Call me Cordelia

My mom still subscribes to the print edition. Price recently increased to $99.99 per month. She likes reading the newspaper but that price is ridiculous.

I expected Warner to cave, but not Kaine. I’ve been disappointed by a lot of Warner votes.

Um, something like this has never turned up in my Discover tab. And I hope it never does!

Sad.

Yes, for many years my health insurance company collected more in premiums than they paid in claims for my family. Then I got cancer and I’m damn glad I had good health insurance. Otherwise I’d be dead, bankrupt, or both.

“In its shutdown contingency plan, which has been since taken offline, the agency noted that “Congressional intent is evident that SNAP’s operations should continue” and referenced that the contingency plan can be used to fund participant benefits if a lapse occurs in the middle of the fiscal year.”

Food is essential to survival.

People of all ages deserve to have enough food to eat.

Grateful for SNAP & hope we may find ways to continue providing it.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

So helpful to shut down taxpayer assistance right before the filing deadline for extended returns. Can I “furlough” paying taxes until the federal government is functional?

Meanwhile school attendance policies force kids to show up sick, perpetuating the spread of infection.

Good prediction.

Image from the "Star Trek: Voyager" episode where Janeway and her crew discover Amelia Earhart on some far off planet.

We already know what happened to Amelia Earhart!

My child with an IEP for SLDs has worked extremely hard to pass SOLs working towards a standard diploma. This scoring change likely puts English 11 SOLs pass out of reach (the only ones left to take). I understand the need for proficiency standards but I’m worried about the timing.

Please fix the music rights issues so that we can watch these performances with the skaters’ intended music.

So no fluoride, but forever chemicals are fine.

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

It’s on his verified account. Not a fake account.

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

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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.

A very worthwhile Fahrenthold story on what Trump’s cuts are doing to food banks and the communities that depend on them. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...

I got my cancer diagnosis on Election Day and everything since seems surreal.

I had surgery at 37 for an RSI with a desk job and still struggle with issues on that side years later. I wouldn’t last a week in a factory.

Cheapest store-brand eggs available here are $4.99 a dozen. Many brands are $7 and up.

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

Donald Trump is trying to dismantle public education in America.

To every public school student, teacher, and parent: this is our moment to stick together and fight back.

‘Delete’ is one of their favorite terms: Inside DOGE’s IRS takeover ahead of tax season | CNN Politics The chaos at the Internal Revenue Service began almost immediately after the first envoy from the Department of Government Efficiency arrived last month at the agency’s Washington, DC, headquarters.

Within minutes of showing up at the IRS, a twenty-something software engineer dispatched from DOGE began demanding access to the tax collection agency’s most protected internal databases — including the one containing the personal and financial data for millions of American taxpayers.

Telemedicine isn’t going to dispense meds or start IVs on time.

Current SNF staffing mandates are woefully inadequate and they are often staffed below the legal requirements due to call-outs and turnover. Too many delays in care and too few staff with higher-level nursing skills.

A screenshot of an email notifying Spotsylvania parents that funding for a program for youth with disabilities has been canceled

the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs

Trump & Musk are trying to fire 100,000+ civil servants right now - including over 1,000 VA employees.

Purges are happening at SBA, Energy, Education & more.

Firing this many critical employees at once could make it impossible for our government to provide BASIC services.

Casar: "You know what Elon Musk doesn't seem to be looking into? His own contracts."