Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@QasimRashid Many of the people that you see that appear poor are getting a free phone from the universal fund provided many years ago for landlines and extended to cell phones so people had access to help during emergencies. So leave them alone. My sister had one till she died because she lived on SSI and food stamps because she was disabled and my 71-year-old brother has one because he does not even get enough SS to live. We have sent them food via Costco for years so they eat.

Some of the most MAGA districts in #Ohio, extremely white, are the highest level of SNAP food stamp households in Ohio, where 1 in 4 are on food stamps. Interestingly, this is #OH02 Congressional district, primarily. #USPol #SNAP #FoodStamps

🔗 State of Ohio SNAP Data Map
https://data.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/data/view/snap-population-metrics

#US lawmakers have been repeatedly
rebuffed by the White House in their demand that the #Trump admin release more info about the legal justification for the strikes as well as greater details about which cartels have been targeted & the individuals killed.

#Hegseth in his posting announcing the latest strike said "narco-terrorists are bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans at home" & the Defense Dept "will treat them EXACTLY how we treated Al-Qaeda."

#law #murder #Congress #WarPowers

#Russia will reopen the Mariupol Drama Theatre this year, Mariupol City Council announced.

The theatre was destroyed by Russia in 2022, killing 100s inside. Russians ignored the written signs which said kids were in the venue.

Russia continues to use reconstruction as a weapon.

https://t.me/mariupolrada/30962

It's at least the 15th such strike carried out by the #US #military in the #Caribbean or eastern #Pacific since early September.

…The US military has now killed at least 64 people in the strikes.

#Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the US. He has asserted the US is engaged in an "armed conflict" with drug cartels, relying on the same #legal authority used by the Bush admin when it declared a war on terrorism after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks.

Speaker Johnson: “If we had a contingency fund for SNAP we’d use it.” REALITY: There is one, Trump literally just deleted it off the USDA site 🤷🏼 More: www.notus.org/trump-white-...

"Families may soon starve, but Trump gets a new marble bathroom. ...

The absolute lack of self-awareness it takes to post about fancy renovations to the White House that virtually no Americans will ever see or utilize, while millions of federal workers are not being paid and throngs of Americans are worried about losing the funding they rely upon to feed their families is hard to fathom."

~ Emily Singer

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/31/2351470/-Families-may-soon-starve-but-Trump-gets-a-new-marble-bathroom

Covid gets more updates than my laptop, and without the pesky pop-ups.

While Trump personifies Lakoff’s strict father model by rigorously reminding you of who the “daddy” is, the governor of Illinois often embodies the empathy of a Nurturant Parent who takes care of his people.

How JB Pritzer works as an imperfect embodiment of progressive values.

New from me in @gilduran and @georgelakoff's @framelabnews

https://www.theframelab.org/trump-wants-him-arrested-jb-pritzker-is-breaking-through/

“Lethal kinetic strike”? You spelled “murder” wrong. Hegseth should be charged in abstentia with war crimes.

Everything the “don’t tread on me” folks claimed to care about is being done by the people they now blindly support

And for those who want to get the hell outta dodge help them move...

Officials acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors. https://theintercept.com/2025/10/31/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-unprivileged-belligerants

People keep telling me
that we
are post-pandeimc,
but the hoarse voices
with which they say this
keeps telling me
that we
are still in the pandemic.

*

A compendium of the 294th week of plague poems…

https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/plague-poems-the-two-hundred-and-ninety-fourth-week/

BREAKING NEWS

Federal judge orders Trump regime to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund

The ruling came one day before funding for SNAP, more commonly known as food stamps, was set to lapse
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/federal-judge-orders-trump-administration-pay-snap-benefits-contingenc-rcna241187

Here's my interpretation of the Republican healthcare plan we've been hearing about for the last 12 years but haven't seen. You know the one, but there is concepts of a plan though...

#politics #healthcare #satire

Cartoon by Kevin Seirs.

Johnson initially claimed he was not aware of the instances, despite having been directly asked about one of the incidents in a press conference earlier this month.
https://religionnews.com/2025/10/29/speaker-johnson-dismisses-religious-freedom-concerns-by-clergy-shot-by-dhs-agents-with-pepper-balls/