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After Trump Aid Cuts, Food Banks Scrounge and Scrimp (Gift Article) In one of the country’s poorest areas, the quantity and quality of government deliveries have dropped, forcing one charity to make do with thin soup and dried cranberries.

Remember how Trump cancelled $1 billion in USDA spending on food aid, eliminating that funding to farms? Well, now food banks don’t have enough food. Impoverished seniors are going hungry while nearby farmers scale back production. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

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Octavia Butler for family book club? “Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.…To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”

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Mr. Northern Cardinal Up Close

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My partner is Lithuanian— and she would wholeheartedly agree! To eat & be healthy in America takes intention, time, resources. It’s a both/and systems-level problem crossing many sectors. Progress in any area is great but yeah, the danger here is at what cost to other areas of public health

Food banker here — neighbors in our food lines are also attuned to and frustrated with our food culture and very primed to blame Big Food, albeit maybe for different things— so I think his appeal on this front has a very wide base

I don’t need to go on social media to have my worldview challenged I am in theoretical physics I have a new existential crisis daily

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Life is short, a poem by Maggie Smith "Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children.

I'm attempting to reset my emotional state.
I remember and want to share this favorite poem.
For me, it captures the need for hope, in spite of a clear-eyed acceptance of reality.