Steven Williams

SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now.

Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it.

Don’t forget this.

The Attack on Chicago People need to look at these pictures and ask, is this America?

“For Noem — and Trump, and Miller, and Hegseth, and Patel — the brutality is a made-for-tv movie. It’s entertainment. And they get off on the raw, naked will to power. The law be damned. They love this. They are proud of this. And they will keep doing it.”

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Thanks for providing some (seemingly) random content to my feed.

YouTube video by Dar Williams - Topic Olive Tree

New music from Dar Williams...

"It's like we have returned to that hill
But there are more of us now, and the circle is widening still
In the back and the forth, it's like we're holding a trust
Like we know that we count, like something's counting on us"

#DarWilliams

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Joseph Warren, physician and patriot, died a few hundred yards from here on June 17, 1775, fighting King George's army at Bunker Hill. Here is what Dr. Warren had to say about TYRANNY

"Martial law and the government of a well regulated city, are so entirely different that it has always been considered improper to quarter troops in populous cities; frequent disputes must necessarily arise between the citizen and the soldier, even if no previous animosities subsist." Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, 6 March 1775

seen in Boston

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren I'm angry. You should be too. But this fight isn't over.

After 26 hours of fighting on the Senate floor, Republicans voted to rip health care from millions of people and let little babies go hungry. And they cheered.

I'm angry. You should be too. But this fight isn't over.

Map with routes of famous European explorers.

Made a quiz about the routes of famous European explorers (Age of Exploration) 🗺️🧭

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Not too difficult and hopefully educational 🙂

#Magellan #ChristopherColumbus #FrancisDrake

Even after all this, the @nytimes continues to normalize it

YouTube video by US National Archives Don't Be a Sucker

This was created in 1945 and when you watch it you can’t believe this is where we are today 😓🤬

National Archives Identifier: 24376
Local Identifier: 111-EF-6

Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer.

This item was produced or created: 1945

Trump: "You can have all the eggs you want. We have too many eggs. In fact, if anything the prices are getting too low."

Maybe not your posts point, but the 16% number you gave is interesting. I hadn't considered how much we already manufacturer here (enough to be 3rd, behind China and the EU).

What's being done and being said in the clip is still insane. Pissing off the world likely leads to less manufacturing.

YouTube video by Sam Evian Sam Evian - Rollin' In (Official Video)

One of my favorites from 2024, sounding a bit like something from the 70s. It feels like it draws some inspiration from early solo George Harrison (i.e. Isn't It a Pity).

#SamEvian

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< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

Half a trillion vanished? IRS bombshell as agency warns DOGE may have cost U.S. a shocking $500 billion; here's the full detail The IRS warns that disruptions from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could lead to a staggering $500 billion loss in tax revenue, raising concerns over government services and national d...

Breaking things that are working IS fraud and waste. DOGE may be the biggest fraud we've ever seen.

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YouTube video by JADEVEVO JADE - Angel Of My Dreams (Live at The BRIT Awards 2025)

Nice to see this song was given a full treatment at the Brit Awards. Epic production for one of the best pop songs that came out of the UK in 2024 (though as with a lot of UK music never really broke out to an American audience).

#BRITAwards

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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Republican congressman says he wants change to Medicaid Opinion polls suggest that potential cuts to programs like Medicaid and Medicare are deeply unpopular.

If a Republican congressman starts saying he isn't going to "throw granny off a cliff", then you probably better make sure granny (and Medicaid) is safe.

"I want changes," the congressman responded. "But I'm not going to throw granny off the cliff..."

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You can choose between Trump is lying about Musk having said that, Musk lying when he said it, or Musk being dumber than his harshest critics claim.

Breathing, reading. listening.

Trump’s Immigration Plans Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.

And so it begins:

Bakersfield, CA sees massive drop off in field workers as ICE agents rounded up suspected immigrants, resulting in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season.

“Economic devastation”
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I saw a comment in another thread saying that people were taking this out of context....they don't know the context. He spent a quarter of a billion in this election. He's supporting far right parties in Germany. Forget the context and gesture. Billionaires buying influence isn't what we want.

January 18, 2025 Shortly before midnight last night, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its initial findings from a study it undertook last July when it asked eight large companies to turn over information a...

January 18, 2025

YouTube video by 1420 by Daniil Orain Russian historian gave a good speech on brainwashing and dictatorship

"In the case of the dictator, the brain is broken..."