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SNAP Update, Jan. 29
The cutting of SNAP (food stamp) funding comes out of Illinois, via Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who directly contradicts what the White House said. ALL federal funds were blocked. Medicaid was blocked. Head Start was blocked, as were programs like Meals on Wheels, unemployment and HEAP, all blocked.
And while he does not refer specifically to SNAP by name, Pritzker specifically talks about grocery money being blocked. The issue was blamed on a coincidental website outage, and then the White House walked back the total blockage assertion from the previous night — claiming that funds for individuals would not be held up.
But in fact they were. As of now the whole funding cut concept, a facet of Project 2025, has been stayed by a federal judge, so funds for all programs should be available at this time.
Note: The White House is claiming that federal benefits to individuals will not be cut, including SNAP food benefits. They are also claiming that Medicaid benefits will not be cut, which contradicts news reports I saw Tuesday. Events are moving so fast it’s impossible to keep up. I will verify the SNAP issue, though I will believe it when I hear from recipients that their cards still work. The example as what disembodiment would look like still stands: an embodied response would be feeding people. — efc
Mike Fink Interview about Chris McGregor
The interview with Michael Fink about working with Chris McGregor as its own player on the program’s home page. I think you’ll find it really interesting; and it gives you an idea how I do a story so complicated it takes five years to get it right. Mike and Chris were so patient with me because they knew I wasn’t writing a word till I had the whole case memorized.
Moving Mountains by Eric Francis. This is about the lawsuit where Chris McGregor found what is called the John I. Davis parcel by searching through thousands of papers in the Ulster County deed room. Here is the article, called By Any Means, about a previous lawsuit by the same actors; Chris was not involved but this laid the groundwork. Here is Chris’s official obituary.
Wisner Baum Gardasil Multidistrict Litigation Update. The Gardasil MDL opened the new year with a slight uptick in cases; 218 federal cases are now pending.
NIH report grossly understating the problems with Gardasil.
Christine Massey’s HPV open records request responses.
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