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Friday, March 14, 2025

The Agriculture Department has terminated two landmark programs that helped schools and food banks buy food from local farms, withdrawing over $1 billion in funding

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The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from nearby farms and ranchers. Roughly $660 million that schools and child care facilities were counting on to purchase food has been canceled. This will hurt both kids and small, local farmers.

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-- Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) March 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM

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A nice twofer here. Another economic blow to farmers (how's that FO phase going?) while also sticking it to poor people, especially kids.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-11 09:16 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Well, we finally discovered Trumpf's true athletic ability: He can kill two birds with one stone.

https://www.evilenglish.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kill-two-birds-with-one-stone.jpg

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-11 09:25 AM | Reply

How many farmer suicides is the noxious orange pedo going to cause this time around?

www.forbes.com

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-11 02:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#3 Sure there will be pain, but that is the price he is willing to pay.

All these midwestern hicks voting for the leopard to eat their faces.

Tax cuts for billionaires have to be paid for somehow.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-03-12 12:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"According to Politico"

More garbage posted by the fake DR who flipped burgers during a global "pandemic"

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-12 05:02 PM | Reply

"Let my people starve!"
-Donald Moses Trump

#6 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-03-14 11:52 AM | Reply

More garbage posted by the fake DR who flipped burgers during a global "pandemic"

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Someday you'll get promoted to fries and then maybe, with a lot of hard work, you can make it up to flipping burgers. Maybe. But probably not.

#7 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-03-14 11:53 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"the fake DR who flipped burgers"

The fake doctor was an essential worker, while you sat on your ass doing nothing.

Definitely something you would be proud of.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-14 11:59 AM | Reply

---- Local Farmers!
---- Hungry Students Too!
--Republicans

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-14 12:01 PM | Reply

More garbage posted by the fake DR who flipped burgers during a global "pandemic"

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds

More garbage from the idiot who can't remember basic facts, let alone accurately paraphrase or communicate them.

You are literally wrong about everything all the time. F*&^ off and find a hole to disappear in to.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-14 01:20 PM | Reply

#3 I was wondering about the general increase in suicides under a Trumpf regime. Now I see farmers are offing themselves too. The GOP is a death cult, killing Americans directly or indirectly.

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-14 01:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

------- magat scum, ---- you

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-03-14 01:40 PM | Reply

It was my observation during the short period of time I spent in front of a classroom, how hard it was for hungry kids to concentrate, let alone retain the basic knowledge being proffered. Then again, perhaps that was the plan all along.

#13 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-03-14 04:40 PM | Reply

Sorry kids, no breakfast or lunch today. Billionaires needed tax relief because their tax burden was driving them into poverty. I hope Elon croaks!

#14 | Posted by danni at 2025-03-15 09:44 AM | Reply

Benzinga via Politico reports as posted by a LWN on bsky.social. If only there was a Rolling Stones link, leaving no room for doubt. Karma Danni (SM6+ lately) keeping Karma employed one post at a time. Life is good!

#15 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-03-15 09:58 AM | Reply

"Benzinga via Politico reports as posted by a LWN on bsky.social."

Y'all are the reason ammo is so expensive.
Y'all keep shooting the messenger.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-15 10:03 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Sweet Florida! Ammo tax-free days will be here soon enough to overstock the supply. Life is good.

#17 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-03-15 10:06 AM | Reply

because thats what a real Christian wants, more ammo and less food for kids.

#18 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-03-15 10:33 AM | Reply

Hey magat scum how does this benefit you?

#19 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-03-15 10:51 AM | Reply

Sweet Florida! Ammo tax-free days will be here soon enough to overstock the supply. Life is good.
#17 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-03-15 10:06 AM

What a sick response to denying children food.

Not one bit of sympathy.

#20 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-03-15 02:33 PM | Reply

Personally I hope Gracie has a stroke and dies gurgling in a pool of her own retched feces. Like, on Tuesday.

#21 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-15 04:50 PM | Reply

Personally I hope Gracie has a stroke and dies gurgling in a pool of her own retched feces. Like, on Tuesday.

#21 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

Me too. What kind of sick bitch celebrates how wonderful everything is around her after reading an article about food banks and food programs and public schools maybe not being able to feed people who are hungry? Just a contemptible piece of ----.

#22 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-03-15 05:01 PM | Reply

The cruelty is the point, it would appear. I confess there are times when I become so gobsmacked by the thoughtless offal posted here, that my trusty ol' thesaurus completely fails me. It's a shame we can no longer use "colorful" adjectives to insure our responses have their intended purpose. Starving kids to get tax-free ammo? How about a rather emphatically-displayed Hawaiian Good Luck Sign, harridan? I've got one for you in my other hand as well.

#23 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-03-15 06:35 PM | Reply

@#23 ... The cruelty is the point, it would appear. ...

imo, cruelty is not the end result being sought after.

A [imagined?] reduction of Federal expenditures as a justification for more tax cuts for the uber-wealthy and big corporations seems to be one of the end results desired.


#24 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-15 07:30 PM | Reply

Lamp...I was referring more to Xanthippe's response re:#17, but you are right on the nose as well.

#25 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-03-15 07:43 PM | Reply

Domestic Enemy Hat
@kenwhite.bsky.social

A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It's like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity.

Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.

#26 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-15 11:10 PM | Reply

@#26 ... A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. ...

imo, it is similar to MAGA being unable to say, "we are all Americans."

Pres Trump has divided this great Country to the point that he has his followers ascribing "enemy" to those who disagree with him.

How will that build American Excellence going forward?

#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-15 11:28 PM | Reply

Pres Trump has divided this great Country to the point that he has his followers ascribing "enemy" to those who disagree with him.

Oh, it's about to get a lot worse. Deportations and arrests lie ahead for those who are bold enough to disagree with him publicly:

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
Pam Bondi: "If you're gonna touch a Tesla, go to a dealership, do anything, you better watch out, because we're coming after you."
bsky.app

I agree protesters shouldn't damage Teslas, but if it's okay to protest outside of a Planned Parenthoods, I think you should be able to protest outside a Tesla dealership, but we know that's not what's going to happen:

Soon after taking office for a second time, President Donald Trump pardoned anti-abortion activists who had blockaded and restricted access to the entrance of a reproductive health clinic in Washington, D.C., in October 2020.

These protesters were convicted of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Protesting outside clinics is a way for conservative anti-abortion activists to directly influence access to reproductive health care.

The FACE Act prohibits the use of force or threat toward people trying to obtain or provide reproductive health services. It was created to limit the anti-abortion movement's tactics outside clinics, requiring that protesters cannot physically stop patients from walking into clinics and receiving care.

In Trump's second term, the Justice Department has said that it will not prosecute demonstrators unless there are "extraordinary circumstances" or in cases involving "significant aggravating factors" such as "death, serious bodily harm, or serious property damage."

theconversation.com

#28 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-15 11:34 PM | Reply

@#28 ... but if it's okay to protest outside of a Planned Parenthoods, I think you should be able to protest outside a Tesla dealership ...

Yup.

#29 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-15 11:52 PM | Reply

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