This is damning and exposes the whole facade of what attacks and cues to SNAP are really about. It’s not about waste, fraud, and abuse. It’s about turning people away so the government can redistribute more money to the ultra wealthy.

I like to imagine podcast host Toby Ziegler's response to the world.

Last week, the Massachusetts Senate finalized their version of the FY27 state budget and we want to thank @senrobynkennedy.bsky.social and the 21 cosponsors of an amendment (half the Senate) to increase funding to expand access to SNAP by hiring more DTA case workers to expand access to SNAP.

Recipes should list active time instead of prep time. If I’m chopping in the middle of the recipe that’s still time I can’t do other things!

⚠️ The Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) is facing a critical staffing shortage, leaving thousands of residents unable to access essential SNAP benefits.

I’m proud my son, Elliot completed his 6th Walk for Hunger this weekend and is trying to raise $500, again. Not only that, but he donated from his own allowance. Please join him in support the important work we’ve been doing at Project Bread! give.projectbread.org/fundraiser/7...

Budgets reflect our marginal prioritization. We have limited resources, so we fund things at the expense of other things. Giving nearly $1 trillion to the military while dramatically underfunding housing aid, while leaving kids malnourished, while leaving people uninsured - it's a choice.

“wretched and vile man” who “had the blood of hundreds, even thousands, of Americans on his hands.” Takes one to know one, eh, Trump?

To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day let’s truly live up to “never again”. Not only when violence rises to genocidal levels in another country, but also when agents of our government violate laws and morality to abuse, kidnap, and kill our neighbors. open.substack.com/pub/leranmin...

I don’t think Democrats should necessarily campaign on the economy. As a middle class white guy, I hear economy and I don’t think you’re talking about me. That’s for old money or finance/tech bros. Cost of living, though, now I’m listening.

“…policymakers need to strengthen and fully support healthy school and child-care meal programs as a cornerstone of any effort to reduce kids’ sugar intake. With such programs reaching more than 30 million children each day, they are among the most powerful levers to shape kids’ diets.”

How to improve diet and health for low-income Americans in 3 easy steps 1) Repeal OBBBA SNAP cuts 2) Increase SNAP benefits from the current Thrifty Food Plan to AT LEAST the Low-Cost Food Plan** 3) Fully fund food is medicine programs for Medicaid and Medicare patients

The one other this is hanger and sadness

Whether it’s Democrats putting their pronouns in email signatures or Republicans shooting and killing unarmed drivers, both sides have taken actions that the other side finds threatening.

Trying out the Substack thing and sharing my thoughts on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans including some recommendations on how we can truly ensure everyone has access to "real food". lnkd.in/ee7_ztvw

I'll leave it the experts in nutrition science to comment on the make-up of the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, but a friendly reminder that the DGA isn't worth anything if we don't increase supports like SNAP, boost funding for child nutrition programs, raise wages, and bring down prices.

Started The Painful Truth about Hunger in America. Couldn’t agree more w @marianachilton.bsky.social: “Responsibility for hunger in America lands in wallets, laps, hearts, and minds of the wealthy, who create inequality for their own profits. To solve it, we have to focus on ending inequality.”

My name is Leran and I wholeheartedly endorse @salaambhattiva.bsky.social. (FWIW)

It’s the guns.

Malicious incompetence

This is petty, but Brooke Rollins is who I would cast as Cruella Deville in a community theatre production of 101 Dalmatians. She has the look and the vibe. Also, this is illegal and absurd.

The shutdown was an excuse, not a reason, to go after SNAP. SNAP recipients have to re-apply either every 6 months or year. Onerous process, with almost no fraud. There are no shutdown-related requirement for SNAP renewal. But it would predictably result in low-income families going hungry.

Aside from the fact that SNAP participants already have to periodically recertify for benefits — usually every 6 or 12 months — SNAP rules also prohibit states from arbitrarily shortening a household's certification period to force them to reapply early.

