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DoomsdaysCW<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@iBlame" class="u-url mention">@<span>iBlame</span></a></span> SHIT! It looks like that passed.</p><p> Kentucky <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CrimeBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CrimeBill</span></a> to become law after lawmakers vote to override Beshear veto</p><p> Marcus Green Apr 12, 2024</p><p>&quot;Perhaps most controversially, the measure dubbed the “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaferKentuckyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaferKentuckyAct</span></a>” creates criminal penalties for street camping and makes repeat camping in public areas, such as beneath overpasses, a misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/kentucky-crime-bill-to-become-law-after-lawmakers-vote-to-override-beshear-veto/article_9e392950-f843-11ee-9a8a-7b1d507b72dc.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wdrb.com/in-depth/kentucky-cri</span><span class="invisible">me-bill-to-become-law-after-lawmakers-vote-to-override-beshear-veto/article_9e392950-f843-11ee-9a8a-7b1d507b72dc.html</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KillThePoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KillThePoor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Unhoused" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Unhoused</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Homeless" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Homeless</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>NOT JUST MAINE! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USDA</span></a> ending local purchasing programs for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FoodBanks</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>schools</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MainePublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MainePublic</span></a> | By Nicole Ogrysko<br />Published March 12, 2025</p><p>&quot;The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ending two national programs that help food banks and schools in Maine — and around the country — purchase produce from local farmers.</p><p>&quot;USDA told Maine officials and partners late last week that it has terminated the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program. It helped <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GoodShepherd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GoodShepherd</span></a> Food Bank buy produce from about 100 Maine farmers, which is then distributed to local food banks around the state.</p><p>&quot;&#39;That program is incredibly important to the state of Maine, both in food today — food that we source and distribute today — and in food tomorrow, which is the economic viability for those 100 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/farmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farmers</span></a> and for our partner agencies to experience fresh, nutritious produce,&quot; said Good Shepherd President Heather Paquette.</p><p>&quot;At the same time, Paquette said the food bank recently learned that USDA will stop delivering about 1 million pounds of food through the Emergency Food Assistance Program to Maine. Those deliveries are on hold for Good Shepherd — and food banks around the country — through at least June.</p><p>&quot;Paquette said the USDA delivery represented about 20% of food that Good Shepherd moves around the state.</p><p>&quot;The cuts — both to government food deliveries and to funds that Good Shepherd used to buy local produce — are concerning, Paquette said, because more Mainers are experiencing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodInsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FoodInsecurity</span></a>.</p><p>&quot;Our need is up every year,&quot; she said. &#39;This year we distributed 10% more food cases than we distributed the year before that, and that year was 10% over the [prior] year. So we&#39;re experiencing double-digit need increase in the state of Maine.&#39;</p><p>&quot;A spokesperson for the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry said the state received about $1.3 million for the Local Food Purchase Assistance program.</p><p>&quot;USDA has also terminated the Local Food for Schools program, which provided more than $720,000 last year to Maine schools. Schools used those funds to buy food directly from local farmers to serve in their cafeterias.</p><p>&quot;The program provided a big boost to the state&#39;s farmers, because more than 100,000 students eat at Maine schools every day, said Anna Korsen of the food security non-profit Full Plates Full Potential.</p><p>&quot;&#39;That has a huge impact on local economies, on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmallFarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SmallFarms</span></a>, and it&#39;s just better for kids,&quot; she said. &#39;The food&#39;s healthier, they&#39;re getting fresh, local foods in the school cafeteria.&#39;</p><p>&quot;A spokesperson for Maine&#39;s Department of Education said the state was expected to receive nearly $2.8 million for the Local <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodForSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FoodForSchools</span></a> program over the next three years. The funding was supposed to be disbursed later this spring.</p><p>&quot;Maine still has a statewide local food purchasing program for schools. But Korsen said the federal program provided more purchasing power for Maine schools. In 2023 before Maine received federal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LFS</span></a> funding, schools in the Pine Tree State spent just more than $168,000 on local food, Korsen said.</p><p>&quot;These USDA programmatic cuts are separate from those that the department is making at the University of Maine System [which were just reversed]. And unlike those impacting UMaine, the termination of USDA&#39;s local purchasing programs affects food banks and schools around the country.&quot; </p><p><a href="https://www.mainepublic.org/business-and-economy/2025-03-12/usda-ending-local-purchasing-programs-for-maine-food-banks-and-schools" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mainepublic.org/business-and-e</span><span class="invisible">conomy/2025-03-12/usda-ending-local-purchasing-programs-for-maine-food-banks-and-schools</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KillThePoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KillThePoor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MadKingTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MadKingTrump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RESIST" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RESIST</span></a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FoodIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorkingPoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WorkingPoor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SNAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SNAP</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveTheFarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaveTheFarms</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UK</span></a>: Chancellor set to cut <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>welfare</span></a> spending by billions</p><p>Faisal Islam, March 5, 2025</p><p>&quot;Steve Wright, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, said any welfare cuts &#39;would be an outrageous attack on the poorest and most vulnerable&#39;.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lpjqg2mp5o" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lpjq</span><span class="invisible">g2mp5o</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EatTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EatTheRich</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HungerGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HungerGames</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KillThePoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KillThePoor</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> anyone?!! So much for so-called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanExceptionalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanExceptionalism</span></a>! smh</p><p>&#39;We&#39;re not prepared&#39;: States brace for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a>&#39;s plans to dismantle the Education Department [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepartmentOfEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DepartmentOfEducation</span></a>]</p><p>Trump has said he wants to leave school policy to the states, but state officials and lawmakers aren’t clear on what that would look like. </p><p>February 27, 2025, By Adam Edelman and Tyler Kingkade</p><p>Excerpt: &quot;The largest questions revolve around who would pick up many of the agency’s most crucial responsibilities — among them, the disbursement and oversight of funding for schools with extra needs, including schools with large populations of impoverished students or schools with children with disabilities.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/states-brace-trump-plan-dismantle-education-department-rcna192953?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/politics/trump-adm</span><span class="invisible">inistration/states-brace-trump-plan-dismantle-education-department-rcna192953?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KillThePoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KillThePoor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a></p>
Duchess of Umbrage<p>Today in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KillThePoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KillThePoor</span></a></p><p>Republicans Push To Legalize ‘Property Owners’ Killing Homeless People in Kentucky <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg54mg/republicans-push-to-legalize-property-owners-killing-homeless-people-in-kentucky" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vice.com/en/article/jg54mg/rep</span><span class="invisible">ublicans-push-to-legalize-property-owners-killing-homeless-people-in-kentucky</span></a></p>