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Source: Unaihuiziphotography / Getty The effects of the monthlong government shutdown have gone from mostly affecting federal workers to upending the lives of the most vulnerable Americans. While partial Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits may be distributed as soon as this week, thousands of parents nationwide are scrambling to find childcare as Head Start programs shutter due to a lack of funding.  According to CBS News, there are 65,000 […]

Source: Boston Globe / Getty Last week, not one, but two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to use the government’s contingency funds to continue the funding of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) amid the ongoing government shutdown, ruling against the White House’s previous claim that those funds couldn’t be used for SNAP. Days later, the administration that hates poor people and loves convincing other poor people to hate […]

Source: Turkey Leg Hut / General Lynn Price, the former owner of Houston’s once-popular Turkey Leg Hut, has been indicted on three federal firearms charges: one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, and two counts of a felon in possession of a firearm. According to court documents, the statute of limitations and the nature of the alleged offenses carry potentially decades of prison time […]

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Source: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Getty Here’s a question: Why can’t these white people just leave the Obamas alone? Come Jan. 20, 2026, it will have been a full decade since Barack and Michelle Obama occupied the White House for eight years, and neither Trump, his followers, right-wing media talking heads, nor the current president’s stooges in the MAGA-fied GOP have gotten over it. Earlier this week, Bobbie Coleman, the chairperson […]

Source: Tom Williams / Getty The speed at which the Department of Justice (DOJ) has become deeply unserious would be impressive if it weren’t deeply unsettling. Any pretense that the DOJ operates independently of the executive branch has been completely eradicated as the department has spent much of this year prosecuting President Donald Trump’s political rivals and clearing house of anyone who doesn’t fall in line with the president’s ideology.  […]

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Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty In a move that can only be filed under “disappointed, but not surprised,” the Trump administration has reinstalled a toppled statue of a Confederate general in Washington, D.C.  According to NBC News, protesters used a rope to topple the statue of Gen. Albert Pike amid the racial uprisings in June 2020. The statue was defaced with spray paint, doused in lighter fluid, and set ablaze, […]

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