Please don't forget thousands and thousands of your neighbors have lost their food stamps and are quietly starving

[questionseverything]

It seems like a huge percentage of du participants are well off, I am not saying rich but yall talk about investing and vacationing a lot so there’s no reason it would be on your mind all the time, that people are starving because of republicans controlling all 3 branches.

But that’s what is happening

Don’t let the imperfections of our very human candidates stop the blue wave we should be able to expect….

For a lot of us which party is in power is an inconvenience, for poor people it’s a matter of life or death

[Harker]

1. I won't.

Injustice tends to get stuck in my throat.

[dlilafae]

2. I take the casting of my vote

very seriously. Thanks for the reminder.

[Grim Chieftain]

3. This breaks my heart

Dear God, I cannot believe what this country has become. But hey! The orange felon is well fed, and we are picking up the tab.

[Beacool]

4. Thanks for the reminder that not everyone is able to buy food.

I'm so ashamed of this country right now. I'll never understand how working class people can continue to support this evil regime.

[Beacool]

5. Thanks for the reminder that not everyone is able to buy food.

I'm so ashamed of this country right now. I'll never understand how working class people can continue to support this evil regime.

[leftstreet]

6. DURec

[BonnieJW]

7. Find the food bank closest to you

and make a donation. Many of them frequently run out of food.

[questionseverything]

9. Ty, that's what I was trying to say in my clumsy way

[efhmc]

8. Please give us some places to donate. Thank you. No antiwomen groups (Baptists, Catholics, etc.)

[questionseverything]

11. It's true most food banks are run by religious groups

If you don’t want to donate through them you could take bags of non perishables to the welfare office, every one leaving needs food or knows someone who does

The plasma center is another place you will find hungry people, so desperate they are selling their fluids…

[efhmc]

13. Thank you.

[MerryBlooms]

18. Google your local area. Some might take a bit of a drive...

Sometimes, because folks are proud by nature, rural might be a table of canned food at the end of your driveway 🥰

[ms.pamela]

28. Other Churches

My Luteran Church runs its own food bank and receives food from the USDA. We have seen a tremendous increase in the number of clients coming in the last year. The federal government has made cuts to what they give the food bank, but the community and the church come through. Many red states have already cut SNAP benefits and Medicaid; the Blues states are hanging on but when that Big Beautiful Bill goes into effect, they will be in trouble too. In this county we have community food banks also. Progressive sites are filled with folks talking about lacking food, lacking healthcare and the ability to pay for utilities. It is heartbreaking, I never thought this nation would be like this.

[questionseverything]

30. Illinois had already started cutting snap and medicaid

[MerryBlooms]

10. Everything got cut for folks that got that laughable COLA

Every person I know on assistance, had their food assistance cut, heating/ac cut, rents all raised. Some meds denied under medicaid or supplimental... Every soul I know, is now lost money because of SS increase. Everything else was cut, plus, trump and his minions cutting "fraud".
Poor people are struggling mightily, yet all anyone talks about is middle class?!? Um, go stand in a food bank that you had to walk to in rain, snow, 100's... stand for 2 hrs, then walk back to your camp. You know cops gonna run you out, next day, 3 day limit... That whole "Livibility", part of our local cops. Fire season already. You can't cook in camp with a flame. No lunch meat at the food bank 🤷‍♀️

[MerryBlooms]

14. I'm So fn sick of people telling others go to food banks!

A lot of food banks don't exist anymore. Donations are way down. Churches used to, but neighbors complain
Ugh, just stop
People are getting desperate
People that were surviving, aren't. More homeless coming. They Are Not Invisible People! They Are Us!!

[questionseverything]

15. I agree completely, I am do sorry if you are going through all of this

I try and donate vienna sausages ( tasty protein with a pull ring top) , fruit cups (same pull ring), spam… stuff a person can travel with

[MerryBlooms]

20. Thank you! Small feminine products, baby wipes!

It's all so needed. Many times it's a 2 person camp, cant leave the camp alone, because it will be robbed. We gave a propane heater. They both left only short time, propane and heater stolen.🤨😭

[MerryBlooms]

21. Hard working folks, but because don't have first, last, deposit,

Animal deposit, etc... plus, been arrested for illegal camping, etc... i mean, our gal was so excited when she grew a watermelon! 🥰 then, cops showed up, ran them out, but she was able to get back and harvested.
So ridiculous.

[questionseverything]

22. Ty for reminding us about baby wipes and feminine hygiene needs

Most of us get to take wiping ourselves off before bed for granted

[MerryBlooms]

24. We also supply garbage bags

We give our cans and bottles, .10. So, she gets to keep our bags for her trash to haul out. It's so complicated out there. Camping in an undeveloped campground, and moving every 3 days. If you have kids you're trying to keep in school, that's a whole different hell. It's going to get worse. Some of our most popular city bus lines got cut. We knew trump was going to be horrible, but I don't think we knew just how deep the evil was going to get.

We all have to reach back and pull up as best we can. We can help just one day, hour, person... we can defeat and overcome. We can survive.

Love to you and yours. Keep fighting the Good fight! We got this!!

[questionseverything]

26. We didn't know how deep the evil would go, I could not have said it better

[MerryBlooms]

25. Hot days, I've been giving frozen Gatorade

Sometimes I get it on sale, I get the Zero for me and my diabetic sis

[Ponietz]

12. Vote for food 2026!

I’m still upset with poor non voters. Generally, there was no legitimate excuse for sitting out the 2024 election. That’s harsh but still I am sorry so many face food insecurity.

[MerryBlooms]

16. Do you realize how difficult it is to be unhoused?

We help a gal who bathes in a filthy creek. Her phone is dead most of the time. Our mobile home park, replaced Our fence, and now we have no gate. We use to help way more people.
People are trying to survive. Our little gal just wants to have a little garden on the side of a filthy creek.
Ugh.
Picture please, for one moment, having a menstrual cycle, unhoused. So, yes. At this time, I can help her, but I am fully aware there are hundreds just like her, getting Zero help.

[milestogo]

17. Housing subsidies are also unavailble.

[questionseverything]

19. Yes the repubs have taken everything good

But we have to fight back by trying to care for each other

[MerryBlooms]

23. Almost non existent here in Oregon, now, and idiotic republicans

Hate our Dem govs! Our Dem governors have been the only thing that's saved Oregon!
So fed up with most my own family, who, btw, don't have a pt to puss in, but all voted trump and still hate all democrats. They tolerate me, but I'm the caretaker of the matriarch of the family. Which, she helped raied, none have come to see, except 1, but my ass would hang if anything happened. 🤣🥰🤔🫣

[stage left]

27. Thank you

for being the hands on helper of a homeless woman. It made me think that our protests should include a canned food drive and one for personal care items, especially women's items.

[MerryBlooms]

32. If we can just help a little bit. Feminine products and also dog food or dog

Help. I loan my animal clippers to her so she can shave her dog to get rid of ticks. Really bad tick season in southern Oregon. It's just little things we take for granted, but she's been pulling ticks off herself and dog since March.
Let's just keep looking out for each other best we can. Safety nets are disappearing at an alarming rate and no notification. Just gone. So sad and unacceptable!
Take care. And, thank you!

[Dave Id]

29. Republicans

the party of questionable Christian values. Seems a hell of a lot of them have never read "The Book". I'm not religious at all, but I have read the Bible. No where does it say greed is good, piss on the poor.

[questionseverything]

31. Jesus said, "whatever you do for the least of them, you do unto me "

I don’t understand how they misinterpret that