My sense is Trump will try to make Snap benefits permanently end during the shutdown,” she said. “I’m dumbfounded by the cruelty.”

That's the inevitable outcome of what they are doing, less money for billionaires is thier concern.

Grand Rapids, Michigan resident Bill predicted he “will have to go without many things that I ordinarily purchase” and borrow money from his family.

“How do I feel about it? I curse Donald Trump and his entire party of sycophants and lickspittles to the seven[th] circle of hell, now and for all time,” the 71-year-old said.

I like Bill's attitude :)

A Japanese government report on inequality published in June found that 27% of young women want to leave their hometowns, compared to 15% of young men — and rigid gender roles in rural society are prompting young women to vote with their feet.

The survey shows that most women move to the cities in search of better employment opportunities — but there's a gender angle to that, too. Widespread expectations that women will prioritize housework and childcare also diminish young women's educational prospects, motivating them to leave rural areas. 

In rural communities, "women are stuck in temporary or part-time jobs and only men get promoted. Women don't want to work in these places, so they move to Tokyo," says Chuo University sociologist Masahiro Yamada.

A 19-year-old Mount Gambier woman has appeared in court for the first time accused of damaging the city's controversial Cast in Blue sculpture by sticking googly eyes on it

Art in the eye of the beholder ? I'd say she improved it :)

The Cast in Blue sculpture received some public backlash over its appearance and because it cost the City of Mount Gambier $136,000 at the same time as rates increased by 10 per cent in 2024 and by 8 per cent in 2025.

Well, I assume if that's the case, those whom approved it will be punished come election time.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38483025

by Stefanie Fox [Executive Director of JVP Jewish Voice For Peace in USA]
Oct 20, 2025

One year ago, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther, which is best understood as an addendum to Project 2025. It was released quietly, but with ambitious tactics; it contains everything needed to defame, defund, and ultimately dismantle groups like JVP “within 12-24 months.” This is the Trump administration’s blueprint to destroy civil society, starting with attacking Palestine solidarity.

Twelve months in, and they are well underway, judging by the giant stack of paperwork on my desk from JVP’s lawyers laying out the active lawsuits brought against our organization from Trump-aligned law firms and government requests for information...

Only 51.5% of long-distance trains were on time last month, Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung reported, and state-owned railway company Deutsche Bahn later confirmed the figures to dpa.

i heard there was communism here

The entire population of Gaza is suffering from extreme levels of hunger. Everyone is hungry.

You gotta feel the dance
It's always in your heart
Feeling the time to come
Beat Off The Rising Sun!
I wanna feel your heart
The power of the sun!

I was the secret 4th member of the icy hot stuntaz, my nickname was "SAW" but the trio disbanded before I was brought on board and announced to the public. I'm so sorry.

Yeah, reading a 650 page textbook larger than the textbooks I have to read for my actual degree. It's very interesting but it feels very crushing sometimes