ResearchBuzz: FirehoseTechdirt: Fox News Fell For AI-Generated Rage Bait, Rewrote Story To Pretend It Didn’t. “…last week, [Fox News] published—and then quietly rewrote—a story about SNAP recipients threatening to ‘ransack stores,’ based entirely on AI-generated videos that never happened.”
University of Kentucky: Find food assistance, community support through FindHelpNowKY.org. “Kentuckians experiencing food insecurity can access immediate, local assistance through FindHelpNowKY.org, an online tool that helps users quickly locate food, housing and other community resources by ZIP code or city.”
State of Massachusetts: Ahead of November 1 SNAP Freeze, Governor Healey Launches New SNAP Resource Hub. “The Governor launched a new SNAP Resource Hub at Mass.gov/SNAPFreeze that includes information on how families facing hunger can get help, ways for people and businesses to offer help, and a new digital map showing how many people depend on SNAP to feed their families in each Massachusetts […]
Tirrimas 
🚫👑"Your current health insurance plan will not be offered next year..."
"We found another plan to meet your needs..."
"Your new monthly payment in 2026 will be $425.40..."
"Your 2025 monthly payment was $77.44..."
All assuming the subsidies are renewed. I know that's not as bad as others. But we still can't afford that.
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WOWK: Two West Virginians create a food resource database to assist through SNAP pause. “Cecelia Thompson and Crystal Colyer have teamed up to make a comprehensive, publicly accessible list of every blessing box, free meal kitchen, and food pantry in the Mountain State…. So far, there are around 650 food resource centers on the list.”
NC Newsline: Shutdown leaves gaps in states’ health data, possibly endangering lives. “The shutdown has halted dashboards and expert analysis from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which monitors indicators such as wastewater to provide early warnings of the spread of COVID-19, influenza, RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and other infectious diseases.”
The Conversation: Federal shutdown deals blow to already hobbled cybersecurity agency. “CISA is among the entities that will see the deepest staffing reductions during the shutdown that began Oct. 1, 2025, according to Department of Homeland Security documentation. Only about one-third of its employees remain on the job after federal employees were furloughed. As if cybersecurity wasn’t […]
Poynter: Live fact checks and updates about the 2025 federal government shutdown. “Trump and his administration — which has already defied norms on executive power — likely will seek to exert more power during the shutdown, including potentially laying off federal workers. PolitiFact is live fact-checking the shutdown, including rhetoric from both sides of the aisle.”
The Register: US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew. “‘With the shutdown now underway, the immediate impact is clear: non-essential IT modernization projects have stalled, creating backlogs in areas such as infrastructure upgrades, cloud migrations, and system updates,’ federal government strategic advisor at GuidePoint Security Timothy Amerson told The […]