of course they did

What are the effects of the shutdown on SNAP users? Propel provides an app to SNAP users to allow them to track their spending and so can offer real-time estimates of needs. About 70% of SNAP households have a $10 or less balance on their SNAP card accounts. www.propel.app/shutdown-fun...

Trump is fighting as hard as he can to starve kids for negotiating leverage.

We'll see if USDA complies.

I know this man does not care (and maybe enjoys toying with folks on SNAP) but parents are trying to figure out how they are going to feed their kids. The level of stress and anxiety every time some confusing new report comes out is its own form of cruelty.

The administration just told a court it's refusing do the same thing to ensure full SNAP benefits go out www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

SNAP update: Partial payments, delayed payments, not tapping section 32 for full payments www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

-Sep 30: USDA releases guidance saying they can use contingency fund -Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse -Oct 23: USDA deletes guidance saying they can use contingency fund -Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund -Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds -Nov 1: no funds go out

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

You can’t even use SNAP to buy a hot rotisserie chicken unless you live in a state with a special waiver.

THIS

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund. Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.

Spread the word. The Trump Administration can use emergency funds to pay for SNAP benefits during a shutdown. The President and little Mike Johnson are lying to you. How do we know? 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Let's help Clay out here with some math. The $4200/yr. is for a household. Average SNAP household has 1.9 people. So that's $2210/person. $2210/year is $184/month, and that's a little over $6. per day. Clay, let's see you stockpile groceries on $6/day. Hell, let's see you eat on $6/day.

If SNAP is paused on November 1, SNAP recipients can receive $50 in free groceries by adding their EBT card in the app. Please share!

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

SNAP benefits are about to lapse because of the shutdown. Reminders: 1. About 1 in 2 children will receive SNAP benefits at some point and 1 in 4 children are receiving benefits in a given month. 2. Trump is already planning to cut SNAP in other ways. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

Hungry at Thanksgiving.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Immigrants make up only 4% of the world’s population but they are more than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prize winners. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NCSU Soc/Ant is hiring! crime, law, social control: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...

No mozzarella sticks at The French Laundry zero stars

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

I honestly can’t bring myself to read this but I do think it’s very important for people in the US to remember that this is happening right now because of our government.

Prof. Jacob Bor, commented, “if the US simply performed at the average of our peers, one out of every two US deaths under 65 years is likely avoidable. Our failure to address this is a national scandal.”

This is not the most pressing UNC problem but I am once again obliged to share the state of things in a humanities building. Can we get some Belichik bathrooms over in Dey Hall

correspondent for The Economist

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

"Because of changes that are starting to roll out from Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill... about 2.4 million people could lose access to the food stamps per month... "Millions more will see their monthly benefit amounts shrink because of changes mandated by the law... www.cbsnews.com/news/food-st...

This is what is happening when the cameras are running

Wait, it gets worse. The team of economists and researchers responsible for the USDA survey that measures food insecurity and hunger were put on indefinite paid leave today. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The federal government is canceling the leading national survey of household food insecurity and hunger in the United States, @wsj.com reported today. The Dec 2025 survey will be canceled, while the Oct 2025 report based on Dec 2024 data will be released as usual. (1/4)

I shouldn’t be, but I’m shocked by this. We’ve been measuring food insecurity for 30 years. We have the most comprehensive data in the world. And they’re just cancelling it… so we can’t see that food insecurity continues to rise amidst all the cuts to food assistance. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Kimmel was fired for criticizing the president. That milk toast white man said nothing about Charlie Kirk. This is just authoritarianism 101. I've lived it. I know. Wake the fuck up America.

NIH has already lost almost 20% of its staff. Just as it looks like starting to catch up—more staff cuts. And to be clear, they’ve caught up on spending but are funding far fewer proposals—in part because they’re budgeting grants differently www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/n...

I do think you’ve gotta hand it to Ezra Klein for this one, which we need more of, much more, from his peers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Moving back to the US from Sweden -- this pattern of a weakening welfare state and increasing militarization is so apparent. Seeing a police officer stationed at school drop off and the mall at night getting the kids' back to school supplies is such a disturbing contrast.

This is a rift we shouldn’t let pass us by, & he’s not breaking with the party line alone (Cassidy & others also voiced concerns). Let him undo the damage he did by voting RFK in. Remember, RFK doesn’t have the authority to fire a CDC director – this was a coup, all because Monarez *did her job.*

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Here’s some of what scientists told us: "The past five months are by far the worst I've experienced in my science career (from grad student to professor) over the last 30-plus years because we no longer know if there will be support for the work that we do, because science and research has…” +