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Judges order the Trump administration to use contingency funds for SNAP payments during the shutdown Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Trump's administration must continue to fund SNAP, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration must fund SNAP during the government shutdown.

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Senate Committee on Indians Affairs Hear How Tribes Turn to Natural Resources as Federal Shutdown Deepens Food Insecurity An emergency authorization from the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council to slaughter 18 buffalo from the tribe’s herd will produce thousands of pounds of meat for community members facing uncertain food...

“With federal restrictions and the shutdown disrupting vital resources, the Blackfeet Nation is turning to its own natural resources and community partnerships to ensure that families continue to have access to food,” the tribe said in a statement.
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These U.S. National Guards members say they’ll defy order to deploy in Chicago  | CBC Radio Two Illinois National Guard members, both Democrats, say they will defy U.S. President Donald's Trump's order to deploy to the streets of Chicago.

This what ICE is up against. FSM help them if they ever see actual riots. They'd shit their pants.
“We have clergy there. We have Mormons there, school teachers and dads, PTA dads. People are singing and playing the guitar and teaching each other how to knit,” she said.
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A food tax shift could save lives More expensive steak, cheaper tomatoes, but the same total cost for the average basket of groceries at the supermarket. A comprehensive study, led by researchers from Chalmers University of Techno ...

Researchers have examined a food tax shift that makes fruits, vegetables, legumes and whole grain products cheaper, but beef, lamb, pork, processed meat and sugar-sweetened beverages more expensive. Something that could have both environmental and human health benefits.
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Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Italian Tomatoes Grows; More Than 400 Sickened in 20 Countries ECDC has provided an update on a multi-year, multi-national outbreak of Salmonella Strathcona linked to tomatoes from Sicily, Italy, which has grown to 437 confirmed cases in 17 European countries, pl...

#foodsafety The outbreak strain, S. Strathcona ST2559, was also linked to a foodborne illness outbreak caused by Italian tomatoes in 2023, as well as a historical S. Strathcona tomato outbreak that occurred in Denmark in 2011.
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CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs. All of them are women EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following a last-minute change by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

Meanwhile, a CBS News producer who was fired as part of the network-wide cuts took to social media Wednesday to suggest that executives were engaging in “race-based layoffs,” claiming that every producer from his team who was laid off is a person of color...

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Urges Mass Rebellion: ‘If The American People Got Serious, Congress Would Be Terrified’ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is once again drawing attention with her latest remarks, this time urging Americans to challenge and even potentially

Who had this on their bingo card?
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Yarvins Tromp Regime, is ‘using *food*, as a *political weapon* against its *own* people”

hostory repeats.

it Rhymes.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Holo 2.0 is incoming; and Lysenkoism, is next in my estimation:

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Support Your Local Lefty WOKEpedia.

—Thnk.

Pa., NJ and Del. sue to force Trump administration to continue SNAP payments More than 20 states are suing the Trump administration with the claim that the federal government has $5 billion in a contingency fund for payments.

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Officials in one Pennsylvania county say if state won't send payments, it won't receive payments HARRISBURG — Word that two officials in York County plan to give the commonwealth a dose of its own medicine by withholding payments during...

Two officials in York County PA have decided to withhold payments such as court filing fees during state budget impasse.
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"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Trump Administration Buries Legal Memo Suggesting It Could Pay November Food Benefits The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the food program, says its hands are tied by the shutdown.

“The Administration has chosen to hold food for more than forty million vulnerable people hostage to try to force Democrats to capitulate without negotiations,” Super blogged last week.
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YouTube video by CBS Pittsburgh Mystery of Canonsburg's rubber ducks solved

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‘I’m fearful people will die’: Pennsylvania reckons with impact of Trump cuts In Johnstown, thousands live in poverty – and voters went for Trump. How are people feeling as his devastating cuts take hold?

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The Respite Gap: Why Caregivers Aren’t Using Support Services As more caregivers assume increasing responsibilities, they require more effective respite interventions to manage stress and burnout.

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Can exercise counteract the effects of eating junk food? Researchers led by Professor Yvonne Nolan at University College Cork have identified specific metabolic pathways through which exercise counteracts the negative behavioral effects of consuming a W ...

The findings provide crucial insights into how lifestyle interventions might be optimized to support mental health in an era of widespread ultra-processed food consumption.
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‘Is it safe?’ How one Chicago coffee shop took a stand against the ‘monsters’ of ICE Jesse Iñiguez, a coffee shop owner, has inadvertently found himself at the center of Operation Midway Blitz — the Trump administration’s contentious U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) mission that’s brought military-style raids, violent clashes and National Guard troops to Chicago.“It's ...

‘Is it safe?’ How one Chicago coffee shop took a stand against the ‘monsters’ of ICE

'You'll go down as a wimp:' Pence's never-before-published notes key evidence in case against Trump, book says Donald Trump berated Mike Pence, calling his then-vice president a "wimp" during their final phone call on Jan. 6, 2021.

In his final report to AG Merrick Garland made public this past January, Smith said the evidence his team gathered would have proved that Trump "used lies as a weapon to defeat a federal government function foundational to the United States' democratic process."
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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots are incredibly sycophantic A study has confirmed that AI chatbots absolutely love to please us. Researchers have found that they are 50 percent more likely to agree with us when compared to actual humans.

Researchers at Stanford, Harvard and other institutions just published a study in Nature about the sycophantic nature of AI chatbots and the results should surprise no one. They just love patting us on our heads and confirming whatever nonsense we just spewed out.
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The USDA Is Reopening Around 2,100 Offices To Help Farmers Access $3B In Aid A tractor spraying fertilizers on crops.FWM Current Events — October 24, 2025The re-opening offices help farmers apply for farm loans, crop insurance, disaster aid and other programs.The Agriculture D...

The USDA said each Farm Service Agency office will have two workers who will be paid even though the government remains shutdown. Thousands of other federal employees like air traffic controllers are working without pay during the shutdown.
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"Food companies put fictitious early expiration dates on their products to safeguard profit and limit liability. By encouraging consumers to throw away edible food, companies create the necessary conditions for consumers to re-purchase their food, while limiting their liability ..."

Stop Wasting Good Food: What Expiration Dates Don’t Tell You Uncovering the truth behind food labels to save money and reduce waste

"...as a #foodsafety professional, I know that the printed dates are not precise indicators of safety. In the end, I poured it out. Not because it was spoiled, but because printed expiration dates had made me act out of fear."
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Shark Meat Scandal Threatens Health of Humans and Oceans Endangered hammerheads sold under vague labels in US stores put families at risk of toxic mercury and oceans at risk of species collapse

#foodcrime At a grocery store on the US East Coast, a pack of “shark steak” sat on ice, available for just $2.99 a pound. The meat turned out to be from a critically endangered hammerhead, a species known to carry some of the highest mercury levels in the ocean.
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VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester “Your name was brought up.”

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A potentially more severe strain of mpox may be spreading in L.A. County It’s the first time this particular type of mpox, known as “Clade I,” has been found in the United States among people who had no history of traveling overseas to high-risk areas.

🧵🧵 MPOX
1/9
Three cases of Mpox Clade 1 confirmed in Los Angeles this month, none with recent foreign travel.

That suggests *local spread* is happening.
People here already have it and have transmitted it.

This is concerning - let’s delve in.
(Marathon post ahead!)

YouTube video by Diario AS RONALD REAGAN vs. TARIFFS: 1987 speech gains NEW LIFE in 2025

Here's Reagan's 1987 speech.
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YouTube video by The Independent Trump ends trade talks with Canada after ‘anti-tariffs’ ad featuring Reagan

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