Randy Rosso
@fooddatanerd.com
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Randy Rosso (he/him). NO DMs unless I know u. No indiv donations. Food data nerd. Women’s soccer, Wash Spirit/USWNT fan. Food=human right. Trans rights are human rights.
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Randy Rosso (he/him). NO DMs unless I know u. No indiv donations. Food data nerd. Women’s soccer, Wash Spirit/USWNT fan. Food=human right. Trans rights are human rights.
https://open.substack.com/pub/makethemathwork
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Randy Rosso
@fooddatanerd.com
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🥗 Full state monthly SNAP participation and benefits data set, October 1988 through August 2025:
doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
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Tom Perriello's stunning victory allowed him to vote for the ACA and help it become law, helping millions. Tom did it knowing it would probably cost him his seat in the next election.
That is what political courage and serving the people looks like.
That is what political courage and serving the people looks like.
December 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Tom Perriello's stunning victory allowed him to vote for the ACA and help it become law, helping millions. Tom did it knowing it would probably cost him his seat in the next election.
That is what political courage and serving the people looks like.
That is what political courage and serving the people looks like.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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What a clown Infantino is.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
FIFA President Infantino accused of ethics breaches relating to Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
What a clown Infantino is.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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@fooddatanerd.com The writer of the article I sent this morning has no idea.
"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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" Their town doesn’t have a food pantry, so Gay began researching ways to help. She saw that a nearby town had a little free pantry, but she knew many of her neighbors wouldn’t be able to get there."
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
" Their town doesn’t have a food pantry, so Gay began researching ways to help. She saw that a nearby town had a little free pantry, but she knew many of her neighbors wouldn’t be able to get there."
🥗 Sharing, not endorsing. I disagree with the premise.
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I disagree. Little Free Pantries are not competing with Food Banks, just filling in cracks. www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
I disagree. Little Free Pantries are not competing with Food Banks, just filling in cracks. www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: How micro pantries inadvertently undermine food banks
Uncoordinated efforts can unintentionally harm the very systems designed to protect food-insecure households.
www.deseret.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🥗 Sharing, not endorsing. I disagree with the premise.
🥗 I just submitted a letter to the editor of the Washington Post, responding to that gaslighting editorial saying food is a bargain actually because *some* wages (for blue-collar workers) have gone up. Couldn't let that one slide.
December 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
🥗 I just submitted a letter to the editor of the Washington Post, responding to that gaslighting editorial saying food is a bargain actually because *some* wages (for blue-collar workers) have gone up. Couldn't let that one slide.
🎶 O Brother Where Art Thou really is a helluva soundtrack!
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
The Soundtrack that Sparked a Genre
A Reason To Smile
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🎶 O Brother Where Art Thou really is a helluva soundtrack!
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Whiskey Pete goes caroling
Senator Tom Cotton joins in the merrymaking
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Stirring words in my inbox forwarded from a USAID staffer
"This Order is Unlawful, and We Must Refuse to Comply"
"This Order is Unlawful, and We Must Refuse to Comply"
February 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Stirring words in my inbox forwarded from a USAID staffer
"This Order is Unlawful, and We Must Refuse to Comply"
"This Order is Unlawful, and We Must Refuse to Comply"
I miss the good old days when murdering people was considered bad. Illegal even.
December 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I miss the good old days when murdering people was considered bad. Illegal even.
We live in the dumbest possible timeline.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We live in the dumbest possible timeline.
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🥗 Finally people—in particular Democrats—are getting the importance of affordability. Which is about both income and expenses.
Not sure I agree with all this but I do with the imperative to focus on cost of living—and to actually DO something about it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Not sure I agree with all this but I do with the imperative to focus on cost of living—and to actually DO something about it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Affordability Curse
Politics isn’t just about the words you put on your bumper stickers. It’s about what you do if the bumper stickers work.
www.theatlantic.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
🥗 Finally people—in particular Democrats—are getting the importance of affordability. Which is about both income and expenses.
Not sure I agree with all this but I do with the imperative to focus on cost of living—and to actually DO something about it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Not sure I agree with all this but I do with the imperative to focus on cost of living—and to actually DO something about it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
"Even after the inflation spike in recent years, Americans last year devoted 10.4 percent of disposable income to food" -- and yet the SNAP benefits formula still reduces SNAP by 30%, assuming households spend 30% of their income on food. All of it -- prices, wages, SNAP benefits-- are out of whack.
🥗 And for the gaslighting coup de grace: "Actually, today's food prices are a bargain"
So prices are low, even though they're higher, but higher prices are good... Got it.
SNAP benefits are adjusted for inflation only once per year, and they've always run out
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
So prices are low, even though they're higher, but higher prices are good... Got it.
SNAP benefits are adjusted for inflation only once per year, and they've always run out
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"Even after the inflation spike in recent years, Americans last year devoted 10.4 percent of disposable income to food" -- and yet the SNAP benefits formula still reduces SNAP by 30%, assuming households spend 30% of their income on food. All of it -- prices, wages, SNAP benefits-- are out of whack.
🥗 And for the gaslighting coup de grace: "Actually, today's food prices are a bargain"
So prices are low, even though they're higher, but higher prices are good... Got it.
SNAP benefits are adjusted for inflation only once per year, and they've always run out
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
So prices are low, even though they're higher, but higher prices are good... Got it.
SNAP benefits are adjusted for inflation only once per year, and they've always run out
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
December 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🥗 And for the gaslighting coup de grace: "Actually, today's food prices are a bargain"
So prices are low, even though they're higher, but higher prices are good... Got it.
SNAP benefits are adjusted for inflation only once per year, and they've always run out
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
So prices are low, even though they're higher, but higher prices are good... Got it.
SNAP benefits are adjusted for inflation only once per year, and they've always run out
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
🥗 Mm-hmm. You know who has no trouble affording groceries? Billionaire Jeff Bezos.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think you do
Though Americans might be clamoring for relief on groceries, housing and energy costs, economists say there’s a bigger downside to falling prices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🥗 Mm-hmm. You know who has no trouble affording groceries? Billionaire Jeff Bezos.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Hmm, try to be productive today or veg until I go to treatment this afternoon? Decisions, decisions.
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hmm, try to be productive today or veg until I go to treatment this afternoon? Decisions, decisions.