#CrueltyIsThePoint
We often say it, and the regime often proves it.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lamzlaxo4gvxvz65vsbrhvty/post/3m5xjqlldis23
#CrueltyIsthePoint
Unacceptable: SNAP is back after the shutdown — but millions may now lose food aid for good. Only a collapsing and cruel administration would starve families and call it “savings.” #SNAP #FoodJustice #CrueltyIsThePoint #HungerIsPolicy #VoteBlue
"Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday said the Trump administration is planning to have all Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries reapply for the program due to alleged fraud."
Rollins is concerned that someone somewhere is getting "a handout" they don't "deserve."
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5606715-agriculture-secretary-snap-reapply/
When it comes to the POTUS and SCOTUS, remember that #CrueltyIsThePoint. They do NOT GAF about anyone but themselves.
#SaturdaySelfie #Saturday #Saturyay #SaturdayVibes #SaturdayFun #SaturdayShenanigans #WeekendWarrior #Coffee #Caffeine #Politics
SNAP benefits: Trump admin seeks emergency block on order to pay food stamps in full
• The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court for an emergency block on a judge’s order that it pay 42 million Americans full SNAP benefits for November.
• The administration asked the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to allow its plan to pay 65% of the food stamp benefits this month from a contingency fund.
• The request came a day after Judge Jack McConnell issued an order in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island rejecting the partial payment option.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/snap-trump-appeals-food-stamps.html
"Trump declared that he would not payout SNAP benefits, signaling that his administration will not release the funds as ordered. The move effectively blocks distribution of aid to millions of low-income households, seniors, and children across the country."
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
/20
"In a stunning escalation of the standoff over federal food aid, President Donald Trump announced that he will refuse to comply with a federal court order requiring his administration to release emergency funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), potentially cutting off food benefits to millions of Americans."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
/19
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-set-to-defy-court
"I’ve seen a lot of reports calling Donald tone deaf, but that is a way to let him off the hook. The choice to host that party is of a piece with the choice to build a $350 million ballroom after razing the East Week—it is intentional and a clear demonstration of Donald’s priorities."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
/18
"Trump’s announcement caught members of his own team off guard, with four people with knowledge of the matter telling Politico they aren’t clear whether his post means that USDA now won’t abide by the court order."
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
/17
"President Donald Trump went rogue on Truth Social on Tuesday, contradicting his own administration’s decision a day earlier to fund SNAP benefits during the shutdown—and potentially violating a court order in the process."
~ Rachel Kahn
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
/16
https://newrepublic.com/post/202668/trump-shocks-team-defy-courts-stop-funding-snap
"It’s … an astonishing act of cruelty, especially as grocery prices are going up—Trump lied that they are stable in the 60 Minutes interview—hiring has slowed, and the nation is about to celebrate Thanksgiving."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown
/15
Too bad the chickens that have come home to roost can’t be eaten. This is what happens when you vote for cruelty thinking it will only hurt someone else. #SNAP #FAFO #HungerCrisis #GOPShutdown #CrueltyIsThePoint #PovertyPolitics #VoteWisely #Resist
Too bad the chickens that have come home to roost can’t be eaten. This is what happens when you vote for cruelty thinking it will only hurt someone else. #SNAP #FAFO #HungerCrisis #GOPShutdown #CrueltyIsThePoint #PovertyPolitics #VoteWisely #Resist
what if….speculating here….what if the contingency funds for SNAP are already in an overseas oligarch’s pocket?
“no one will ever know it’s not there anymore…” etc, etc
"A naive incredulousness that a religious movement would actually drive national politics paralyzed necessary coverage of the Christian right. Its death was frequently announced, always prematurely and inaccurately. …
But:
"The ascent of Donald Trump proved all of these journalistic myopias catastrophically wrong."
#Trump #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #CrueltyIsthePoint #immigrants #racism #food #hunger #SNAP #authoritarianism #dictator
/4
Noting that traditional media never took the Christian Right seriously, Sarah Posner says that when she began writing about this topic in the early 2000s, "newspapers and magazines were still reluctant to run investigative stories on the Christian right."
#Trump #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #CrueltyIsthePoint #immigrants #racism #food #hunger #SNAP #authoritarianism #dictator
/3
"We are experiencing a great asymmetrical stretching of the moral and political bounds of American society. Increasingly, self-identified Republicans (who represent approximately 30% of the public) and white evangelicals (who represent 13% of the public) are drifting farther from the American mainstream, drawn away by MAGA’s extreme gravitational pull."
#Trump #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #CrueltyIsthePoint #immigrants #racism #food #hunger #SNAP #authoritarianism #dictator
/2
"With the exception of white Christians, two thirds of whom cast their votes for Trump in 2024, majorities of all other religious groups and the religiously unaffiliated see Trump as a dangerous dictator."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #CrueltyIsthePoint #immigrants #racism #food #hunger #SNAP #authoritarianism #dictator
/1
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/most-americans-are-seeing-the-dangers
"It’s all part of the right’s deeper political project to control women and assert their preferred gender and class-based hierarchies."
#Trump #Republicans #CrueltyIsthePoint #food #hunger #children #women #GreatGatsby #GildedAge #RoaringTwenties #SNAP #shutdown #patriarchy #gender #misogyny
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