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Never again means never again. There is no room for interpretation.

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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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dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/3

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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

theframelab.org/trump-wants-hi

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

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. theintercept.com/2025/10/31/tr

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…

librarianshipwreck.wordpress.c

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

nbcnews.com/politics/trump-adm

Grim Political Satire 

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

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.
religionnews.com/2025/10/29/sp

From John Adams to Kent State to the Insurrection Act, history warns us what happens when power fears the people more than the enemy…

hartmannreport.com/p/will-the-

I mean, parents in TX suddenly started vaxxing their kids when kids started dying of measles. Parents don’t like it when their children die! It’s bad politics (and, you know, bad values and basic decency). With a grim body count, think this has to backfire.

More Texas children are gettin...

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@KimPerales

the way you reduce crime is to make sure:

people have food, housing and medical care

that's it, mystery solved

"We know that Trump🚨has mostly ended #ConsumerProtection. But they've also quietly walked away from bank supervision, the obscure work of checking for risk that prevents FIN collapse."

Now, just 15 yrs from its inception,🚨the #CFPB: a hollow shell of itself. Since Trump’s inaug, the regime has been seeking to terminate every position not explicitly created by statute -would leave the agency as just “5 men & a phone.”

If the #TrumpRegime isn't dismantled soon...

#USPol
prospect.org/2025/10/31/making

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