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I looked it up once. SNAP takes 2% of the US budget and 93% of the money goes to the actual poor people instead of to the bureaucracy. So it's kind of like if you paid $1000 in taxes, you spent $20 on the poor of which they got to keep $18.60, and you spent $166.66 on the military.
SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.
that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.
but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.
but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
October 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I looked it up once. SNAP takes 2% of the US budget and 93% of the money goes to the actual poor people instead of to the bureaucracy. So it's kind of like if you paid $1000 in taxes, you spent $20 on the poor of which they got to keep $18.60, and you spent $166.66 on the military.
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Great framing.
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Great framing.
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The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.
Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.
Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.
October 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Wow. I'd say this was unbelievable, but nothing is anymore.
As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...
October 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Wow. I'd say this was unbelievable, but nothing is anymore.
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We’ve gotten several messages that the Trump administration has tampered with federal employees’ email systems, making some people’s automatic Out of Office replies blame the government shutdown on the “radical left.” This was done without the employees’ knowledge.
October 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
We’ve gotten several messages that the Trump administration has tampered with federal employees’ email systems, making some people’s automatic Out of Office replies blame the government shutdown on the “radical left.” This was done without the employees’ knowledge.
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September 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I am an independent legal journalist. I've been covering the courts and our legal and political systems for more than two decades. More than 75,000 people subscribe to Law Dork, where I have been publishing my work since June 2022.
Subscribe now to keep up with and support my work: www.lawdork.com
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A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
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Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.
September 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.
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Why did they cancel law enforcement press conferences and send Patel and Bongino to Utah? Did they catch someone and don’t like his motives?
I feel a bit nuts even thinking this, but I don’t trust Patel or Bongino. I feel like they’re not gonna be honest with us about the shooter.
I feel a bit nuts even thinking this, but I don’t trust Patel or Bongino. I feel like they’re not gonna be honest with us about the shooter.
September 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Why did they cancel law enforcement press conferences and send Patel and Bongino to Utah? Did they catch someone and don’t like his motives?
I feel a bit nuts even thinking this, but I don’t trust Patel or Bongino. I feel like they’re not gonna be honest with us about the shooter.
I feel a bit nuts even thinking this, but I don’t trust Patel or Bongino. I feel like they’re not gonna be honest with us about the shooter.
Despicable.
The Trump administration spent $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of birth control and other contraceptives that were supposed to go to low-income countries. Imagine hating helping so much that you’d actually spend money just to make sure others don’t get help.
Unconscionable: US plan to destroy $9.7 million of contraceptives
MSF condemns the decision to destroy these critical medical supplies, which will have devastating consequences for the communities where we work.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Despicable.
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HAPPENING NOW: The Trump administration withdraws its claim that parents of the Guatemalan children it tried to send back last month had requested their return.
DOJ says it has no basis for that claim now in light of contradictory info provided by the Guatemalan government.
DOJ says it has no basis for that claim now in light of contradictory info provided by the Guatemalan government.
September 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
HAPPENING NOW: The Trump administration withdraws its claim that parents of the Guatemalan children it tried to send back last month had requested their return.
DOJ says it has no basis for that claim now in light of contradictory info provided by the Guatemalan government.
DOJ says it has no basis for that claim now in light of contradictory info provided by the Guatemalan government.
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This is not the way.
September 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is not the way.
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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Charlie Kirk in 2023: "It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment."
He was wrong. No child, no moviegoer and no conservative commentator should have to die to maintain this perverted notion of the 2nd Amendment.
He was wrong. No child, no moviegoer and no conservative commentator should have to die to maintain this perverted notion of the 2nd Amendment.
September 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Charlie Kirk in 2023: "It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment."
He was wrong. No child, no moviegoer and no conservative commentator should have to die to maintain this perverted notion of the 2nd Amendment.
He was wrong. No child, no moviegoer and no conservative commentator should have to die to maintain this perverted notion of the 2nd Amendment.
