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Brenda Methlie 📎

@bkmethlie.bsky.social

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Blue dot in a red state. Wife. Teacher. Murderino. Cubbies & Cyclones fan. Prone to rambling to myself in French. Will choose reading over doing dishes every single time. Give me a Cane Corso & I’ll never ask for anything ever again. The DMV or bust!

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 4h

Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 5h

This isn’t very hard, folks.

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Brenda Methlie 📎 @bkmethlie.bsky.social · 4h

ICE/DHS giving Fox access to what’s described as a set up just to have footage circulating on conservative social media to boast about ICE dealing forcefully w/protesters is next level fascist propaganda shit.

Story behind the story…WTFs going on in detention centers?? Human rights nightmares!

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Brian Cook @2ndadminstate.bsky.social · 10h

I think the appropriate response from states is, “Your request violates federal and state laws. If you want it, come and get it, or bring suit to recover the funds. In the meantime, at least we help the citizens we are obliged to help & we actually pay our civil servants for the hard work they do.”

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

The US Department of Agriculture has ordered that "states must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025".

USDA
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
DATE:
November 8, 2025
SUBJECT: Updated Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
November Benefit Issuance
TO:
Regional Directors
SNAP Division
All Regions
SNAP State Agency Directors
All State Agencies
This memorandum is a follow up to the guidance shared on October 10, October 24, November 4, November 5, and November 7, 2025, regarding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for November 2025.
The U.S. Supreme Court granted the U.S. Department of Agriculture an administrative stay of the orders issued by the District Court of Rhode Island in Rhode Island State Council of Churches, et al. v. Rollins, 25-cv-569. Pending any explicit direction to the contrary from Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), States must not transmit full benefit issuance files to EBT processors. Instead, States must continue to process and load the partial issuance files that reflect the 35 percent reduction of maximum allotments detailed in the November 5 guidance.
To the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized. Accordingly, States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025. Please advise the appropriate FNS Regional Office representative of steps taken to correct any actions taken that do not comply with this memorandum.
Per 7 CFR 271.7(h), failure to comply with this memorandum may result in USDA taking various actions, including cancellation of the Federal share of State administrative costs and holding States liable for any overissuances that result from the noncompliance.

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jtickel STAND WITH UKRAINE @tickedoff.bsky.social · 4h

slotkin gallegos klobuchar smith schumer kelly are names we know are considering CAVING FOR NOTHING

will not be forgotten

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

The man who called out war dead "suckers and losers" is indeed pure trash, and the fact that pretends to support the military is the most disgraceful thing ever.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 4h

And the voting begins.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

Flood the phones:
(202) 224-3121

Tell Chuck Schumer to grow a spine and hold the line…

There should be no deal that leaves working families behind.

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 1d

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 6h

The president of the United States is on his way to an NFL game after a weekend spent partying at his country club and fighting to starve poor Americans.

And Senate Democrats want to surrender to him?!

Fuck that and fuck them.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 1d

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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 1d

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20h

Folks this is not a candid shot of the man at 11PM on a weekend, this is what he was doing while sitting in the middle of an internationally broadcast major press conference in the Oval Office

He is cooked, get him out of there ASAP—before we find ourselves in the midst of a second Great Depression

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Who benefits from 50 year mortgages: banks, developers, realtors, estate lawyers.

Who gets screwed: everyone else.

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Angie @angieispissed.bsky.social · 2d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 2d

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Blue Turquoise @bluet-urquoise.bsky.social · 1d

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 1d

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IQuitX @nothappy-1.bsky.social · 1d

In Indiana, they have a stand your ground law. So when a 4'11" Guatemalan cleaning lady came to the wrong door with mop and bucket in hand, a terrified man legally shot her through the door, ending her life. A similar incident happened to a young black teen. It never happens to white people. Weird.

Husband of Indiana woman shot dead after going to wrong house said 'they tore everything from me'

Maria Florinda Rios Perez, 32, was killed after she went to the wrong address for a house-cleaning appointment; her family wants the person responsible to face justice.

www.nbcnews.com

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❀𝕀𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕊𝕡𝕚𝕜𝕖𝕪𝕞𝕒𝕞𝕒❀ @irmaspikeymama.bsky.social · 2d

I can't believe I have to post this, but in these uncertain times, it's better to be prepared.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Do you remember when the White House had good taste?

Back when the art had meaning, the rooms had soul, and the President had both.

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