Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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"Donald Trump has completely lost it. He’s not only planning to go to war with Venezuela — to manufacture a crisis that gives him cover to implement Project 2025 and stay in power forever — but he’s also preparing to go to war with America itself. Plans are on the table to unleash the National Guard on cities like Chicago and Portland," Parnas wrote. "And make no mistake, folks: none of this is about the safety or security of our country. It’s all part of Trump’s authoritarian playbook — an orchestrated campaign of chaos designed for one purpose only: to cement himself in power for good."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-lost-it-ex-insider-flags
-evidence-president-prepping-to-stay-in-power-forever/ar-AA1M3eU5
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New report outlines how many people might lose SNAP in Greater Boston under Trump bill
About 7% of Boston-area SNAP recipients are at risk of losing their food assistance thanks to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
By Morgan Rousseau | September 7, 2025 | 8:47 AM
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/09/07/new-report-outlines-
how-many-people-might-lose-snap-in-greater-boston-under-trump-bill/
A new report from a Boston research center sheds light on how the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill will affect people who rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in Greater Boston.
https://www.bostonindicators.org/article-pages/2025/september/mtm-snap
About 40,000 adult SNAP recipients are at risk of losing their food assistance due to the new federal law, according to the Meeting the Moment: SNAP Cuts and the Local Fallout report released Tuesday by Boston Indicator, a research center at the nonprofit Boston Foundation. That figure translates to roughly 7% of adults who use SNAP in the Boston area.
Researchers also found that about 9,600 legally present immigrants in Massachusetts may now lose SNAP eligibility under the new rules.
The sweeping bill includes cuts and reforms to safety-net programs, including SNAP and Medicaid, and tightens work and eligibility requirements. While the bill provides tax benefits to higher-income households, opponents say it unfairly targets lower-income families who will be forced to struggle more with health coverage and food assistance.
The report states that as of July 2025, Greater Boston accounted for 56 percent of Massachusetts’ SNAP caseload—361,473 cases and 578,686 clients.
The largest concentrations are in cities such as Lawrence and Brockton, where more than one-third of residents rely on SNAP benefits. Residents of Lowell, Lynn, Chelsea, Randolph, Wareham, Methuen, and Haverhill also heavily rely on food assistance, with between 22 and 28 percent of people in those cities receiving benefits.
In Boston, approximately 21 percent of the population, or 138,523 clients, rely on SNAP benefits.
“In a state as wealthy as Massachusetts, no one should go hungry,” researchers wrote in the report. “Yet even here, many families struggle to afford healthy food. For decades, [SNAP] has helped close that gap. But the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ recently passed by Congress and signed by President Trump risks undercutting progress we have made in reducing food insecurity in Massachusetts.”
Researchers said the new rules will shift SNAP administrative costs to the state, forcing Massachusetts to cover 75% of SNAP administration costs—up from 50%. This would have resulted in an additional $58 million in fiscal year 2025, increasing total state costs to $175 million, according to the report.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I am against Trumptards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Why are you always against America?
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
No.
You're against America. You're against Americans.
And we're about to fucking annihilate you.
Tick tock.
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Last week Bessent published an article titled “The Fed’s ‘Gain of Function’ Monetary Policy” in the Wall Street Journal. Here is how it begins:
As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they can’t easily be put back. The “extraordinary” monetary-policy tools unleashed after the 2008 financial crisis have similarly transformed the Federal Reserve’s policy regime, with unpredictable consequences.
The vileness is right there in the headline and the first sentence. It’s immaterial whether you believe that Covid was caused by a lab leak or by natural viral infection from animals. The point is that Bessent began his article by pandering to the conspiracy-theory right by taking a contentious proposition popular in those parts, presenting it as if it were established fact, and then — in a complete non sequitur — associating that theory with his criticism of the Federal Reserve.
Yes, the Fed took extraordinary measures after the financial crisis. It was, after all, responding to the worst economic slump since the Great Depression — a slump that persisted even after emergency policies had ended the initial period of financial free fall. In an attempt to boost the economy the Fed engaged in “quantitative easing” — buying large quantities of long-term U.S. government debt and debt backed by the U.S. government. This was a departure from its usual practice, in which it only buys short-term Treasuries. But it was clearly in pursuit of the Fed’s mission, which is to promote both price stability and full employment.
Bessent, however, would have you believe that the Fed’s attempt to do its job was a dangerous experiment inflicted on the country by power-mad officials, and which had dire consequences. And while some critics did predict dire consequences at the time, they were soon proved to be completely and embarrassingly wrong.
