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Lionsgate Shares Surge Amid Reports ‘Hunger Games’ Studio Is Courting Euro Buyers
#News #Banijay #HungerGames #Lionsgate #Mediawan

https://deadline.com/2026/07/lionsgate-shares-surge-amid-sale-hunger-games-1236983028/

Motion Picture Association Awards to Honor ‘Hunger Games’ Director Francis Lawrence (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #News #FrancisLawrence #HungerGames #MotionPictureAssociation

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/mpa-awards-hunger-games-director-francis-lawrence-1236764747/

#Maine among dozens of states suing #Trump administration over #SNAP funding

by Russ Reed, October 30, 2025

AUGUSTA, Maine — "Maine's attorney general is part of a coalition that sued the Trump administration for suspending the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program due to the ongoing federal government shutdown.

"In their lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Office of Management and Budget and their respective secretaries, 23 attorneys general and three governors claim the USDA does not have the authority to suspend SNAP.

" 'Forty-two million Americans, including 169,000 Mainers, are going to go hungry this Thanksgiving because the Administration is simply refusing to use the billions available to prevent this,' Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said in a statement. 'It is unconscionably cruel and unlawful.'

"The coalition suing the Trump administration said that on Oct. 10, the USDA sent a letter to state SNAP agencies saying there will be insufficient funds to pay full November SNAP benefits if the government shutdown continues.

"According to the coalition, the USDA has access to billions of dollars in SNAP-specific contingency funds appropriated by Congress in the event of a government shutdown. The coalition also claims the USDA has funded other programs with emergency funds during the shutdown, but has refused to fund SNAP.

"The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (#DHHS) announced on Oct. 21 it would not receive November's SNAP funding.

"According to Maine DHHS, nearly 12.5% of the state's population receives SNAP benefits. State health officials also said the rate approaches or surpasses 20% in five of Maine's 16 counties: #Androscoggin, #Aroostook, #Piscataquis, #Somerset and #Washington.

"Maine DHHS also said nearly 75% of the state's SNAP households include at least one working adult, more than half include a person with a disability, 43% include an older adult and more than one-third include children. The average monthly SNAP benefit for a family of four in Maine is $572, according to DHHS.

"Maine DHHS shared the following information for the state's SNAP recipients:

- November's federal SNAP benefits cannot be issued until the government shutdown ends or until new guidance is provided by the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service.
- At this time, SNAP benefits already loaded onto EBT cards remain available for use to purchase food.
- Applications, renewals and other updates continue to be accepted and processed by Maine DHHS during the federal government shutdown.
- SNAP recipients are encouraged to sign up for e-noticing through My Maine Connection, which provides the fastest access to updates and notifications.
- Recipients should ensure that contact information, such as their phone number and mailing address, remains current with Maine DHHS.

"For help finding information on other available resources, call 211 or text your ZIP code to 898-211. You can also visit 211Maine.org. When the government shutdown ends, more information will be available about the future of federal SNAP benefits.

"Maine DHHS will share updates as soon as additional information becomes available.

"Joining Frey in the lawsuit are the attorneys general of #Arizona, #California, #Colorado, #Connecticut, #Delaware, the #DistrictOfColumbia, #Hawaii, #Illinois, #Maryland, #Massachusetts, #Michigan, #Minnesota, #Nevada, #NewJersey, #NewMexico, #NewYork, #NorthCarolina, #Oregon, #RhodeIsland, #Vermont, #WashingtonState and #Wisconsin. The governors of #Kansas, #Kentucky and #Pennsylvania are also part of the lawsuit."

Source:
https://www.wmtw.com/article/maine-sues-trump-administration-snap-benefits/69180395

#USPol #MaineResists #Resistance #ResistTrump #TrumpSucks #TrumpIsABully #TrumpIsAFascist #USPol #SNAPCuts #USDACuts #HungerGames #KillThePoor #FoodStamps #FoodInsecurity

Cooper Hoffman on Working With ‘The Long Walk’ Filmmaker Francis Lawrence — Who Also Directed His Father in ‘The Hunger Games’
#MovieNews #Movies #CooperHoffman #Events #FrancisLawrence #HungerGames #PhilipSeymourHoffman #Redcarpet #TheLongWalk

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cooper-hoffman-the-long-walk-father-hunger-games-1236365688/

And who will work in the fields? Children?Folks who have just lost #FoodAssistance and #Medicare?#Protestors who piss off Trump?

