Nicole Woo

Today is the #SNAPDayOfAction, and we need you to join us and act now.
42 million Americans are at risk of losing SNAP benefits on Nov 1st. USDA has a contingency fund but hasn't released it. Contact your Members of Congress today: actionnetwork.org/letters/cong...

States sue Agriculture Department over looming suspension of SNAP food assistance With benefits expected to run out Saturday because of the government shutdown, Democratic leaders of 25 states allege that the USDA is required to keep providing funds.

"The lawsuit ... argues that the USDA is legally required to continue providing SNAP benefits during the shutdown as long as it has funding. It calls on the court to compel the USDA to use contingency funds appropriated by Congress to keep the program running." www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

"The plaintiffs ... have asked that a judge move rapidly to force the USDA to use available contingency funds for November SNAP benefits and ensure that millions of families do not lose access to food assistance in the coming days." www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

There is $5 billion sitting in an account for SNAP right now. The GOP refuses to spend it, hoping to force the Democrats to capitulate. The GOP are terrorists.

Attorneys general in at least 25 states have sued the Trump administration for suspending SNAP benefits. Mine is one. Is yours? If not, please contact them and demand they do so, including Republican attorneys general. Tell all your friends to do the same.

Help stop this assault on America!

"A coalition of 23 attorneys general and three governors are ... arguing that the USDA not only has the funds to continue feeding Americans via SNAP through the month of November—the USDA also has 'both the authority and legal duty' to do so."

The tools to protect SNAP during this shutdown already exist — USDA has used them before. What’s missing now is the political will to prevent hunger. FRAC’s Gina Plata-Niño explains: frac.org/blog/politic...

We are standing with advocates across the country to say that hunger is a policy choice.

USDA has the authority to sustain SNAP, just as it has in past shutdowns.

Hungry people can’t wait.

"Historically, both Republican and Democratic administrations found ways to sustain SNAP during budget crises and shutdowns in 2013, 2018-2019, and the almost shutdown in 2023, by using contingency funds, carryover appropriations, and short-term adjustments. The authority remains intact."

SNAP’s Contingency Reserve Is Available for Regular SNAP Benefits, as USDA and OMB Have Ruled in Past The Administration must use all available options to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 people in the U.S. who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill.

Past administrations used #SNAP contingency funds to prevent benefit gaps. Despite clear legal authority, the current Administration refuses to do, putting 1 in 8 people in the U.S. who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

SNAP’s Contingency Reserve Is Available for Regular SNAP Benefits, as USDA and OMB Have Ruled in Past The Administration must use all available options to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 people in the U.S. who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill.

The Trump Administration’s assertion that it can't use SNAP’s contingency reserves for SNAP benefits is contrary to:
▪️The plain language of the law
▪️Their own (now deleted) shutdown plan
▪️Guidance from prior Administrations

We have the receipts:

Trump Administration Is Legally Required to Provide SNAP in Shutdown, Contrary to Its Claims Secretary Rollins’ claim that the Trump Administration is unable to deliver November SNAP benefits during a shutdown is unequivocally false. The Administration is legally required to use contingency r...

The Administration is legally required to use contingency reserves to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans who need #SNAP to afford groceries, despite USDA Sec. Rollins’ claim that the Administration is unable to do so. My statement: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

Memorial Day at Punchbowl cemetery always moves me. A flag and a lei at every grave. Mahalo to those who served and those who honor their memory

It's possible our state's corrective action plan kicked in around then. See www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/ses...

Yet another reason to #BoycottAmazon

[M]ajor US stock indices ... are still posting losses this year to date. That has put them behind global stock indices ... Some of those that exclude US stocks have even posted gains so far in 2025, with the MSCI EAFE ... up nearly 10 percent. link.vox.com/view/6591570...

YouTube video by Alain Cazes Speech againt Trump, by french senator, Claude Malhuret. ( English subtitles )

I wish some American legislators could talk like this youtu.be/QIK9vbQRwBQ?...

From Feminist News:

Sweden to tighten gun laws after mass shooting at school Sweden's right-wing government said on Friday it would seek to tighten gun laws in the wake of the country's deadliest mass shooting at an adult education centre where the attacker appeared to have used several of his own licensed rifles.

3 days after a mass shooting, Sweden's right-wing government plans to reimpose and strengthen a ban on semi-automatic guns: "In light of the horrible shooting in Orebro earlier this week we believe that the right balance is to ... prohibit that kind of weapon." www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Department of Transportation Wants to Fund Places With High Birth Rates Also today: San Francisco wants wealthy donors to help tackle drug overdoses, and Trump’s freeze on climate money sows fear and confusion.

"While it isn’t clear how the memos will be carried out, transit advocates warn that the unusual policy could be one of several ways the Trump administration is diverting funding away from urban areas and communities of color." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

"Withholding information is literally the opposite of spraying it from a fire hose—but these acts are ... twin tracks of a broader censorship strategy, one that seeks to keep what matters from the media by withholding it in some instances and overwhelming their attentional capacity in others."

"Land of the free"

Isaac Asimov once said that “there is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.” Asimov argued that this ignorance is “nourished by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is as good as your knowledge.”

Mark Zuckerberg Insists Anyone With Same Skewed Values And Unrelenting Thirst For Power Could Have Made Same Mistakes

Mark Zuckerberg Insists Anyone With Same Skewed Values And Unrelenting Thirst For Power Could Have Made Same Mistakes
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