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#Trump admin to fire worker for TV interview about #SNAP
The employee warned that the #shutdown could have negative impacts on the millions of Americans who rely on the #FederalGovernment to put #food on the table.
#censorship #authoritarianism #dictatorship #law #labor #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech
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One fact-check site indicates without detailed accounts, it's hard to calculate what #taxpayers paid for #JD_Vance's vacations. However, here's one account: "he’s racked up more vacation days than most Americans could dream of in a decade. ...
"His latest trip? A summer holiday in the Cotswolds...
"But this isn’t an isolated incident. This is vacation No.8 this year. "
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#USPolitics #Affordability #SNAP
#Trump admin renews #SCOTUS appeal to keep full #SNAP payments frozen
The request is the latest in a flurry of legal activity over how a program that helps buy groceries for 42 million Americans should proceed during the historic US govt #shutdown. Lower courts have ruled that the govt must keep FULL payments flowing, & SCOTUS asked the admin to respond after an appeals court ruled against it again late Sunday.
#law #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #FoodStamps
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Supreme Court says US food stamp funding can be temporarily halted
The programme has been left in limbo during the US government shutdown, with the White House saying it can't afford it.Ana Faguy (BBC News)
The corrupt fat cats on the Supreme Court need to retire.
"The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily granted the Trump administration's request to block full SNAP food benefits during the government shutdown, even as residents in some states had already begun receiving them."
CNN: National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters
11/8/25
Trump told #states on Saturday to “immediately undo” any actions to provide full #FoodStamp benefits to #LowIncome families, threatening financial penalties if they do not comply. The late-night guidance from the #USDA adds to the uncertainty surrounding the nation’s largest anti-#hunger program during the govt #shutdown. Officials in several states said they remained unsure on Sunday how the directive would affect the roughly one in eight Americans who rely on #SNAP.
This is a crime.
This isn't just "withholding benefits" - it's a crime.
Heartless #billionaire assholes
#Trump admin seeks to halt #SNAP #food #aid payments after a #CourtOrder
Trump’s admin asked a federal appeals court Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly SNAP benefits amid a #US govt #shutdown, even as at least some states said they were moving quickly to get the money to people.
#law #judiciary #FoodStamps #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #EconomicDiscrimination
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"Trump’s 'Gatsby' gala wasn’t homage but autopsy — a champagne-soaked dirge for a nation that once believed in class, grace, and conscience. ...
Trump, the man who once wrapped himself in the mantle of populism, threw a party mocking the very people who once believed him."
~ David Shuster
#Trump #MaraLago #GreatGatsby #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #corruption #EconomicElites #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger
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When Gatsby Met Garbage: Trump’s Decadent Death Rattle of the American Dream
Trump’s “Great Gatsby” party was a grotesque display of excess and delusion — proof that America’s self-proclaimed populist has become its most vulgar elite.David Shuster (Blue Amp Media)
