Karen Perry Stillerman
@karenstillerman.bsky.social
Eater, porch gardener, soil enthusiast, blogger, policy wonk, building a better food system @ucs.org.
Dog mom. #DubNation. She/her. Views my own.
Dog mom. #DubNation. She/her. Views my own.
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🚨The Trump administration has illegally seized power not granted to it by the US Constitution and is actively disregarding the rule of law.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
*whispers* start with the food industry blog.ucs.org/alice-reznic...
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
*whispers* start with the food industry blog.ucs.org/alice-reznic...
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Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
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I went deep on SNAP, including the 50-year battle to make benefits more generous, and the unprecedented cuts and restrictions taking hold in the program, which are separate from and much more permanent than the recent payment freezes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/d...
Experts Say SNAP’s Food Budget Doesn’t Match How People Actually Eat
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I went deep on SNAP, including the 50-year battle to make benefits more generous, and the unprecedented cuts and restrictions taking hold in the program, which are separate from and much more permanent than the recent payment freezes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/d...
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
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HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS
I was just thinking things didn't feel quite chaotic enough.
If the Supreme Court rules against the President, expect it "move our chaotic trade war that was really chaotic-and-settled, into merely chaotic, back to extremely chaotic again."
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I was just thinking things didn't feel quite chaotic enough.
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The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
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On November 1, President Trump’s government shutdown will deliver another horrible outcome: more than 40 million people won’t receive their monthly food assistance benefits. 🧵1/5
Experts Issue Grave Warning as SNAP Benefits Set to Run Out
Food banks are unlikely to be able to meet the demand amid the government shutdown, experts tell TIME.
time.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
On November 1, President Trump’s government shutdown will deliver another horrible outcome: more than 40 million people won’t receive their monthly food assistance benefits. 🧵1/5
"Of course."
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"Of course."
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WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
October 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action
September 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action
"The level of cruelty, the scale of wanton destruction, the blatant violation of the Constitution and rule of law, the violence and grasp for power and money ... It puts us all in danger." Rachel Cleetus @ucs.org on why we must say, loudly, #NoKings on October 18. blog.ucs.org/rachel-cleet...
It’s Time to Confront the Trump Administration’s Authoritarianism
If you can, if you feel safe enough, please join a peaceful, powerful No Kings protest near you.
blog.ucs.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"The level of cruelty, the scale of wanton destruction, the blatant violation of the Constitution and rule of law, the violence and grasp for power and money ... It puts us all in danger." Rachel Cleetus @ucs.org on why we must say, loudly, #NoKings on October 18. blog.ucs.org/rachel-cleet...
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"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
-- Me
-- Me
October 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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He froze because he realized, in real time, that what he’d just said carried serious constitutional implications. Which now will be used against the Trump administration in court. He invoked “plenary authority.” That phrase means complete authority, basically the president has dictatorial powers.
CNN: Does the administration still plan to abide by that court ruling?
STEPHEN MILLER: The administration filed an appeal this morning ... ... ...
CNN: Stephen? Stephen? Can you hear me?
MILLER: ... ... ...
STEPHEN MILLER: The administration filed an appeal this morning ... ... ...
CNN: Stephen? Stephen? Can you hear me?
MILLER: ... ... ...
October 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
He froze because he realized, in real time, that what he’d just said carried serious constitutional implications. Which now will be used against the Trump administration in court. He invoked “plenary authority.” That phrase means complete authority, basically the president has dictatorial powers.
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Took a moment in class to remind my undergrads to get their flu and covid jabs. Not my usual role as an econ prof, but right now they have too few trusted voices. And if others are trying to avoid political strife (this ISN'T political!!!), my students may not be hearing it elsewhere.
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Took a moment in class to remind my undergrads to get their flu and covid jabs. Not my usual role as an econ prof, but right now they have too few trusted voices. And if others are trying to avoid political strife (this ISN'T political!!!), my students may not be hearing it elsewhere.
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It's kind of funny that Trump's idea of how to Make America Great again is to make it what it was like in his 20s and 30s but that somehow doesn't extend to the tax code.
October 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It's kind of funny that Trump's idea of how to Make America Great again is to make it what it was like in his 20s and 30s but that somehow doesn't extend to the tax code.
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Some are arguing that the current tenor - limited targeted protests - is a form of gray rocking.
The theory is that Trump wanted 2020 George Floyd style protests which media could frame as violence from nowhere, but that isn't what they are getting.
The theory is that Trump wanted 2020 George Floyd style protests which media could frame as violence from nowhere, but that isn't what they are getting.
October 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Some are arguing that the current tenor - limited targeted protests - is a form of gray rocking.
The theory is that Trump wanted 2020 George Floyd style protests which media could frame as violence from nowhere, but that isn't what they are getting.
The theory is that Trump wanted 2020 George Floyd style protests which media could frame as violence from nowhere, but that isn't what they are getting.
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Tiktok taught me a new phrase which is "gray rocking"
Q&A: What is ‘gray rocking’ and why is it trending?
UVA psychologist Bethany Teachman says while the viral approach to difficult conversations can help, other strategies are available.
news.virginia.edu
October 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Tiktok taught me a new phrase which is "gray rocking"
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As food prices surge, the Trump admin cancels a critical hunger study. “It’s the latest sign that the president and his allies are hell-bent on eliminating science and data that don’t support their political agenda.” -my colleague @karenstillerman.bsky.social blog.ucs.org/karen-perry-...
The USDA Cancels Annual Hunger Study While Trump Policies Drive Up Food Prices
Canceling the annual Household Food Security Reports is part of a broader Trump administration effort to suppress data inconvenient to its political agenda.
blog.ucs.org
September 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
As food prices surge, the Trump admin cancels a critical hunger study. “It’s the latest sign that the president and his allies are hell-bent on eliminating science and data that don’t support their political agenda.” -my colleague @karenstillerman.bsky.social blog.ucs.org/karen-perry-...
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On Saturday, @wsj.com broke the news that the USDA canceled its annual report on food insecurity & hunger. Now, researchers in the unit responsible for the survey have been put on indefinite leave.
Exclusive | USDA Puts Food Researchers on Leave
The move comes days after the Trump administration abruptly canceled an annual Agriculture Department report that measures hunger in America.
www.wsj.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
On Saturday, @wsj.com broke the news that the USDA canceled its annual report on food insecurity & hunger. Now, researchers in the unit responsible for the survey have been put on indefinite leave.
In which @chuckwendig.bsky.social wins the alt text prize for the day.
More nature! Because nature is good even when a lot of other shit is bad. Today's photo: a kingfisher with, well, a fish. Photo by me.
September 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In which @chuckwendig.bsky.social wins the alt text prize for the day.