SNAP nightmare is over, the trauma from it remains with helpers & the families affected. Please don't stop donating $, food & time to your local pantries, hunger is still at an all time high. We received this today when we picked up the pantry order. I wish I could share it with all of the helpers.

Polis' net worth is $300 million+ & he's asking us to drop off food to a mansion owned by the state. He may be unaware that his newsletter goes out to everyone, even SNAP recipients on his mailing list. He is unable to read a room because he's not in the room with us. He is completely out of touch.

“I liken it to extending a lease,” Crank said. “If you’re at the end of your lease and you still haven’t moved out, but your landlord says, ‘Well, I wouldn’t mind getting another month of rent,’ you extend the lease for a month. You don’t try and add things into the existing lease.”--Rep. Jeff Crank

I've emailed with a few Denver City Council and there is interest in Denver to follow JeffCo if the shutdown gets extended. JeffCo, working with food pantries, tracks data to allocate resources where they are most needed. This will be useful even after the crisis & can be replicated statewide.

Asked if the shutdown was worth it, Sen. John Hickenlooper replied, “Yeah, I think so.” He argued that Democrats forced people to “pay attention” to the fact that healthcare affordability is a “traumatic, in many cases, life or death situation all over this country.” share.google/klROpGYyYMFO...

Jefferson County, CO declares emergency disaster over SNAP www.jeffco.us/m/newsflash/...

I don't have any words that won't get me put on a list. apnews.com/article/snap...

Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) will start loading payments onto (EBT) cards and SNAP participants will begin to see payments on their EBT cards as early as Saturday, November 8. All SNAP participants can expect their full payments to be available over the next few days.

Last week during the county meeting with food pantries, we had 1 person breakdown. This week we had 3. Our helpers are really hurting out here while they try to feed people. We're doing our very best, I promise. Some of us pick up food in our own vehicles for our pantries, like we do every Fri.

Tax The Rich! ✊

Ok but my Lakewood polling place being busy as hell for a municipal election is fun as hell. Tax the rich to pay for school lunches!!

On Thursday members of the JBC asked "since we're meeting with Polis tomorrow, can we ask him to increase the amount of funds to help with SNAP cuts. The answer was no, because the proposal can't be amended. Looks like the answer is no because he won't be there.

When SNAP gets "turned on" again it will take 10 days to get loaded onto EBT cards. 😬

SNAP benefits must continue despite shutdown, judge tells Trump administration share.google/ucbdQk9D2QKq... The lawyer, Tyler Becker, also argued it was the administration's discretion whether to use $6 billion in contingency funds already set aside by Congress to continue issuing SNAP benefits.

I was just on a call with pantries in our Denver precinct & fights are already being reported. @coloradogovernor.bsky.social Polis please declare a state of emergency so county emergency management can coordinate logistics with food pantries. Our helpers are already hurting, please help.

At the JBC meeting Senator Kirkmeyer wanted to get food pantries $50 million, from emergency not general funds and wants the Governor to declare a state of emergency so that county emergency management can assist with logistics. But the proposal couldn't be changed. The $10 million passed.

Don't forget to leave your receipts for those whose SNAP runs out. Don't ask, don't tell. 🤫🫣😉

Hell yeah AG Phil! He stays fighting for us. Another example why Phil needs to be our next governor.

Doing our food bank order for our food pantry this week. The only free offerings are: winter squash, water, ketchup packets. The rest we have to buy. As far as we know, our pantry won't even qualify for the extra food that will be bought if the JBC approved the $10 million emergency funds.

Polis won't give direct assistance to SNAP recipients because DT won't reimburse it. It's going to be all on the charitable food system. Hopefully he will at least declare an emergency so that logistics can be coordinated. Let's hope that there isn't violence at the grocery stores & pantries. 🤞

States that have activated the National Guard or declared states of emergency over SNAP cuts: California Virginia Louisiana I hope other states follow suit because our charitable food system can not handle it. The logistics & infrastructure just isn't there. We need help. 😟

Well that was my first time on Next with Kyle Clark 😬

Did you know that many food pantries purchase their food from food banks? In the Denver metro, many food pantries go to the Food Bank of the Rockies warehouse with personal vehicles to pick up their orders. Not sure the on the logistics of providing 10x the need with 0% of the assistance.

