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pravetz.bsky.social @pravetz.bsky.social · 5h

Means testing destroys societies. All those angry people who hate the poor for getting SNAP and Medicare and Medicaid and so on are ready to go for fascism because we are too cowardly to tax the rich to just give everyone a universal basic income

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Save Moudi Family 💔 @mody165.bsky.social · 14h

Mody and his seven siblings in Gaza are suffering through a freezing winter ❄️🥶 without warm clothes or blankets 💔.
We’re raising $750 to get them coats, scarves, and gloves🧣
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Your support can bring them warmth, safety, and hope 🕊️.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h

While hundreds of thousands of furloughed workers are going without pay, food stamps, formally known as SNAP, are set to run out on Saturday.

Normally, the federal government would use contingency money to keep SNAP going, but the Trump administration said it had no intention of doing so.

The shutdown is pushing federal workers to food banks—just as SNAP is set to expire

"There's absolutely more need, but less food. It's bad."

www.motherjones.com

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Mourning Scarety 🔮 @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

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Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, nobody needs to work to have value or deserve housing, food, healthcare etc no matter what people brainwashed by capitalism say !!

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Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 1d

And of course I know this is because of MISOGYNY, because they believe a woman's purpose in life should be to find a husband and raise children that she stays home with

(And also some families with SAHMs need food stamps, so conservatives judge those families even if they have trad values)

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Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 1d

Conservatives are SO obsessed with saying people who don't work shouldn't receive "handouts" but if we said stay-at-home moms shouldn't be able to eat, they would (rightfully!!) be upset.

It's just interesting to me who is excluded from their rhetoric about how adults need to "work" to "earn" food

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Six people, including congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, have been indicted on charges of "Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees" and "Conspiracy to impede or injure officer," in connection w ICE protests at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

Case: 1:25-cr-00693 Document #: 1 Filed: 10/23/25 Page 1 of 11 PagelD #:17
FILED
10/23/2025
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
CLERK, OM.&TRUT&OURT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1:25-cr-00693
Judge April M. Perry
v.
Case No.
Magistrate Judge Heather K. McShain
RANDOM / Cat. 3
MICHAEL RABBITT,
Violations: Title 18, United States
KATHERINE MARIE ABUGHAZALEH,
Code, Sections 111(a)(1), 372 and 2
ANDRE MARTIN,
CATHERINE SHARP, BRIAN STRAW, and
UNDER SEAL
JOSELYN WALSH
COUNT ONE
The SPECIAL JUNE 2024 GRAND JURY charges:

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Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social · 1d

Rest In Peace Lia Smith.
You deserved a whole, full, beautiful life.

Transgender Student-Athlete Lia Smith Remembered as a Friend and Fierce Advocate — Assigned

Lia Smith, a 21-year-old trans student-athlete in Vermont, took her own life last week. Her friends, family and community mourn, and remember her as a bright young woman who spoke on behalf of her com...

www.assignedmedia.org

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Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 1d

Adults who receive SNAP benefits aren't any more responsible for a violent system that fails them than children are.

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Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 1d

Well-intentioned people know that many don't care about adults who receive SNAP benefits because they think they are at fault and "deserve" to go hungry.

But we can and should emphasize that nobody should starve, not just children.

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Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately it feels like people are emphasizing that children will starve (which is true and terrifying) because children are thought of as completely "innocent," while adults are seen as more responsible for their circumstances.

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Elegant Sledgehammer FREE LINK @tinyteerex.bsky.social · 1d

💕💸🍉

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TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Naming a problem as “craziness” tends to signal the abandonment of any societal commitment to asking how we might ensure better ways of doing things... locking in the belief that if some people are more vulnerable, it’s not because regulatory policies let them down—it’s because they’re “weak links.”

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Ironically, while naming AI psychosis might seem like a step toward addressing an emerging, unmet public health need, this term easily becomes a distraction from the underlying problem it exposes — by pathologizing users instead of penalizing companies.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Ironically, while naming AI psychosis might seem like a step toward addressing an emerging, unmet public health need, this term easily becomes a distraction from the underlying problem it exposes — by pathologizing users instead of penalizing companies.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Relying on chatbots isn’t fringe — it’s the predictable result of care made scarce, stigmatized, and costly. Recognizing that doesn’t mean uncritically embracing chatbot care, but it’s past time to name what’s happening: Privately owned chatbots are functioning as public health resources.”

‘AI psychosis’ discussions ignore a bigger problem with chatbots

Don’t frame chatbot failures as human “insanity.”

www.statnews.com

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 2d

😭💔 😷 #CovidIsNotMild

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Social post by Rebecca O'Connor @rebeccaoco
Replying to @Saffiya_Khant @TrudiG and 2 others
I actively hated lockdowns, cried my way through them and felt I was neglecting my children while they were stuck at home and I tried to work. Would have that again forever, compared to what I have now, which is two chronically ill children with long covid who can't function
9:31 PM - 21 Oct 25

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Megabeth18 @megabeth18.bsky.social · 3d

Speaking of NH

Link to food pantries interactive state map , mobile food banks and soup kitchen/meal finders for the state.

Every week in a different town there is a drive through food pantry that offers fresh fruits & veggies & a box of canned goods.

nhfoodbank.org/find-food/fo...

Food Map - New Hampshire Food Bank

Search our list of partner agencies to find a food assistance program near you.

nhfoodbank.org

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InkLink.news @inklinknews.bsky.social · 2d

It’s crunch time for the more than 75,000 New Hampshire residents who rely on SNAP benefits to put food on the table, as the federal shutdown is likely to continue into November and the government refuses to release a reserve fund that would help keep benefits going for two or three weeks.

As SNAP deadline looms, 75,000 New Hampshire residents days away from food crisis - Manchester Ink Link

It’s crunch time for the more than 75,000 New Hampshire residents who rely on SNAP benefits to put food on the table, as the federal shutdown is likely to continue into November and the government ref...

manchester.inklink.news

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 3d

Feeling emotional whiplash between the sheer evil of the state preparing to starve 42 million human beings and the incredible variety of ways that communities around the country are mobilizing to feed their neighbors.

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Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 3d

I really saw a liberal talking about SNAP benefits and the need for restrictions on processed food. It isn't even just conservatives.

Please stop falling for conservative MAHA talking points. People are going to starve.

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Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 3d

This isn't even getting into all the factors that influence people's dietary choices like how expensive food is, availability, lack of housing, health issues.

Other people's dietary choices aren't our business!!

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Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 3d

"There should be restrictions for SNAP benefits when it comes to processed/sugary food" is what happens when classism is combined with healthism. People deserve access to food even if you don't like their dietary choices.

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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 5d

I have had POTS my whole life but had never heard of it until a couple of years ago. Got an official diagnosis this year. Told my cardiologist about all the fainting I’ve done in my life and how many times I blacked out playing sports. She said she’d heard the same story so many times.

Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social · 5d

I have POTS. I likely had it for at least a decade before my diagnosis. Patients are frequently gaslit. I was repeatedly told my symptoms were due to stress, anxiety or depression. Even with the increase in awareness since 2020, I am always hearing about people with POTS being gaslit by doctors

C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 5d

It’s POTS awareness day—a blood flow problem common after Covid.

POTS can be subtle—I often wonder how many people who feel rundown, anxious or distracted have this treatable condition.

Main criteria is heart rate going up >30bpm when going from laying down to standing—smthg you can check at home!

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