'Feed the hungry' is one of the basic, fundamental, direct-order-from-Jesus, tenets of being a Christian, and it's not 'feed the hungry when it's politically expedient to do so or advances your wider agenda'.

You'd think the party full of people claiming to be guided by their faith would be on this

(woops - cruel machines)

He hungers in his secret dreams

for the harsh embrace of cold machines

but his lover is not what she seems

and she will not leave a note.

As a general rule, if one side of an issue is "feed hungry people, here is a good legal argument that you have the ability to do so" and the other side is "fight as hard as you can not to feed hungry people, regardless," I feel like the moral side to be on is pretty clear.

Aaron Blake @AaronBlake Vance on judge's ruling that admin must fully fund SNAP: "The president and the entire administration are working on that, but we’re not going to do it under the orders of a federal judge. We’re going to do it according to what we think we have to do to comply with the law." 7:29 AM · Nov 7, 2025 · 58.3K Views

The Trump administration is doing everything in its power to deny food assistance to Americans.

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

Sam Corcos, who entered government with DOGE earlier this year, decided to kill DirectFile after one meeting with with tax software lobbyists.

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If there were a competent opposition party in this country, the only message we’d get is that a starving, desperate country where your only hope of safety is blind allegiance to a violent, capricious autocrat and prosperity exists for only his inner circle is what GOP governance looks like

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more

that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

For SNAP Recipients, Anxiety Over Funding Leads to Hard Choices At one grocery store in Massachusetts, SNAP recipients faced growing fears, dwindling funds and lighter shopping carts.

More than one million residents in Massachusetts rely on federal food assistance, according to the state. At one grocery store on Saturday, SNAP recipients faced growing fears, dwindling funds and lighter shopping carts.

It was always so painfully obvious that they would instantly be on the side of the tyrannical government.

Again: If SNAP payments don't go out tomorrow, it's because Trump and the Republicans went out of their way to defy judges' orders so that they could continue to refuse to help keep people alive.

Federal Judges have ruled a) that the President does have the authority to release emergency SNAP funds during the shutdown & b) that Trump *Must* do so.

That means if payments don't go out, it's because Trump & the republicans defied the Judiciary to refuse to use their authority to send them out.

In his speech criticizing “elites,” Vice President Vance objected to Mr. Mamdani’s Fourth of July social media post declaring his pride in a country that is “beautiful, contradictory, unfinished.”

This is also the irony, unremarked upon by Peters, that Mamdani's speech about the unfinished project of democracy is deeply rooted in American political rhetoric, and from figures as ideologically diverse as MLK and Ronald Reagan. It is Vance's blood and soil nationalism that is a departure./5

Hi

quick question

real quick

How many people are devotees of ballrooms

built by aspiring kings

demolishing American historical buildings

while food stamps are in danger of being shut off?

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

it would be good if, say, the New York Times reported that all of this stuff is *wildly* illegal under the Hatch Act.

This does seem bad but I don't want to draw conclusions from anecdotes. I'd like to see data on the rate of accidents recently, and I would need someone more expert than me to draw a throughline with an explanation of how 10 months of inept leadership might be causative.

Measles was eliminated in the US in 2000. Gone, with the exception of international travelers bringing it back in and causing small outbreaks. But now it's roaring back — it's incredibly contagious — thanks to guess who. Guess who!

Yup. Anti-vaxxers.

this is in fact exactly why you stay non-violent and disciplined, so that this isn't just seen as pushing and shoving and instead the unlawful assault by the state that it is

Yes. This is definitely a cartoon from the past. Not at all a recent movie.

(...it could have been so much a better movie. Jem is in the Transformers Universe!)

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

Thank you for introducing me to this delightful moment in artistic history.

I'm not saying I *believe* this conspiracy theory - that Trump murdered someone and is demolishing the place to cover up the evidence - but I am saying it amuses me sufficiently that I might *repeat* this theory - that Trump is destroying evidence of killing someone - every now and then.

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I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

using illegal and unconstitutional accounting gimmicks to keep paying the military so that you can deploy them to launch illegal and undeclared wars in colombia and venezuela while the rest of the government remains shut down is getting pretty close to the Very Bad scenarios

Odds are this aggressively did not happen. But it would of course be just as unconstitutional to spend money donated to the government without a duly enacted appropriation as it is to spend tax money that way.

Donald Trump's tearing down of the East Wing is illegal, and our leaders need to be saying so. He is breaking the law and betraying the country. This has become a rule of law issue now.

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