NEW: So, the courtroom at the "Broadview 6" arraignment in Chicago yesterday featured lotsa Methodist pastors. Why? They were supporters of defendant/fellow Methodist Brian Straw. "If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us,” one pastor said. religionnews.com/2025/11/13/m...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

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As the country celebrates its veterans and the service they provided, it’s worth noting that the current president is actively fighting to keep 1.2 million veterans from receiving their food benefits. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

As 22M people face rising premiums and 4M risk losing coverage, proposals to expand health savings accounts do nothing to make care affordable; extending premium tax credit enhancements would ensure enrollees continue to have access to care. www.cbpp.org/blog/expandi...

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.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

Americans deserved a better deal than this one.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

New data: CBPP analyzed USDA’s contingency fund spending plan & found it is only going to release 2/3 of the funding they committed to in court filings, cutting families’ SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDA’s own regulations & shortchanging millions of families.

JUST IN: Soren Stevenson, who lost an eye due to a projectile fired by the police during the BLM protests of 2020 in Minneapolis, has won a seat on city council. @pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...

If I had the opportunity, says Judge Michael Luttig; "I would tell the Chief Justice that he is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America. That's what he is doing." For anyone concerned with what remains of US democracy, this is a must listen podcast.

Let's remember that earlier this year, the Trump administration canceled 94 million pounds of aid that was supposed to go to food banks. Soon after, the USDA abruptly ended its 27-year practice of collecting national data on hunger. Again, there's nothing "accidental" about the suffering to come.

Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"

In a World Series between an American and Canadian team, the real winner is Japan.

Looking for free food and meals in NYC or Newark as SNAP benefits come to a pause for the first time in the program’s 60-year history? Here’s a list of food pantries and other resources.

ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire | KFF www.kff.org/affordable-c...

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...

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Updating my LEGO White House

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Also Oct. 21, the local Head Start notified parents they would be closing Oct. 31. They don’t have the federal funding to continue. This is on top of the state cutting daycare vouchers because of federal cuts.

The shutdown could force over 6 million low-income mothers and children to lose WIC support within weeks—nutrition and health at risk. #TrumpHatesOurHealthCare

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

the press doesn't seem to understand that we genuinely no longer have functional federal regulators or corporate oversight in any serious form across labor, financial, public safety, and consumer protection it's kind of a big story, but they're so cowed by ownership they genuinely don't care

Brown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter. The clock is now on for all other institutions. www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Well, there you go! www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/02/g...

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New from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern? Some states are threatening to end SNAP. Why? Trump is setting state governments up for failure, cutting resources, adding administrative burdens while imposing massive financial penalties for errors. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

Here's my column on how shutdowns work. It's my best attempt at explaining what keeps going, what keeps going only for a short period of time, and what stops immediately. Shutdowns are complicated, but I tried my best here. www.americanprogress.org/article/what...

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

The Administration acknowledged that it will stop the survey that measures food insecurity, just as tariffs push up food prices and the deep cuts to food assistance enacted in July start to take effect. Congress must intervene to save these vital data. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Whew.

“What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. “Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.” https://to.pbs.org/46AYg7U

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

WPSU in Pennsylvania becomes the first public media outlet to shut down as a result of the rescission of federal funding. WPSU TV and radio serves one of the largest geographic coverage areas in the nation, stretching across 24 counties of central Pennsylvania.

My new blog: US Uninsured Rate Stays Level in 2024 for Adults and Kids: Storm Clouds Lie Ahead ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/09/09/u... via @georgetownccf.bsky.social

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

And so the Medicaid cuts begin.. Right before Labor Day weekend the state of Idaho announced 4% cut in Medicaid provider rates for EVERY category except tribal providers effective 9/1 Idaho has lots of provider shortages in rural areas already. This won't help.

"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

No words. This is… a) …laughable b) …dangerous c) …damaging

1.2 *million* Americans died from COVID before these vaccines were approved and we had widespread access to them. Reducing access to vaccines that are effective and have saved so many lives isn’t simply anti-science, it’s anti-American. And people could die because of it.

As if you needed another reason to be angry at RFK Jr. today: There are signals he wants to blow up the "liability shield" that has kept the U.S. vaccine industry strong for the last forty years (and has sped payments to harmed patients). Hugely dangerous. www.thebulwark.com/p/hhs-kenned...