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28.10.2025 19:39 — 👍 382 🔁 46 💬 13 📌 2

What did people do before SNAP?”

They died.

Healthcare, vaccines, disability support, education & food assistance are vital to our survival.

They’re why the average lifespan isn’t 35 anymore

The mark of a good & decent society is whether it sees the value in helping others.

28.10.2025 04:53 — 👍 9932 🔁 3114 💬 227 📌 95

JUST IN: The U.S. Senate has voted 52–48 to overturn Trump’s 50% tariffs on Brazil. Five Republicans joined Democrats: Susan Collins (ME), Mitch McConnell (KY), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Rand Paul (KY), and Thom Tillis (NC).

The measure is DOA in the House.

28.10.2025 23:30 — 👍 5882 🔁 1470 💬 400 📌 148

29.10.2025 01:45 — 👍 13219 🔁 5684 💬 504 📌 332

Shutdown Assistance Map - Resources for Furloughed/Excepted Federal Workers - MyFEDBenefits ShareTweetSharePin0 Shares

This is probably the most comprehensive shutdown assistance map I have seen soo far:

myfedbenefitshelp.com/shutdown-ass...

28.10.2025 19:46 — 👍 123 🔁 90 💬 0 📌 3

Awful piece. Just because so many white people are culturally ignorant and don’t know that Aunt, Auntie, Cousin are all terms to describe family members or close friends of our parents - even if that’s not their blood connection. The racism, the desperation, the sheer…..smallness of these attacks!

28.10.2025 20:50 — 👍 2418 🔁 441 💬 207 📌 35

Newsom: The New Testament and Old Testament have one dominant thing in common—Matthew, Isaiah, Luke, Proverbs, go down the list—it’s about food, about serving those who are hungry. It’s not a suggestion; it’s core and essential to what it means to align with God’s will.

28.10.2025 22:32 — 👍 22716 🔁 6434 💬 809 📌 429

Has Mike Johnson ever considered holding his daily presser an hour later to give him time to read a paper?

28.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 3459 🔁 567 💬 169 📌 17

How can a United States Senator say the word “But” right after that first sentence?

28.10.2025 21:51 — 👍 7345 🔁 1825 💬 1389 📌 336

Following three years of significant investments in addiction services, opioid overdoses have declined by 32% in the last year.

We’re saving lives and showing what’s possible when we meet this crisis with compassion and action.

29.10.2025 00:36 — 👍 8760 🔁 1611 💬 153 📌 66

Firing an entire federal arts commission to clear the path for your own triumphal arch? It’s a textbook indicator of authoritarian executive overreach — the exact trend we warned about in our assessment.

#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment

29.10.2025 00:15 — 👍 6672 🔁 2774 💬 411 📌 183

Hell yeah!

🚨 NEW: 22 states, DC, and 3 governors just filed a legal challenge over a $5 billion “contingency fund” meant to keep SNAP benefits going.

28.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 10082 🔁 3627 💬 182 📌 129

(Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call. Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre. On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.”

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

28.10.2025 21:01 — 👍 6612 🔁 1169 💬 267 📌 538

Combat veteran Chris Gentry was protesting lawfully on the side of the road when an ICE agent pointed a gun at him and said “bang bang, you’re dead liberal”

He’s filed a civil rights suit… but this is going on all across the country

These men hide their faces and act outside the law.

28.10.2025 03:31 — 👍 800 🔁 291 💬 23 📌 12

Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

28.10.2025 18:29 — 👍 26418 🔁 8388 💬 570 📌 340

Nice to see the fraudster has really humbled himself and evolved🤔🙃

28.10.2025 13:15 — 👍 7328 🔁 1595 💬 887 📌 214

Your regular reminder that Trump is massively unpopular, and as such is far weaker than he wants you to believe.

www.economist.com/interactive/...

28.10.2025 22:31 — 👍 41 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 1

The western end of Jamaica where #Melissa is projected to make landfall has the least well-built structures of anyplace on the island. Graphic is from a 2021 paper, "Poverty and hurricane risk exposure in Jamaica": www.researchgate.net/publication/...

28.10.2025 01:53 — 👍 418 🔁 191 💬 11 📌 16

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

28.10.2025 11:50 — 👍 20800 🔁 7876 💬 811 📌 386

What? Really? Elon demands a $1 trillion pay package Is he a net positive for humanity or a net negative?

Is Elon Worth It?
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

28.10.2025 22:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ICE violently detained a 16 year old US citizen & sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back and neck.

The kid was screaming “I’m underage! I was just going to school!”

That didn’t stop ICE from putting a knee on his neck.

Arnoldo Bazan didn’t deserve this.

No one deserves this.

28.10.2025 03:09 — 👍 414 🔁 195 💬 17 📌 14

During circle time today, my daughter's class processed seeing a man get detained by ICE outside of their school.
Last week ICE pulled guns outside of my 7 y.o school. Today, it was outside of my 10 y.o's school.
Repubs want us to fear adults in drag around kids, I'm afraid of ICE agents in masks.

