The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children. Read that again. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

I'm fully convinced that the downfall of this regime will come from brazen, not-even-trying-to-hide-it plunder: the relentless enrichment of billionaires and Trump himself while necessities like housing, food, and healthcare become unattainable for everyone else.

This is the election I’ve been posting about for the last few months and I genuinely can’t believe we won 😭❤️

My dear friend Rev. Rae Huang is running for mayor of LA. She’s a pastor and a community organizer with deep ties to labor, the interfaith community, and BLM-LA. If you’re looking for a Zohran of LA, this is it. We’re having a campaign launch outside city hall on 11/16. Join us.

This quality of reporting is what made Teen Vogue indispensable—and why what's happening to it is so infuriating. Withholding SNAP could cause "the greatest hunger catastrophe in America since the Great Depression." A 22-year-old with diabetes said: "It's like a death sentence for people like me."

Here's something to be read alongside @brian-goldstone.bsky.social's excellent THERE'S NO PLACE FOR US. Historian Clif Stratton details how the construction of Atlanta Stadium in the 60s worsened "food apartheid," leaving residents of Atlanta's Summerhill neighborhood without access to fresh food.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

This is AWESOME.

So apparently people DO like being able to afford life's basic necessities and to live without fear that another rent hike will push them into homelessness.

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

I wasn't expecting to come across these generous words about There Is No Place for Us in @maris.bsky.social's Maris Review today. So moved by her description of it as "an impeccably reported book" that "shows how the real tragedy of our time is that hard work doesn't even guarantee a place to live."

Trump just defied two judges and took complete ownership of the SNAP emergency in a single post.

My review of the book of the year (for me) and the book that inspired me months ago to apply for a job in eviction prevention (on my lunch break now). Enjoy the review, and get the book! @brian-goldstone.bsky.social youtu.be/rVq8HKl8RVU?...

What a fantastic thread from @thrasherxy.bsky.social

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

I got to talk with two of the smartest people I know -- @reallandsend.bsky.social and @city.bsky.social -- about BORN IN FLAMES. Check out the latest @deathpanel.bsky.social here

I appreciate both @katieprout.bsky.social’s write-up and @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’sshout out to @chicagohomeless.bsky.social‘s workin his recent visit to Chicago to discuss his excellent book “There is No Place for Us.” We can’t solve homelessness without first understanding its true scope.

A reminder that less than two months ago, the Trump administration abruptly ended the federal government's 27-year practice of collecting data on hunger and food insecurity.

Part of what is going on here isn't just inflicting hunger, it's inflicting humiliation. Human beings should be able to feed themselves and their families with dignity. The sadism is the point.

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around. Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

The world continues to ignore Sudan and every day, things get worse. So much suffering met with silence.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

A MATERNITY HOSPITAL.

You would be kicked out of any writer’s room in existence if you had the villains celebrating a Great Gatsby-themed party while taking away food benefits from millions of poor people.

Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

I had such a meaningful night in Chicago with Eve Ewing at the National Public Housing Museum, and I'm grateful to @katieprout.bsky.social for this piece on the event and THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US—about housing, state violence, political imagination, and refusing the myth of dispassionate journalism.

Thank god

Hard to overstate the lifeline this ruling offers in the face of Trump's calculated cruelty. It will not only keep tens of millions—half of them kids—fed this month, but will also prevent the evictions and shutoffs that would have resulted from families being forced to pay for food out of pocket.

This is also an indictment on those who refused to pay a living wage, including the federal government and the military. And on those governors who refused to bridge the gap to show solidarity with this let them eat cake government.

A lot of people are going to be choosing between paying rent & eating this month. You should also donate to eviction prevention work if you can.

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country. Because it's *decided.*

I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.

I read this book last week and because of it, I can't stop thinking about how horrible the loss of SNAP is going to be. A tough but necessary read.

"It took imagination to build Alligator Alcatraz in five days, and it took imagination to terrorize communities in the way that they are now being terrorized. It’s not about realism versus imagination. It’s about competing versions of an imagined future, an imagined present."

Last night EVLovesNYC also had our first community book club. We spoke about @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s There Is No Place For Us (which he also kindly donated to us). A good evening discussing the book, raising awareness, and building community.

Come volunteer with us at @evlovesnyc.bsky.social to make sure meals continue to be distributed into the community. www.evloves.nyc/volunteer/

I had such a meaningful night in Chicago with Eve Ewing at the National Public Housing Museum, and I'm grateful to @katieprout.bsky.social for this piece on the event and THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US—about housing, state violence, political imagination, and refusing the myth of dispassionate journalism.

California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits

The most essential book I've read in the past year was One Long Night by @andreapitzer.bsky.social. There is historical precedence for everything Republicans are doing.

Spent the day with people of such modest means, who live in tin shacks without electricity, AC or indoor toilets. Through no fault of their own, they are now more at risk for HIV…and for what? So Musk can have a few more bucks? So Trump and Rubio can feel like they have more power?

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory. The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.

I was on SNAP as a full-time college student with two minimum wage jobs + a federal work study

Think about how much further along we’d be if there was more pushback when they were testing their limits at the beginning of this term

This made me cry a little. Everything is terrible but I'm so glad to be in this moment with these contemporaries.

Starting now!