#Trump’s Immigration #Crackdown Hits #CaliforniaFarms

#Farmworkers hid in fields on Tuesday as word spread that ICE agents were conducting raids in California’s breadbasket, an activist said.

By Bernard Mokam and Pooja Salhotra
June 11, 2025, 9:08 p.m. ET

Excerpt: " 'The #Trump administration is ramping up its immigration crackdown, with a focus on workplaces with undocumented #laborers, such as #farms, #restaurants and #construction sites. Estimates show more than eight million undocumented #immigrants work in the United States.

"Last Friday, federal immigration agents swept through the garment district of Los Angeles, setting off protests that have rattled sections of downtown L.A. and have spread to a number of cities across the country.

"For #farmworkers — about 42 percent of whom are undocumented, according to the Agriculture Department — the escalation in arrests has created widespread fear.

" 'Children are terrified,' Ms. Romero said. 'They don’t want to go to school because they don’t know if their parents will be home when they come back.'

"Local leaders have rebuked the escalation, which could bring hardship to one of California’s agricultural corridors. The #CentralValley — which grows #almonds, #grapes, #walnuts and #cherries, among other crops — produces a quarter of the nation’s food, worth an estimated $17 billion a year, according to federal data.

" 'These actions are completely unjustified and harmful,' said Mayor Luis McArthur of Oxnard. 'They create chaos in our city without contributing much to public safety. Furthermore these actions undermine the very principles of #DueProcess.'

"The raids this week represent the first organized immigration enforcement from the new Trump administration to hit California’s agricultural region, which covers about 40 percent of the state, Ms. Romero said. A handful of federal operations have been conducted in other rural communities in recent weeks. Last month, federal agents pulled over a bus in #AlbionN., and detained 14 immigrants who worked at a nearby farm. In April, three children and their mother were detained at an upstate New York dairy.

"Rural migrants are particularly vulnerable to immigration enforcement because they stand out in towns that are often racially homogenous, said Will Lambek of Migrant Justice, an advocacy organization for farmworkers in #Vermont, where eight dairy workers were detained in April.

"In California, Ms. Davalos said the agents could have made more arrests had the community been less prepared. Once a volunteer spotted officers in the area, an alert was sent through a network of support.

"Federal agents were denied entry to at least nine farms in the Central Coast, Ms. Davalos said. Some growers parked their vehicles in front of their gates. Employees also obscured their cars.
'We demonstrated the power of brave, nonviolent #resistance to #ICE’s tactics of #terror,' Ms. Davalos said, lamenting what she described as politically driven attempts to reach a deportation quota. 'At the end of the day, they’re seizing our family, friends, neighbors and co-workers.'

"If federal immigration enforcement activities continue, #FoodProduction will become increasingly difficult, and food prices could rise, warned Bryan Little, senior director of policy advocacy at the California Farm Bureau."

Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/trump-ice-raids-california-farms.html

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/NFWuO

#ResistICE #Authoritarianism #ImmigrationCrackdown #ICERaids #TrumpIsANazi #AuthoritarianRule #ImmigrantsFeedUs #NoHumanIsIllegalOnStolenLand #HungerGames #EatTheRich #ThisIsFascism #Project2025

‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ Finds Its Louella and Lou Lou (Exclusive)
#MovieNews #Movies #BillyRay #FrancisLawrence #HungerGames #Lionsgate #RalphFiennes #SuzanneCollins #TheHungerGamesSunriseontheReaping #Whitneypeak

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-louella-lou-lou-1236222407/

Ralph Fiennes to Play President Snow in ‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ (Exclusive)
#MovieNews #Movies #FrancisLawrence #HungerGames #Lionsgate #MayaHawke #RalphFiennes #SuzanneCollins #TheHungerGamesSunriseontheReaping #Whitneypeak

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-ralph-fiennes-snow-1236219336/

Everything We Know About The ‘Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping’ Movie So Far
#News #FrancisLawrence #HungerGames #JosephZada #TheHungerGamesSunriseontheReaping

https://deadline.com/feature/hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-movie-news-updates-1236376406/

[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. 👍👍

#Bookstodon #BookRecs #2025Books

Which new #books are you most looking forward to in 2025? 📚Here are some of mine (in chronological order of publication):

* The Sinners All Bow by #KateWinklerDawson (history/true crime)

* 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

** 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. 👍👍

#Bookstodon #BookRecs #2025Books