“Hundreds of longtime customers of Fresh Market Place [a grocery store in Belmont Cragin] have been kicked off SNAP after President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy law, known as the “Big Beautiful Bill,” added newer, stricter work requirements for the program’s recipients in February.”

Chicago grocers are severely affected by reductions to SNAP: ‘We need to bail out this industry’

In Illinois, the implications threaten not only individual households but also the viability of the Chicago area’s independent authorized SNAP retailers.

chicagotribune.com

Texas businessman (Don Huffines) running for office owns Epstein's Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

Texas businessman running for office owns Epstein's Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County

The family of Texas real estate businessman Don Huffines, a Republican running for state comptroller, purchased the property through an LLC.

santafenewmexican.com

THIS 👇 HERE, AS WELL.......

FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION CONFIRMS MARINE ONE WAS BRIEFLY TOO CLOSE TO PASSENGER AIRPLANE - STATEMENT

"So he can feel a bit more manly by making an AI video" is a direct callback to this image that deserves a second life in this campaign

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2h ago

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can feel a bit more manly by making an AI video. If you want a senator who's gonna lick some boots, go vote for Rogers. But if you want a senator who's going to stand up to Trump, you've got your option.

BIG VICTORY! After a years of fighting, a Michigan court shut down the permit for Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel. The pipeline would have gone through the Great Lakes, the largest source of fresh water in the world. But the Michigan Supreme Court said no.👇

Michigan Supreme Court Overturns Line 5 Tunnel Permit, Delivering Major Victory for Tribal Nations

Overview: The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned a key state permit for Enbridge's proposed Line 5 tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac, ruling that regulators failed to comply with Michigan envi...

nativenewsonline.net

I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.

Cool, cool. We’re basically out of ATACMS and PrSM, and we used half our *global* TLAM supply… all for the Strait of Hormuz to still be closed?

As someone who grew up in rural America and knows the people who absorb this shit as truth, there are a LOT of dumb motherfuckers in this country! Republicans aren't stupid. They play stupid for the stupid. It's maddening for the informed but the stupid are easily manipulated!

An excellent reminder of who Mike Rogers is. bsky.app/profile/stev...

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3h ago

When he was Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers (the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan) publicly took the position that "you can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated." Colbert had some fun with that: crooksandliars.com/cltv/2013/10...

Before leaving for August recess on Friday, the Senate could vote on a bill that would turbocharge Trump’s corruption. Senate Democrats can stop the CLARITY Act if they work together, but that’s not going to happen unless our senators hear from us. 👇

Stop Trump’s Crypto Corruption - No to CLARITY Act

The Senate will be considering the CLARITY ACT, a Trojan horse for deregulation that would only help Trump, billionaires, and foreign governments profit at our expense. We need senators to block them.

indivisible.org

Humans are the most destructive and stupid thing to ever evolve. Any natural wonder, we’ll fuck it up. Any technology that has great potential for our better we figure how to kill each other with it. We deserve to extinct ourselves.

🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)

The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.

nytimes.com

And to pay Palantir millions to "streamline" USDA contracts.

and of course there is money for Trump's vanity projects.

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks

States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

politico.com

It’s NOT “an American achievement” and anyone saying so is a f-cking moron. There is no ‘win’ from this situation. America has literally made thing WAY worse than where Obama got humanity on the issue. And no one should let them whitewash this utterly avoidable mess.

Hey, remember when trump utilized our military to illegally invade a sovereign country, without cause, kidnap their leader and disappear his ass, took over the country's oil, and the whole-ass Congress let out a collective "meh"??? I do. It's still happening. No one's doing shit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago

Trump on Venezuela: "We're taking out hundreds of billions of dollars"

Every single Republican candidate in the country should be asked by the media if they agree with Donald Trump and Mike Johnson that Max Miller is a good person who should remain in Congress.

In other news - Rollin Horton and the council passed eminent domain in NASHVILLE late last night, taking another step towards blocking the data center project planned for the property next to the zoo. (From @nonewdatacenters )

On nights like this it’s kinda wild that @abbydphillip & @CNN don’t feel the need to mention @ScottJenningsKY’s podcast bosses at Salem Media are running a pro-Israel influence operation — and that he gets paid by them while he’s on CNN trashing Bernie, @AbdulElSayed, etc

Americans purchased an estimated $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion Israel War Bonds in 2025... That's genocide bonds for those who don't know. That's jewish Americans funding war crimes. Faith does not equal exemption from just criticism

Heartbreaking. Trump voters should burn in hell.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 8h ago

You won't regret clicking on this beautifully told story by @lsommer.bsky.social about the Pacific Ocean and how the Trump regime is opening some marine monuments to commercial fishing.

Mike Rogers is for Medicaid cuts that will close our hospitals, for total abortion bans and for ICE ripping our neighbors out of their homes. But at least he lives in Florida.

Same here from Europe, please normalise democratic socialism in the US. The level of anti-left brainwashing in America is nuts.

Assholes!!!!

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year

El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year

UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity About 50 million people are likely to be pushed into acute hunger before the end of next year by the rapidly developing El Niño weather system, according to forecasting. This is in addition to the hundreds of millions of people already facing dangerous levels of hunger, owing to years of drought in parts of Africa and pressure on food prices from the war in Iran. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Fixed it...

On this day in 1944, the Gestapo found Anne Frank and her family in their Secret Annex. Her diary stands as a warning against hatred and persecution. Eighty years later, we should recognize the warning signs before it’s too late.🙂‍↕️