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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

Courtesy of the world’s richest man who just got a trillion-dollar pay package from his feckless board: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

USDA revises SNAP benefit amounts during shutdown after admitting miscalculation • Kansas Reflector The U.S. Department of Agriculture will reduce the largest monthly food assistance payments by about 35% in November, a smaller decrease than the department initially estimated, according to a court f...

USDA revises SNAP benefit amounts during shutdown after admitting miscalculation | via @fischler.bsky.social #ksleg

Navy Fighter jets buzzing DC now. 4 round in. How many more? Did someone leak the Epstein Files?

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Would anyone stop him if he just tore the whole WH down? And, it doesn't seem like he will need a wrecking ball or riot for the Supreme Court Building since he already owns them.

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After months of postponing, OPM opts to fully cancel 2025 FEVS The cancellation comes after OPM indefinitely delayed FEVS earlier this year, due to the Trump administration’s “urgent” changes for federal employees.

Hey Friends--there won't be 2025 survey since employees are all too busy getting RIFed, relocated or traumatized. So let's help OPM draft the 2026 Federal Employee Viewpoint SURVEY Questions. Enter your suggestions in the comments. federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

We used to call this security theater - but in this context it’s authoritarian theater

That jogger looks tough!

This article really moved me. I wish the best for the town, store, and owners.

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

That tracks.

Notice how her statement is we need a workforce that fits our budget, not a workforce that meets the mission.

Make a Paper Plane with the amaro nonino.

Lotus flower at Kennilworth Aquatic Garden

Should help with affordability.

4-H Barbie lost her head and heart.

For all the hand wringing about a Democrstic Socialist Mayoral candidate for Mayor, there is very little talk about how fundamentally Trump misunderstands trade and the trade deficit. South Korea=0.0% tariffs. Consumers buy their products because we like them and can afford them.

Just saw 2 B2 bombers and their escorts flyover, which probably cost a couple hundred people their Medicaid for next year.

Exactly. And really builds on how popular Project 2025 was. SMH

What a dealmaker Murkowsk is...she votes for this monstrous bill that will hurt millions including many in her state, but at least 3000 Alaskans may be exempt from SNAP work requirements because they live in a non-contiguous state. I am sure Susan Collins will hold out for even less.

The problem is soft power, due process, public trust, etc. are invaluable and Mr. Transactional doesn't understand things he can't put a price on

Yasss!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

This article is from 6/13. The Parliamentarian ruled these changes cannot be made in the reconciliation process.

Watching Fox all day does sound like HELL.

The Trump tax cut is a massive wealth transfer from the poorest to the wealthiest. Contrast that with Build Back Better, which helped those at the bottom of the income distribution.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Dear Senator Ernst, A LETTER FROM THE TOOTH FAIRY

This substack post is brilliant writing!

Dear Joni…

Two missed deadlines in the past week for federal statistics reports raise… | Ron Wasserstein Two missed deadlines in the past week for federal statistics reports raise major red flags about the ability of statistical agencies to fulfill their statutory requirements to produce relevant, timely...

This is a big deal for anyone who cares about unbiased, transparent, and high quality government statistics: www.linkedin.com/posts/ron-wa...