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Mariana Chilton

@marianachilton.bsky.social
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Truth teller focused on inequality, poverty, trauma, and racism DrMarianaChilton.com

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 27/07/2026
Two militaries, one monster. The House of Representatives has passed a $1 trillion bill that includes a provision critics say amounts to integrating the U.S. and Israeli militaries. Human rights groups and lawmakers are sounding the alarm as the bill now advances to the Senate. By Carlos Latuff
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Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“This summer, Tisha B’Av seems to be happening to me, whether I was initially aware of it or not when the ‘three weeks of grief’ on the Jewish calendar were set in motion, leading up to the 9th day of the month of Av …” Full post on IG @cindymilstein or kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...
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Attached: 1 image This summer, Tisha B’Av seems to be happening to me, whether I was initially aware of it or not when the “three weeks of grief” on the Jewish calendar were set in motion, leading up...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/06/2026
NEW: On Monday, officials in 25 states and Washington, DC sued Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Dr. Oz over the interim final rule for Medicaid work requirements established by President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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States sue to block Medicaid work requirements
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz's harsh new rules "punish those who cannot fend for themselves,” Democratic officials argue.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0
Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
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Anarchists Without Borders @anarchswoborders.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
War Crime trials.
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Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert
Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
My newest piece on SNAP & moral decrepitude of Trump Admin. contrarian.substack.com/p/the-ugline...
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The ugliness under SNAP’s veil and the beauty of sharing our food
The goodness of people’s hearts and willingness show up for each other is good soil that grows community and builds democracy.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Fantastic piece by Andy Fisher -> Trump’s Pro-Hunger Agenda and the Cruel Logic of Capitalism thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/trumps-pro-h... #FoodInsecurity #Politics #SNAP via @mitpress.bsky.social
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Trump’s Pro-Hunger Agenda and the Cruel Logic of Capitalism
Don’t forget that food insecurity has long been a feature of Republican politics, not a bug.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 10/09/2025
It won’t be a shortage of food, but rather the surplus of political hate & corporate greed that’ll ravage the global food supply as we know it @marianachilton.bsky.social offers a path towards redemption
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Food is not the hunger-ending hero we think it is
The world has enough food. It's who controls the food that's the problem.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Glad NYT finally covering this. One of the most important injustices behind by these illegal firings. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 09/08/2025
🥗 city-owned grocery stores let’s gooo!
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 28/07/2025
🥗 About 12 Million Households Receive Both Medicaid and SNAP. The Reconciliation Bill Puts Them At Risk. Jonathan Schwabish for @urbaninstitute.bsky.social www.urban.org/urban-wire/a...
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About 12 Million Households Receive Both Medicaid and SNAP. The Reconciliation Bill Puts Them At Risk.
Households that rely on both Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are spread throughout the country.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
My first piece with @contrariannews.org Were working with monsters - we need to step it up. substack.com/@contrarian/...
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The Contrarian (@contrarian)
With the passage of the Reconciliation Act, Republicans gutted a lifeline for millions while boosting corporate profits. @Mariana Chilton warns the real monster here is an insatiable hunger for power ...
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Glad to see NYT piece like this from a genocide scholar. Finally. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
ICYMI: “Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social has filed a bill to ban law enforcement officers in Tennessee, including ICE, from wearing masks while making arrests (and ID themselves) — the “Stop American Gestapo Act” www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
McGovern: Listen to this quote from Murkowski who just caved and voted for this. "My hope is that the house is going to look at this and recognize we are not there yet."  If you really believe that, why the hell did you vote for the bill?
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Thorough, fantastic article about abuse of power and overreach of trauma specialists & CPS
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Truthout @truthout.org · 29/06/2025
The bill bars agents from wearing facial coverings during enforcement unless medically necessary or required for safety.
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Rep. Velázquez Touts Bill to Unmask ICE Agents During Rally at NYC Field Office
The bill bars agents from wearing facial coverings during enforcement unless medically necessary or required for safety.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Great piece- plz read it. Heartbreaking, heart rending. Let's keep up the fight for trans rights. Gift article from New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
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Opinion | My Daughter Was at the Center of the Supreme Court Case on Trans Care. Our Hearts Are Broken.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Rumpus admin carries out yet another betrayal of tribal govts. in Pacific northwest. Destroys a "deal" 10 yrs in the making to return water/salmon rights. Gift article here. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...
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Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Low-income families could lose food assistance entirely if their state can’t afford new #SNAP cost-sharing rules proposed in the Senate Agriculture Committee’s reconciliation proposal. See how states could be impacted: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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Research Note: Senate Republican Leaders’ Proposal Risks Deep Cuts to Food Assistance, Some States Ending SNAP Entirely | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
States, which must balance their budgets every year, would struggle to absorb these substantial new costs.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Outstanding piece. Damning & grief filled. Touches the deepest places in me, as I try to stay human and loving. Plz read whole thing.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Fantastic analysis of massive inequalities in global economies, w. Policy recommendations for change wid.world/news-article...
