Trump is trying SO HARD not to feed hungry Americans

Tomorrow marks the first time the federal government has failed to release a jobs report two months in a row. Without these data, unemployment insurance claims provide the most up-to-date read on the labor market. As the shutdown drags on, continued UI claims by federal workers hits 30k. #EconSky

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

"Only one of the posts features a non-White man, who is flanked by a White woman and a White man." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The childcare cliff is here 19thnews.org/2025/11/stat...

The Trump administration is trying really, really hard not to send out food stamps benefits newrepublic.com/post/202805/...

Bail reform not only made New York more just, it also literally made it safer. Too bad our elected leaders, public safety officials, and the overwhelming majority of the press are so deeply invested in a narrative entirely divorced from empirical reality. hellgatenyc.com/bail-reform-...

Schools near military bases, reservations and national parks – which rely on federal Impact Aid to make up for lost local tax dollars – are struggling as payments are stalled during the shutdown. They serve 8 million students. @the74.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/fede...

I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.

The shit that medicine gets away with during pregnancy that it could absolutely not get away with anywhere else

The law says Trump must pay out full SNAP benefits prospect.org/2025/10/29/t...

Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection. The arrest reportedly took place in front of children. 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...

Now that Zohran Mamdani won, how much of his agenda will he be able to accomplish? Here's my back-of-the-envelope estimation of what he can feasibly achieve and how. Short version: I actually think he can get a lot of it done.

"Republicans had held a supermajority in the Senate since sweeping the state government in 2011." Wow.

Heating and utility aid is suspended while the government is shut down, just as weather turns cold and people usually seek help www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Fuck Andrew Cuomo--a sexual predator, austerity peddler, bully, opportunist, and as the closing days of his campaign showed a real racist--forever

Brooklyn is in the streets cheering for Zohran

@brycecovert.bsky.social wrote about Direct File and how effective it was; because the government creating solutions that help people is antithetical to the GOP's worldview this had to be killed newrepublic.com/article/1804...

Immigration raids in California's Central Valley in January and February "coincided with a 22 percent increase in daily student absences" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The president says he will defy court orders and illegally withhold SNAP benefits despite there being money in the SNAP contingency fund that the Trump is required to use.

And now Trump has destroyed USDS and imposed extra paperwork through work requirements on Medicaid recipients

One of Andrew Cuomo's most reliable tactics as governor was to drag his feet on progressive priorities and then finally give in, take all the credit, and use the moment to divert attention from his deeply conservative and harmful governance www.nytimes.com/2021/04/04/o...

So surprised that the racist, corrupt sexual abuser endorsed the racist, corrupt sexual abuser gothamist.com/news/trump-w...

Where would we be today if we had the public option in health care? newrepublic.com/article/2025...

134 Head Start programs most likely couldn't open their doors this morning thanks to the government shutdown www.the74million.org/zero2eight/a...

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...

“The cost of living goes up. Our pay doesn’t,” said Nakia Lomax, a massage therapist in Delaware. “My credit cards are maxed out from buying food. There’s been times where my husband and I, we’ve gone hungry just to make sure that our daughter and our son eat.” My latest:

Timely (grim) new NBER working paper: Households screened out of SNAP "suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores." www.nber.org/papers/w34434

"The notices state that “Payment in full is due now” & list an array of potential consequences for failure to pay, including collection litigation & negative impacts on their immigration cases. Fines that aren’t paid in full will accrue interest." Children in detention can't work. And are CHILDREN.

NEWS: The Trump admin's decision to suspend SNAP benefits due to the shutdown has been blocked. In two cases, both judges found the government action is likely illegal. Although a judge in Mass gave the admin until Monday to reverse course, a judge in Rhode Island issued a TRO from the bench today.

Gutting testimonials from Walmart and Amazon workers about what the loss of SNAP benefits will mean for them

Remember when Trump said he wouldn't touch Social Security? "As many as 1.5 million could lose eligibility over the next decade, including the widows and children of workers."

This applies to trying to help people who get SNAP, too. Donating money to a food bank is far more useful than donating food because food banks can buy in bulk and get what they know people actually need. (And recurring donations are a lot more useful than one-time ones, if you can swing it!)

Happy Halloween, the holiday that reminds us that it’s fun and cool to give every child a welfare benefit

Laws and rules cannot restrain King Trump except this one made up one that won’t allow him to feed hungry Americans

The Trump Administration has rearranged funds to pay for the parts of government it values most during the shutdown. In court, it is now saying it won't do that for food assistance. via @tonyromm.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

I deeply understand why groups that serve low-income people are sounding the alarm about SNAP benefits, but if you're not shouting as loudly as you can that this is happening because Trump is breaking the law then you've been played

A crisis is exploding across America as the cost of in-home care for older adults is skyrocketing -- up 10% just this year!! That's more than three times the rate of inflation. The Trump immigration crackdown has exacerbated the situation www.axios.com/2025/10/30/t...

“We’re making do with less while telling our kids why we can’t afford certain things right now,” a Department of Labor employee told WIRED www.wired.com/story/federa...

Trump is holding 42 million SNAP recipients hostage right now prospect.org/2025/10/29/t...

Perhaps it's foolish to attempt to figure out why the administration does what it does, but I keep coming back to the fact that it made a big show of "saving" WIC by using its transfer authority yet is now illegally refusing to do the same thing for SNAP.

"the working class in this country looks more like a Latino woman who cleans houses than it looks like Platner, a former defense contractor turned oyster farmer" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

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I hadn't seen anyone explain exactly why Trump withholding SNAP funds is illegal until @brycecovert.bsky.social did it for us. Short version: benefits must go to all eligible applicants, & the reserve fund must be used when appropriations expire to keep the program operating.

Not only is there plenty of money to ensure that SNAP benefits go out next month even while the government is shut down, it's illegal for the Trump administration to refuse to fund them prospect.org/2025/10/29/t...

$24,000 is a literal rounding error for the federal government but it’s being withdrawn from a service that is a “crucial part” of helping people exit homelessness

Quite the auto response from the generic USDA press email account

“It costs a lot more money to evict someone than it does to call ICE on them"

"The Administration is legally required to use contingency reserves — billions of dollars that Congress provided for use when SNAP funding is inadequate that remain available during the shutdown — to fund November [SNAP] benefits" www.cbpp.org/press/statem...