The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Last week, Trump: - said he can “always use the Insurrection Act” to send more troops to US cities. - said he’d terminate all trade negotiations with Canada. - claimed he has the authority to continue striking boats in international waters. Read the list of actions: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...

New from me: Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong. This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.

Trump is throwing 15 million Americans off health care. He's doubling premiums for 20 million Americans. Now, he's refusing to use a $5 billion emergency SNAP fund to keep 16 million kids from going hungry. But the 1% keep $1 trillion in tax breaks. Oligarchy in action.

Then white Americans realized that the nutrition programs were also feeding little Black children and it all went to hell. But once upon a time we realized that the strength of a nation is in a populace that feeds everyone.

Also let us note that nutrition programs like SNAP were started as a matter of national security after the enormous number of men who were medically unfit for military service in WW1 due to the effects of malnutrition.

More farms will go out of business and as a result not only will more Americans be going hungry but we will be more food insecure as a nation.

Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.

Between the tariffs, the immigration crackdown, and cuts to SNAP, Trump is creating a mass crisis in U.S. farming. And a lot of this stuff can't be walked back. Chinese markets for Argentine soybeans won't just switch back when Trump TACOs again. Bankrupt farmers can't just bounce back next year.

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Democrats are a healthy economy. We are good paying union jobs you can raise a family on and infrastructure investment. We are safe schools. Republicans are tax cuts for the Broligarchs and slashing the government jobs of people who work to make your life better.

This is the most obscenely wealthy, grotesquely cruel, offensively under qualified and incompetent, outrageously & blatantly corrupt, callously indifferent, brazenly self-serving, shamelessly deceitful administration in our country’s history. A hollow gold-plated autocracy destined to collapse.

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

"Andy Ngo and other far right extremists have been targeting Avalos since at least as early as July and trying to paint her as violent and a 'member of Antifa.' On court record, Ngo has admitted that his social media posts can lead to violence." It's projection from the right. All the way down.

The fundamental problem in this country is, I believe, a shame imbalance. People who should feel no shame for their conditions, identity, etc. are shamed for that rather than their conduct, while those whose conduct is utterly shameful are completely shameless. Rushdie explored this theme in Shame.

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. RFK Jr. must resign.

Sounds like it’s the GOP that’s playing politics with people’s livelihoods. Hold the line, Dems.

Why isn’t Lankford apoplectic NOW?

A criminal pardoning criminals‼️

This video is sad that the things have come to this. @kendallyb.bsky.social is starting a series showing how to safely dumpster drive for those not getting their food stamps or are struggling. It is not something that's illegal and she shows her past hauls dumpster diving

Full post isn’t much better, given that — among several other problems with it — Trump is alleging that a 2023 investigative action “rigged the 2020 Presidential Election.”

A ballroom is his main priority. I hate him so much words fail me.

1. Promote and write code for Trump’s stablecoin. 2. SEC drops its Binance lawsuit. 3. Get a Trump pardon. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

“Can you put two and two together about what’s going on here??” @saikatforcongress.bsky.social connects the dots for the panel

“The president demolished the White House.” “The president politicized the FBI and DOJ to go after his opponents.” “The president is why life is more expensive today.” “The president was besties with Epstein.” Messaging isn’t hard and makes you wonder why Dems aren’t saying this every day.

Sometimes, symbols are deeply potent. The East Wing demolition is a physical, tangible mirroring of the destruction of so much more in the US: the rule of law, the semblance of justice and democracy, governmental infrastructure, livelihoods and respect. All at the whim of a delusional old man.

Hey @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co care to comment?

Sweet fancy Moses, people…Make some noise! Call, write snail mail, repeat! WTAF are republicans doing about this? Diddling themselves during the shutdown has to stop. It’s sickening, grotesque, and UNAMERICAN!! The wrecking ball to the country is happening in real time and it Has. To. STOP!

He said he would not do anything to damage the White House... And then he did. He lies, says he won't. And then does it. It's exactly what he did before: youtu.be/j4XWoirFToY?...

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.” Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

6 years ago... 🤔

🔥 GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Laura Ingraham on Fox is in business with Trump Jr… it’s state capitalism… unprecedented in modern history… billions of dollars…. the great grift… Fox is the Pravda network… I’ll be sending out kneepads to all the CEO’s… WAKE UP EVERYBODY.”

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After months of needless delay, the Trump administration has finally agreed to follow the law and forgive student loan debt for borrowers who have been waiting decades for relief. This will be life changing for millions of working class Americans.

They really didn't even finalize and announce any consistent details about what the plan is or what this thing will look like when it's done. It's all vague and contradictory. This isn't how a major construction project works. It's how a toddler playing with his LEGOs works.

Honest. No hyperbole. I just listened to this cretin a second time. And if I were a Christian in this American moment, I would be ashamed to ever admit it in public, my faith having been named, debased and dragged through the public sewers every other day. Sorry.

There it is. Sua sponte.

This is what Trump is currently doing to the White House East Wing. Look at the broken and unusable windows destroyed and just hanging off their hinges. no attempt to save anything for re-use or history. Such respect for the People's house, eh?

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The child raped by Prince Andrew and subjected to sadomasochistic sex by Jeffrey Epstein thought she would "die a sex slave" to Epstein and his rich friends, the BBC reports. The memoir is heightening calls to release the Epstein Files, a move opposed by the GOP House. www.bbc.com/news/article...

👀Lordy I hope there are tapes!

doi.org/10.1126/scie... This seems rad: overexpressing FruM in a set of proboscis-motorneuron-projecting neurons makes melanogaster males add food-sharing to their courtship repertoire. It is fascinating to see evolutionary shifts in behavior be tied so concretely to shifts in brain development!

Happy Sunday!

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