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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality Database
In a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Big thanks to Chris Costanzo for the very careful & tender read of Painful Truth— and to @fooddatanerd.com for sharing! ❤️
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The gut punch news of how cuts in nutrition assistance programs and local buying programs affect farmers who grow good food. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...
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A Peach and Apple Farmer’s Uphill Quest to Feed Poor Families, and His Own
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
It's overwhelming, unbearable. And yet, the people who say they work on hunger in US are silent. I'll be coming back into the fray. I just need a little more time to get my lungs & vocal chords back. Meantime, plz read. Gift article The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/w...
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In Emaciated Children, Gaza’s Hunger Is Laid Bare
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Sad for this news. I admire his humility and integrity. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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José Mujica, Leftist President of Uruguay Known for Humility, Dies at 89
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
People. This violence & indifference is intentional -- how is it that we allow it? The same way we allow "milder" forms of child hunger. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: Children Suffer From Malnutrition as Israel’s Blockade of Gaza Continues
It has been over 60 days since Israel ordered a halt to all humanitarian aid entering Gaza. Israel says the siege will continue until Hamas releases all of its hostages.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Tough read of the truth: mondoweiss.net/2025/03/four...
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Four reasons why Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is being accepted by the world
Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank is being accepted by the international community because it has already allowed genocide in Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinians since 1...
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Good overview of the purge and its consequences. www.thenation.com/authors/greg...
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Gregg Gonsalves
Gregg Gonsalves is The Nation’s public health correspondent and codirector of the Global Health Justice Partnership and an associate professor of
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Brilliant analysis and warning. Listen to the whole thing.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Brilliant essay by Siddhartha Mukherjee on the dangers of privatization of public health infrastructure. We're careening toward disaster if we don't intervene. Here's the "gift" link. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
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Opinion | Covid’s Deadliest Effect Took Five Years to Appear (Gift Article)
What once belonged to all of us now belongs to corporations.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Greatest speech i've heard in a LONG time - Thank you, Chris Hedges. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Pn...
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Chris Hedges FULL SPEECH at Workers Strike Back Conference
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Americans want universal healthcare, not a colony on Mars. And don’t tell me it’s about “innovation.” Making sure every American has housing, food, and healthcare is innovation, too.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Thanks for calling it! The ugly truth comes out when ppl are under pressure.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.
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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org
Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Another in a long line of distressing fires. The CFPB protected all of us from predatory lending, bilking, extortion & other forms of extractive capitalism. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/b...
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Trump Administration Fires Consumer Bureau Chief Rohit Chopra (Gift Article)
Rohit Chopra, who led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was known for his aggressive enforcement and expansion of consumer protection laws.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Just got word my interview has been posted by dear friends in Vancouver, BC Canada Such a deep conversation with Ian Marcuse www.vancouverfoodjustice.ca/latest-news/...
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Interview with Mariana Chilton, Author of The Painful Truth About Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know and Start Again — Vancouver Food Justice Coalition
Thank you for talking with me today. Your new book The Painful Truth About Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know and Start Again has helped clarify my thinking and is a cr...
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Please pay attention people - How Tyranny Begins It began many years ago, & will only get worse if we don't resist. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | How Tyranny Begins
Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The best news - finally
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Good perspective on prison labor & firefighting. Deeply distressing.
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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
It's US publication day for my new book, Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Off-Wh...
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Off-White
Why can't we talk about antisemitism? 'I cannot wait for Off-White to be read, debated and put into practice.' Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger ...
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 15/01/2025
🥗 #guaranteedincome
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Visited @powells.bsky.social in search of two books. Found them both. Been looking for Sacco's book for weeks & needed mine last minute. Wish more bookstores were like Powell's. I could live there.
picture of two books, Painful truth about hunger in America by Mariana Chilton and War on Gaza by Joe Sacco on a paper bag from Powell's City of Books
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Big thanks to MIT Press for believing in this project!
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Check it out: The Cruel Reality of Public Assistance Programs thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cruel-re... #Food #Politics #SocialJustice via @mitpress.bsky.social
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The Cruel Reality of Public Assistance Programs
I tried to overhaul a system meant to help people in need, but it was designed to fail.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Check out an except from my book: Painful Truth about Hunger in America. Plz me know what you think! thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cruel-re...
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The Cruel Reality of Public Assistance Programs
I tried to overhaul a system meant to help people in need, but it was designed to fail.
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Mariana Chilton @marianachilton.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The “Page 99” test is mind blowing. I invite you to page 99 of my book— lots going on there. Take a peak👀 americareads.blogspot.com/2025/01/pg-9...
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Pg. 99: Mariana Chilton's "The Painful Truth about Hunger in America"
Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know--and Start Again b...
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