Huge thanks to @projectbread.org for stepping up to help families impacted by President Trump's SNAP benefits freeze. Our team worked quickly to get benefits back on EBT cards — so if you’ve got funds, go get those groceries. And if you still need help, ask. You are not alone.

This spending bill is a fundamental betrayal of the people, and I voted NO. Shame on every member of Congress who voted to deny a child their medication or to tear away life-saving cancer treatment. The people deserve so much better, and this fight isn't over.

I'm a SNAP recipient... for the last month I was tightening my belt, doing my best to eat cheaper and eating less so I'd have a little left over to help get me through when payments were cut. It was all for nothing. Fuck the dems who supported this.

So we’ll know by Wednesday just what extreme this administration wants to take to starve people and punish states for trying to help them.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

“We have to eat. This money will not last. They are taking away funds they already provided. I don't even know exactly who ‘they’ are. What happens in December? What about January? Do I have to make this food last all winter?”

I don’t see any reason not to take this literally.

The world’s first trillionaire. To put that in perspective a trillion dollars could fund SNAP for the whole United Stated for TEN years. We need a reset of our priorities, America

Even if you’re a callous billionaire, this is not good for our society. This is not good for business. This gets no one “back to work”. SNAP fuels our families, our communities, our country.

It's heartening to see so many people and organizations speak up about the importance of SNAP this week. In this dark moment, I'm picturing you all as candles in this hurricane. I hope we can keep this energy so that we can make SNAP stronger, better, and immune from politics in the future.

“Do not look at us as numbers. Look at us as human beings. We are parents fighting every day to keep our families standing. SNAP is not a charity. It’s justice.” — Iris, a mother from Chelsea, spoke Tuesday at the State House Rally for #SNAP. 💪🍎 projectbread.org/news/hunger-...

The Massachusetts rainy day fund has 8.6 billion in it right now. Look around @massgovernor.bsky.social - it's raining.

The rally to support #SNAP in #Boston today. Heartwarming to hear stories of people working so hard to provide help for their communities. Heartbreaking to hear a mother not knowing how she'll feed her kids & could not even do a pizza party for one child's birthday today. #mapoli

"We owe young children something better than preventable harm. We owe them food, not excuses." Our co-lead principal investigator, Dr. Diana Cutts, speaks about the upcoming SNAP funding lapse on the steps of the Massachusetts State House.

Today, we stood alongside anti-hunger advocates at the Massachusetts State House to demand the immediate restoration of SNAP benefits to ensure that no one goes hungry!

A choice for kitchen tables to go empty right before the holidays. A choice to let kids go hungry. A choice to stretch our elders' already fixed incomes. Our lawsuit is about government HELPING the people rather than causing more harm.

Hunger is a political choice. Letting it happen is violence. We won’t let them cut SNAP benefits without a fight. Take action: projectbread.quorum.us/campaign/145...

We are at the Massachusetts State House to rally for SNAP! Dr. Diana Cutts, our co-lead principal investigator, will be speaking today about the urgency of funding the program.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Massachusetts families are at risk of going hungry come November if SNAP isn’t funded — and we need you to stand with us! 💥 RSVP to Rally for SNAP on the State House steps Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 12 p.m. Let’s make our voices impossible to ignore. projectbread.org/events/rally...

BREAKING: CRAIG, DELAURO STATEMENT ON WHITE HOUSE UNLAWFULLY STEALING FOOD BENEFITS FROM AMERICANS

Join the Make Hunger History coalition on Tuesday 10/28 on the State House steps for the Rally to Save SNAP. 1 million people in MA will not get benefits because of the TRump shutdown. It is a $240 million economic hit and the human toll is higher. #mapoli makehungerhistoryma.org/get-involved...

41 MILLION people are facing a Thanksgiving month without money for food, while contingency funding for SNAP benefits sits unused. Just a month ago, OMB said that SNAP's contingency fund should fund benefits in a shutdown. Now, new reporting says the White House has changed their minds.

“Starving a child is political violence…and this is 100% preventable.” @pressley.house.gov on the upcoming SNAP benefits cliff.