Patients are telling medical provi- ders how hungry they are these daze. That’s due to Repub TwHgru- mpfla-kon MAGAh "punish the poor" ekonomik policies as direckt results of their #BETRAYALs BILL. The wirse is yet to cum.

Future Funding Cuts: The1 "Big Beautiful Bill Act" (HR1) is xpeck- ted to reduce fed'l fundings for SNAP *significantly, with deep cuts* prohjeckted thru 2028 & b'- yond.

Impending Deep Cuts: Fed'l propo- sals aim to cut nearly $1trill fm Medicaide nationwide, with Florida facing ah potential $4BILL reduck- tion in fundings over the nxt de- cade.

Round 72% of Floridians are strug- gling mor since Trump took offc with grocery costs cumpared toah yr ahgo. In sum areas, food banks are seein ah "nu norm'l" where de- mand fer food bank help has trip- led, ah trend that hasn't subsided since the pandemic.

Food banks are facing dwindling donaytions ahlongside rising de- mands. Fed'l funding cuts hav re- moved over $30mill in supprt for purchasing food fm local Florida farmers wich is simultaneously hurting their bottom lines while the citiznry needs aswell.

Itall #boilsdwnto that white Ameri- ca whantsto rid itself of anythg not white but also incldg sum certin type whites inthe POC category, in their minds, that supprt the POC communitys (like myself). Primari- ly cawse they mistakngly b'lieve that non-whites are ah drain on the countrys money/resources. +then they get to ahschur no possbilitys of evahavin tahpay any reparay -tions! Why they allsuddn startin wars 2. Whoyah think they sendin to the front lines when the time cumZ? Ai8nt ghonebe bone- schpurZ, no sir!

Xample....... I'm goin on 80 & am startin to xperience car parts fati- guin sortah progressive aging issues not yet qwite cawsin me to suffah beIN non-ambulahtori but they're serious enuf that I've blak- 'dout & bn hospitalized. They've seen toit I've ah kane & ah walker wich ido use cawse I've bal probs. They authorized me to recv meals- on-whls since bout ah yr ahgo.

Now wat I'm leadin upto is that I've noticed changes in both quantity & quality ofthe meals fm when it 1st startd to recently. I think they're havin budget probs. I'm not cum- plainin ofcourse but i mention this as 1sthand xperiences of the re- sults ofthe budget cuts i referto abv.

See the medikl profession now practuces keepin us olde folkes in our ahbodes longer now cawse itz cheaper thatway than ah facility s'long as they determine ukin stil take kare of yurself wich I'm fortu- nate cawse ican do so. Tho they don't trust me tah use the stove anymor. They remotely monitor me frequently via various ways. Havtah say they doah purtygud job @it 2. ThkG*d fer microwave ovens & frozn foods.

 

 

 

Henry Rollins isn’t known for pulling punches — and this time, his target is Donald Trump’s understanding of power itself.

Rollins breaks down why the presidency isn’t a game of “checkers” but “three-dimensional chess”—especially when you command the world’s most lethal military. His warning about what that responsibility means (and what happens when a president doesn’t grasp it) is biting, measured, and deeply serious.

This isn’t about partisanship, it’s about the weight of sending others to war.

 

 

Today, with the latest military attack, I feel overcome by grief and rage. So much of the world is dominated by autocrats heading up violent militaries, imperialist invaders seizing land, oilfields, water supply; militias hounding ethnic minorities, expelling people to concentration camps (whatever they call them); slaughtering at will, bombing apartment buildings and tents; destroying orchards and forests.

These men are in power by the rationales of patriarchy and racism, the supremacy of wealth, dominations upheld by oligarchic power, sold with nationalist and extremist religious myths. "I am your retribution." "Kill Amalek." "Restore the Caliphate." "Counterinsurgency." Greater Russia, Greater Israel, the Donroe Doctrine. Stoking fear and ethnic hatred to impose authoritarian force, and enact a surveillance society. Democracy in name only, authoritarian suppression of basic human rights.

Dominant men at the helm of a top dog social hierarchy, the wealthy few ruling over the many, but purporting to be for the people. Who are lured by the promise of Number One by proxy. Plenty bought into it; some are now seeing the real cost to their own families as the wealth is being looted. Under these regimes, though, you don't get to change your mind, or get a re-do. These top dogs do not hesitate to use force.

Institutionally, there has been little effective opposition, and too much compliance. In the US, Schumer and Jeffries slow-walked a bill affirming the power of Congress to declare war. Both parties enthusiastically funded and supplied the genocide in Gaza. Cheatocrat defies the Constitution and federal court orders with impunity, backed up by Rs in Congress, even some Ds. He is openly plotting to suborn the vote by multiple means, including disenfranchising married women who took husbands' names, and kneecapping vote-by-mail by allowing the Post Office not to postmark on time, or even to deliver mail. They're also floating forcing everyone to re-register, with notaries.

Misogyny and racism shape the agenda, along with naked greed and open self-dealing that no one seems able to stop. They've installed a new normal of wall-to-wall corruption and open repression of basic rights.

The main thing we have going for us is that people are standing up, like Minneapolis has done, LA and Portland. Several purchases of huge plants scheduled for ICE concentration camps have been shut down, and the same goes for water-and-power-sucking data centers.

People are already in the streets against the bombing of Iran—and it's not because they like the ayatollahs. Maybe 40,000 Iranians lost their lives in the streets, calling for their overthrow. An Iranian friend told me the other day, people there don't want the Pahlavi dynasty to return, but that's probably who Trump and Netanyahu want to install.

Everything is churning now. Best not to lose our heads. But I had to vent. Things could be so different on our beautiful planet, with thriving forests in the Amazon and orangutan habitat in Papua, boreal forests instead of tar sands desolation. With funding going to medical research, disabled support services, and child care instead of the gargantuan military industrial complex. These things can happen, but not while women's leadership and rights are scorned, and Indigenous rights are trampled.

Our challenge to build a just and cooperative society will have to start at the grassroots. It's not coming from the top.

 

It amazes me how quickly money appears when it’s for war, billionaires, or corporate bailouts.

But when it comes to healthcare for families, helping the homeless, feeding the poor, or taking care of people who are struggling… suddenly the money is gone.

The truth is, it’s not that the money isn’t there.

It’s that the priorities are wrong.

I hope more people are starting to see what’s happening.