Yeah it seems like the best political move is to give into this guy

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

"33 deaths so far this year in attacks against Christians in which religion was reported to play a role. The equivalent figure for Muslims is higher, 88 deaths... American humanitarian aid was [estimated as] saving about 270,000 lives a year in Nigeria."

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

Amazing. Just such a tell.

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Like I said... I assume NOTHING re: the NYC electorate except that folks usually live down to expectations. If you don't want Cuomo as Mayor then you need to get out to vote. Vote early if you can.

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

"An NBC News review of over 30 data center proposals across 14 states found that in a majority of cases, local officials signed NDAs and worked with what appeared to be shell companies that can conceal visibility into the project developers."

the very pathetic truth is that all the fuckers writing 'harris lost by running on the left' op-eds would, if she had ran the exact same campaign but won, be writing 'harris won by rejecting the left' op-eds instead. they're not honest people

Also, this should not need to be said, because "promote the general welfare" def means feeding people, still it's worth noting that food stamps have a huge positive economic impact overall. Every $1 spent on SNAP adds $1.54 to the economy. As is often the case, doing right is also an overall good.

Why are Maryland public libraries spending public money to depress the wages of public sector workers? My latest for @truthout.org. truthout.org/articles/lib...

one simple fix here is to make a world that you'd actually want to bring a child into, and put everyone who says that doing so would be expensive and unrealistic into an individually-sized tupperware® container

I grew up hearing "churches should take care of that" whenever something bad came up, and when I said "then why don't we run a food pantry big enough for everybody on food assistance and fund it with tithing instead of shitty sandwiches once a week" it sure was not well received.

I really think we should do a whole series about facts like this: Have you noticed that poison ivy seems worse and itchier? It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change. grist.org/climate/clim...

Wal*Mart has a whole program to get their employees on federal aid because nobody can afford to live on their dogshit wages

what the fuck?!!!! @kathryntewson.bsky.social, get a load of this, Ed Zitron reps DoNotPay. www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...

"Goldman Sachs has estimated that the average ChatGPT query uses nearly 10 times as much energy as a Google search." "A midsized data center uses as much water in a day as 1,000 American households, about 300,000 gallons, one research scientist told NPR." More: share.google/BOXHTwok4Ltr...

Magazines like Apex are the heart of the SF/F community! I'm so happy that I could back this kickstarter and get a subscription!! They're so close, let's get them the rest of the way!

“‘The vast majority are children, working ppl, older Americans, veterans and people w/disabilities,’ Joel Berg, CEO of Hunger Free America, says of food stamp recipients. ‘If the SNAP program shuts down, we will have the most mass hunger suffering we've had in America since the Great Depression.’”

im sorry you cant have food but we gave all our money to one guy who “invented” 2 day shipping and another thats promising robot butlers so you can see how our hands are tied

Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

finally some good news

The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

As predicted.

Still more on the South and labor: "Southern politicians go out to the rest of the world and say to them: Our labor is easier to control than the labor is in California. Our labor pool is difficult to unionize in the American South, and this is the deal we’lll make with you."

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Read the whole things, but some highlights: - Their new median estimate is *5.5 million* people protested yday - protest levels are 4x what they were in Trump's first term - at least 12.8 million people, or 3.7% of the population, have demonstrated against the president since he took office

here is my favorite sign from today

bro did you just challenge portland to express oppositional defiance in competitively creative ways bro

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

So we've been trained to sabotage our own movements from within and it worked on all of us I'm afraid! ESPECIALLY if you're marginalized. But here's how to stop it. Save these. These go in your phone now. REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE.

Using ChatGPT

historian of Latin America here, reminder that Columbus's extreme cruelty to indigenous peoples was known to his contemporaries and got him in trouble *then* yes this man was so racist that he got chastised for it in *1500*

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

goddammit I JUST noticed that the original post didn’t have alt text and now it’s gonna be buried in the thread I’M SO SORRY BESTIES HERE U GO FULL CONTEXT IS IMPORTANT

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I have been LOVING reading @angelaslatter.bsky.social's books this autumn, so I whipped up a bingo card for some common things I've noticed in her gothic fantasy-horror series. Play along with me! bingobaker.com#68ea4fe64538...

Inda by Sherwood Smith: Military leader: my god, this kid Inda is a military genius! Evil, scheming royal: this 12-year old-kid is a threat to my power. Crown prince: Inda is the best friend I could have Meanwhile Inda: If only my sister or future wife were here to explain politics to me :(

Queen Demon by @marthawells.com is out today!!! Join me in being unwell about Bashasa and Kai, because I read the ARC months ago and have been wailing and gnashing my teeth ever since. Also, the audiobook is really really good and you should get it from libro.fm

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

damn right it won!!!!

Had this realization about three of my favorite fantasy novels I've read this year: Asunder by @kerstinhall.bsky.social, The Last Hour Between Worlds by @melissacaruso.bsky.social and The Witch Roads by @kateelliottsff.bsky.social. All of them also have queer characters :) #booksky

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹 This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨ Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌 youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

Greta Thunberg ha sido víctima de todo tipo de abusos y tortura por parte de Israel. “Fue arrastrada por el pelo, golpeada y le obligaron a besar la bandera de Israel. Le hicieron de todo como advertencia para los demás”, denuncia el activista turco Ersin Celik de la Flotilla.