28.10.2025 02:50 — 👍 558 🔁 158 💬 22 📌 7

Opinion | ICE lowered its standards and is still struggling to hire officers DHS is spending millions of dollars on an aggressive television ad campaign targeting local police officers — but it's not getting nearly enough applicants.

ICE is struggling to hire officers — even after lowering its standards. DHS is spending millions of dollars on an aggressive television ad campaign targeting local police officers — but it's not getting nearly enough applicants.

It looks like most Americans simply don’t want to be ICE thugs.

28.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 8820 🔁 2895 💬 1034 📌 377

Reuters: DEMOCRATIC-LED STATES FILE LAWSUIT TO BLOCK TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM SUSPENDING SNAP BENEFITS DURING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

28.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 1965 🔁 444 💬 45 📌 22

SC Republicans Consider Redistricting That Could Unseat Civil Rights Icon Jim Clyburn Republicans weigh dismantling South Carolina’s only Black district as legal challenges to the Voting Rights Act reach the Supreme Court, threatening James Clyburn’s 30-year legacy.

Republicans in South Carolina are moving to redraw the map that’s kept James Clyburn in Congress for 30 years—an effort that could erase the state’s only Black-led district as courts test the Voting Rights Act.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

28.10.2025 17:38 — 👍 27 🔁 16 💬 6 📌 0

Seniors suffer 'maddening' wait times for Social Security calls thanks to Trump’s mass layoffs Since President Donald Trump's return to the White House nine months ago, his administration has — with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — brought mass layoffs to a variety of federal government agencies, from the National Weather Service (NWS) to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). And Trump has toyed with the idea of eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) altogether. Another is the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), which, according to Washington Post reporters Meryl Kornfield and Hannah Natanson, has become increasingly difficult to deal with. In an article published on October 28, Kornfield and Natanson report, "Hours-long wait times. Endless looping music. Useless robot messages. Millions of seniors and disabled people call Social Security’s 1-800 number every month. What they experience is often maddening." Trump claims that the downsizing of federal agencies is targeting "waste, fraud and abuse," but critics of the mass layoffs argue that his administration is making a range of agencies less efficient — including the SSA. "The Trump Administration has said it is improving Social Security customer service and dramatically cutting wait times to build on a phone experience that callers have complained about even before Trump," Kornfield and Natanson explain. "But the agency's public reporting doesn't count the time people wait for callbacks from humans, and nearly three dozen callers who spoke with The Washington Post or let a reporter join their calls said their experiences have not matched the agency's claims. The average wait time for a callback peaked at about 2½ hours from January to March, according to internal agency data obtained by The Post." The Post reporters add, "The average time dropped to about an hour since July, when the agency added more field office workers to the 1-800 number, even as the agency has sought to reduce its workforce by thousands." Kornfield and Natanson's article is accompanied by actual recordings of frustrated seniors struggling to get help from the downsized SSA. "Shelley McLean, a 68-year-old technical writer from Brookhaven, New York, had been waiting for months for $31,000 that Social Security owed her in attorney fees as part of a disability case," the Post journalists report. "She called on a Friday in August to check on it and was told her hold time would be 110 minutes. McLean ended up getting a callback about 200 minutes later, after she already had personal plans and couldn't answer the phone.… In Upland, California, last spring, 72-year-old Kathy Stecher began the process of applying for benefits." Kornfield and Natanson continued, "On her first attempt, an automated voice told the retired public schoolteacher that the wait time would extend more than 120 minutes. Trying to be patient, she hung on — only for her call to be dropped after more than an hour. Determined to get her benefits, she kept trying. For the next four days, she phoned once a day. She called early, she called in the middle of the morning, and she called in the afternoon." Read Meryl Kornfield and Hannah Natanson's full Washington Post article at this link (subscription required).

28.10.2025 17:38 — 👍 30 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 2

“I’m getting to do what I enlisted to do.” 🙏🏼🙏🏼

28.10.2025 17:38 — 👍 97 🔁 32 💬 4 📌 3

We’re at the are-you-still-there point of the baseball broadcast

28.10.2025 05:25 — 👍 57 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0

ICE thugs have conducted raids on parking lots used by rideshare drivers near O'Hare Airport, detaining multiple individuals in recent weeks. The raids involved federal agents questioning and arresting drivers.

Thank you for sharing these videos. See ICE report ICE.

27.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 26 🔁 20 💬 5 📌 2

The President just announced he is giving $20 billion of taxpayer money to bail out Argentina. That’s outrageous. If he was willing to spend that money in America - to keep American health premiums from skyrocketing, the shutdown would be over tomorrow.

27.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 4777 🔁 1566 💬 241 📌 63

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