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The Joint Budget Committee is considering releasing MORE than the $10 million the Governor has suggested. They're supposed to meet for an emergency session to discuss options. So there's still a chance that we can get more help. 🤞

#Colorado #Action #Call #Governor Gov Polis advising SNAP benefit recipients to turn to Food Banks w/o providing the ability for them to order more food is dangerous. Tell Polis: Release emergency funds to buy more food! (303) 866-2471

Colorado sent an email to all SNAP recipients yesterday urging them to use food pantries. CDHS was informed last week that pantries can't do more without more funds to buy more food. Food pantries are uniting to tell @coloradogovernor.bsky.social Polis to release emergency funds to food pantries.

The State of Colorado's current solution for SNAP cuts is to urge people to donate to food pantries. Yes please donate but that is not an adequate solution. If we're going to be required to be the solution, then the state needs to open up reserve funds to help us to do it, at least.

Polis says people on SNAP should contact their local food bank and pantries. I promise you, as someone who is in the nonprofit food sphere, we can't meet this level of need. www.denverpost.com/2025/10/17/s...

Removing 12% of the food economy will affect everyone's food prices but more importantly, how do you think the most disadvantaged people will react to literal food being taken out of their children's mouths? If he doesn't TACO on SNAP, holiday & grocery shopping will become Mad Maxish.

The State of Colorado is preparing for SNAP benefits to not be disbursed in 2 weeks. Do you think the economy can withstand the removal of that much money from the system at once? What do you think will happen when you take this much food from this many people?

Today will always be Indigenous People's Day ✊

Teachers: you're the biggest union in the country. Will you come together to protect the disabled kids? How much will you allow them to do before you say ENOUGH! Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources - ABC News share.google/fCllRoAMYWI7...

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Colorado, please don't fumble on this man for Governor.

Stop spending unnecessary money.

All of this shit is because these assholes fuck kids.

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

79. American citizen.

If you would like to help Lakewood relax some zoning laws to allow more types of housing to be built, and how it intersects with Lakewood's racist history, check out The Redress Movement: actionnetwork.org/letters/a-fo...

Lakewood City Council will be honoring the JeffCo Food Policy Council with a proclamation for Hunger Awareness Month tonight. Proud of my friends for all of the hard work they do getting food into mouths. 🙏

#DV1 #ProudBlue #Pinks 🧵Just days after Fox News host Brian Kilmead said that homeless people should get "involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill 'em.," there were TWO mass shootings yesterday at homeless encampments in 1/4 abcnews.go.com/US/people-hu...

My alma matters The Ohio State University (OSU) and Ohio University (OU) play each other today. The last time the Bobcats played the Buckeyes, I was in grad school. It was in 2010. It's been 15 years. 😭

Gov Cox was really hoping to affirm his racist beliefs but oh shucks turns out the terrorist was white yet again. The United States is a racist country.

Oh now that it's a white guy with ties to the GOP the rhetoric around terrorizing the liberals calms down? Any excuse for sadism from the fascists. The CO school shooter was a white supremacist. We have a white nationalist terrorism epidemic.

We don't even know who the suspect is and MAGA already chomping at the bits to escalate. Rabid dogs.

As a mass shooting survivor of 20 years, my heart goes out to all of the kiddos and parents and staff in Evergreen. I'm so sick of this fucking shit.

Today's shooting at Evergreen High is at least the seventh shooting at a Colorado school since Columbine

There are 3 children in critical condition right now who were shot 2 minutes before Charlie Kirk. The news media made a choice today and it wasn't to focus on our children.