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If we care about the "greater good," we have to stop caring if a few people get help they don't need as long as thousands get help they truly need. If most people who get help spend it wisely, there's no point in policing to find the relatively few who don't. Policing & means testing are expensive.

I’m rereading At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard. A different flavor of epic fantasy.

If you have $20k + $500/month to burn and would like your house to be cleaner maybe just pay someone a fair wage to come clean your house occasionally?

Happy Halloween and a blessed Samhain to all who celebrate!

May the memory of our ancestors nourish us as we move into a future all our own.

“My tax dollars are paying for their steak!”

Yeah, well, my tax dollars are paying for ICE to threaten and abduct my neighbors. Steak sounds better.

This whole thread.

“Oh no, someone might eat food!”

Good. That’s good.

“They might buy something they like.”

Cool.

“They might get a treat!”

Also cool.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Terrific thread by Derek Guy. Fashion and labor history :)

This thread is so interesting!

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.

Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:

$100 billion

Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:

$100 billion

One is decried as "welfare." One is not.

Why?

Do you know how awful you have to be to hold people for hostage by starving them for political gain?

And the people in the conservative Reddit are just like "hell yeah brother"

The lack of humanity over there is heartbreaking

Trump Is Illegally Withholding Food From Needy Families - The American Prospect The White House claims it cannot fund food stamp benefits for November. But not only is there a contingency fund meant to be used in this exact fashion, but it’s illegal for the Trump administration t...

Trump is funding what he wants to fund while denying food to hungry folks. And he has a contingency fund sitting right there that he obstinately refuses to use. prospect.org/2025/10/29/t...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.

Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet

Pingree Detroit is opening its first flagship store - Detroit Metro Times A decade after its founding, local footwear business Pingree Detroit is getting ready to open its first flagship shop. The company, which is worker-owned and supports U.S. military veterans by making ...

The worker-owned business supports military vets by making shoes and bags out of upcycled auto materials.

I'm really glad to see all the folks stepping up to try to resource the loss of SNAP but also billionaires could just pay taxes.

@POTUS found $40B to bailout #Argentina’s president, but can’t find $5B to keep food on American tables. Next week, #SNAP cuts will hit 1 in 8 Americans; not because we’re broke, but because this administration is choosing not to use available contingency funds. #AmericaFirst?

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”

www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.

America deserves to be ruled by laws.

That will require standing up to the criminal conspiracy that is the modern Republican Party. Including its representatives on the Supreme Court.

But it also means standing up to a Democratic Party that fears enforcing laws might cost them votes & donations.

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

More seriously, this is one reason primaries are important.

I expect to have my past examined. I expect people to ask if my politics are consistent and logical.

I don’t think that is unreasonable: I think it is how we can run unconventional candidates without another Fetterman situation.

When I was on SNAP I was working every shift I could get and applying for better jobs every day.

It got a lot easier to job hunt when I wasn’t hungry anymore.

Congress is full of millionaires who have never relied on the programs they are gutting. I intend to change that.

This is exactly right! Enough ‘look forward not back’! We need to hold people accountable, especially our leaders.

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If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.