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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 21h

SNAP benefits have amounted to about 1.5% of the federal budget. The fraud rate is under 1%.

42 million Americans, many of them elderly and disabled, depend on this food assistance through no fault of their own.

16 million are children.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h

Speaker Mike Johnson is perpetually trying to deceive people. He uses his milquetoast speech and persona to mask his determination to ruthlessly cause harm. He wears his “Christianity” on his sleeve as a decoy from his evil intentions. He is not a good person, he just tries to play one on TV.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 1d

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2d

Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits.

No, they don’t have to.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

I have a very bad feeling about this...

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

This is what they voted for. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

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Heather Elliott Art @heatherelliottart.bsky.social · 4d

This is a bribe. Timothy Mellon (the billionaire) is connected to a bank that was just sued by an Epstein victim. I’d guess he’s paying to make that go away.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

America is very upset about migrants and drugs coming from Venezuela

So America is trying to destabilize the Venezuelan government

Which would create a lot more migrants

And open up more space for drug traffickers

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 5d

We now have anonymous billionaires paying the wages of American troops.

Does anyone see the problem?

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Heather Elliott Art @heatherelliottart.bsky.social · 4d

Now there’s reporting that the billionaire is Timothy Mellon. Interestingly, this “donation”comes on the heels of a major lawsuit against the Bank of New York Mellon by an Epstein victim.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 5d

Elon moves $133 million in crypto from SpaceX, and Trump accepts a $130 million donation. Hmmm… is Elon buying his spot back? Probably just an odd coincidence.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 5d

Choosing not to feed Americans in need is unacceptable.

The Administration knows it can use emergency funds for SNAP payments—it even deleted the memo posted on its website saying it could.

They are choosing to inflict pain on families.

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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...

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 5d

Mr. Rogers during his last broadcast:

"I know how tough it is some days to look with hope and confidence on the months and years ahead. But I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger. I like you just the way you are."

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5d

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 5d

That’s no ballroom…

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 5d

Hope people are realizing that rigging the 2026 and 2028 elections have always been the plan.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 5d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Your regular reminder that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics.

It is among the worst Supreme Court decisions in history.

It corrupts our political system every day.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 6d

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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