Year: 2025

Nearly 42 Million Lose Food Stamps

Buck Banks

~42 million

“Millions of low-income Americans are losing access to food aid as the nation’s largest anti-hunger program goes dark for the first time,” Politico reports. “Congress failed to reopen the government before funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ran out Saturday. A federal judge, in an eleventh-hour decision, directed the Trump administration to use emergency funds to pay for food aid in November — but even that wasn’t enough to prevent the immediate lapse of benefits, which officials say could take weeks to resume.”

Florida Freaks Out Over Vouchers for Islamic Charter Schools

Buck Banks

“Sharia law seeks to destroy and supplant the pillars of our republican form of government and is incompatible with the Western tradition. The use of taxpayer-funded school vouchers to promote Sharia law likely contravenes Florida law and undermines our national security.”

— Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, introducing an Islamic law scare into the public discourse via an X post magnifying claims that state universal school choice dollars were paying for instruction in Sharia in Tampa charter schools, reported Florida Phoenix.

Tests With No Proctors

Buck Banks


To counter Russia and China, Trump wants to resume nuclear testing.
But Mr. President, sir, surely you must be jesting!
Those National Nuclear Security Administration furloughs
Means there’s almost no one left to handle the workload.
So the idea of nuke testing without NNSA oversight is most distressing.