More at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/scott-bessent-sleazy-smearer
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Quote:The Confederate slave-owners were the real Americans. That is why Trump is renaming military bases after traitorous generals.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No.
You're against America. You're against Americans.
And we're about to fucking annihilate you.
Tick tock.
Defense Department Renames Army Bases to Honor Southern Insurrectionists Who Sought to Preserve Slavery
https://eji.org/news/defense-department-renames-army-bases-to-honor-so
uthern-insurrectionists-who-sought-to-preserve-slavery/
The Army announced on June 10 that it will rename seven military bases less than two years after Army bases honoring Confederate leaders were rededicated with new names pursuant to a congressionally mandated, multimillion-dollar effort started in the first Trump administration.
Located in Southern states that rebelled against the U.S. in 1860, the bases named in honor of secessionists who sought to preserve slavery and white supremacy were built during the first half of the 20th century—a period when white Southerners installed hundreds of monuments to the architects of racial hierarchy in America as part of a concerted effort to redeem their defeat and build cultural support for the restoration of white supremacy.
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Fantasies about the future have a troubling effect on achieving actual goals. If positive thinking doesn’t work, what does?
https://aeon.co/essays/thinking-positive-is-a-surprisingly-risky-manoe
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Gabriele Oettingen is a professor of psychology at New York University and the University of Hamburg. Her latest book is Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation (2014)
Do you believe that positive thinking can help you achieve your goals? Many people today do. Pop psychology and the $12 billion self-help industry reinforce a widespread belief that positive thinking can improve our moods and lead to beneficial life changes. In her book The Secret Daily Teachings (2008), the self-help author Rhonda Byrne suggested that: ‘Whatever big thing you are asking for, consider having the celebration now as though you have received it.’
Yet research in psychology reveals a more complicated picture. Indulging in undirected positive flights of fancy isn’t always in our interest. Positive thinking can make us feel better in the short term, but over the long term, it saps our motivation, preventing us from achieving our wishes and goals, and leaving us feeling frustrated, stymied and stuck. If we really want to move ahead in our lives, engage with the world and feel energized, we need to go beyond positive thinking and connect as well with the obstacles that stand in our way. By bringing our dreams into contact with reality, we can unleash our greatest energies and make the most progress in our lives.
Now, you might wonder if positive thinking is really as harmful as I’m suggesting. In fact, it is. In a number of studies over two decades, my colleagues and I have discovered a powerful link between positive thinking and poor performance. . .
My colleagues and I performed such studies with participants in a number of demographic groups, in different countries, and with a range of personal wishes, including health goals, academic and professional goals, and relationship goals. Consistently, we found a correlation between positive fantasies and poor performance. The more that people ‘think positive’ and imagine themselves achieving their goals, the less they actually achieve.
Download Gabriele Oettinge's book from https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Gabriele+Oettingen
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:The Confederate slave-owners were
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No.
You're against America. You're against Americans.
And we're about to fucking annihilate you.
Tick tock.
Democrats.
They were all Democrats.
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Quote:Most Democrats are NOT Democrats:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:The Confederate slave-owners were
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No.
You're against America. You're against Americans.
And we're about to fucking annihilate you.
Tick tock.
Democrats.
They were all Democrats.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Democratic Republic of Georgia
Democratic Republic of Madagascar
Democratic Republic of Sudan
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Democratic Republic of Yemen
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
Moldavian Democratic Republic
Somali Democratic Republic
Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic
Democratic People's Republic of Angola
People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
The Democrats of the Confederate States of America were NOT Democrats, but there aren't any Trumptards who understand that.
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Trump Makes Freudian Slip, Infers His GOP Underlings Are Dumb During White House Dinner Event
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/you-don-t-know-this-trump-make
s-freudian-slip-infers-his-gop-underlings-are-dumb-during-white-house-dinner-event/vi-AA1M3as2
Trump knows his Trumptards are dumb. Those who aren't dumb aren't Trumptards but are successful Americans in complete contrast to the decidedly unsuccessful people who follow Trump as leader.
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The Houston oil company Occidental Petroleum reported last month it was expecting a large tax break from president Donald Trump's tax and spending cut package known as the One Big Beautiful Bill to the tune of $700 to 800 million for the next 2 years. It's a sizable sum for a company that reported a $2.4 billion profit last year.
https://eedition.houstonchronicle.com/infinity/article_popover_share.a
spx?guid=fcdcc597-7596-4f6e-82e5-4d14acc562ff&share=true
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