Politicians can get away with lying to people for quite a while about a lot of different subjects, but they have never been able to get away with lying to them about how much things cost.

Aside from the cruelty and the economic counter productiveness of Trump’s SNAP shutdown, can we discuss the absolute incoherent fecklessness of the fact that he’s flip flopped back and forth numerous times in the last two weeks as to whether he will continue or halt SNAP?

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

coloradonewsline.com/2025/11/04/c... Great news

One week ago the owner of my local bodega told me he didn’t do politics. Tonight he was wearing a NYC “I voted” sticker, saw me and smiled. “I changed my mind,” he said.

Some SNAP Recipients May Not Receive Food Stamps Under White House Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u... I can’t even begin to explain how catastrophic this will be for multitudes of the most vulnerable families.

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

Amazing how much 2025 was a hyper correction for the fact that in 2024 voters clearly didn't know what they were voting for because the media didn't report on Trump's actual policies/voters refused to believe what they were voting for.

pix11.com/news/local-n... It’s a very promising sign that Mamdani so rapidly appointed such highly qualified leaders to head his transition team.

Just want to see one (1) news story on how toxic the Republican brand is among average, everyday Northeast urbanites, and how that should be seen as a major crisis for Republicans. Unfortunately I won’t bc this is still a country where cows and empty land get strong political representation

For all the billionaires threatening to leave NYC now, please let us know when you do so we can turn your place into affordable housing.

It turns out lots of Americans are willing to fight for democracy and a nation in which we don’t let our neighbors go hungry.

I obviously very much prefer election nights when I shed tears of joy than when I shed tears of sorrow.

The top reason that tens of millions of Americans suffer from food insecurity is that they can’t afford the high cost of living. The affordability crisis is key to the decline of the U.S. middle class. At least part of the American political system seems to have finally figured that out.

Northern Virginia voted for Democrats by an even more massive landslide than usual, proving that federal employees absolutely know it’s the Republicans who are responsible for the federal government shutdown.

Sending out only half of November’s SNAP benefits over a period of weeks and months is half compassion, half cruelty. It shouldn’t take a federal judge to make Trump care about hungry Americans. And even then, he’s only pretending.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11... So Trump would violate a federal court order rather than prevent 42 million Americans from going hungry. This one act combines his lawlessness with his callousness.

It’s really something to see all these self-proclaimed Christians up in arms against programs that advance Christ’s dictate that society “feed the least of these.”

My heart goes out to Dick Cheney’s loved ones. However, in addition to his famously destructive role leading U.S. into a catastrophic war on false pretenses, Cheney was only one of eight U.S. House members who voted against resolution calling on Apartheid government of South Africa to free Mandela

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

And again, a pattern of putting out statements accusing people of serious Federal crimes and then releasing them hours or days or weeks later with no charges. And no retraction.

Exactly. Show him his post first. Put it up on a screen. Then ask him virtually any question about any word, phrase, or sentence in it.

American politics is so broken, exhibit # infinity: anonymous Right wing super pac mailing attacking Mickie Sherrill for supposedly not being Left wing enough. Similar to Musk-funded attacks on Harris. Note this doesn’t even promote a candidate — just wants Sherrill leaners NOT to vote at all.

A reverse Blackstone's ratio

You know what’s broke? That Congress gets reimbursed $79 a day for meals and a SNAP recipient gets $6.16 a day for food.

I think many NY voters are concluding that electing Mamdani could be a risk, but the far bigger risk is sticking with the failed policies of the past that have made NYC unaffordable for so many.

I am moved every year watching the NYC Marathon, which always includes a few dozen formally acknowledged world-class athletes, plus tens of thousands of other world class participants, Including those raising $ for www.hungerfreeamerica.org Please honor them & fight the hunger crises by donating.

www.foxnews.com/media/fox-ne... A Fox News town hall at a yacht club for the GOP candidate for NJ governor is the first truly honest thing Fox News has ever done. A yacht club!!!!!!!!!!

I just attended rally with Barack Obama and NJ nominee for Governor Mickie Sherrill. On GOP attempts to increase hunger in NJ, Sherrill said “Not on my watch.” Guess who cheered loudest for that pledge?

A private security guard just told me that I couldn’t sit on a stone wall — while obstructing absolutely nobody — on the side of the entrance to both Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, and that he could order me to get up, since MSG is private property. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The reason that 42 million struggling Americans are getting there November food aid delayed is that Trump and the GOP Congress would rather Americans go hungry than help them afford health care.

BREAKING - Federal judges JUST ordered partial SNAP payments. Just now, multiple judges issued rulings in favor of partial SNAP payments. Read our latest press release with our CEO’s statement on the judgments now: ow.ly/xhSV50XlbUy

www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea... Why is it that many of the most judgmental people claim to be fervent followers of Christ, who specifically ordered his followers NOT be to be judgmental.

“Let them eat ballrooms” isn’t much of a GOP message for the mid-terms.

On CNN yesterday with a SNAP recipient, who powerfully shared her story: youtu.be/gHKZyaubPt8

I’m sure this solicitation was AI-generated, but, it’s absurdly ironic to pitch private jet rentals to the head of a nonprofit anti-hunger organization, especially on a the eve of the greatest U.S. hunger crises since the Great Depression. And no. I didn’t rent a private jet.

Given that, just a few months ago, the GOP cut SNAP food aid by $186 billion — the largest cut in history — their new-found professed concern for protecting SNAP shouldn’t be taken seriously.

Hey champ, quick question: Did Dr. King encourage African Americans to boycott elections because both parties were implicated by white supremacy? Or did he urge his followers to vote for the lesser of two evils and then use their presence to extract concessions from politicians as a result?

Corollary to this is the self-indulgent “it’s my vote to do w as I wish.” It isn’t. It’s a civic trust to do what is best for your country and fellow citizens. First past the post, plurality wins, single seat districts have A LOT wrong w them. Force you to pick the lesser evil. Which: do that.

Please watch this video. It’s clear that the Democrats are taking every step possible to prevent cataclysmic delays in $8 bill. in SNAP payments to 42 million Americans and more that 160,000 food retailers. It’s up to Trump, Congressional GOP to fix this: s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sdmc-media.s...

There are 80,000+ people in his county who are about to experience a food shortage caused by his own party's government shutdown, and his only response is racism.

"We will then have the greatest hunger crisis in America since the Great Depression," warned Joel Berg of the organization Hunger Free America on NPR. The Department of Agriculture opposes the use of an existing emergency fund. End of #SNAP @joelsberg.bsky.social

Two headlines. Two economies. Same day. Poetic. @nytimes.com @bloomberg.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

Just voted early in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and it seemed to be the heaviest early vote turnout in mayoral general election I’ve ever seen. If primary voting patterns are predictive, heavy turn out should be good for Mamdani. Unless there is a large, secret Cuomo vote that didn’t turn out in primary.

@justinwolfers.bsky.social Thanks for pointing out the devastating human impact if 42 million Americans don’t get SNAP food payments in November, but I think you may have underestimated the economic harm of 260,000-plus food retailers missing out on $8 billion in revenue in November.