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The U.S. economy will lose between $7 billion and $14 billion due to the federal government shutdown, according to a new report released Wednesday by Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper. wapo.st/49sVfJF
Report: Government shutdown will cost the economy up to $14 billion
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the longer the government stays closed, the more costly the pause will be.
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The U.S. is experiencing its highest wave of layoffs since 2020, with close to a million workers losing their jobs this year.
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I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.
Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.
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This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.
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I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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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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Senator Gallego and I discussed why the fight around the ACA is a reproductive freedom fight on the latest episode of “My Body. My Pod.” Check it out wherever you get your podcasts!
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This is a really great service. It’s free to create an account and you get some REALLY good fresh food at dirt cheap.
With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.
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And everyone who screamed about Hunter is silent.

Endless corruption.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Siham Hassan, a former member of Sudan’s Parliament who ran community kitchens to feed the hungry and starving in her hometown of Al-Fashir, was executed by UAE-backed RSF terrorists.
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Over 71 million Americans are paid less than a living wage, and are forced into social safety nets like SNAP.

If you think too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, don’t shame them.

Shame their employers paying them poverty wages and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the rest.
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The answer to ‘how has politics become so stupid?’ is the same in the US, UK and Australia: Murdoch and culture wars
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Recent US Layoff Announcements:

1 UPS: 48,000
2 Amazon: Up to 30,000
3 Intel: 24,000
4 Nestle: 16,000
5 Accenture: 11,000
6 Ford: 11,000
7 Novo Nordisk: 9,000
8 Microsoft: 7,000
9 PwC: 5,600
10 Salesforce: 4,000
11 Paramount: 2,000
12 Target: 1,800
13 Kroger: 1,000
14 Applied Materials: 1,444
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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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Dachau began as a "work-conditioned housing" facility. Auschwitz began as a "work-conditioned housing" facility. Majdanek began as a "work-conditioned housing" facility.
Utah has just approved a 1,300-person “mega camp” for homeless individuals,This camp lacks transportation, features locked units, and even imposes forced labor.

They refer to this facility as “work-conditioned housing,” but we simply call it what it is: modern-day internment.
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Refusing to feed people while building a massive ballroom is a fast track to eat the rich. No pun intended.
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Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits.

No, they don’t have to.
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HEB also has a meal deal right now where for $12 you get a large frozen lasagna, salad, green beans, pepsi, and 6 breadsticks.
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FEMA funding approvals sorted by political party and 2024 vote.

States with both D governor and voted for Harris in 2024:

Maryland: Denied ❌️
Washington: Denied ❌️
Illinois: Denied ❌️
Oregon: Denied ❌️
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To all those “Let them go without food for a month, maybe they’ll get a job” people: Most SNAP recipients have jobs. Exploitative jobs that keep them living just below the poverty line. — Should they starve to death? And then what?