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The Guardian<\/em> reporter MICHAEL SAINATO <\/strong>spoke with Katie Giede, a single mother from Conyers, Georgia, who, despite her job at a fast-food chain, depends on SNAP to feed her family.<\/a> She worries that those who rely on the program are \u201calready not eating enough, so we\u2019re going to lose lives over this. It\u2019s those of us at the bottom that are really feeling it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his analysis The Hunger Games Begin,<\/a> PAUL KRUGMAN<\/strong> outlines who will be hit hardest by the impending cut-off. Among SNAP recipients, \u201c40 percent are children; 18 percent are elderly; 11 percent are disabled.\u201d And like Katie Giede, \u201ca majority of recipients who are capable of working do<\/em> work. They are the working poor: their jobs just don\u2019t pay enough, or offer sufficiently stable employment, to make ends meet without aid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The loss of SNAP funding will also have serious ripple effects on local economies, small businesses, and farmers. As ELENA PERRY, MONICA CARRILLO-CASAS<\/strong>, and THOMAS CLOUSE <\/strong>report in The Spokesman-Review<\/em>, \u2018A sad reality\u2019: Food banks, grocery stores, residents expect to feel the strain from impending SNAP benefit expirations.<\/a> David Gilbert<\/strong> looks at how right-wing influencers use racist AI slop videos to spread falsehoods about SNAP recipients in No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n There are potential stopgap solutions, such as using SNAP\u2019s emergency contingency fund or exercising presidential transfer authority to continue payments even during the shutdown. But the administration and Republican politicians have rejected those options. SARAH FORTINSKY <\/strong>reports in The Hill<\/em> that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson claims \u201ccontingency funds are not \u2018legally available\u2019 to cover benefits during the shutdown.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Republicans have attempted to shift blame onto Democrats for refusing to \u201ccompromise,\u201d but ERIC BERGER<\/strong> points out in The Guardian<\/em> that this framing is misleading. \u201cWhile Republicans have sought to blame Democrats for the potential loss in benefits that people who make little money rely on, those who work in the food-insecurity space say that is misleading because Donald Trump\u2019s \u2018One Big Beautiful Bill Act\u2019 already eliminated almost $187 billion in funding for SNAP through 2034<\/a>, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration also took steps to obscure the true scope of hunger in the United States. BETH SHAPIRO <\/strong>writes in her article America\u2019s Hunger Crisis Is Growing. We\u2019re Choosing to Look Away<\/a> that \u201clast month, the Trump Administration canceled the USDA\u2019s annual Household Food Security Report\u2014the only national data source that measures hunger by age, disability status, and household composition. For the first time in 30 years, America will no longer track hunger nationwide. Without that data, millions of older adults \u2026 will vanish from view as the social safety net continues to collapse around them.\u201d The troublesome truth is that the United States with over 10% of Americans living with food insecurity, has the sad record of ranking among the countries with the highest percentage in the industrialized world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the start of the second Trump term, it has been ordinary citizens who have fought back against the administration\u2019s actions. Once relied upon to uphold and defend democratic principles, the elite and numerous institutions have surrendered, rolled over and contributed to eroding fundamental rights and undermining the rule of law. In its place, Americans across the country have stepped forward and are not afraid to protest and exercise their rights, even at the risk of facing severe consequences. Many have paid a steep price for their defiance, facing violence, arrests, or even detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Demcast<\/strong> and Jennifer Canter<\/strong> met with \u201cordinary people in forgotten places\u201d in: How Americans Are Blocking Trump\u2019s Militia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n \u201cIf convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face \u201cdecades of prison time\u201d. Andrew Lee<\/strong> portrays attendees at a July 4th<\/sup> noise demo in Texas who are facing charges for \u201cproviding material support to terrorists\u201d in These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump\u2019s War Against \u201cAntifa\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Continuing its weaponization of judicial power to crush dissent, the Trump administration has indicted progressive Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh<\/a> along with 5 other\u00a0individuals for protesting near an ICE facility outside of Chicago report Lisa Rubin<\/strong> and Brandy Zadrozny<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How an innocuous Facebook post landed a man in jail. Liliana Segura<\/strong> on The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme<\/a>. Larry Bushart had been jailed for more than a month. The charges were only dropped on Wednesday. THIS WEEK IN… HUNGER IN AMERICA In the richest country on earth, more than 40 million Americans rely on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation\u2019s largest anti-hunger program, to be able to purchase food each month. 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CALLUM SUTHERLAND<\/strong>, writing for TIME<\/em>, headlines his article: A Man-Made Disaster: Food Banks and Experts Issue Grave Warning as SNAP Benefits Set to Run Out Amid Government Shutdown.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cWhile the media continues to ignore and even mock Trump\u2019s war on \u201cAntifa\u201d terrorism as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly interrogating protesters\u201d writes Ken Klippenstein<\/strong>. He tells the story of protesters who are being detained for exercising their First Amendment rights. Among them Chicago-based English professor Elias Cepeda<\/a> who was arrested for speech federal authorities considered \u201cpro-Antifa\u201d and special-needs teacher Miles Serafini<\/a> who was targeted and questioned by the FBI even though he had not been charged with any crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"