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I feel like millions of Americans losing #foodstamps next month should be a much bigger news story than it is.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/usda-contingency-fund-november-snap

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CNN

Trump administration won’t use contingency fund to pay November food stamp benefits | CNN Politics

The US Department of Agriculture says it will not tap into its $6 billion contingency fund to cover food stamp benefits next month, according to an agency memo obtained by CNN. That means that roughly 42 million Americans will not receive critical food assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in November, unless the agency shifts its position.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

Fuck #Trump!

I feel like millions of Americans losing #foodstamps next month should be a much bigger news story than it is.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/usda-contingency-fund-november-snap

CNN

Trump administration won’t use contingency fund to pay November food stamp benefits | CNN Politics

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Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

Chicago Sun-Times

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

Chicago Sun-Times

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

In any other context, imagine hearing about an #adult zip tying #children to each other. No really, what would you call that?

https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/?

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ABC7 Chicago

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

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Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · last month

So do all those #journalists & #professors get their jobs back too or is it just the millionaire comedian whose cancellation ate into #Disney 's #profits?

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · last month

So do all those #journalists & #professors get their jobs back too or is it just the millionaire comedian whose cancellation ate into #Disney 's #profits?

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

Overcoming #capitalism - in other words, transitioning to a #democratic #socialist #economy - is ultimately necessary to end structural #racism & #imperialist #violence.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social replied · 2 months ago

The struggle against #racism must be #anticapitalist, & the struggle against #capitalism must be #antiracist.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

#Racism, like #imperialism itself, is not a side-show to #capitalism but a structurally necessary feature of it. It is not a standalone problem that can be addressed with a few #liberal #reforms here & there. It has always been central to capitalism & it remains that way today.

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Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social replied · 2 months ago

Overcoming #capitalism - in other words, transitioning to a #democratic #socialist #economy - is ultimately necessary to end structural #racism & #imperialist #violence.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

And of course these very same discourses were deployed within the core itself, to justify paying lower #wages to radicalized people, & to deny them equal access to #resources.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

... to provide the ideological scaffolding necessary to justify #apocalyptic levels of #exploitation & bloodshed in the periphery.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

This was an extraordinarily #violent process, involving #colonization, #dispossession, mass #enslavement, & #genocide.

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Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

This is where #imperialism comes in. As Utsa Patnaik puts it, #capitalism requires “an #imperial arrangement” to maintain access to cheap #labor & cheap #nature, and thereby to stabilize accumulation.

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Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #DNC #RepublicanParty #RNC #GOP #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

This cannot be sustained for long within a bounded #economy. If you intensify the #exploitation of your domestic #workingclass & #resource base in this way, sooner or later you will face a #revolution.

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Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

And for #capital, the purpose of #production is not to meet #human needs, or to achieve #social progress, but to maximize & accumulate #profit. That is the overriding objective.

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Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

This bears repeating: despite the massive #productivity of the world #economy, nearly one-third of the #human population does not have secure access to #food.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

This bears repeating: despite the massive #productivity of the world #economy, nearly one-third of the #human population does not have secure access to #food.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

Given that secure access to #food is central to the BNPL method, this suggests that post-2011 #poverty trends have probably not improved much.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

Third, while we don't yet have robust BNPL data after 2011, we know that #food insecurity has increased steadily in more recent years, going from 21% in 2014 to 30% in 2022.