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Ernest Hemingway's three words on how bankruptcy occurs also applies to how democracy is lost: "Gradually, then suddenly."

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 8h
"The [US] issued sanctions on the [ICC] Friday, just hours after Trump lost the Nobel Peace Prize to one of the institution’s former judges." That's absurd. You can't lose a prize you were never in the running for. And the sanctions? Motivated by pure spite. newrepublic.com/post/216480/...
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Trump Sanctions ICC Hours After Losing Nobel Prize to Former Judge
The Trump administration announced sanctions on the International Criminal Court at quite the moment.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 8h
"There is nothing noble about a public display of a government-sanctioned execution. With this decision, the Trump [regime] continues to undermine our national values. Our current leaders are shameless and ignoble. They have no sense of dignity or honor." shorturl.at/ormsx
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Admiral McRaven: Public Execution Is Shameless and Ignoble
A government livestream of Nidal Hasan’s killing would put America in extremely poor company.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 8h
“I will be so much alone that I’m starting to talk to myself. That is healthy, to talk to myself when I’m alone this much.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Steffen Skjottelvik's Journey Across Canada Came to a Tragic End (Gift Article)
For three years and 750 miles, Steffen Skjottelvik lived a life of adventure. Until the adventure took his life.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 15h
Bari Weiss News reports on a Trump announced "energy ceasefire" Zelensky has no knowledge of and Putin has not agreed to. This is Trump, eternally shouting "fake news," seeking a positive headline with no apparent grounding in reality. And Bari gave it to him. www.cbsnews.com/news/zelensk...
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Trump announces Russia-Ukraine "energy ceasefire" after calling for Zelenskyy's replacement
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia alone is responsible for the war in Ukraine, after President Trump said he should be replaced.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 16h
'The president initially said the deployment was “not nearly long enough.” Members of the Administration as high as the Secretary of Defense went so far as to say the families were lying about the severity of the conditions.' The regime lied not the families. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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Good News: The USS Abraham Lincoln Is Finally Home!
After 321 days at sea, the sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln are finally holding their families.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 17h
The assassination of Rabin in 1995 by a right wing Israeli extremist ended the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and Netanyahu and his unhinged coalition have killed just about everything else including AIPAC's standing & trajectory perhaps especially among Dems & American Jews. shorturl.at/x3n85
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Opinion | AIPAC Has Failed (Gift Article)
There remains an opportunity for the group to play a positive and honest role in American politics.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Super Intelligence (SI) label Harrumph is trying to mandate as a replacement for the vastly more accurate, and cautionary, AI should be resisted as rigorously as the regime's other absurd attempts to change nomenclature for self-dealing reasons. Do not cave to his campaign. shorturl.at/VKWUQ
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AI Is Not 'Super Intelligence.' Why No One Should Use Trump's Term - CNET
Commentary: Words evolve based on public use and technical precision, not because a president orders people to adopt them.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If she were running for town idiot she'd win hands down.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mike Rogers' yacht has a yacht.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump's Revenge Tour Continues...
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He throws a tarp over whatever displeases him - and for the most part nothing has stopped him, not the law, not specific statutes he willfully ignores or breaks, and not the courts whose orders he routinely defies. Until Nov. 3, though his minions have put the mechanisms to steal the vote in place.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The Trump [regime] wants to join regimes like Iran and Afghanistan in making public executions spectacles. It’s eager to follow the example of terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS in livestreaming them." Normalizing what is gruesome is the MAGA calling card. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Hegseth Wants You to Watch a Snuff Film
Neo-fascism as spectacles of violence.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If everybody always lies to you,” [Hannah Arendt] said in a 1974 interview, “the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer... And with such a people you can then do what you please.” Quoted by A.K. in this superb piece.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh, and this.... "The Trump [regime] has spent the last year and a half defying traditional free market orthodoxy by buying pieces of American companies. The government now owns roughly 10% of Intel. It owns about 15% of the rare earth miner MP Materials. And a 'golden share' of US Steel..."
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Socialism, according to the second-highest official in the land, is immigration and transgender athletes. Nonsense. Utter nonsense... Ironically, [JD] Vance couldn’t give the real definition because it describes his own preferred economic theory." open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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JD Vance Couldn't Define Socialism. Because the Real Answer Would Have Been a Confession.
