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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Evergreen: there has never been and never will be a credible Trump/Congressional GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.
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
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.
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.
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.
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. 💙♿
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
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.
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.
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. 🧵
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....
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people? Does anyone work anymore?"
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
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.
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.
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.
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
"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."
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.
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.
