“If they want to eat they can get a job!” 48% of SNAP recipients work full time 38% are children No one should starve because they’re unable to work, but the idea that SNAP is only for those who refuse to work is false. It’s being pushed so you don’t care that those “useless eaters” starve

so basically what happened was: ICE / CBP abducted ~1800 people from across the chicago area during june to oct, & did most of it without warrants. of those ~1800 people, only ~750 are still in the us & ~135 aren't eligible for release. the injustice of everything these people will never get back.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

if you are an engineer working on Sora or other video generating ai you are almost certainly going to be streamlining fascist propaganda production, congrats on being latter day mini-reifenstahals

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Why is this not the thing that removes him from office? Why do we want a leader that a ‘news’ organization manipulate into action?

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

An essential read.

Authoritarian governments are not new to this country. If you want to know what comes next should resistance fail, look to the history of Black resistance in the South. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

If you’ve never read it, you absolutely should. Not a thing happening since 2020 has been a shock to me (Grief inducing? yes. Angering? yes. Shocking? No.), in part because of this book. Also, in part because of Imani 🖤 please do yourself a favor & follow Imani on all platforms.

“Despite his no vote, the entire political world knows this is a direct result of @schumer.senate.gov’s leadership … He either blessed this surrender, or was incapable of leading his caucus to hold the line.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did! Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting

Trump spent the weekend golfing while intentionally letting 42M Americans go hungry. Today, I joined @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov, @newyorkstateag.bsky.social, @newjerseyoag.bsky.social, and staff from City Harvest & No Kid Hungry for an update on our fight to protect SNAP benefits and feed our neighbors.

Same as they did to force people to go back to work while still sick and contagious with covid

The status quo delivered us to this moment of fascist acceleration. As Democratic elites in Washington keep proving, they have nothing to offer but behavior that abets and fosters more of the same. Their trajectory is as fixed as the right's.

The arrogance of a Senator who is not even running again to take the lead in undermining the Caucus and the voters.

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

It’s wild to me that this is a radical viewpoint. It’s so deeply human and normal and here we are fighting for it in 2025.

Every single one of us who has supported the shutdown from day 1 feels betrayed in a way that's going to be nearly impossible to repair. Y'all made us look and feel like fools. We're not blind, stupid followers like MAGA. We know when we've been fucked around and we will remember every second of it.

a note on the Minnesota primary: this is correct, the person to replace Tina Smith with is Peggy Flanagan

Replace Smith with Peggy Flanagan. Do not replace her with Angie Craig.

okay, so, with Dems successfully keeping anyone up in 2026 for voting for this turd let's take a look at who's up in 2026 anyway: 1. Cory Booker - apparently involved behind the scenes, constantly looking for bipartisanship. I don't dislike him personally but he doesn't have what we need. Primary.

noted, documented transphobe Latonya Reeves knows you can't win here if you abandon trans folks. her behavior at the annual meeting for the DFL Feminist Caucus is fully incompatible with this section of her website Ilhan Omar has always stood up for trans folks in CD5, and she'll continue to do so

This looks awfully intentional.

Indeed. Until progressives in the Senate Democratic caucus directly challenge Schumer’s leadership it’s kind of hard to take their grousing seriously at this point. They are all in on this #SchumerSurrender politics.

Carefully choreographed votes and angry press releases are all cute, but the indication of whether anyone in the caucus really cares is whether there’s any push for leadership changes or punitive action against the cavers. There won’t be, but that would be the theoretical sign this is different

Really don’t care among these performance artists tbh. They all own this surrender.

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

Suggestion: Even if your senators are not on the list, call them and tell them how much you support their decision to hold steady. It will have an impact. The overwhelming response will make its way to everyone they know. Word of mouth is very effective.

My God.

Going the extra smaisle!

For the next 4 years, keep fighting Frey. And in 2029, we cannot let Frey or the next iteration of him win. In ‘17 and ‘21, our coalition got close. In ‘25 Fateh was inches away from a win. We will win next time. The city is changing and soon Frey guys will be the minority.

Dear @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org: Please cancel your partnership with this evil company and stop pushing “A.i.” on teachers and students.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

Donald Trump’s war on SNAP.

This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

If we learn nothing else tonight, please PLEASE let's learn that the American people were NOT won over by an absolute firehose of the most vile dehumanization of trans people. Please @democrats.org, for the love of God and all that's holy, let's FINALLY start refusing to throw ANYone under ANY bus.

When we vote, we are voting for the future of Minneapolis. Your vote is significant. Please check on your loved ones, friends, neighbors, and youth to see if they have a plan for today. * Polls close at 8:00PM. And remember if you are in line, stay in line🗳️ Also shoutout to our youth for voting✊🏼

This to me is the game. I don’t care if Schumer doesn’t like Mamdani, but for him to stand silently by while sex pest Cuomo leans into gutter racism and Islamophobia while accepting endorsements from Trump, Musk and Miller is outrageous from the Senate Minority Leader.

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

I don't care what the polls say. I don't care what the odds say. I don't care what the online and TV pundits say. NYC, if you haven't voted for Zohran Mamdani, please go. If you voted, please ask your friends. Let's leave no stone unturned. The movement is now. zohranfornyc.com/vote

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Two of the most significant politics editors in Teen Vogue’s history were working class trans people from Ohio and Philly, and their tireless, fearless work is a huge part of why so many people are mourning its demise now. @satansjacuzzi.bsky.social and @leximcmenamin.com you will always be famous

Minnesotans, you can register at the polls! And college students can use their student ID!