SNAP update: USDA tells grocery stores not to give discounts to customers The USDA told grocery stores not to give SNAP recipients special discounts as benefits remain unpaid amid the government shutdown.

The cruelty is the point.

"USDA emailed grocery stores around the country telling them not to offer special discounts or deals to SNAP recipients."

The USDA now threatening grocery stores who offer discounts to SNAP recipients.

People are going hungry. Their benefits were illegally cut off leaving them to starve.

40% of SNAP households have children.

If grocery stores & local business want to step up to help… let them.

Hegseth bars bearded troops from Air Force event Petty Pete strikes again.

Pentagon boss Pete Hegseth has figured out that he doesn't need a “No Coloreds” sign to ban Black and brown soldiers from military events. He can just ban soldiers with beards.

It’s not a mistake when you have no process.

FDA restricts use of kids' fluoride supplements citing emerging health risks The Food and Drug Administration is restricting the use of fluoride supplements used to strengthen children’s teeth.

First RFK Jr. wanted to take fluoride out of water and has had some success in Republican jurisdictions that think scientific evidence is for chumps.

But that wasn’t enough harm for him, so now he’s restricting kids’ access to fluoride supplements.

Abigail: A Bible Woman with Beauty and Brains - Marg Mowczko Abigail helped her husband by going against his wishes.

Three Old Testament women went against their husbands' wishes but are not criticised; in fact, they are commended. Abigail is the clearest example of this.
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Christians who refuse to feed people aren’t Christians.

That’s the Gospel truth.

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Beth Allison Barr on the Reformation’s Role in Limiting Women - Marg Mowczko The Reformation limited women. It is "a story of loss rather than a story of gain, of increased subordination rather than of liberation."

October 31 is Reformation Day.
Good things came from the Reformation, but the way the church regarded women was not one of them.
The Reformation is “a story of loss rather than a story of gain, of increased subordination rather than of liberation.” ~ Barr
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YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.

That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.

And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

Trump is letting homeowners get tricked.

Debt collectors are buying up old home loans and demanding back interest, even when the debt was cancelled.

If you can’t pay, they take your house.

The CFPB was ready to crack down – but Trump is letting the scams continue.

Many pastors have kids on SNAP and will not be able to tell their congregations out of shame.

#Thugs

The Rev. Ryan Stoess, a United Methodist Church pastor from Louisville, Kentucky, was asked to pray for the group over the lawsuit. “God, we lift up the court hearing that is happening … at a time when we are holding food over the heads of poor people so that we can take away their health care,” Stoess said. “God help us.” He added, “When the cruelty is the point, when the cruelty is in our face, God give us your mercy.”

NEW: Democratic leaders huddled with faith leaders on Capitol Hill today, with clergy decrying the potential halting of SNAP benefits during the shutdown and warning about the human cost of allowing healthcare subsidies to expire.

A pastor offered this prayer: religionnews.com/2025/10/30/f...

Our Apocalypse-in-Waiting Eighty years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, how can Christians abolish the first global threat entirely of humanity’s own making?

While many people are accustomed to thinking of climate change as our existential threat, we may overlook that nuclear arsenals are the first global threat entirely of humanity’s own making, writes Jonathan Frerichs.
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Oh look! A list of 83 Bible verses about feeding the hungry! No reason! www.openbible.info/topics/feeding

At the risk of sounding like a doomer, I'm not sure why this surprises anyone. This has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with how law enforcement agencies work.

Right after health care costs are set to skyrocket thanks to Trump.

To Americans Still "Staying out of Politics" A few days ago, I ran into a friend from my former church at the grocery store.

I get it: it’s terrifying to admit what’s happening right now.

No one wants to believe their nation is falling into authoritarianism, that the norms they relied on in the past are no longer givens, that the can’t-happen-heres are actually happening here.

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Thugs.

SNAP benefits set to expire this week. And, Jamaica braces for a Category 5 storm Over 40 million Americans will soon be without federal food assistance as SNAP benefits are set to expire on Saturday. And, Jamaica braces for Hurricane Melissa to bring over 170 miles per hour winds.

Over 40 million Americans will soon be without federal food assistance as SNAP benefits are set to expire on Saturday. And, Jamaica braces for Hurricane Melissa to bring over 170 miles per hour winds. n.pr/4hrDBrC

Fundamentally good but narrow minded. Unfortunately a lot of people are conditioned to fear “others” taking away their things (be it social ranking, money, resources, or whatnot). I fear many would just keep their heads down amidst atrocities as long as they keep their current life.

The Billionaire class gets massive tax breaks & subsidies.

Working class Americans on unlivable wages get SNAP assistance, so they can afford necessities like food.

Guess which program is getting cut?

An administration of billionaires will always look out for their own.

Learn & vote accordingly.

The Fallout From Trump’s ICE Storm Churches act in the wake of immigration raids in California.

Churches act in the wake of immigration raids in California.
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Notice how it’s somehow the government’s job to legislate a few Bible verses on human sexuality over our entire country, but it’s suddenly “not the government’s job” when it comes to the +2,500 Bible verses calling for a generous use of wealth that prioritizes the poor.

A 38-year-old man who has been protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program for the past 12 years was detained by ICE earlier this month, with the agency citing his social media posts as the reason for terminating his DACA status. https://cnn.it/48RlYiY

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...

Yeah, also, shingles sucks, and apparently the shingles vaccine does more than just prevent shingles, it also reduces the incidence of dementia: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Immigration crackdown stokes fear and solidarity at a Catholic church in DC The Shrine of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic church a short drive from the White House, was intended to be a sanctuary for worshippers.

Via the @apnews.com religion team: More than 40 members of one DC parish have been detained in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. apnews.com/article/immi...

Despite the fact that everything Trump does is designed to enrich himself and the billionaire cronies who paid hundreds of millions to get him elected, his greatest trick was convincing working class rural Christian white people that he’s one of them and on their side. bsky.app/profile/ronf...