Due to Federal Government Shutdown, USDA Notifies States that SNAP Benefits Won't Be Issued for November | Department of Health and Human Services
www.maine.gov
AUGUSTA-- Due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has notified every state that November funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation's largest anti-hunger program, will not be issued at this time.

Saw this mentioned in the news mega but was having trouble finding the original source, which appears to be this press release from Maine’s DHHS

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I made my own raw feeds for Bluesky. And I block a huge number of largest lib accounts. I don’t see the most popular posts. I assume posts with 10,000s of likes are a continuous lib circle jerk.

    But I do see a hell of a lot of posts under ~10K likes. In just the last few days there must have been 100s and 100s of posts above 1K likes (including the ones I never see) about Trump’s ballroom and the removal of the East Wing. The libs can’t stop talking about it. They’re obsessed. Trump is ruining the White House! The destruction underway on the People’s House to put in his ballroom is symbolic of the state of the US! But after the GOP passed it horrible bill - Bluesky posts about SNAP, hunger, etc have been (very) rare. It seems nearly 100% out of mind for the libs there.

    None of this is surprising - they’re libs (and many of them have money) after all - but it does make my blood boil. The White House is a fucking building. Taking away food and healthcare from people so that they suffer, get sick, and die is evil and an entirely different universe.

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    Edit

    They just keep posting about the East Wing. This one slipped though my filters because there was no alt text.