Day of the Iron Crown, 21st of Hagwinter, 525 M.E. (Betelgeuse): I had to check three news sources before I believed this one was true. Sadly, it is. 

It's not bad enough that the Stable Genius is denying SNAP recipients financial assistance during the government shutdown, or that he's gone to the Supreme Court to overrule a lower court decision that said of course he has to use the emergency funds set aside specifically for this kind of event. No, that's not cruel enough. Late yesterday, he told states to “immediately undo” any actions they may have taken to provide any food benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if they did not comply. SNAP helps roughly one in eight Americans buy groceries.

If you told me that the President of the United States was deliberately using hunger as a political weapon, I wouldn't have believed you but I would have assumed you meant it was against foreign enemies. If you told me, no, he was deliberately starving American citizens, and going to court and issuing warnings to the states to not provide food to the citizens he was targeting, well, I wouldn't know what to tell you.

We live in troubling times.