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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Honestly instead of learning new techniques to hack my nervous system I'd like to live in a equitable life-affirming society that didn't push me into fight or flight hour after hour. You?

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National WIC Association @natwicassoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

‼️ Current funding proposals fall short of projected needs for #WIC to serve ALL eligible families in FY 27, which means hundreds of thousands of moms and kids could lose access. YOU can take action against this by contacting your reps: bit.ly/fundwic27

WIC needs at least $8.55 billion in new funds in FY 27 to serve all eligible families seeking support. Photos of moms with babies and one child eating.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A survey of military families found that for the first time this year, rising grocery prices were a key driver to families being unable to afford healthy meals. Many reported skipping meals or reducing portion sizes so other family members could eat. federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-news...

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Food insecurity skyrockets among military families, MFAN survey finds | Federal News Network

For the first time this year, rising grocery prices were a key driver to families being unable to afford balanced meals.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/06/2026

Do You Administer SNAP or Medicaid Benefits? Help ProPublica Report on America’s Safety Net. We want to hear from the officials and workers who help people navigate SNAP and Medicaid, because no one knows these programs better.

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Do You Administer SNAP or Medicaid Benefits? Help ProPublica Report on America’s Safety Net.

We want to hear from the officials and workers who help people navigate SNAP and Medicaid, because no one knows these programs better.

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Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) @transequality.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) just proposed a rule change that would roll back protections for trans people seeking federally funded housing resources. We're fighting back! Tell HUD to REJECT this rule change and protect our community: action.transequality.org/a/equalacces...

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Submit a comment to the federal registry!

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

A special Mother's Day shout out to all the farm worker mothers who not only work to feed their families, but also yours! Thanks to these hard working mothers, all our families are fed throughout the year. We appreciate you every day 💐 #wefeedyou #mothersday

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The proposed SSI rule change will drown intellectually disabled people under administrative burdens that they clearly will not be able to manage, and then condemn them to even deeper poverty for their condition. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

If enacted, the change will require intellectually disabled young people like Burton as well as very elderly people to file extensive monthly reports if they want to continue their benefits even at the reduced level. They’ll have to provide details about the property where they live: whether it’s leased or owned, as well as the names of anyone in the home, and whether any of these people has any new income or assets. They’ll also have to include documentation of all household bills and expenses, showing how much they do or don’t contribute personally, as well as financial documents such as bank statements and any pay stubs.

Burton will likely have to make an appointment and report in person at a Social Security field office any time her father’s hours or wages change even slightly; any time she and he switch up how they split utility bills; and any time an adult sibling spends even a few nights at the house and helps her with living expenses. If she doesn’t, she could later receive bills accusing her of having been overpaid by Social Security.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I know we get inured to stuff, but it is hard to fathom the cruelty here. At a time of tax cuts for the most powerful, they are trying to remove basic supports for the most vulnerable. The Trump administration's war on people with disabilities continues.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 30/03/2026

I love (hate) how every 3 months there's a story about how theres 150 evil white men with insane amounts of $$ who use their influence to ruin everything around us, but we never talk about it bc there's a single mom who wants to buy her kid a cookie with her food stamps and thats what really matters

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/03/2026

Food policing poor families isn't a win for nutrition--it's a loss for dignity and joy. As Brea Perry and I find in our research (see reply), low-income parents buy food treats for their kids because they want their kids to feel happy and normal--and they can't afford to do so in bigger ways.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day. Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Speaking of policy choices: Next week, the House Agriculture Committee will mark up a farm bill that does nothing to address H.R. 1's devastating SNAP cuts as more & more low-income families lose the basic food assistance they need to afford groceries.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/01/2026

And also: don't wait for ICE to arrive to start building unions of care. There are already people who need support in your community. Organizing to help them now means that they'll be better able to help others in the future, and that the union of care will be ready if/when ICE arrives.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It’s precisely those refugees who filed the correct paperwork who are most likely to be targeted by the regime. The fact that their presence is documented makes it easy to use them to fulfill arrest quotas. They ‘Had Done Everything Right.’ ICE Detained Them Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

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They ‘Had Done Everything Right.’ ICE Detained Them Anyway.

