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SNAP benefits the economy, too. Local independent grocery stores WILL be affected:
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NGA Statement on SNAP Funding - National Grocers Association

Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Grocers Association (NGA), the trade association representing the independent supermarket industry, issued the

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November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦

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Every country gets one voice. And we’re listening.

October 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · Aug 30

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

Tweet from Stuart Stevens:

When Democrats take the House, they must understand they are not a governing party.
They are a dissident movement.
Act like it.
First day:
- cut off all funding of Exec. Branch
-vote to nationalize Starlink and SpaceX
-defund ICE
That's the first day.
On the second, get more aggressive.
There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos.

September 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Calais, ME #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

Calais, ME #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day · May Day Strong

**Labor and community are planning more than a barbecue on Labor Day this year because we have to stop the billionaire takeover.** Billionaires are converting the government into their private slush f...

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August 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM

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The incident drew criticism Wednesday from Vermont’s Republican Gov. Phil Scott, who said at his weekly press conference that “we should be ashamed that we’ve come to this level.”
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Tufts graduate student was held in Vermont after arrest in Massachusetts by immigration agents, feds say - VTDigger

After detaining Rümeysa Öztürk at ICE’s field office in St. Albans the night of March 25, court filings show, ICE officials placed her on a flight out of the airport in Burlington.

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April 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM

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Rewriting the software for Social Security will never happen in three months. They'll destroy the system and tell us all how bad it was. This guy on Facebook nailed it.
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March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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'As democracy dies in America, it won't be in darkness. It will be within our sight and with our permission.’

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March 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM

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The FDIC's goal is to prevent another banking crisis. It's now also a Trump target

President Trump's sweeping cuts to the federal government are also threatening a key banking watchdog.

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March 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM

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Do you live near the Canadian border? Trump's new tariffs will affect border crossings.

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Trump's tariffs could make sending a package or crossing the border costlier — and more complicated | CBC News

It could get more complicated — and potentially more expensive — for Canadians to cross the border or send packages to the United States, if President Donald Trump's executive order on tariffs goes in...

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February 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM

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The shreds of this song have been rattling around in my head for days, and I've just now remembered: Ship of Fool by World Party - 1986. They updated the video in 2018.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzY...