Tajar
@tajar.bsky.social
Wife, mom, dog-lover. Democrat, atheist, smart-ass. Love to travel. I enjoy giving things away through my local Buy Nothing group, doing crochet projects, puzzles, reading, and genealogy research. David Suchet’s Poirot is my favorite.
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Here we go again
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Here we go again
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🚨 I pledge to NEVER step foot in a Walmart again. If I cannot afford it or find it elsewhere, I do not need it. White people MUST take a stand. This openly hostile contempt for black people cannot be tolerated or dismissed. I am not waiting for a national strike - I am DONE. Who will join me?
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
🚨 I pledge to NEVER step foot in a Walmart again. If I cannot afford it or find it elsewhere, I do not need it. White people MUST take a stand. This openly hostile contempt for black people cannot be tolerated or dismissed. I am not waiting for a national strike - I am DONE. Who will join me?
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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I’m going to venture a guess that the memo sent from the USDA telling states to “undo paying SNAP in full” is a preemptive move by the administration to avoid reimbursing states for funding the program when a lower court finally rules, again, that the benefits must be paid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I’m going to venture a guess that the memo sent from the USDA telling states to “undo paying SNAP in full” is a preemptive move by the administration to avoid reimbursing states for funding the program when a lower court finally rules, again, that the benefits must be paid.
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The USDA and Trump administration issued a memo ordering states to “undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits.” I have never seen an administration work so hard to starve people. Don’t forget your red hats at the food pantry, MAGA.
November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The USDA and Trump administration issued a memo ordering states to “undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits.” I have never seen an administration work so hard to starve people. Don’t forget your red hats at the food pantry, MAGA.
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National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/h...
#SNAP #shutdown #hunger
#SNAP #shutdown #hunger
National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters | CNN
Between January and mid-October 2025, calls to local 211 helplines from people seeking food pantries in their community held steady at nearly 1,000 calls per day.
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/h...
#SNAP #shutdown #hunger
#SNAP #shutdown #hunger
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Thank you to Senator Ron Wyden for letting us know the MAGA Senate Republicans are trying to slide a nationwide abortion ban into the shutdown negotiations.
Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it.
F the patriarchy.
Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it.
F the patriarchy.
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Thank you to Senator Ron Wyden for letting us know the MAGA Senate Republicans are trying to slide a nationwide abortion ban into the shutdown negotiations.
Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it.
F the patriarchy.
Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it.
F the patriarchy.
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November 7, 2025
November 7, 2025
The repercussions from Tuesday’s vote, in which Democratic candidates were victorious across the country, continue to echo.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM
November 7, 2025
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NEW: Trump admin goes to SCOTUS to try and stop order that it pay full SNAP benefits this month
DOJ asks the justices for an order by 9:30 p.m. Friday — as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments, under a court order to finish Friday.
Now at Law Dork:
DOJ asks the justices for an order by 9:30 p.m. Friday — as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments, under a court order to finish Friday.
Now at Law Dork:
Trump admin goes to SCOTUS to try and stop order that it pay full SNAP benefits this month
DOJ asks the justices for an order by 9:30 p.m. Friday — as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments, under a court order to finish Friday.
www.lawdork.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
NEW: Trump admin goes to SCOTUS to try and stop order that it pay full SNAP benefits this month
DOJ asks the justices for an order by 9:30 p.m. Friday — as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments, under a court order to finish Friday.
Now at Law Dork:
DOJ asks the justices for an order by 9:30 p.m. Friday — as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments, under a court order to finish Friday.
Now at Law Dork:
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JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from using furloughed employees’ email accounts to broadcast partisan messages about the shutdown.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from using furloughed employees’ email accounts to broadcast partisan messages about the shutdown.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Since this order was specifically about paying November benefits in full, what happens when we come to December’s benefits, if the shutdown is still ongoing? Another lawsuit to force the government’s hand?
SNAP funds will be paid in full, proving that the USDA was always capable of paying the full November benefit.
Remember that the Trump admin chose to let people go hungry.
They chose not to fund SNAP until a court forced their hand.
They chose cruelty and pain.
Remember that the Trump admin chose to let people go hungry.
They chose not to fund SNAP until a court forced their hand.
They chose cruelty and pain.
BREAKING: The USDA tells states funds will be made available later today to pay November SNAP benefits in full.
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Since this order was specifically about paying November benefits in full, what happens when we come to December’s benefits, if the shutdown is still ongoing? Another lawsuit to force the government’s hand?
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Agree with the comments on the value of human translation. Modern translations from indigenous African languages are very rare; we've been trying to fund three books for over seven months. Looks like we can't get the third book, but I'd really love to get this second book funded for Paivapo Press!
Please, let's fund the translation of Zvinobvinza. It's been a long seven months.
Many thanks to the first cis white man who we see talk about the project.
