More than a million children across the US have lost access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) food benefits since Congress approved the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025, according to a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). The analysis found that more than 4 millions Americans were removed from Snap from July 2025 to March 2026, marking a significant decline in participation in the federal food assistance program. Read more
The ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is demanding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement explain why it has purchased commercial spyware capable of covertly taking control of phones as well as collecting messages, photographs, location information and other personal data.
Maine Democrats choose the replacement. fairvote.org He wasn't the people second choice. The people don't get to pick who they want. Read more
Brazil has reportedly rejected visa applications from two officials associated with the Trump administration, who had intended to travel to the South American nation with the stated aim of casting doubt on the integrity of its electoral system. Two Brazilian officials with direct knowledge of the matter informed Reuters on Saturday. These officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity given the delicate nature of the situation, indicated that the US initiative was perceived as an attempt to influence Brazil's forthcoming October presidential election.
As water shot into an open stock tank atop a high country mesa, a trickle soaked the dusty earth below. Scott Snyder rose from the shade to fasten a hose and stop the spillage. "It's just so much work. I hate dropping any of it," said Snyder, who operates Mex and Sons Ranch near Montrose, Colorado, with his family. It took eight trips in three vehicles over nine hours in sweltering heat before the 800 cow-calf pairs finally had enough water to make it through to the next day -- maybe two.
Approximately 10% of the world's nitrogen based fertilizer comes through the Persian Gulf That supply line has been severed. We have already lost a crop yield. We have already lost a growing season with reduced fertilizer. This damaged to this growing season was slightly prevented by use of alternative fertilizers and the limited stockpiles The next growing season-September to November will see a major reduction in output. It is inevitable. The world lives on a "just in time" model of razor thin margins for food supply to the most vulnerable places on earth. Countries that were food poor even before this war relied heavily on donated food. The coming crop yield will be significantly lower meaning famine. This damage is unavoidable at this point. But the real harm comes in 2027 when these losses multiply. Keep in mind that the alternative fertilizer processes say for phosphorus based fertilizer uses sulfur which comes from LNG processing.
The "crystal-like substance" the FBI found inside the van of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo " the 52-year-old who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Houston earlier this month " was not an illicit drug, according to U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, the Harris County District Attorney's Office and a lawyer representing Salgado Araujo's brother. "We can now confirm that the substance found in Lorenzo Salgado's van was not a narcotic or any other illicit substance," Garcia said on social media, without revealing the source of the information. "As his family has said all along, this was an electrolyte powder to stay hydrated working outside in the hot Texas summer. The attempt to cast a shadow over Lorenzo Salgado's name has failed." Read more
ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, a sadist responsible for the deaths of 75,000 Palestinians in Gaza, over 1,000 in the West Bank since 7 Oct 2023, the desecration of Christian sites in Israel and Lebanon, and blundering America into a super-costly quagmire war against Iran, will be again despoiling America with his sulfuric presence. Next week the rakshasa leading the Pariah nation will confer with Dummkopf Trumpf at the White House and pretend to pay his respects to the late Islamophobe Lindsey Graham (R) -- a vicious warmonger who should be lying in state at the Washington Zoo -- not the US Capitol rotunda.
"Genocide Joe" and AIPAC didn't like this ICC indictment against "Bibi." Tough.Read more
South African-born mega-oligarch Felon Musk sniveled in an interview that the "far right" he supports are "normal people." The world's worst person puled: "No, I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely. Literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years and these policies were completely normal."
Felon Musk is instrumental in causing race riots in the UK
Colt Gray (16) pleaded guilty to all 55 counts of murder and aggravated assault for killing two people and wounding two in September 2024. Like an Israeli soldier shooting defenseless Palestinians in Gaza, so too did Colt Gray when he opened fire on defenseless students and teachers at Apalachee High School with an AR-15 assault rifle. At sentencing, this malpariso faces life imprisonment.
Colin Gray was found guilty of murder and faces 100 years in prison for idiotically giving his son the AR-15
For the title link I chose some earlier Pink Floyd. After their soundtrack excursions of the late 60's and very early 70's ..
... Any Colour You Like / Video taken from Set The Control For The Heart Of The Sun and Careful With That Axe, Eugene at Brighton Live at Brighton Dome, 29-06-1972 ...So ... what tunes are popping up on your playlists this evening?
President Donald Trump's criticism of Senate Majority Leader John Thune over the stalled SAVE America Act escalated Thursday, with the White House warning that the president's "patience is running out" as Republican leaders struggle to advance the controversial voting legislation before lawmakers leave in August for recess. Read more
Washington " President Trump on Friday ordered federal officials to install signs outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History that correct what he says is "inaccurate" information presented by the institution about American history.
Mr. Trump's directive cited a 162-page White House report released on July 4 that accused the museum of adopting "an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens."
Donald Trump is reportedly in 'revenge mode' concerning Iran, believing that military force is the only way to deal with its leadership, as the US military continues its 13th consecutive day of strikes. A senior administration official indicated that the US president is losing patience and sees few good options beyond continuing military action against Iran.
On May 30, 1990, New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio signed a ban on assault weapons into law, making good on one of his campaign promises and giving New Jersey some of the strictest gun regulations in the country. Thirty-six years later, that law has been left in tatters by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled last week that the Second Amendment disallows the state's prohibitions on semi-automatic rifles and magazines with over 10 rounds of ammunition.
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows has a previously unknown Global Device ID (GDID), a permanent, unique digital identifier assigned to Windows devices that can tie a user's actions to their device.
