are about to see their SNAP benefits expire.
But I'm glad to her he's fully focused on his ugly-ass gold ballroom.
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
24 million Americans are about to see their health insurance premiums double.
40 million Americans are about to see their SNAP benefits expire.
But I'm glad to her he's fully focused on his ugly-ass gold ballroom.
40 million Americans are about to see their SNAP benefits expire.
But I'm glad to her he's fully focused on his ugly-ass gold ballroom.
@indivisible.org: Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva — because her vote could force the House to release the Epstein Files. The GOP is doing everything they can to keep Trump's Epstein cover-up going.
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@indivisible.org: Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva — because her vote could force the House to release the Epstein Files. The GOP is doing everything they can to keep Trump's Epstein cover-up going.
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