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Nicole Snark @nicokow.bsky.social · 1d

“We cannot food bank our way out of this.”

Congressman Greg Landsman @repgreglandsman.bsky.social · 1d

Tens of thousands of people in SW Ohio won’t get their food assistance on Saturday, forcing local pantries to try and fill the gap.

Trump has the money to fix this, but he’s just choosing not to. It’s awful.
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

Greater Cincinnati food banks are already strained as thousands face SNAP loss

"We cannot food bank our way out of this situation," said Kurt Reiber, CEO of Freestore Foodbank. SNAP benefits could end Nov. 1.

www.cincinnati.com

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originalcynicus.bsky.social @originalcynicus.bsky.social · 23h

Food bank is to no SNAP benefits as state effort is to no FEMA. When you put something on a local level that only worked (barely) on the Federal level, you have not reduced it. You have ended it.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 22h

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 22h

Let’s talk about race…No not that one. But also that one

Part 1:

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Heather J Malloy @heatherjmalloy.bsky.social · 1d

Right now my town is rallying around: restaurants providing free meals, residents donating to local food pantries, etc. but the kicker is that the *vast* majority of my town voted for the ppl causing the pain. And they just cannot make that connection.

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Stephen K @5tephenk.bsky.social · 1d

Being a Republican in 2025 means loving yourself, your family and maybe your friends, but at best not caring about anyone who doesn't act, look and think exactly like them, and at worst actively hating them and wishing ill on them.

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Not Sure @snake-lloyd-wright.bsky.social · 1d

I’d say the fundamental belief that even the best most kind-hearted Trump voters share, that underlies their entire politics, is that people who are not like them should not have any power, whether they are the majority or not.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, they can be kind, generous, and loving - to the people they recognize as human, who they see as fellow human beings deserving of goodness.

For the rest of us, they have only spite, hatred, cruelty, and an abiding joy in seeing our suffering.

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 1d

I'd say that you can find good in many people who voted for Trump, but you won't find it in their reasons for voting for Trump or in their ideas about politics.

I know Trump voters who can be kind and generous and loving. If you ask why they voted for Trump they'll give you misinfo and bigotry.

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Umar Ditta @umarditta.bsky.social · 7h

Reskeet if you think you can beat up Michael Myers.

Either one is fine.

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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 16h

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
- Marcel Proust.

Wishing you a golden evening and an excellent start to
Friday. 💛

#ColorADay #YellowThu

#ThankfulThursday

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling

Four yellow roses in a cluster and green leaves.

Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

September 2025. From a neighborhood walk.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

Even when people point out that there are more white people on welfare...

They might not realize how right they are.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

It's the unattractive Oregoners and the 3-toothed MAGA Mississippians and the Minnesota congressman complaining about free lunch and complaining about the welfare state and championing capitalism.

America has ALWAYS BEEN a welfare state...

For white people.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

Those WIC vouchers that you demonize, purchase the products that white farmers produce.

Who's getting the government assistance here?

It's the 5th-generation farmer in alabama are the "welfare queens."
It's the people living in their grandpappy's house bought with a GI bill

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

Welfare is why the average white household has 9x more wealth than the average white family.

When the govt started giving out mortgages and building whites-only suburbs after WW2, it worked.

Welfare did that

Conversely, there hasn't been a SECOND that Black homeownership reached 50%

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

According to the federal government, about 1-in-3 Americans are descended from Homesteaders. Black people didn't get that welfare...

In 1910, Black people owned 14 million acres. Today, it's 1.1 million

White farmers are still getting all the welfare.

USDA Data: Nearly All Pandemic Bailout Funds Went to White Farmers

Nearly all of the billions of dollars in federal farm bailouts to offset the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic went to white farmers, newly revealed Department of Agriculture data show.

www.ewg.org

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

Now the fact that the average billionaire pays a 4-6% lower tax rate than the average American could be considered welfare.

Or that corporations received $275 billion in subsidies between 2018-2022

Or fossil fuel companies getting $31 BILLION in subsidies/yr

But not me. I BELIEVE in welfare.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

But white farmers were still making those subsidized dairy products.

So in the 1970s the y created WIC so you could give that shit to babies. In the 80s, Ronald Regan found a way to get rid of all of that surplus buried underground:

Behold, government cheese

The Secret Life of Government Cheese - Offrange

Deep in Missouri caves, millions of pounds of cheese reveal how federal dairy policies shaped our diets, food aid, and ideas of government waste.

ambrook.com

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

But we were still buying up all this cheese and other BS. So in the 1940s, the USDA came up with a brilliant marketing plan:

1. They taught kids the "basic food groups" – stuff white farmers produced (to be fair, I might die without butter)

2. Congress passed a law REQUIRING schools to serve milk

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

Technically, Krystals started the boom in 1932 but they served sandwiches and sodas and even chicken. But before the price of beef fell, hamburgers were a novelty. And NO ONE put cheese on them.

But thanks to government subsidies, we got the Big Mac

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

They had so much beef, sugar & dairy products, the government built refrigerated underground bunkers to store the cheese. They were regulating the price of beef and milk which created an entirely new industry:

Fast food.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

This was also the beginning of farm subsidies. The USDA gave farmers money to mechanize farms & bought everything they produced. They bought so much dairy products, the government set milk prices. So even farmers who DON'T sell to the govt. technically get government assistance.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

But it wasn't just homebuyers. Many of the all-white suburbs were built on land cleared by New Deal workers and used utilities paid for by New Deal projects that essentially employed any white worker who needed a paycheck. It created a new economic category they called "the middle class."

Welfare

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

But how was a bank or a mortgage lender supposed to know if negroes were around?

The used color-coded maps of approved neighborhoods. While housing segregation existed before "Redlining," the US GOVERNMENT certified the racist idea that Black people existing devalued home values

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

After the Great Depression, FDR created the biggest welfare program in history. It guaranteed low-interest loans to purchase homes. Then it gave developers low interest guaranteed loans to BUILD the homes in areas that became known as "suburbs." There was one catch

No Black people

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16h

We know 40 Acres & a Mule, but what about the 80 acres?

After the Civil War, Congress took 46 million acres that was re-re-repossessed from Natives to be given to freedmen and Union veterans in 80-acre parcels. It SPECIFICALLY excluded Confederates

Guess who got it?

The welfare Kings.

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