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Actor Jeff Bridges slammed the Trump administration for weaponizing the SNAP benefits of 42 million Americans to force Democrats to approve its cruel agenda — in one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
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What makes us feel "fight or flight" may be less adrenaline and more of something else—a hormone that seeps out of our bones.

Learn more on #Halloween: https://scim.ag/4hDR7sw
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Here’s your Halloween treat — some hope on your feed
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Because the Trump administration refuses to tap the $5 billion contingency fund for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), thousands of food deliveries have been canceled — and 84 million pounds of food will go to waste.
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This is the country we’ve become under the Trump administration.
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Rev. David Black is speaking out after ICE agents shot him in the head with a pepper ball during a peaceful protest in Chicago in September: ‘If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, mothers, and elders, what are they doing to our neighbors in detention?’
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Trump and Republicans in Congress are willing to let 16 million kids in America go hungry to make a political point.

Disgusting.

Mr. President: Release the SNAP emergency funds that Congress appropriated.
Bernie to Trump: Obey the Law, Release SNAP Emergency Funds
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker slammed the federal government’s move to shut down SNAP EBT systems, effectively blocking access to all food benefits for nearly 1.9 million people starting November 1.
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Mutual aid pods are small, peer-led groups built on trust, solidarity, and collective resistance. Each circle, usually 4 to 20 people, comes together regularly to support one another, share resources, and take action. joinapod.org
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To understand how plants coordinate defense strategies against herbivore attacks, researchers studied potato plants attacked by leafminers.

In a new #ScienceAdvances study, they report that a gene called SWEET11 plays a key role in potato plants’ tissue-specific defense. https://scim.ag/3L8Cv8p
Tissue-specific regulation of a sugar transporter mediates both resistance and tolerance responses to attack from a leafminer in potato
Potato plants differentially regulate SWEET11 in sink and source leaves, which mediates two distinct responses to herbivory.
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Republicans do not have their priorities right.

They need to end the shutdown and meet with Democrats at the negotiating table to cancel the cuts, lower the costs, and save health care.
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Despite Trump’s ‘send them home’ campaign, he’s holding more people in detention — and for longer. Could it be because some of his donors include private prison companies that profit from these detentions?