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After last week’s storm, many families lost food they purchased with SNAP benefits during the outages. Now, folks in PA-12 can request benefit replacements by May 30.

The Republican Party is coming after Social Security. 💯

It should be federal law to have at least one first pitch by 1 p.m. ET on Opening Day

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

Another illegal kidnapping by the Trump admin by masked, plain clothes agents. They’re terrorizing students to squash dissent because that’s what an authoritarian does. Rumeysa is now in a detention center like Mahmoud Khalil—both political prisoners who must be released.

Buck Leonard was a Negro League player who never got to play MLB because of racism. Leonard played for the Homestead Grays for many years batting 4th behind Josh Gibson. Gibson was known as the black Babe Ruth, Leonard was the black Lou Gehrig. For his career he hit .346 and became a HOF’er in 1972.

I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism. From Around the Horn:

Yellowjackets has really been dragging

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Extremely disturbing

someone ask vance if he thinks dred scott was correctly decided

whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them

When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.

i take him at his word that he wants to win, the interesting thing to me is when his strategy fails — and it has failed, multiple times — he just pretends it was never tried

PA-12, we have a lot to talk about—so let’s do it in person. Join me for a town hall on March 20th at Ebenezer Baptist Church to ask questions, share concerns, and organize for what’s next. Doors open at 5PM! RSVP here: 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/town-hall-...

Healthy food from local farmers for kids being cut by Trump and Musk seems on brand www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Dammit, Gaitok.

black student enrollment at the university of virginia barely cracks 7 percent and that is too much for glenn youngkin and his toadies www.baconsrebellion.com/uva-board-di...

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