KitKat, Gatorade or granola bars? What’s banned under new SNAP rules is mixed. Many GOP states are enacting soda and candy bans for food stamp purchases amid MAHA’s healthy food efforts. Some retailers and SNAP users find the new rules complicated.

Across the country, retailers and low-income Americans are facing complex new rules overhauling what millions of people can buy with food stamps.

whatever happened to maduro?

“Good neighbor” policy?

Deaths in ICE custody by country of origin (by fiscal year between Sept 2018 and Jan 2026): Mexico (22); Honduras (12); Guatemala (10); Nicaragua (8); Cuba (6)

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According to @nilc.org In 2023, undocumented immigrants paid $89.8B in taxes, w/higher effective rates than some of the richest Americans and major corps (Tesla/Exxon). July 2025 was the 1st time IRS shared 40,000 family addresses with DHS, expanding the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.

When you pay your taxes this year, remember: Thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, many huge corporations will pay little to nothing in federal taxes.

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Iran tops the list with a projected 55.9% surge, far above global average(3.2%)
#2 Argentina (33.2%)
#3 Türkiye (25.1%)

*Malawi, Nigeria, Angola, Zambia, and Ethiopia all rank among the highest projected increases, underscoring ongoing food vulnerability in the region.

Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

I think we are far beyond the point where a serious person can plausibly claim that the immigration courts are offering a fair adjudication consistent with foundational principles of the American legal tradition. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

That’s about as close as a Pope ever comes to flipping someone off

it says so much about us that our allies are Hungary and Russia and not Western Democracies

there are so many of these posts by these shitbags

S.F. ethnic studies courses linked to higher grades, UC eligibility, study finds Taking a year-long ethnic studies course could be helping San Francisco high school students earn better grades and exam scores, according to a newly released study.

Taking a year-long ethnic studies course could be helping San Francisco high school students earn better grades and exam scores, according to a newly released study.

Iran Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

Whoever is playing the @ucriverside.bsky.social belltower carillon today is 🔥

Over 125 Years Ago, a Chinese-American Won Birthright Citizenship For All. Why Is the Supreme Court Re-Litigating It? The text of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause is fairly unambiguous.

I wrote about how the unlikely combination of the son of Chinese immigrants and one of the most racist Supreme Courts ever already settled the issue of birthright citizenship over a century ago for @teenvogue.com

Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request to Congress

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF.

“The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.

More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump admin shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data.

That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.

Empirically, today sucks hot balls...

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into

The cases declined include over 1,000 terrorism cases, nearly 5,000 federal drug law violations, and over 900 federal program fraud.

Trump’s DOJ is letting actual criminals off the hook — all to break up families and terrorize communities.

Before the 14th Amendment, the Bill of Rights restrained only the federal govt, and "protected almost no one"

By applying the Bill of Rights to the states, the 14th gave those amendments "the powerful role they play today. And we owe this monumental amendment to the self-assertion of Black people"

The Count of Monte Cristo Sam Claflin and Jeremy Irons star in this bold new TV adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ iconic French novel airing on MASTERPIECE on PBS, Sundays at 10/9c.

PBS Masterpiece Theatre production of The Count of Monte Cristo embodies all the pettiness that I aspire to attain. www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterp...

The call is coming from inside the house.

DHS internal watchdog launches investigation into handling of contracts under Noem, Lewandowski | CNN Politics The Department of Homeland Security inspector general has launched a sprawling investigation into how contracts have been solicited and handled, including the involvement of former Secretary Kristi No...

The DHS inspector general has launched a sprawling investigation into how contracts have been solicited and handled, including the involvement of former Secretary Kristi Noem and her de facto chief of staff Corey Lewandowski, according to two sources familiar with the probe.

White Supremacy in Donald Trump’s White House The administration’s crude vilification of anti-discrimination policies is meant to erase the radical promise of the Black freedom struggle.

I wrote about white supremacy in the White House for the new issue of Hammer&Hope...

This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. See the problem here?

Article I, section 7, clause 1

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law

But sure, go ahead.

Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.

Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

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