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Rachel Maddow

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Trump suspends shipments of produce and poultry to US food banks:

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

Food Banks Left in the Lurch as U.S.D.A. Shipments Are Suspended

A representative of a nationwide food pantry network, said U.S.D.A. officials had informed him that some food aid distributed by the federal government was under review.

www.nytimes.com

March 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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Rachel Maddow

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www.texastribune.org/2025/03/21/t...

March 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM

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Rachel Maddow

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Wait. What??

Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · Mar 21

BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.

March 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM

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Rachel Maddow

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · Mar 22

Martin O'Malley, former Social Security commissioner, says he believes the Trump administration has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to crater Social Security.

March 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM

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notthatjd.bsky.social

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March 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM

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Jeff Tiedrich

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the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed

March 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM

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Krassensteins

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❤️BREAKING❤️ - Bernie Sanders before 20k People in Tucson:

"They have the wealth. They have all the money in the world. They have the power. They have the media. But you know what they don’t have? We’ve got 20,000 people here in Tucson and we got 100's of millions of people all across this country."