[Link] Why Can’t You Buy Hot Meals With Food Stamps?

Read: 2/2/2022 www.vice.com

But they’re off-limits to people using food stamps. The reason is precisely that the food is warm and already prepared—a justification that’s often derided as cruel, anti-poor, and arbitrary.

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[Link] Have you asked for an Airbnb refund during COVID? Ross was refused one – and then told to break lockdown

Read: 29/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

So when they booked a night at a Victorian country home for a getaway with friends, the Melbourne-based couple didn't pay too much attention to their Airbnb host's cancellation policy.

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[Link] He Made a Horror Movie About Pizzagate, then the Death Threats Started

Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com

No movie has captured our current political mood like The Pizzagate Massacre. The low budget grindhouse movie from Texas follows Duncan, a schlub convinced interdimensional lizard people are controlling people from the basement of a pizza restaurant.

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[Link] New York City’s Billionaires’ Row Just Got Its Very Own Homeless Shelter

Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com

Residents of Manhattan’s so-called Billionaires’ Row—a smattering of ultra-posh, super-expensive skyscrapers abutting Central Park—just might have to encounter poor people after all.

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[Link] House Democrats Back Off Targeting Billionaire Tax Schemes and Swap in New Nicotine Levy

Read: 6/11/2021 theintercept.com

A new version of the Build Back Better Act that the House Rules Committee released Wednesday was amended to protect tax avoidance schemes used by the ultrawealthy in their estate planning.

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