At this point, we can't translate the third book unless someone can donate $5,000 (reach out directly) but we *can* close up these first two.
Many thanks to the first cis white man who we see talk about the project.
At this point, we can't translate the third book unless someone can donate $5,000 (reach out directly) but we *can* close up these first two.
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project, Funding needed to complete two translations: Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza, still needed: $2970, 70%, ko-fi: African Translation Project
ko-fi.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Agree with the comments on the value of human translation. Modern translations from indigenous African languages are very rare; we've been trying to fund three books for over seven months. Looks like we can't get the third book, but I'd really love to get this second book funded for Paivapo Press!
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oh they got video www.thewrap.com/conde-nast-f...
Watch the Condé Nast Staffers-HR Confrontation That Led to 4 Firings | Exclusive
Footage of Condé Nast unionized employees confronting the company’s head of human resources shows employees who tried to press him on the layoffs this week of several Teen Vogue staffers.
www.thewrap.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
oh they got video www.thewrap.com/conde-nast-f...
“The senators viewed as most likely to vote for a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government are Shaheen, Ossoff and Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.).”
thehill.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“The senators viewed as most likely to vote for a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government are Shaheen, Ossoff and Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.).”
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November 6, 2025
November 6, 2025
“None of this is complicated,” political data specialist Tom Bonier wrote yesterday about Tuesday’s dramatic Democratic victories around the country.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 AM
November 6, 2025
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Trump said he’d be “honored” to release SNAP funds with guidance from the courts.
Today, he got that guidance from Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island, FOR THE SECOND TIME.
And he immediately appealed.
Today, he got that guidance from Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island, FOR THE SECOND TIME.
And he immediately appealed.
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Trump said he’d be “honored” to release SNAP funds with guidance from the courts.
Today, he got that guidance from Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island, FOR THE SECOND TIME.
And he immediately appealed.
Today, he got that guidance from Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island, FOR THE SECOND TIME.
And he immediately appealed.
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Judge McConnell basically walked them through the math, called all their arguments bullshit, and entered the order that the gov't stop playing games with the money while kids go hungry.
Didn't even give the gov't the chance to respond.
Didn't even give the gov't the chance to respond.
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Judge McConnell basically walked them through the math, called all their arguments bullshit, and entered the order that the gov't stop playing games with the money while kids go hungry.
Didn't even give the gov't the chance to respond.
Didn't even give the gov't the chance to respond.
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McConnell orders the government to fully fund SNAP benefits for November immediately via TRO—written order to come.
Any motion for a stay is denied. The Court will stand adjourned.
Wow.
Any motion for a stay is denied. The Court will stand adjourned.
Wow.
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
McConnell orders the government to fully fund SNAP benefits for November immediately via TRO—written order to come.
Any motion for a stay is denied. The Court will stand adjourned.
Wow.
Any motion for a stay is denied. The Court will stand adjourned.
Wow.
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Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
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NEW: “To read it is to spend 48 pages understanding the depth of corruption in the Justice Department in the second Trump administration.”
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and I break down DOJ’s response to James Comey’s vindictive prosecution motion. ⬇️
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and I break down DOJ’s response to James Comey’s vindictive prosecution motion. ⬇️
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
NEW: “To read it is to spend 48 pages understanding the depth of corruption in the Justice Department in the second Trump administration.”
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and I break down DOJ’s response to James Comey’s vindictive prosecution motion. ⬇️
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and I break down DOJ’s response to James Comey’s vindictive prosecution motion. ⬇️
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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Palantir turning into Hydra and running the plot of Captain America: The Winter Soldier on us should be cause enough to get out and vote straight Democrat in VA, NJ and NYC and #YesOn50 tomorrow.
Stop S.H.I.E.L.D, Vote Democrat.
#DemVoice1 #DV1
Stop S.H.I.E.L.D, Vote Democrat.
#DemVoice1 #DV1
November 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Palantir turning into Hydra and running the plot of Captain America: The Winter Soldier on us should be cause enough to get out and vote straight Democrat in VA, NJ and NYC and #YesOn50 tomorrow.
Stop S.H.I.E.L.D, Vote Democrat.
#DemVoice1 #DV1
Stop S.H.I.E.L.D, Vote Democrat.
#DemVoice1 #DV1
More bad news coming soon for folks dependent upon Social Security Disability benefits, unless we speak up about it to try to stop it.
Trump admin weighs major change to Social Security disability benefits
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
More bad news coming soon for folks dependent upon Social Security Disability benefits, unless we speak up about it to try to stop it.
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The Great Gatsby examines how the pursuit of wealth can lead to moral decay. The novel was very prophetic. The Great Depression was soon to happen. Betting that dementia don never read it.
November 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The Great Gatsby examines how the pursuit of wealth can lead to moral decay. The novel was very prophetic. The Great Depression was soon to happen. Betting that dementia don never read it.