What are your best #poverty meals and tips and tricks? 🍚🫘
*Boosts appreciated*
With the loss of #foodassistance for over 42 million USians, difficult times are ahead. If you don't rely on #SNAP, it will put an overwhelming and potentially insurmountable strain on people you know and care about.
169,812 people in #Maine will not receive #SNAP benefits for November.
Let me say that again.
169,812 people won't be able to afford to buy food in November in Maine.
Maine has a population < 1.5M
Not just Maine, but 42 million people across *all* states will lose SNAP benefits during the #shutdown while they all watch the president building a personal ballroom.
#fascism #antifascist
[Edit: lowball estimate adjusted to the exact number of people who won't receive Maine SNAP benefits. Clarified that 42 million people will lose SNAP benefits in all states.]
Who should I be following on #fedi lately?
(Boosts appreciated)
I'd appreciate some help finding more people to follow-- tags below give a sense of who I'm looking to follow-- is this you or anyone you think I should be following?
Despite following almost 650 people over the last few years, my timeline feels increasingly empty and stale lately, a ghost town compared to a year ago or more, and I'm looking at refreshing things a bit. A lot of people have left the platform or are (understandably) afraid to post so much, especially due to the chilling effect of rising #fascism. But I'm still here, still posting. Still writing my #radical shit. Still trying to read and engage with others.
#trans #anarchist #antifascist #leftist #queer #resist #intro #introduction
We could have cities bathed in pink and purple neon light, painted in the sounds of synth, where we walk sharing our joints in friendship and love, with neon blue lighting up the ramen-ya where we drink and scheme, we could live between twilight and dawn in the ecstasy of light rain and living dreams.
But instead, we spend our waking moments to build this
*gestures to a world on fire*
In any context, you can choose to welcome only nazis or no nazis at all. There's no mixed company when among nazis.
