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River Blackearth
@riverblackearth.bsky.social
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The waters that wash salt to the sea. The whisper of leaves unfolding. A planet awake and aware. PhD student in Environmental Studies. Writer. Scholar. Womanist killjoy. Alchemist. Owl. Dark as night. Black as pitch.
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I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.
Still, more than 7-in-10 U.S. adults have been a victim of an online scam or attack like credit card fraud, ransomware or online shopping scams. www.pewresearch.org/...
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Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground in Oklahoma. It has bubbled up near homes and a school — and it has killed farmers’ crops and ranchers’ calves.

Help ProPublica and @readfrontier.bsky.social understand the full scale of the problem 👇
Help Us Report on the Impact of Oil Field Waste in Oklahoma
Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground in Oklahoma. For years, residents have filed complaints and struggled to find solutions. We need your help to understand the full scale...
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Then he mumbled something about great cake in Africa.
Trump says US troops could be on the ground in Nigeria and says, "they're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria, and they have other countries also. You know that. That part of the world. Very bad. They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. Not gonna allow that"
The Trump flags are tattered now.
Q: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?"

Trump: "No. I think they haven't gone far enough”
Also, who are “they?“ Black people sure knew.
Misogyny and racism are baked into the program— and that’s why they’re using the program to force themselves on everyone.
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Cruelty is always the point.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
This is a hostage situation.
The cruelty and abuse are the point.
They want Americans to be scared, desperate, sick, hungry, and angry enough to hate each other so that they can use our divisions against us.
The suffering is targeted and intentional.

Resist.
Meanwhile USDA Sec Rollins is trying to change the subject —the subject being Trump's decision to withhold food aid from 40M people—by claiming the admin is focused on rooting out SNAP fraud.
To be fair, no one can fraudulently receive benefits if no one receives benefits, period
LMFAO!
This is how I'm going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts
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In the past month, a serial child rapist has murdered 100 people in the Caribbean, destroyed the East Wing of the White House, neutralized our Congress, & stolen food from 20% of American children.

We pay him, house him, drive him, fly him, and pay for his bodyguards.

Call your reps
202-224-3121
God sees all, Mike. Even your search terms.
Well, actually, sometimes you’re going to need to write “me and my wife.” 😊😉
Congratulations!!
He can’t give them away because they’re for sale.
This is how I'm going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts.
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This is what the 3rd term business is all about; he must stay in power at all costs or he risks his personal freedom & that of his children. He's constructing a golden cage for himself, with an iron wing for the rest of us, & is desperately trying to complete it & lock the door before we realize it.
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If you don't know the Manny Deli's story, they're offering a family meal to Chicago SNAP card holders during the crisis - and now we can help with the cost t.co/WQACF82yL5
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And I cannot even get into how many people in our community are here because they or their parents or grandparents were being hunted and terrorized in Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia & the Soviet Union.

They know what this is. They know it's happening here.