Diana V. DaPontes

We are at a strange place in history indeed, when half the states are suing the federal government to get monies already allotted by Congress to feed starving families.

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The numbers are sobering. Especially as thousands are actually working in grocery stores and Walmarts, surrounded by food they can not afford. More than a million four hundred thousand. Do those who are MAGA realise what they've done to themselves?

DOJ places on leave 2 prosecutors who said 'mob' of 'rioters' carried out Jan. 6 attack Two federal prosecutors have been told they will be put on leave after filing a brief that described the Jan. 6, 2021, attackers a "mob of rioters," sources say.

Career prosecutors were put on leave, allegedly for stating the truth about J6. The Administration is working overtime to erase history. It’s incumbent upon all of us to document truth, preserve historical record, and stand firm against efforts to replace facts.

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Judge Rejects GOP’s Emergency Bid to Halt Virginia Redistricting Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A Virginia judge Wednesday rejected a Republican request to immediately block Democrats from advancing a constitutional amendment that could let the state redraw its congressional map— a win, for now, for Democrats and voting rights advocates. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I looked it up once. SNAP takes 2% of the US budget and 93% of the money goes to the actual poor people instead of to the bureaucracy. So it's kind of like if you paid $1000 in taxes, you spent $20 on the poor of which they got to keep $18.60, and you spent $166.66 on the military.

Great way to help

2025 Women's Voter Guide: Virginia Attorneys General Race - Ultraviolet

The Virginia attorney general race is neck and neck. Pls share this Voter Guide (useful for everyone, not just women). At stake are abortion access, voting rights, equal opportunities for LGBTQ+ and all people, economic growth, and fair wages.
weareultraviolet.org/virginia-ag/
#VirginiaAG
#JayJones

What is civil society, and why should we care? Ernest Gellner on the conditions of liberty.

What is civil society, and why should we care?
Ernest Gellner on the conditions of liberty.
www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-is-ci...

Chat GPT Analyzes Trump’s Alleged Assassination Attempt There Are Startling Details, But the Result is No Surprise

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SNAP targets those who are in the greatest of need. It is not easy to obtain, and it is often not sufficient to assist with building a balanced, healthy diet. This is a good overview of the program:

Is Corruption the New American Dream — A Nation Rebuilt on the Gospel of the Grift? Where honesty is punished, power is bought, and every rule has a price, Trump’s turned the dream of opportunity into an industry of deception…

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When corruption becomes endemic, democracy dies from the inside out. Trump’s family’s grift is teaching America’s elites that power can be bought, just as it is in Putin’s Russia and Orbán’s Hungary, and it’s already distorting our economy.

In America, as here in Britain, there seems to be a war not against poverty but against poor people.
What is it that pisses some people off so much about using tax pounds or dollars to provide folk with the absolute, basic essentials of life?

Contest every race. Have a candidate in every race on every ballot in every county in every state.

Run even if you know you can’t win. Run because you know you can’t win.

No seat uncontested. Bring the fight to every ballot.

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.

Always money for war.

The Republican message: Let us jack up poor and middle-class people's health care costs or we'll let poor people starve.

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

If Dems win the Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania in 9 days, it’s extremely likely the GOP can’t get a majority on that court until 2029.

The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race.

Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

The GOP seems to be delighted to ensure that 42 million Americans go without food assistance AND experience an atrocious increase in medical insurance costs. It is a reprehensible lack of moral character. Their efforts to deflect blame are puerile, akin to school bullying. It's shameful.

METRO EXCLUSIVE Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

Don't forget all those folks who wore diapers, too!

😅🤣😂😂🤣😆 I am (rather sardonicaly) finding this to be hilarious.

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law

"The irreversible gravity of killing, coupled with the lack of a substantive legal justification, is bringing into sharper view a structural weakness of law as a check on the American presidency."

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Iconic as anything plus Boris Karloff at the beginning & in a truncated “Chim Chim Cheree” at the end

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’ Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

From the law community on Reddit: Steve Bannon saying they have a plan to give Trump a third term (they plan to argue the interpretation of the definitions written in the 22nd Amendment), and we just ... Explore this post and more from the law community

Bannon is telling you this will continue as long as you let it

Steve Bannon saying they have a plan to give Trump a third term (they plan to argue the interpretation of the definitions written in the 22nd Amendment), and we just should accept him illegally overstaying