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Patricia Kopp @mvgal92691.bsky.social · 4m

Trump administration orders states to pause paying full SNAP benefits - The Washington Post

Patricia Kopp @mvgal92691.bsky.social · 22m

I began working at the Mission Viejo Library in 1975. M-F the library was packed from 3-5pm with kids. At 5pm The pickup began. Women who worked picked up their kids from the library because they couldn’t afford a babysitter.

For the record I’m white.

Patricia Kopp @mvgal92691.bsky.social · 44m

I don’t know where you live but when my family moved to Mission Viejo, Ca. there families on my street where both parents worked. That was in 1969. By 1980 it was damn near every family.

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rivki.bsky.social @rivki.bsky.social · 16h

It's normal for twentysomethings to live in undesirable housing, often with roommates. It's normal for people just getting started to have to budget severely. The idea that everyone should be able to live in a dream apt, alone, eating out all the time, and going on fancy vacations is not realistic.

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rivki.bsky.social @rivki.bsky.social · 16h

It's one thing to be concerned about people unable to afford safe housing, or sufficient food. It's another to think you're being failed by society because you can't buy a house at 25 and live an influencer lifestyle.

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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 13h

The article is a shit show of bad writing for sure, but if one says *relatively* high-wage jobs compared to now, it’s not

But still, establishing Niki Hayley’s son’s bonafides as a middle class champion by saying he ordered grilled cheese from the hired help rather than anything fancy is hilarious

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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 17h

People need to realize their ideas about past "middle class prosperity" are mostly nonsense.

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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 17h

People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.

Sohrab Ahmari @sohrabahmari.bsky.social · 1d

Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical: His generation inherited insecurity.

I profile Nalin Haley, a fascinating young man, who I believe will likely play an important role in conservative politics in years to come.

unherd.com/2025/11/why-...

Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 4h

There are a lot of people who are getting their information from memes and politics-flavored content, then turning around and making their own content based on it, and it’s making this problem worse.

Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 17h

People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.

Sohrab Ahmari @sohrabahmari.bsky.social · 1d

Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical: His generation inherited insecurity.

I profile Nalin Haley, a fascinating young man, who I believe will likely play an important role in conservative politics in years to come.

unherd.com/2025/11/why-...

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2h

Telling states to claw back SNAP funding is truly insane politically.

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Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 57m

No, we’re not going to “class consciousness” our way out of racism and anti-semitism.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2h

Yikes. USDA sent threatening letter to states telling them that if they sent out EBT money —which many states did during the window when a lower court said SNAP funds had to be released—they have to take it back (?)
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21h

Some other states that appear to have gotten benefits out (thanks to those sending me links): North Carolina, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Dakota, Kansas.
So, not exclusively Dem-helmed/blue states.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

SCOTUS "pause" on order to give out SNAP was issued by Ketanji Brown Jackson.
It continues for 48 hours after lower court gets new ruling in.
After that, Trump admin can ask for another "pause" extension. SCOTUS could either give it to them or say nah, we agree with lower court; release the money

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

Last night SCOTUS told lower court to give a more detailed ruling with legal reasoning ASAP, so Supremes can review it. That's expected to come in as soon as a few hours, saying once again: yes, USDA has to pay the money out to everyone. Now.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

After states had already sent out benefits, SCOTUS last night temporarily paused lower court order that required Trump admin to cover full food stamp benefits.
The way SNAP system works, money's already on people's EBT cards. It can be spent. So...unclear who's left holding bag if feds don't pay

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

That means SNAP beneficiaries in these blue states now have money to buy groceries.
I'm not aware of any red states that got SNAP money out during the brief window where court had greenlit sending funds. (Tell me if I've missed any though.)

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

For those confused by state of play on SNAP right now: You're not alone
Yesterday, *before* SCOTUS paused order telling Trump admin to send out SNAP $$, a handful of states rushed to issue full SNAP benefits to at least part of their caseload.
This includes CA, OR, WA, MI, and WI—all blue states (🧵)

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1h

I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1h

Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry.
It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2h

Yikes. USDA sent threatening letter to states telling them that if they sent out EBT money —which many states did during the window when a lower court said SNAP funds had to be released—they have to take it back (?)
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2h

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 21h

We will not let Minnesotans go hungry.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 12h

The photos say it all.

#UnmaskICE

LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 13h

Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school and find that their parents are gone.

Anne Frank

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 17h

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 1d

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 13h

REMEMBER THIS.

Because REPUBLICANS.

This woman was following proper procedures & disappeared by ICE, Trump's Personal Gestapo Goon Squad.

These are crimes against humanity promoted & pushed by Donald Trump and Stephen Miller.

Enabled by the GOP.

Never forgive or forget.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

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