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Hunger doesn’t take days off.💔
👟I'm currently on my walk for Bread of Life's annual fundraiser in Malden—check out the video to see why this work is so important!
🚨Did you know 1 in 8 families in #America faces hunger? And 60% of older adult households are forced to choose between groceries and paying utilities.
🔊Please like, share and drop your local food pantry or meal program in the comments—you never know who might see it and need it.
#TheGremlinZoo #SNAP #ReportOnHunger
From AP News.com: After cuts to food stamps, Trump administration ends government's annual report on hunger in America
#TheGremlinZoo #SNAP #ReportOnHunger
From AP News.com: After cuts to food stamps, Trump administration ends government's annual report on hunger in America
Post from Robert Reich elsewhere
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The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect this week, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans.
And it's all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich.
Trickle-down economics isn't just a haox - it's cruel.
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The state of #Linux packaging seems to be a perpetual mess. There is no standard packaging format among distros (something that I don't think will be resolved any time soon) and I've always viewed third party packaging tools like #snap and #flatpak with skepticism, mainly from a #security perspective.
After reading this, I'd rather deal with the perpetual mess of different package managers than the unraveling security headache that is Flatpak.
The state of #Linux packaging seems to be a perpetual mess. There is no standard packaging format among distros (something that I don't think will be resolved any time soon) and I've always viewed third party packaging tools like #snap and #flatpak with skepticism, mainly from a #security perspective.
After reading this, I'd rather deal with the perpetual mess of different package managers than the unraveling security headache that is Flatpak.
Australia’s internet watchdog says social media firms are still "turning a blind eye” to online child sex abuse material on their platforms, singling out YouTube as having been unresponsive to its inquiries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/06/tech/australia-regulator-youtube-child-abuse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #youtube #australia #socialmedia #children #childabuse #apple #google #alphabet #meta #snap #whatsapp
This is a list of rural hospitals that the Murder Budget will close.
For your Congress calling purposes.
Remember, they took public lands sales out of the bill because of red state resister pushback! They are all terrified, Murkowardski admitted it. When they are more afraid of us than they are of Trump we win.
This is a list of rural hospitals that the Murder Budget will close.
For your Congress calling purposes.
Remember, they took public lands sales out of the bill because of red state resister pushback! They are all terrified, Murkowardski admitted it. When they are more afraid of us than they are of Trump we win.
According to organizer Jess Craven, the US Capitol switchboard is overwhelmed and just plays hold music indefinitely.
First off: GO TEAM!!! 💪🏼
But also: Jess explains how to circumvent the problem so you can STILL KEEP calling your reps, which IS making a difference! Basically call their district offices instead of their DC offices or the DC switchboard.
Action like this got the public lands sale taken out in the Senate. When we fight we win.
"This bill is so jam-packed with gifts for billionaires and corporations at the expense of everyday Americans that it’s nearly impossible to describe the full extent of its depravity."
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
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Rick Hazen on how the ultrarich — and Supreme Court — have reshaped presidential elections:
"New First Amendment attacks on the constitutionality of disclosure could soon bear fruit at an increasingly deregulatory SCOTUS. So we can expect a day when we may not even know how many nine-figure donors are out there seeking to influence our elections and our elected officials."
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
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https://law.yale.edu/isp/events/free-speech-crisis-limits-first-amendment
"With full knowledge of the struggles of everyday Americans and people all across the globe, these billionaires openly flaunted their wealth for all to witness, for all to covet, for all to loathe. ...
It is in this context – in this arrogant public display of obscene wealth disguised as a wedding – that we watch Republican Senators contort themselves to pass the GOP budget."
~ Michelle Hornish
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicaid#SNAP
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https://michelehornish.substack.com/p/let-them-eat-wedding-cake
"This bill is so jam-packed with gifts for billionaires and corporations at the expense of everyday Americans that it’s nearly impossible to describe the full extent of its depravity."
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
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"The bill’s changes to Medicaid will hit many of Trump’s own supporters, who tend to be poorer and more rural, the hardest. But there’s been no grassroots groundswell against the package. Instead, many Trump supporters seem to be operating on the assumption—this is becoming a theme—that it’s other people whom the cuts will hit."
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
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"With full knowledge of the struggles of everyday Americans and people all across the globe, these billionaires openly flaunted their wealth for all to witness, for all to covet, for all to loathe. ...
It is in this context – in this arrogant public display of obscene wealth disguised as a wedding – that we watch Republican Senators contort themselves to pass the GOP budget."
~ Michelle Hornish
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicaid#SNAP
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https://michelehornish.substack.com/p/let-them-eat-wedding-cake
New York Times offers a helpful graphic of who will have money taken away and to whom the money will go with Trump's big beautiful bill. The gift link is courtesy of Robert B. Hubbell.
"Tax cut extensions" = money flowing to the top of the economic ladder, to the already super-rich.
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
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"The bill’s changes to Medicaid will hit many of Trump’s own supporters, who tend to be poorer and more rural, the hardest. But there’s been no grassroots groundswell against the package. Instead, many Trump supporters seem to be operating on the assumption—this is becoming a theme—that it’s other people whom the cuts will hit."
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
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New York Times offers a helpful graphic of who will have money taken away and to whom the money will go with Trump's big beautiful bill. The gift link is courtesy of Robert B. Hubbell.
"Tax cut extensions" = money flowing to the top of the economic ladder, to the already super-rich.
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
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"'When I first got here, this chamber filled me with awe and wonderment. Today, I feel disgust.'”
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
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“'Get some of that yellow tape and put it around this chamber. This piece of legislation is corrupt. This piece of legislation is crooked. This piece of legislation is a rotten racket. This bill cooked up in back rooms, dropped at midnight, cloaked in fake numbers with huge handouts to big Republican donors. It loots our country for some of the least deserving people you could imagine.'"
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
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Heather Cox Richardson highights Democratic senators' response to the Trump bill described as big and beautiful:
"'This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress,' said Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)."
“'This place feels to me, today, like a crime scene,' Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said on the floor of the Senate."
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#TaxCuts#SuperRich#EconomicElites#Medicaid#Medicare#SNAP
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