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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Evergreen: there has never been and never will be a credible Trump/Congressional GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Many disabled people rely on these services to survive We routinely get price gouged for accessibility Now we’re being actively experimented upon for minmaxing profit & loss Many of us are at mutual aid levels of poverty & they do this Instacart & Skip aren’t luxuries for everyone

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Refusing to fund SNAP is ableism. Cutting Medicaid is ableism. Terminating ACA subsidies is ableism. Slashing affordable housing is ableism. This regime has a very clear eugenics agenda. They’re targeting services they know disabled people rely on to survive. We are not expendable.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The thing that's pissing me off the most is that "getting back SNAP" or backpay doesn't constitute a deal because those things were illegal. Making a "deal" about when and for whom laws exist is not it.

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Julie Cassidy @jc4policy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

All while Trump is actively trying to slash funding for vouchers and destroy the "Housing First" approach--the very strategies at the center of U.S. success in reducing veteran homelessness by more than half since 2009, even achieving functional zero in some communities.

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⚔️KnightHawk🦅 @knighthawk899.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I'm scared because I know this was a litmus test to see how much cruelty they can get away with. If anyone thinks they will stop at SNAP -- you haven't been paying attention. I have special diet requirements that make food pantries untenable. 💙♿

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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Did you know? The US has one of the highest child poverty rates of OECD countries. The average child poverty rate across OECD countries is 12.2% In the US, it’s over 20% It’s partly why many children rely on SNAP High rates of child poverty warrant a national conversation.

OECD Child poverty rate by country

“On average across OECD countries, 12.2% of children live in relative income poverty (Chart CO2.2.A),
but rates differ considerably from country to country. In six OECD countries (Chile, Costa Rica, Israel, Spain,
Türkiye and the United States), more than 20% of children live in relative poverty; rates are particularly high,
at around 30%, in Costa Rica. In 17 other OECD countries (Belgium, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and
Sweden), however, less than 10% of children live in relative income poverty. In Denmark and Finland, the
child relative income poverty rate is only around 4%.”

Source:
https://webfs.oecd.org/els-com/Family_Database/CO_2_2_Child_Poverty.pdf

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Food banks aren’t a substitute for SNAP. Food bank director, Jill Dixon explains that for every meal a food bank provides the SNAP program provides nine. If Republicans don’t negotiate with Democrats to keep SNAP benefits going after the Nov 1 deadline, Americans are going to starve.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Even as the anti-vax lobby erodes public trust, new evidence confirms that "immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza have shown consistent effectiveness & safety and are associated with a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization & severe disease" www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund @dredf.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Today is the #SNAPDayOfAction, and we need you to join us and act now. 42 million Americans are at risk of losing SNAP benefits on Nov 1st. USDA has a contingency fund but hasn't released it. Contact your Members of Congress today.

An illustration promoting the “SNAP Day of Action.” The image shows a green cliff edge with a grocery bag labeled “SNAP” tipping off the side. The text reads: “SNAP Day of Action — Urge policymakers to restore food assistance before SNAP falls off the cliff.” Below the image of the bag, it says in red and blue text: “Take action now before benefits run out in November.” The background is a gradient blue sky.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Nearly 90% of the organizations providing Medicaid-funded community services for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities had staffing shortages this year, according to a trade group for the providers. www.axios.com/2025/10/29/d...

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Disability services staffing squeezed as Medicaid cuts loom

Staffing already is a long-standing problem for disability services providers.

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Jeff Young @youngmindposts.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The Americans receiving the most benefit from SNAP are children, the elderly, and the disabled. Most beneficiaries who signed up for SNAP have jobs. Employers rely on SNAP to subsidize their low wages instead of paying a living wage. Yet the RW continue to blame the poor for being poor.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people?

