The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

I hate to sound like a broken record but I have no doubt that this is a slow motion culling. The oligarch “makers” think “takers” shouldn’t exist and they’re targeting every social safety net program protecting our most vulnerable: the elderly, disabled, poor and sick. The Reich is culling us. #SNAP

Yes, this is the truth, right here.

Not a paid spokesperson, just a big fan: Penzeys is having its periodic gift card sale -- $50 cards for only $35. You can buy one or two for yourself and know that you're getting discounted spice pricing. They also make great gifts. I recently used my last one from @redrobinreader.bsky.social.

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News FULL REMARKS: Former President Barack Obama Speaks At Rally For Abigail Spanberger

youtube.com/watch?v=5ARj...

Full coverage of President Obama 🙌 👏 👍 😀 👌🏽 😎 🙌 👏 👍 😀 👌🏽 😎 🙌 👏 👍 😀 👌🏽 😎 🙌

And I wasn’t even in tune!!!
#jokesters

Food Resource List - PDX Food Resources PDX Share this sheet to amplify these existing resources to support individuals & families in accessing food during this government shutdown. A delay in SNAP means over 750,000 families...

Here is a very comprehensive list of resources for food in Portland Oregon.
docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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This 👇👇👇

wow. compassion and empathy. this business scores major points with me (the local business, that is, not the corporate headquarters)

#food #SNAP #FoodStamps #HungerGames #poverty #WorkingPoor

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

A hunger cliff is days away. Women, children and food banks will feel it first. Food banks will face logistical and financial challenges in providing the resources currently offered by the SNAP and WIC programs that are set to lose funding.

“It’s a pretty delicate supply chain, so trying to figure out what it would look like to get additional infant formula to food banks to support families in the event of a widespread disruption to WIC is incredibly challenging."

President Orange Julius Caesar and his ilk claim that guns are a God given right but don’t feel that food is a God given right. They claim to care about babies but don’t care if they go hungry when they become children.

And that's how it's done.

Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽

Nan's Taqueria Nan's Taqueria (15640 S.E. Happy Valley Town Center Drive, Happy Valley) is making meals for anyone who asks. A little less than a week ago, the taqueria posted on TikTok about making meals for people in need. Already, said Miranda Luis-Silva, who opened the taco shop just last month, 24 families have been fed. "It's way more meals now," Luis-Silva said. She is giving people boxes full of food and supplies. People are donating to her at her shop but also sending money through Venmo at @miranda-silva82. Those in need of help can email nanstaqueria@gmail.com.

Nan’s is in Happy Valley and taking donations to help feed more people.❤️

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

The people arguing to boycott an election are the kind of people who don't actually want a solution. They want the attention they get from whining about the problem.

Ah, the Purity Police! They ushered Trump into office...TWICE.

Democrats can’t seem to learn this lesson. All those Bernie Sanders people not willing to vote for Hilary Clinton in 2015, all those Michigan voters in 2024 not willing to vote for Kamala Harris because she wasn’t perfect on Israel, are you proud that you helped get Trump elected?