A movement that stopped caring what words mean was always going to end up here.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He makes Joe Isuzu look like Honest Abe.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
By Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt: Inscribed on the base is a satirical pledge attributed to “The King of Injustice.” It reads: “I am sitting on the back of a man. He is sinking under my burden. I will do anything to help him. Except stepping down from his back.” On Jeff Tiedrich's substack.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This wretched attempt to deploy any means, including extralegal, to corrupt and steal an election conducted freely and fairly with statistically meaningless voter fraud (other than theirs) and to do it in the name of "election integrity." Tip of the iceberg. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal
It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And for all we know Trump's "advisers"/cronies are in on it: Put this insanely unthinkably reckless endangerment in his ear. Knowing it would wind up emerging from his orotund rictus.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“What she went through should never happen to anyone again,” Trump posted on Truth Social at the time. “Just think of it, she caught the Democrats cheating, and they put her in jail for Voter Fraud.” She was convicted and imprisoned. No matter to Governor Polis. newrepublic.com/post/216252/...
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Trump Meets With Convicted Election Denier to Go Over Midterm Plans
Donald Trump met with Tina Peters at the White House—again.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“San Diego is not collateral damage,” San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria posted. “We are not expendable. And we are never a ‘small price to pay.’ Keep our city out of your reckless war talk.” Trump made the remarks during a rambling speech...." Is there any other kind @ The Unhinged? shorturl.at/mWKgL
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Trump suggests letting Iran 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego at campaign rally
Trump made the remarks during a rambling speech in which he said gas prices would be lower soon, touted his ouster of Venezuela’s dictator, and made attacks on news outlets.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The revelation that Turkey has some of the world’s worst landfill methane leaks comes at an awkward time: in Nov. the country will host the UN global climate summit, Cop31, and has put cutting methane emissions at the top of the action agenda it wants all nations to agree on." shorturl.at/cWdte
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Revealed: the methane mega-leaks from UN climate summit host Turkey
Exclusive: Cop31 leader calling for global curbs on climate-heating gas has landfills producing some of world’s worst plumes
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For those who like it spicy, how about a primordial breakfast of champions composed of quark-gluon plasma (though likely to be a bit too hot). If the data is confirmed, the cosmic kitchen cooked it up in the first few milliseconds after the Big Bang. shorturl.at/JCkMU
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Particle collider experiment recreates the Big Bang's primordial soup — and finds an unexpected twist
A particle collider experiment just revealed something unexpected about how the fiery soup of particles that filled the universe after the Big Bang coalesced into the protons and neutrons that make up...
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Testosterone doesn’t produce courage, and it certainly doesn’t tell you what someone will do with fear. But facts and reality may not matter. After all, in Hegseth’s military, enlistment probably comes with a personal trainer." frankgeorge8675309.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
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Pete Hegseth And The Trifecta Of Stupid
Watch now (15 mins) | Military doctrine. Psychological theory. Biology facts. Why bother with complicated shit when you can just build a warrior?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’d love to see Jack Smith appointed Attorney General by the next Democratic president! 🇺🇸💙
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Simple: The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Colorado Supreme Court ruling in the case Trump v. Anderson on March 4, 2024, in which even the three liberal justices went along with the Roberts court despite their "dissenting concurrences." That foul decision went against the plain text of A 14.3.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He might as well be describing himself when detailing what might persuade him to run: "If a bunch of goobers run, and I think they’re goobers and one of the goobers might win, and I think I could do a better job, I would consider running." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Sen. John Kennedy says he’s considering running for president
The Louisiana Republican said he has not yet made a decision and that right now he’s planning on running for re-election in 2028.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"These are the words of a demented fascist. I use that description precisely, accurately and purposefully. I am describing the political meaning of his words, the enemies he manufactures, and the submission he demands." steveschmidt.substack.com/p/once-and-f...
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Once and for all
Trump threatens to defeat his fellow Americans permanently
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The perfectly squalid emblem of Cadet Bonespurs, a semi-sentience incapable of self-reflection.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"It’s like we built a hydrogen bomb, then entrusted Gordon Gekko to make a profit off it and Barney Fife to monitor him. What could go wrong?" newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Trump Personifies the Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
How a 50-year-old treatise by an Italian economic historian makes sense of our utterly senseless moment
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Erick Erickson has spent years tolerating Trumpism but now reacts with horror at neo-Nazis in the movement." How about those people in Kīlauea, Hawaii, who build their homes right next to an active volcano and then wonder why they have lava in the living room? ~ George Carlin shorturl.at/jxKyC
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The Right’s Identity Politics Take a Bizarre Turn
MAGA activists are having a meltdown over a throwaway character in Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s political ad.
