this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023

389 points (100.0% liked)

World News

22057 readers

56 users here now

Breaking news from around the world.

News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.

Guidelines for submissions:

Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
Social media should be a source of last resort.

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.

For US News, see the US News community.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

389

Republicans Declare Banning Universal Free School Meals a 2024 Priority (newrepublic.com)

submitted 1 year ago by withersailor@aussie.zone to c/news@beehaw.org

265 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(page 3) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] theDuesentrieb@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Can somebody please think off the children!!

Oh wait..

[–] miroppb@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

cut Social Security and Medicare

make Trump’s tax cuts for the top 1 percent permanent

impose work requirements on “all federal benefit programs,” like food stamps and Medicare

extend work requirements on those aged 55–64

bring back all of twice-impeached and twice-arrested former President Donald Trump’s deregulations, including the weakening of environmental protection.

Well then

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] themobyone@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I'm just sad for the US now. Hope you guys will get better times soon.

[–] alottachairs@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Vote em out! not voting is complacency. Not voting is showing that this is acceptable.

I'm not saying voting is the only action needed, but it is an absolute bear minimum.

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Demons

[–] brunskillZ@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More orphans for the the orphan crushing machine

[–] arandomthought@vlemmy.net 6 points 1 year ago

The machine needs to be fed.

[–] Spitfire@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Profits are priority over children being able to eat, right? Makes sense to me! /s

This is just plain cruel. But I think they know that.

For a lot of kids, especially those whose families struggle financially, the free school meal is what they have to eat that day, and this would take even that away.

Horrible.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] levochemist@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

How is this a thing that people rally for? Like WTF

[–] dan@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Absolutely ridiculous and cruel. But not surprising for Republicans Their mindset of "I got mine, screw everybody else" is so terrible.

[–] Yewb@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

WHaT iF tHat UNfeD ChILd is ThE MEssIaH

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

And I declare that voting these child-killers out of office is a 2024 priority.

load more comments