Feel like ICE recruits should be required to pass the same citizenship test as the people they are persecuting.

Did you know? About 4.5 million SNAP recipients are babies and toddlers under age 5. About 11.1 million SNAP recipients are kids aged 5 to 17 years, who need food for healthy growth, learning, & development. The federal government has the capacity to continue funding SNAP during a shutdown.

If you believe that Democrats chief electoral impediment was supporting "outlandish" ideas like not allowing anyone who wants them to purchase weapons of war & being able to safely breathe air & have drinking water, then you do not believe in politics, you believe in growing your SuperPAC.

and because i can imagine the bad faith reading of this, what i am *not* saying is that everything about the extant democratic party is hunky dory other than its total absence of a communications/propaganda infrastructure. what i *am* saying is that this absence puts a hard limit on reaching voters

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

lol what the wealthy today don't seem to understand is part of staying wealthy in society is not pissing off the masses. There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.

Withholding money for food and finding money for every unnecessary thing is what sparked the French Revolution. Literally.

Prince releases his “1999” LP 43 years ago today. Of the hit single, he said: “We were sitting around watching a [TV] special about the year 1999. .. Everyone I knew — people I thought were optimistic — were actually dreading those days. .. So I just wanted to write something that gave hope.” 🎸

This seems like a salient point.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

every $1 = 10 meals

no one is getting 'canceled' it is literally a primary election

To check if a pundit is being honest, ask “would he have made this claim a year ago, before he knew it would be a defense of Trump” and folks, I’m 100% certain Douthat would not have argued “The president needs to demolish the East Wing and build a palace” last year

“More than 41 million depend on the monthly payments, according to the USDA. In some states, like New Mexico, dependence on the program is as high as 21% of residents, it said.”

I would like to mention again that menstrual products are covered by FSA funds. fsastore.com - so if you find yourself with money left on the table by the end of the year, consider using those funds and donate the products [pantries, homeless shelters etc...]

If you have food, money, or time, now's probably a good moment to find your local food bank. Even if you don't plan to donate, you can start imagining the scenario where you would, and you'll have their info handy when that scenario happens in a few weeks. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

I suspect the next few weeks of living in a Dorothea Lange photo are going to shatter a lot of Americans' preconceptions about who's using SNAP and WIC.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The way Dems treat Mamdani versus Platner... hm

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

It’s true that these incidents appear in the news section, but they’re rarely collected into trend pieces or framed by the media as part of a single, urgent story. Compare this to ‘campus free speech,’ which had magazine covers, entire verticals and dedicated beat reporters.

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis. Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

Yes. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Which of these people is a working-class voter? Which is an identity politics voter? The conventional wisdom's answers to those two questions is the root of much confusion about electoral politics in the US and Europe these days.

That “working class” is a transparently race and gender coded term tells you who pundits view as low and middle income workers and what type of work they believe “counts” among this group. Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.

you mean to tell me there's a guy in Illinois running specifically on defending trans rights and his last name is "BLAHA"??? chat do you think he knows?

I sincerely know less than nothing about this nba gambling ring dealio. I do know that in a moment when powerful mostly white men are stealing from everybody at scale and with breathtaking gall, it’s odd that these are the faces I’m seeing.

Schiff voted to confirm one of Trump’s judges roughly an hour before his account posted this.

I think most Americans don’t really understand state power. A cop could kill me today and vast amount of resources would go into defending him. Now multiply that power times the presidency to the square root of a Supreme Court that says he’s infallible.

i mean i don't think you can separate any of this discussion from the fact that so many of the participants are men who clearly have hang-ups about their inability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity

Which also explains their hostility to someone like AOC's working-class identity in the service economy, which represents much more of the working-class jobs they purport to be concerned with.

right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

(my broad view is that everyone is trying to find an easy shortcut rather than the more difficult work of building an actual relationship between the party and both the voters it has and the voters it wants)

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

Not the first time Trump trashed a public building. Total cost of January 6: $2.7 billion.

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

People say you have to take MAHA seriously because "they have real concerns just aimed at the wrong targets" but you really don't, but I haven't any of the granola-fash say shit about kids going hungry from SNAP being cut off. Kinda hard to be healthy with no food, but hey.

I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.

Imagine being 17, your little brother by your side, begging to speak to your dad as he’s dragged away. You may never see him again. And this is every day. Soul shattering, nightmarish stuff, never to be forgiven.

Well, Fam, just found out our health insurance is jumping from $1700 to over $3000 a month. And we still have to wait till Nov 1 to see more options—when the site will probably crash because everyone will be freaking out at the same time.

This is a Chicago food bank. If you wanna help the people in my city, this is a great way ❤️

Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk. I had it exactly backward.

every single democratic multimillionaire in congress should be on the streets, handing out truckloads of food that they’ve purchased to their constituents who need aid

Mayor of Evanston Daniel Biss talks about recent ICE targeting of landscapers & the city now encouraging owners to pay landscapers NOT to come to work. They are doing that also by putting a moratorium on gas powered leaf blowers to make it easier for people to maintain their own lawns.

Praying for the Jamaican people tonight. www.nbcnews.com/weather/stor...