#hungergames — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hungergames, aggregated by home.social.
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Um, looks like #USGovt is looking to imprison more folks -- #shoplifters! Like, parents who can't afford food for their kids because of #TrumpsWar ! #Homeless folks, #veterans , #protestors -- they are all on the *list* too!
Congress Might Give ICE the Power to Go After Shoplifters
A bill intended to halt the supposed threat of “organized retail crime” would put ICE in charge of the federal response.
by Sam Biddle
August 7 2026, 7:17 a.m. ET"To counter the purported national scourge of 'organized retail crime,' a bill moving through Congress would deliver the Department of Homeland Security unprecedented policing powers, granting even more authority to what experts say is an already lawless ICE."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/08/07/congress-ice-shoplifting-theft-surveillance/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/gMIHt#USPol #DetentionCenters #HungerGames #DefundICE #DefundDHS #WarOnIran #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #CORCA #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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The global war against #hunger has been sidelined in recent years as international leaders focus on gun wars, territorial disputes and energy conflicts.
#foodsecurity #geopoliticaltensions #geopoliticalnews #geopoliticaluncertainty
@cgiar #CGIAR #ICRISAT #BanarasHinduUniversity #irri #climatechange #climatecrisis #ClimateAction #hungergames #HungerIsNotAWeapon -
That's right, @czarbucks ! Before #SuzanneCollins' #HungerGames (2008), there was #StephenKing's (#RichrdBachman's) #TheRunningMan (1982)!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(2025_film)
#KillThePoor #RichGetRicher
#Oligarchy #DOGE #BigUglyBill
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Rising Food Prices Are Likely to Continue, Thanks to #Trump’s Trade Wars
Wholesale prices on fresh and dry vegetables rose nearly 40 percent, and soon consumers will feel the pinch
By Peter Wade, August 17, 2025
"As wholesale and consumer prices have risen, so has the demand on food banks, which were already hit hard with shortages due to federal budget cuts earlier this year and actions at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. The “One Big Beautiful Bill” congressional Republicans passed last month also cut Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (#SNAP) benefits by $186 billion, meaning more people may be turning to increasingly strapped food banks to make up for the loss in food assistance."
Read more:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rising-food-prices-trump-trade-wars-1235410245/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/kvJTy#KillThePoor #RichGetRicher #Oligarchy #HungerGames #DOGE #BigUglyBill #SNAPCuts #FoodShortages #TrumpSucks #TaxBreaksForTheRich
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I'd say this tweet aged well... Unfortunately...
#KillThePoor #RichGetRicher #Oligarchy #HungerGames #DOGE #BigUglyBill #SNAPCuts #FoodShortages
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“Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.” - #DavidHume
Happy #SunriseOnTheReaping day to all who celebrate! #HungerGames #SuzanneCollins #ImplicitSubmission #Relevant #Resist #Books #Bookstodon
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[Updated!] Which new #books are you most looking forward to in 2025? 📚Here are some of mine (in publication order):
* The Sinners All Bow by #KateWinklerDawson (history/true crime)
* The Mask of Fear by #AlexanderFreed (#StarWars/media tie-in)
* Broken Fields by #MarcieRendon (mystery/Indigenous) #CashBlackbear series
* Oathbound by #TracyDeonn (YA fantasy) #Legendborn series
* Sunrise on the Reaping by #SuzanneCollins (YA dystopia/science fiction) #HungerGames series
* School of Shards by #SergeyDyachenko & #MarinaDyachenko (dark academia/SFF in translation) #VitaNostra trilogy
* All That We See or Seem by #KenLiu (science fiction/techno-thriller)
** Also, This Book Will Bury Me by #AshleyWinstead (crime fiction/mystery) would be on this list, but I had the good fortune to read an ARC this year. 👍👍
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Are drying #rivers a warning of #Europe's tomorrow?
by Paul Hokenos
13 September 2022"Across southern #Romania, much of which relies on the #Danube for fresh #DrinkingWater, hundreds of villages are rationing water supplies and curtailing the irrigation of #farmland that Europe relies upon for #corn, #grain, #sunflowers, and #vegetables. The cruise ships that normally ferry tourists along the iconic waterway are docked. In the first six months of 2022, Romania's #hydropower utility #Hidroelectrica generated a third less electricity than it normally does. And Romanian #wheat farmers say that drought has cost them a fifth of their harvest. Romania is one of Europe's largest wheat producers, and all the more important for the international market in light of Russia's blockage of much of Ukraine's wheat exports.
"'At towns up and down the Danube, #drought and #ClimateChange take on an existential meaning,' explains Nick Thorpe, author of The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the #BlackSea to the #BlackForest. 'In contrast to city dwellers, they're having this disaster unfold before their eyes.'"
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"Scientists say that the economic cost of the rivers' decimation is only part of the problem. The less water in the water system as a whole, explains Gabriel Singer, an ecologist at University of Innsbruck, Austria, the less dilution for #salts and the slower a river flows. This leads to higher #saline content and #HigherWaterTemperatures, which can be lethal for many species of #Riverine life, such as Danube #salmon, b#arbel, and European #grayling, among many others.
"Higher temperatures also feed #AlgaeBlooms, Singer explains, which can be #toxic for river systems. This is what has happened in several German rivers, including the Moselle and Neckar, as well as perhaps the Oder River, where in mid-August more than 100 metric tons (220,000lbs) of dead fish – among them #perch, #catfish, #pike, and #asp – washed up on its shores within a week. (Experts are currently investigating the cause of the die-off.)"
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220912-are-drying-rivers-a-warning-of-europes-tomorrow#WaterIsLife #Europe #DanubeRiver #Extinction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #HungerGames