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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#via Canadian cartoonist Dave Whamond #CanadaSky #USpol
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An Independent running against Blackburn is most welcome. My choice (not that I have a vote there) remains Jerri Green.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"I am perfectly fine! No one is mentally sounder than I am. No one is less racist than I am. I am the truth, the light and the way. "
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Conflicts of interest based on predatory faux diplomats? Say it ain't so. The business model of this regime is founded on indissoluble conflicts of interest and profiteering through illegal self-dealing. And its normalization including by legacy media. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"John Roberts, standing amid the wreckage [of the Supreme Court] with the solemn expression of a man who believes the fire department’s principal responsibility is to protect the arsonists from embarrassment. Apparently, the scandal is that we found out." steveschmidt.substack.com/p/start-with...
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Start with the mirror, Sam
The last desperate card for MAGA senators facing defeat and repudiation is the Supreme Court.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'When Senator Richard Blumenthal asked Patel to confirm that FBI staff would not be physically present at polling sites, he responded: “I don’t know that we can’t legally do it.”' You don't but we do, Kash. The FBI is hemorrhaging agents loyal to their oath. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Is There Anything Kash Patel Won’t Do for Trump Before the Midterms?
“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.”
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Trump’s visit to the Dayton area is part of what he says will be a 32-day marathon of rallies to try to convince the public that the economy is better than they think." The algae bloom of mendacity's message: Don't believe your lying eyes and lost paychecks. apnews.com/article/trum...
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And Russian asset.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"So the man ran a full threat assessment on his family’s future and concluded that a Pride banner on a lamppost was more dangerous than a country feeding men into artillery fire by the tens of thousands. Bold call. Let’s see how it played out." deanblundell.substack.com/p/canadian-w...
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Canadian Who Moved His Family Of 10 To Russia To “Get Away From The Gays” Now Being Refused Residency Unless He Joins Russian Military in Ukraine.
Arend Feenstra, Like American Derek Huffman, is about to become worm food in Ukraine because he didn’t want his kids to be exposed to “woke” homosexuality in Canada. Oh, Well.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Kennedy continues to make the same false or misleading statements about the risks of common childhood vaccines that he has been making for decades." The quack was recently "the keynote speaker at the anti-vaccine Children’s Health Defense conference." Jr. founded that group. shorturl.at/Xwe2r
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Opinion | Kennedy Keeps Finding New Ways to Undermine Trust in Vaccines (Gift Article)
Four are dead in Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak. But the C.D.C. isn’t yet convinced.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Surely the Pentagon has seen strange sights, but seldom anything like the testosterone-besotted, fascisty-tinged clown show put on by the former weekend Fox News host who now runs the US military." charliesykes.substack.com/p/day-one-im...
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Day One: Impeach Pete Hegseth
“No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos.” But Musk.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“As a public defender, I’ve met a few too many people who were wrongfully convicted on death row who were later exonerated. As governor, I would put a moratorium on all future executions. If we say we are pro-life, that means we must be anti-death penalty.” Jerri Green shorturl.at/rNrEh
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The Moral Clarity of Tennessee Gubernatorial Candidate Jerri Green
Even before her state botched another execution, gubernatorial candidate Jerri Green was telling Tennesseans that “the death penalty has always been inhumane, expensive, and biased.”
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“There are always people who profit from war or government policies. The difference is that the people profiting should not be the people making the decisions to make that policy. And that is what is happening here.” Cynthia Brown, chief ethics counsel for CREW. newrepublic.com/post/216117/...
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Bombshell Report Exposes Jared Kushner’s Ties to Company Backing IDF
Kushner, who has been tasked with negotiating peace in Gaza, has a huge financial stake in one of the biggest backers of the Israeli military.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cornered by their own lies, supercharged hypocrisy and endless gaslighting.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'Ironically, Brooke Rollins, who heads the USDA, credits the drop in SNAP to a “better economy.” But food insecurity researchers and public health experts say that doesn’t match with the data: in fact, unemployment rates have remained fairly stagnant while food costs have gone up.'
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Since H.R.1 passed in July 2025, an estimated 5 million people, including 1.5 million children, have lost SNAP benefits, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research and policy institute." Yet the USDA gaslights this. bittmanproject.substack.com/p/food-stamp...
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Food Stamp Catastrophe
In the wealthiest country on earth, we are experiencing a human-made nutrition crisis.
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