Robin E. Field

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3 photos of 3 young people on a staircase dressed as the Beastie Boys Sabotage video.

My daughter & her pals are making their own version of the Sabotage video ⭐️

Thank you for sharing. Great article.

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Graphic of how many downloads the journal South Asian Review received in the third quarter of 2025: 14, 445, compared to 8,650 in 2024; 8,940 in 2023, and 4,904 in 2022.

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People spend way time worrying about whether students are getting too many A's and not enough time considering the possibility that people who busted ass so hard that they got into a place like that might be the kind to be high achieving

Too many FACULTY think grading is about breaking people, too

What’s draining tax dollars isn’t SNAP, it’s corporate welfare and billionaire tax breaks.

FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.

Where’s the outrage about that?!

If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.

As an educator, as a fellow woman in science, I’m fucking horrified that Lia Smith who was just a year from
graduation felt her only option was to take her own life.

I lay her death at the feet of all the people hounding trans women athletes like her, you fucking monsters

It is great that small businesses and local organizations are stepping up to fill gaps in food access while SNAP is frozen, but every story masks a systemic and humiliating failure of the US Government to support its most vulnerable citizens. The GoFundMe-ification of social services makes me sick.

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.”

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

A load-bearing assumption required by MAGA's entire ideological framework is that those who are unable to afford the basic necessities of life (whether employed or not) deserve to die.

I remember! And I’m hoping AI will follow the same path…

I was just referencing this phenomenon today to a student

11.1% of SNAP recipients are kids under age 5, 27.7% kids 5-17, 41.6% adults 18-59, 19.5% adults aged 60 & older https://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1124/snapparticipantage.xlsx

Did you know?

About 4.5 million SNAP recipients are babies and toddlers under age 5.

About 11.1 million SNAP recipients are kids aged 5 to 17 years, who need food for healthy growth, learning, & development.

The federal government has the capacity to continue funding SNAP during a shutdown.

20% of the people on SNAP are 60 and older. 40% are children under the age of 18. 40% are adults ages 18-59. Additionally, 10% of those on SNAP have a disability, which means they cannot work. AND the majority of those who can work are working.

Years ago when I was on SNAP (we called it Link) I would tutor my hairdresser's son in exchange for getting my hair done. I got my teeth cleaned at a student clinic for $10 IIRC and my nails done by a friend in the cosmetology program who always needed people to practice on. Community 101

Grocery store aisle with text overlayed from CNN article. Headline reads: “Inflation means families must spend $208 more per month than a year ago.” Additional text reads: “Due to higher prices, the typical American household in September had to spend $208 more than a year earlier to buy the same goods and services, according to Moody’s Analytics data shared with CNN on Friday.”

Families are paying over $200 more a month this year compared to last year.

Meanwhile, Republicans are increasing your healthcare costs and pausing SNAP benefits.

Democrats are coming back this week to fight for healthcare, lower costs, and an end to the Republican shutdown.

“Just go to a food bank, a church or a charity”

For every meal the food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9.

Even if donations are rapidly scaled up, they won’t be able to meet the needs of 42 million Americans who are about to go hungry.

It’s not sustainable.

Autocorrect tried to change what I typed “love its aesthetic” to “love it’s pathetic” so maybe machines should not replace human writers any time soon.

The median income of a households receiving SNAP benefits is $29,953 and 80% of those households include either children, an elderly person, a person with disabilities or combination of the three.

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.

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people? Does anyone work anymore?"

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.

SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.

Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.

People need & deserve assistance

Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich

Be mad about that

The thing is journalists should constantly be thinking deeply and carefully about their word choices, especially dehumanizing language, and questioning why they use what they use and who benefits from it. The arrogance from the reporter is frankly embarrassing.

This whole thread is GOLD:

Helen: you’re the one who wanted an open relationship.

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