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I’m also very concerned that we’ve just accepted that running FEMA is the job of the DHS secretary and not, you know, the FEMA administrator
Kim: I'm very concerned that if a hurricane hits, are we going to have to be begging Kristi Noem to be able to get off Instagram, to be able to actually go and do her job
July 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I’m also very concerned that we’ve just accepted that running FEMA is the job of the DHS secretary and not, you know, the FEMA administrator
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This is from an actual Republican Congressman, from the party that is also locking kids in cages in a concentration camp in Florida, hoping they try to escape and get eaten by alligators.
This is today's Republican Party.
This is today's Republican Party.
July 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is from an actual Republican Congressman, from the party that is also locking kids in cages in a concentration camp in Florida, hoping they try to escape and get eaten by alligators.
This is today's Republican Party.
This is today's Republican Party.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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No punches pulled. Justice Jackson warns that the Supreme Court has just put the country on a path to dictatorship. “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Disaster looms”: Justice Jackson’s warning for the country
The Supreme Court allows presidents to do what judges have ruled illegal.
www.motherjones.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
No punches pulled. Justice Jackson warns that the Supreme Court has just put the country on a path to dictatorship. “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump: "People from mental institutions and insane asylums. You know what that is? Insane asylum, that's a mental institution on steroids. During the campaign I'd talk about the late great Hannibal Lecter."
June 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Trump: "People from mental institutions and insane asylums. You know what that is? Insane asylum, that's a mental institution on steroids. During the campaign I'd talk about the late great Hannibal Lecter."
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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
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The hearing over alleged efforts by the Trump administration to deport people to South Sudan is set to begin at 11, and I’ll be listening in.
Here’s my report at Law Dork on what we know: www.lawdork.com/p/lawyers-cl...
Here’s my report at Law Dork on what we know: www.lawdork.com/p/lawyers-cl...
Lawyers claim Trump administration is trying to send people to South Sudan
Despite State Department warnings, and in the face of a court order that sufficient process be given, lawyers allege a quick effort to deport people to the country.
www.lawdork.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The hearing over alleged efforts by the Trump administration to deport people to South Sudan is set to begin at 11, and I’ll be listening in.
Here’s my report at Law Dork on what we know: www.lawdork.com/p/lawyers-cl...
Here’s my report at Law Dork on what we know: www.lawdork.com/p/lawyers-cl...
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Trump dazed and confused at the Capitol. Where is the round-the-clock coverage on his massive brain failures? It’s only fair.
Trump Gets Lost On Capitol Hill and More Great News
Noem and Rubio embarrassed, Trump nearly walks into a column, bold protests, and more
www.dworkinsubstack.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Trump dazed and confused at the Capitol. Where is the round-the-clock coverage on his massive brain failures? It’s only fair.
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We spend $800 billion a year on our military yet our greatest enemy lives in the White House and we fly him to his own golf course for play dates on the weekend.
We also fly him abroad to facilitate his emoluments violations while we fly others to concentration camps.
#RemoveTrump
We also fly him abroad to facilitate his emoluments violations while we fly others to concentration camps.
#RemoveTrump
May 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We spend $800 billion a year on our military yet our greatest enemy lives in the White House and we fly him to his own golf course for play dates on the weekend.
We also fly him abroad to facilitate his emoluments violations while we fly others to concentration camps.
#RemoveTrump
We also fly him abroad to facilitate his emoluments violations while we fly others to concentration camps.
#RemoveTrump
Arrogant and ignorant. It's shocking how much nonsense comes out of his mouth.
He's always thought exchanging money for goods or services is a "rip-off," which is why he refuses to pay his bills or pay contractors. But, of course, he always makes sure to get the goods before he refuses to pay. That's not something we can do with China.
Trump: "We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China. Now we're essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we're saving hundreds of billions of dollars. It's very simple."
May 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Arrogant and ignorant. It's shocking how much nonsense comes out of his mouth.