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The max SNAP benefit isn’t right.

www.fns.usda.gov/snap/recipie...
Table from USDA web site that lists the maximum SNAP benefit amount by household size.
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Hello!
Aussiedoodle and tabby Maine coon lying next to each other on a couch.
October 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Beans got to dig in the dirt this morning. Do something that makes you happy today!
An aussiedoodle puppy with dirty paws and a dirty chin is looking up at the camera happily.
August 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I really needed yesterday. It was so great to see so much support in a town that seems so red.

#NoKings
No Kings protesters standing alongside a street.
June 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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#HandsOff
Sign at Hands Off protest with a silhouette of Paul Revere on a horse looking at a cellphone. Sign reads, ONE IF BY LAND,TWO IF BY SEA,WTF?! HEGSETH JUST TEXTED ME?!!
April 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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#HandsOff Erie, PA
Protesters standing in a crowd. One holds a sign reading “Protect Libraries” and another holds a sign that reads, “Don’t Let the Infection Spread. Stop The Donald.”
April 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social This statement is totally unacceptable. Trump is using ICE as his personal SS to target specific people in this country. It is a violation of the constitution. Period.

And please stop equating opposition to the Israeli government to antisemitism. You are a coward.
March 10th, 2025 PRESS RELEASE LEADER JEFFRIES STATEMENT ON ICE ARREST AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Washington, DC - Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries released the following statement: Mahmoud Khalil is a legal permanent resident whose wife, an American citizen, is eight months pregnant. To the extent his actions were inconsistent with Columbia University policy and created an unacceptable hostile academic environment for Jewish students and others, there is a serious university disciplinary process that can handle the matter. In the context of the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, DHS must produce facts and evidence of criminal activity. Absent evidence of a crime, such as providing material support for a terrorist organization, the actions undertaken by the Trump administration are wildly inconsistent with the United States Constitution. A judge has blocked this egregious removal pending further action and, along with Attorney General Letitia James, we will continue monitoring this developing situation closely.
March 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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#TheWriteWomen
For Women's History Month, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can)

It has to be a book you’ve read and enjoyed or have learned something from.

#booksky 📚💙. #womenshistory
Book cover for “A Still Life” by Louise Penny
March 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Two of my older cousins took me to the theater to see this during our family summer vacation, and I never felt cooler.
Image of Ghostbusters movie poster
February 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (17/20)

#booksky
#bookchallenge
Image of book cover with a profile of a girl filled with illustrations of nature on a yellow background. Text: LATE MIGRATIONS A NATURAL HISTORY OF LOVE AND LOSS Margaret Renkl "Has the makings of an American elassie." -ANN PATCHETT
February 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (16/20)

#booksky
#bookchallenge
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 100 NOTABLE BOOKS The New Work Eimes Book Review 2014 Just Mercy A STORY OF JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION Bryan Stevenson "Every bit as moving as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so ... a stirring testament to the salvation that fighting for the vulnerable sometimes yields." —David Cole, The New York Review of Books
February 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The reply I got from Fetterman was similar--with some extra jerkiness for good measure!
An email from Sen. John Fetterman dated 2/7/2025 that reads in part, "...One of the most important responsibilities I have as your senator is to consider and vote on the president’s nominations of federal judges, ambassadors, and other senior government officials, including Cabinet secretaries... No matter who our president is, I’m going to hold every nominee to the same standard: they need the experience to be able to do the job and the character to act with the best interests of all Americans in mind. It's obvious that many of President Trump’s nominees fall short of these standards. Some of these picks, like his first choice for Attorney General, are straight up meant to troll Democrats – they’re not serious people, and they shouldn’t hold serious positions in our government. I’ll inevitably have political differences with most of the president’s nominees, and there are some who I’ll never be able to vote for. That’s what happens when the other side wins elections. But I want to be clear: there have been capable individuals nominated to some of these posts, and I believe they should be given fair consideration by my Senate colleagues. I voted to confirm Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State and plan to do the same for Representative Elise Stefanik as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations because they are qualified and because I know they’ll stand up for our allies around the world, like Israel. It’s also important to remember that Senate Republicans hold a 53-seat majority. They’re going to have the votes they need to confirm most of their nominees, and there’s no amount of panic or pearl-clutching from Democrats that’s going to change that math. At the end of the day, when it comes to those nominees who are flat out unfit to lead, whether or not they’re confirmed will come down to how many of my Republicans colleagues have the courage to vote against them."
February 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (15/20)

#booksky
#bookchallenge
NICK HORNBY author of ABOUT A BOY and HIGH FIDELITY HOW TO BE GOOD novel
February 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (15/20)

#booksky
#bookchallenge
MAXX BARRY SYRUP "SEDUCTIVELY HIP... WICKEDLY FUNNY" -USA TODAY
February 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (14/20)

#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book cover of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. A matador dressed in red faces a bull.
February 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (13/20)

#booksky
#bookchallenge
ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy
February 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky
#bookchallenge
Image of book cover: William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.
February 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky
#bookchallenge
EMILY, ALONE A NOVEL STEWART O'NAN
February 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky
#bookchallenge
DOVER •THRIFT •EDITIONS KATE CHOPIN THE AWAKENING
February 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky
#bookchallenge
Encyclopedia Brown Boy Detective
February 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky
#bookchallenge
LE MORTE D' ARTHUR KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE THOMAS MALORY
February 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky
#bookchallenge
PENGUIN CLASSICS KEN KESEY Sometimes a Great Notion Introduction by CHARLES BOWDEN
February 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book cover: APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA A NOVEL JOHN O'HARA WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN UPDIKE
February 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I emailed @fetterman.senate.gov to ask him to stop voting to confirm Trump's nominees. I was going to write and thank him for announcing 'no' votes today, but then I got his response to my first message. This bit made me furious.
nominated to some of these posts, and I believe they should be given fair consideration by my Senate colleagues. I voted to confirm Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State and plan to do the same for Representative Elise Stefanik as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations because they are qualified and because I know they'll stand up for our allies around the world, like Israel. It's also important to remember that Senate Republicans hold a 53-seat majority. They're going to have the votes they need to confirm most of their nominees, and there's no amount of panic or pearl-clutching from Democrats that's going to change that math. At the end of the day, when it comes to those nominees who are flat out unfit to lead, whether or not they're confirmed will come down to how many of my Republicans colleagues have the courage to vote against them.
February 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
girlmathur.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky
#bookchallenge
Image of book cover for: NOBODY TOLD ME POETRY AND PARENTHOOD HOLLIE MC NISH
February 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM