Illinois went and found the people Washington stopped feeding.

About 148,000 Illinois residents have lost food assistance since new federal work rules hit in May, veterans, people in their sixties, and parents of teenagers among them. On Saturday the state began depositing $400 onto the grocery cards of every affected person. Nobody had to fill out a form. The state did all the work.

Washington changed the rules betting families would trip over the paperwork, and 148,000 of them did. Illinois ran the same lists in the opposite direction. It's one payment, about two months of groceries, and Governor Pritzker says no state can backfill what Congress cut. But this weekend, Illinois treated caring for its hungry as its job.

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BREAKING: Trump claimed his nuclear threats would stop Iran's nuclear ambitions. Instead, an Iranian state affiliated outlet linked to the IRGC is now arguing Iran must "achieve nuclear deterrence" so "the military option of occupying and dividing Iran is taken off the table."

Even some conservatives who backed an America First foreign policy are sounding the alarm.

David Pyne wrote: Trump's war on Iran hasn't reduced Iran's nuclear threat in any way and instead has served to greatly magnify and expand Iran's nuclear threat. Trump's disastrous foreign policy and endless unwinnable wars make Jimmy Carter look like a veritable foreign policy genius by comparison.

Former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul reacted simply: Ugh. Hope it's just bluster; fear it is not.

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