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[🐸 >40MM Americans Rely on SNAP] Brian Leong
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Opinions expressed here are my own and subject to change based on credible evidence. Where Law Ends, Tyranny Begins. Sic Semper Tyrannis. Keep Right Except To Pass. Use Signal to keep your private conversations secure.
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This was true in October 2016 when the Washington Post editorial board posted it, and it has been proven true every day since.
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Something unexpected happened at the @meidascanada.ca town hall in Victoria.
A group of young Afghan girls who escaped the Taliban showed up and asked to speak. They told their story of the fight for education and the need for Canada to help.
We will be sharing their story.
@meidastouch.com
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I know this was true for my little town when we still had the market where I worked.

One of the supers down the hill changed owners, and somehow their EBT contract didn’t transfer? Anyway they couldn’t accept EBT for over a month, and nearly folded. One of the busiest supermarkets in the county.
Grocery Store Girlie here, and I can attest that a massive number of food purchases, especially in the urban stores I’ve worked in, are SNAP. At least 30%.

People are going to be desperate. I’ve said this before, but this is potentially “people in the streets overthrowing the regime” level stuff.
Really dont think people are prepared for what happens if snap checks dont go out
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This is the reality of Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Putin’s envoy Dmitriev may try to gaslight you, but Russia continues to commit daily war crimes and deliberately target civilians. It is clear that Russia does not want peace
⚡️Update: 3 killed, 29 injured in Kyiv amid Russian drone attack on residential buildings.

Russia's overnight drone attack on residential buildings in Kyiv has killed at least three people and injured at least 29 others, including seven children, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported.
3 killed, 29 injured in Kyiv amid Russian drone attack on residential buildings
Russia launched a drone attack on Kyiv overnight on Oct. 26, striking residential buildings in the capital, officials reported.
kyivindependent.com
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Important stuff.
A new report finds corporations like Kroger and McDonald's are using digital loyalty programs to track your data and potentially charge you more.

It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR
The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Robert Reich
youtu.be
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Which again, is why the laser focus of everyone, including the national media, needs to be on the people who can actually make the difference, instead of obsessing about What Democrats Must Do.
Lisa Murkowski
Susan Collins
Thom Tillis
David Valadao
Bryan Steil
Etc.

Every day, the entire National Conversation is laser-focused on What Democrats Must Do, & these supposedly "moderate" Republicans get total free passes. They're the ones who can end it all. Find them. Ask the hard questions.
It is incredibly difficult to get folks to understand that there are literally 20-30 people in DC who could end all of this tomorrow, & all of them are Republicans in Congress, & no one in the National Conversation seems interested in paying attention to that.
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And yes, it would take 20 GOP Senators to impeach. But most of the worst things could be fixed via normal legislation, & all that would take is 4 GOP Reps & 4 GOP Senators (looking at you Murkowski, Collins, Tillis, Curtis, & Young) caucusing with Dems to make that happen. Profiles in Cowardice.
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While we’re on the subject of Ronald Reagan.
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The American First guy on Air Force 1 today with his Qatari business partners: “It’s an honor to have you on this plane … first time.”
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“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
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It’s still hard to grasp that there aren’t 4 GOP Reps (who will otherwise be forgotten forever after retiring & likely defeated next year anyway) aren’t interested in going down in history as all-time 🇺🇸 heroes by caucusing with the Dems & giving them the majority to impeach Trump & save the Republic
Democrats should hold a press conference and announce that if Mike Johnson has no interest in running the House they'd be happy to do it for him
Mike Johnson has dissolved Congress. Why?
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Imagine being 17, your little brother by your side, begging to speak to your dad as he’s dragged away. You may never see him again. And this is every day. Soul shattering, nightmarish stuff, never to be forgiven.
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
trib.al
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REPUBLICAN Senator Lankford on Trump bombing boats and killing people with no due process or real evidence they’re drug-related: “The administration needs to give Congress insight on this. If this was happening under Biden with this level of insight I’d be apoplectic.”
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A Republican president has decided he wants to go to war with Venezuela and is now creating the pretext to justify it, just like Bush did with Iraq.

Then it was WMDs, now it is drugs.

Except even Bush still at least went to Congress for a vote.

King Donald doesn’t bother.
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Does it matter that THERE IS NO EMERGENCY that justifies Trump’s occupation of cities. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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It’s easy to gloss over the details in his daily madness.

He basically admits he is using tariffs to be petty and vindictive.

Nothing to do with the economy.

Not a care for those it hurts on both sides of the border.

Let’s see who in Congress calls him out.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump raises tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for anti-tariff TV ad
Move is response to ad sponsored by Ontario that referenced Ronald Reagan’s support for free trade
www.theguardian.com
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UPDATE — PERRY COUNTY, TN: LARRY BUSHART IS STILL in jail since 9/22, bail at $2 million (!!), for posting a “we have to get over it” Trump meme after Kirk’s murder

(seems Sheriff Weems didn’t realize “Perry High” Trump referred to in the meme is in Iowa) theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
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Congress basically doesn’t exist at this point
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Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency.

An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)
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A Republican Congress is functionally the same as no Congress.