SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now. Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it. Don’t forget this.

It's time to normalize conversations about menstrual blood loss and how it affects Blood Health. Regular screening for iron deficiency and anemia, and use of Patient Blood Management strategies to improve Blood Health, can make a world of difference in the well-being of women and girls. #PBMAW2025

Since 2019, researchers have selected about 1,200 college and high school students to receive $400 no-strings “contributions” to use “to pursue what matters most” to them — something that benefits their community, family or even themselves. 6-8 weeks after... (1/2) No paywall: archive.ph/6xBRY

Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?

2025 #HCWvsHunger planning meeting… @tmprowell.bsky.social @hcwvshunger.bsky.social

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

If you don’t believe in feeding hungry people I’m not sure we are ever going to find common ground.

There's a lotta silliness and falsehoods in this statement, but I'm going to focus on the bigger issue: It is immoral to make low-income folks and their hungry children political pawns. Need is need.

This chart says everything you need to know about “healthcare" in America. The number of administrators skyrocketed, while the number of actual doctors barely moved.

Hi, I’m God. Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Thanks, God

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

Love to see it. #Resist

With SNAP funding lapsed, millions face uncertainty. Food banks and partners are stepping up to meet the moment—together. Read our full statement here: bit.ly/4ohEd5N

If Congress doesn’t have to work, why do we? If our tax dollars aren’t being used to feed people like they’re supposed to, why do we have to pay them? If no one else is playing by the rules, does that just make all of us suckers?

The cruelty is the point. Pure evil.

A short piece on humility #MedSky

I asked the hospital if they had an infant for me to take home because the last time I felt pain like that was childbirth. I’m waiting to hear back about who is available from the nursery.

My costume was the worst ever as a patient in the ER with a kidney stone. All trick, and the only treat was the Dilaudid that made life worth living again. So fucking awful, 0/10, do not recommend.

“And if you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate but give your money away shorties” -Billie Eilish I’m obsessed.

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

In honor of Halloween, just your regular reminder that you may not lose blood to a vampire but if you’re losing it through a period every month there’s a good chance you’re iron deficient. tinyurl.com/JAMAFe

Mutual aid is the answer and I love the Ann Arbor community

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

Happiest of birthdays to the person my children have named “the most magical human of all” @ranaawdish.bsky.social

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Co-sign strongly. And kids should be allowed to use the restroom when they need to. Which shouldn’t be an outlandish statement yet here we are.

Epstein's clients didn't stop r*ping kids when he was arrested. They never stopped. Releasing the unredacted files isn't just about justice for the now adult victims. It's also about saving children who are being abused RIGHT NOW. And the GOP will starve children to protect the monsters.

The same people who think buying junk food with SNAP benefits is “abusing the system” are fine with wealthy parents using vouchers to send their kids to private schools.

I’d personally rather pay to feed people.

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

FREE article on my Paetron - Tips on Donating to Food Pantries An article I update and run annually in my newspaper with new tips I've been given by experts. This seems an appropriate week 😭 to post this again here! www.patreon.com/posts/free-a...

Walmart makes BILLIONS on SNAP spending while being one of the top employers of SNAP benefit participants. So a mega corporation doesn’t pay employees enough to eat, saving BILLIONS only to go on to make BILLIONS when those employees spend tax payer funded SNAP benefits at Walmart. Cool cool.

We shouldn't have to fucking do this in the first place. Fund SNAP. Make billionaires pay their employees living wages.

It’s important to remember that community care doesn’t have to come in the form of $100s in donations or dropping off pallets of food. Sometimes it’s picking up an extra rotisserie chicken for a neighbor, or doing a grocery pick up for an elder, or helping someone with laundry or childcare.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Teachers, as always, are the very best of us.

Participants on SNAP receive an average of $187 per month. Now if only 40 million of us chip in this amount or Elon gave 2% of his net worth, we’d be set for November.

Donald Trump has intentionally instructed the federal government to withhold emergency funding for SNAP - that is already paid for and set aside for just this purpose - that would cover almost 3 full weeks for all of the 42 million Americans who rely on it. Media is barely covering that fact at all.

Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.

Suggesting SNAP be replaced with food banks is a proposal of equivalent seriousness to that anarchist thread a few years back suggesting that global insulin supply chains could be replaced by supporting “rural doctors and healers”

A middle aged couple at @ranaawdish.bsky.social Halloween costume dressed up as six seven so I’m hoping that means it’s basically over. A girl can dream.

This.

And it’s been denied. On to round two.

1.4 million Michiganders are now facing zero dollars coming in to their food assistance accounts for November. Please give $$ if you have it to your local food pantry. This is an emergency. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Check the effing ferritin people!

This lawsuit, which demands that the House of Representatives finally seat Rep. Adelita Grijalva, has, um, fairly major implications for our democracy's survival in 2026 and beyond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...