"In the dead of night, Donald Trump slipped out of the White House and boarded Air Force One for a trip to Asia. Twenty-four days into a government shutdown of his own making, Trump became the first president in American history to leave the country during an active shutdown. Millions of federal workers remain furloughed or unpaid."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #shutdown #food #SNAP #groceries #prices
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/breaking-saturday-afternoon-news

"In the dead of night, Donald Trump slipped out of the White House and boarded Air Force One for a trip to Asia. Twenty-four days into a government shutdown of his own making, Trump became the first president in American history to leave the country during an active shutdown. Millions of federal workers remain furloughed or unpaid."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #shutdown #food #SNAP #groceries #prices
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CPH Daily Bulletin 10/24/2025

Newsom to deploy CA National Guard after millions at risk of delayed food assistance in shutdown

https://boyleheightsbeat.com/newsom-ca-national-guard-delayed-food-assistance-shutdown/

#California #FoodBanks #SNAP #CalFresh #NationalGuard #GovernmentShutdown

I've seen articles saying November #SNAP benefits won't be sent. The pressure on food banks will be tremendous. Many US protest groups are combining mutual aid with protesting. Volunteering or donating is a great contribution to the resistance, and those unable to protest (e.g., members of very targeted groups) are working hard to feed communities.

Please remember, cash donations are better than canned food, but food banks are hesitant to say so.

https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/why-cash-donations-help-food-banks-more

#FoodInsecurity

CPH Daily Bulletin 10/24/2025

Newsom to deploy CA National Guard after millions at risk of delayed food assistance in shutdown

https://boyleheightsbeat.com/newsom-ca-national-guard-delayed-food-assistance-shutdown/

#California #FoodBanks #SNAP #CalFresh #NationalGuard #GovernmentShutdown

I've seen articles saying November #SNAP benefits won't be sent. The pressure on food banks will be tremendous. Many US protest groups are combining mutual aid with protesting. Volunteering or donating is a great contribution to the resistance, and those unable to protest (e.g., members of very targeted groups) are working hard to feed communities.

Please remember, cash donations are better than canned food, but food banks are hesitant to say so.

https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/why-cash-donations-help-food-banks-more

#FoodInsecurity

Historically, when people don't eat, they revolt.

What do you think will happen when you fund your personal extravagance while people watch with hunger in their stomachs and their children crying for food?

You don't even need to crack a history book. It happens constantly all over the place. It's happening right now and I don't even need to name the places because you already know them.

You think it can't happen here?

What do you think will happen?

#fascism #antifascist #SNAP #shutdown #resist

Do you think 42 million hungry adults and children will just accept the fact that they won't be able to afford food anymore because their #SNAP benefits are gone?

Emma Goldman said ask for work. Most people receiving these benefits already work, or they otherwise can't.

She said if they don't give you work, ask for food. That's what SNAP is. They just took it away.

Emma said if they don't give you work and they don't give you food, take the food.

#fascism #antifascist #anarchist #shutdown

What are your best #poverty meals and tips and tricks? 🍚🫘

*Boosts appreciated*
With the loss of #foodassistance for over 42 million USians, difficult times are ahead. If you don't rely on #SNAP, it will put an overwhelming and potentially insurmountable strain on people you know and care about.

This includes my own family. We rely on #SNAP to feed our children and ourselves.

I grew up food insecure. I was responsible for paying for my own food and clothes from around the age of 10 or 11. I was living by myself at 15. I had to learn how to get food and feed myself when I couldn't pay for it.

I suppose I should consider myself lucky because this means I'm afraid to have an empty pantry because all it takes is the loss of a job or an unexpected expense to make it difficult to afford food, which means I have some food stored.

My spouse and I have a tiny homestead which we historically grew over half the food to feed our family of six. However, we had to get rid of our sheep and goats in case we have to flee the country. I've had multiple unplanned hospitalizations and surgeries this year, so we didn't plant a goddamned thing to eat.

Funny enough, I've been working on healing my fear of food scarcity, and I've been easing up on how much I store. I'm not a hoarder or a prepper, but I felt that maybe I didn't need to have so much concern for keeping so much.

My point is that my family is going to struggle significantly to make up for the missing food assistance cost, even if it only lasts for November. And yet, we're one of the lucky families, because we do have experience with this. I am able to cook. We have some food stored. We know and have the means to do things other people can't or don't know how to do. We have access to enough community we can lean on that others don't have.

My spouse helped supervise a food pantry for 7 years. I've worked as a humanitarian in disaster and crisis for longer than that and know what it's like to see people panicking over food in desperate environments.

One month without food assistance for poor and hungry people is going to be a crisis. So many poor people will have to leverage credit they can't afford, or they will have to take on obligations that will strain them to a breaking point, or they will have to take desperate measures. And that's only at one month without assistance.

42 million people who won't be receiving access to food assistance that each and every one of them depends on.

What are your best #poverty meals and tips and tricks? 🍚🫘

*Boosts appreciated*
With the loss of #foodassistance for over 42 million USians, difficult times are ahead. If you don't rely on #SNAP, it will put an overwhelming and potentially insurmountable strain on people you know and care about.

This #fascist regime would rather force 42 million of their own citizens starve to death than allow a single #trans person to exist.

#SNAP #antifascist #shutdown

And don't let anyone tell you that 42 million people can just go to the food pantry.

No.

Food pantries are not designed for this and we all fucking know it. And even if they were, the federal government has *already* cut federal funding for food pantries. The money is already gone, and so is the food. They don't have the resources to feed 42 million additional mouths for even a day, let alone every meal indefinitely.

#snap #shutdown #resist #fascism #antifascism

Do you think 42 million hungry adults and children will just accept the fact that they won't be able to afford food anymore because their #SNAP benefits are gone?

Emma Goldman said ask for work. Most people receiving these benefits already work, or they otherwise can't.

She said if they don't give you work, ask for food. That's what SNAP is. They just took it away.

Emma said if they don't give you work and they don't give you food, take the food.

#fascism #antifascist #anarchist #shutdown

What do you think will happen when there are 42 million hungry people in the US for at least one entire month because they've all lost their #SNAP benefits?

What do you think hungry people will do?

What do you think desperate people will do when their children are hungry?

#fascism #antifascist #resist

Historically, when people don't eat, they revolt.

What do you think will happen when you fund your personal extravagance while people watch with hunger in their stomachs and their children crying for food?

You don't even need to crack a history book. It happens constantly all over the place. It's happening right now and I don't even need to name the places because you already know them.

You think it can't happen here?

What do you think will happen?

#fascism #antifascist #SNAP #shutdown #resist

Historically, when people don't eat, they revolt.

What do you think will happen when you fund your personal extravagance while people watch with hunger in their stomachs and their children crying for food?

You don't even need to crack a history book. It happens constantly all over the place. It's happening right now and I don't even need to name the places because you already know them.

You think it can't happen here?

What do you think will happen?

#fascism #antifascist #SNAP #shutdown #resist

169,812 people in #Maine will not receive #SNAP benefits for November.

Let me say that again.

169,812 people won't be able to afford to buy food in November in Maine.

Maine has a population < 1.5M

Not just Maine, but 42 million people across *all* states will lose SNAP benefits during the #shutdown while they all watch the president building a personal ballroom.

#fascism #antifascist

[Edit: lowball estimate adjusted to the exact number of people who won't receive Maine SNAP benefits. Clarified that 42 million people will lose SNAP benefits in all states.]

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.

#HungerActionMonth #community #snap #food #nutrition