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I read everything. DMs open for book, article recs. Will excerpt those sent.
Here are excerpts of things I'm reading in 🫖 English 🍉#عربي 🧿🔥 #Español 🌺. #writing 📚🏳️‍🌈 #bdsm 🦯🔞
A: 2014, when Obama signed the Farm Bill cutting billions in SNAP over a 10 year period.

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/...

#snap #democrats #republicans
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President Obama signs $8.7 billion food stamp cut into law
The 2014 Farm Bill, which the president signed on Friday, will cause 850,000 households to lose an average of $90 per month.
www.msnbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"They know they can't get a $40 billion cut right off the bat, so what they're doing is they're chipping away at it," he said.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
McGovern also admitted to being "puzzled" by the White House's silence on hunger and food stamp cuts. He predicted that Republicans' success in getting a several billion dollar food stamp cut meant that they would soon try again for even more.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"Poor people are getting screwed by this Republican majority [in the House] and Democrats in my opinion aren't doing enough to push back," he said. "I wish there had been more of a fight from the White House and others."
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November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Jim McGovern, D-Mass., expect the burden of burden of the cuts to fall disproportionately on the elderly and disabled.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Mabrook!
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Any substacks you recommend?
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
thanks for your work on this. this may be of interest - www.fundingpalestinianfreedom.org/about-us — a project to organize funders and get them resources to divest in zionist genocide and into palestinian futures, hopefully
About Us — Funding Freedom
www.fundingpalestinianfreedom.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
“You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced."
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November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I can finish any crossword within an hour, but I have a discovery concerned with the blueness of cheese that will never come to a conclusion—althought of course one dreams that perhaps a time mgiht come. . One day I must show you my laboratory.”
“I must be going, Hasselbacher.”
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November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in teh blueness of the cheese. You don’t do crosswords, do you, Mr. Wormold? I do, and they are like people: one reaches an end.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Whatever is in a good cry that can’t be had in a bad one must be found in abundance in the dryer Daddy and Uncle Mick bought last summer at a swap meet in Fairbanks. #writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity #poetry #poet
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November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Her readiest advice, on any bad, dumb day is, “Just go on, honey, and have yourself a good cry” - confusing to me, since she comes from people who might’ve cried a river but hardly ever let a tear go.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM