From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays
09.11.2025 14:25 β π 4358 π 1495 π¬ 60 π 66@amydonaldson.bsky.social
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From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays
09.11.2025 14:25 β π 4358 π 1495 π¬ 60 π 66Cam Little with a new record.
02.11.2025 22:29 β π 536 π 90 π¬ 24 π 56A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the state of Indianaβs motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a ban on student IDs for voting.
via @indianacapitalchronicle.com
Haley Robson was visibly shaking as she told the story of being one of the many survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy financier arrested for molesting girls and trafficking them.
03.09.2025 16:00 β π 75 π 27 π¬ 9 π 0#Breaking: Vinay Prasad is returning to the Food and Drug Administration to resume his role overseeing vaccine, gene therapy, and blood product regulation. www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/v...
09.08.2025 15:23 β π 66 π 33 π¬ 9 π 15Israel says hundreds of truckloads of aid are waiting for pickup on Gaza's border for the U.N. to distribute. But the U.N. says itβs unable to bring in enough aid to Palestinians as it is hindered by Israeli military restrictions and a breakdown of security.
25.07.2025 22:00 β π 147 π 75 π¬ 24 π 10The NFL plans to fine more than 100 players and roughly two dozen club employees who were found to be in violation of the NFLβs Ticket Resale policy in connection with Super Bowl 59 tickets.
25.07.2025 22:00 β π 22 π 9 π¬ 3 π 2Ohioans need to be making at least $22.51 an hour working a full-time job to be able to afford a βmodestβ two-bedroom apartment, according to a new report released this week. The average Ohio renter earns $18.62 an hour ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/18/o...
20.07.2025 18:01 β π 21 π 18 π¬ 3 π 1In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing. Weβre about to spend nearly four times on detention centers what we spend on housing. https://trib.al/7FqAHX3
20.07.2025 15:41 β π 177 π 123 π¬ 12 π 12The total economic hit to Black wealth from land loss could be in excess of $300 billionβa significant contributor to the persistent racial wealth gap that hangs over US society. (From 2021)
10.07.2025 21:23 β π 266 π 70 π¬ 4 π 2The chief executive officer of stadium developer Oak View Group was charged with conspiring with a rival to rig the process for constructing a new arena in Texas, authorities said.
09.07.2025 18:33 β π 12 π 3 π¬ 4 π 1LA Mayor Karen Bass told reporters there were children in a park attending a day camp when masked federal agents arrived.
08.07.2025 11:36 β π 38 π 17 π¬ 2 π 2World football governing body FIFA has boosted its ties with US President Donald Trump by opening an office in New Yorkβs Trump Tower.
08.07.2025 11:42 β π 62 π 42 π¬ 74 π 61Federal authorities in Idaho are following up on a possible sighting over the weekend of a Washington state man wanted in connection with the deaths of his three daughters.
08.07.2025 02:56 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0So theyβre basically laundering our federal science budget over to the for-profit prison and concentration camp industry?
NSFβs 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.
NASA: $24.875.
NIH: $47.7 billion.
Fund science, not cruelty.
There is no bottom.
29.06.2025 03:09 β π 1051 π 328 π¬ 26 π 4Another point: Many know the Dred Scott decision but aren't as familiar with the aftermath and how states, courts, and politicians responded. 5 examples:
1) Many Northern/Midwest states just ignored the decision.
2) Maineβs high court said Black Americans could vote in state/federal elections. /1
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27.06.2025 22:15 β π 183 π 32 π¬ 11 π 1These cases are restored to the calendar for reargument. In due course, the Court will issue an order scheduling argument and specifying any additional questions to be addressed in supplemental briefing.
NEW: SCOUTS decides to rehear a case over a Louisiana congressional voting map with 2 majority-Black districts that state legislature passed to get in line with the Voting Rights Act. "Non-Black" voters argue one district is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation Iβve seen. It βs relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
28.06.2025 02:15 β π 31876 π 13511 π¬ 1281 π 1358ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.
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This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
βThese findings suggest climate change might well accelerate in the coming years. Worse still, this worrying imbalance is emerging even as funding uncertainty in the United States threatens our ability to track the flows of heat.β
H/t @thinkorswim.bsky.social
theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...
One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
24.06.2025 21:10 β π 2631 π 1087 π¬ 42 π 72Theyβre planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
βMale pilots would sometimes stuff rags or sugar in the gas tank of a womanβs plane to make them crash, or even slash their tires, as Aikman reported in Spitfires. At least one pilot died after someone added sugar to her planeβs gas tank.β
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Take note.
22.06.2025 10:47 β π 40370 π 13278 π¬ 886 π 519I think the Catholic Church should do this every day in every city
20.06.2025 22:08 β π 9846 π 1882 π¬ 41 π 68After 450 million years of evolutionary history, shark populations are collapsing, and more than a third of shark species and their relatives face extinction.
Now scientists are trying to use the lure of βJawsβ to advance shark conservation efforts.
And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail
in Jamaica.
Do you get it yet?
Inside sources told me the CDC's massive HIV surveys have been halted. This essentially wastes $72 million already spent, years of effort, and 30K people's time.
Stopping the next round of surveys means trying to curb HIV in the dark. Inefficient to say the least. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...