Does anyone work anymore?"

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

SNAP is a lifeline for food-insecure people and families, and it is also an indirect cash transfer to corporations, who get away with paying poverty wages bc they're able to outsource the social safety net to SNAP and other programs.

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 27/10/2025

I'm really glad to see all the folks stepping up to try to resource the loss of SNAP but also billionaires could just pay taxes.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 26/10/2025

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

"Approximately 339,100 jobs are projected to be lost in 2026, as loss of income forces health care providers & other businesses to reduce their workforces. Slightly less than half of these jobs (154,000) will be health care–related, while the rest (185,000) will be in other sectors of the economy."

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Expiring ACA Premium Tax Credits Could Lead to Nearly 340,000 Jobs Lost Across the U.S. in 2026

Unless Congress acts quickly to extend the enhanced ACA marketplace premium tax credits, nearly 5 million people could lose health insurance coverage in 2026.

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Congress provided SNAP's multi-year contingency reserves for use "in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations." Those funds are now needed to carry out program operations. This isn't rocket science.

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Feral Maui Hermit @mauigreg.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

No one should feel stigmatized for utilizing a food bank. 100% of the stigma belongs to the people who have created a world where food banks are a necessity.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

And if you donate, please donate money (if you can) - food banks get a LOT more bang for your buck. As my friend the ED of a food pantry says: Every $1 you give can provide as many as 3 meals.

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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Women with disabilities are paid only $0.56 for every dollar that a man without disabilities makes. On #DisabledWomensEqualPayDay, America’s unions reaffirm our commitment to fair pay and a living wage for every worker—and a union contract is how we level the playing field!

Centered over a dark green background, capitalized top header text reads “Disabled Women’s Equal Pay Day 2025 October 23” in white and pale green letters. Below is a single dollar bill torn in half, representing how disabled women are paid just over half of what nondisabled men are paid per year.

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Jason Morgan @jasonmorganmi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Congressional Republicans’ Federal Shutdown is now taking food from Michigan families. The MI Dep’t of Health & Human Services issued a letter regarding the federal government's temporary pause on November SNAP benefits. Participants should reach out to their local MDHHS office with questions.

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Despite the shutdown, the Trump Administration has the ability to ensure millions of low-income families can afford groceries next month. If they're not doing so, that is a choice they are making.

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Anna Bailey (she/her) @annakbailey.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

If the Administration follows through with its current plan to let SNAP run out of funding, many affected families will have to choose between paying rent or putting food on the table, putting them at greater risk of #eviction and #homelessness. cbpp.org/press/statem... x.com/ParrottCBPP/...

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Trump Administration Is Legally Required to Provide SNAP in Shutdown, Contrary to Its Claims

Secretary Rollins’ claim that the Trump Administration is unable to deliver November SNAP benefits during a shutdown is unequivocally false. The Administration is legally required to use contingency r...

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

🚨If YOU rely on SNAP, please like this post, and if you could share YOUR story in the replies below.🙏 I'm SO reliant on SNAP as someone on Social Security Disability with a fixed income & have Medicare & Medicaid. We must speak out because we are NOT just a statistic we are FLESH & BLOOD! INHUMANE.

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hand_to_eye @delightw2023.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I am on SSI which is $967 per month. I need SNAP to be able to purchase food under normal circumstances. Currently I have an infection that will require IV antibiotics. Last round of this(only 2 weeks ago) it cost almost $300 in transportation cost. Food or treatment is where I am.

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

food banks have already been under pressure over the past several years, and with SNAP benefits expiring they're going to be the only safety net for a lot of people please donate what you can. $100 can feed several families for a month because of the discounts and purchasing power they have

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/10/2025

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight. Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

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MichLeague.bsky.social @michleague.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

TLDR: In the top 10 Michigan cities with the highest proportion of foreign-born residents, the majority had lower than average property crime and violent crime given both their size and poverty levels. #mileg

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