The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

Farm workers are bent over harvesting bell peppers in Kern County CA. They work rushing to keep up with the pace the tractor sets. When you eat a salad or a fajita remember the hands that harvest this vegetable. #WeFeedYou

“Dearly beloved… We are gathered in this thing we call ‘life’. Electric word, life. It means forever and that's a mighty long time— But I'm here to tell you there's something else… ‘The afterworld.’ A world of never ending happiness… You can always see the sun Day or night…” #Prince #OfPeace

@olbermann.bsky.social, finally watching “A Face In The Crowd” on @tcmtv.bsky.social. NOW I see why you called ol’ boy “Lonesome Rhodes”! 🤣🤣🤣

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."

Not just with @gregsargent.bsky.social great reporting, but I have seen little mention of what gerrymandering further of many districts will mean—a further breaking of VRA-compliant districts in order to accomplish marginal partisan gains. (1/3)

“Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” —Book of Apostle Saint James 2:17 Thank you, Jeff Foxworthy.

Our essay: Hunger is not an emergency: substack.com/profile/5411...

In 1992, Scott Bessent earned the firm he worked for, Soros Fund Management, a billion dollars by breaking 🇬🇧 Pound. After setting up, then closing, his own hedge fund, he went back to SFM, where, in 2013, he made the firm another billion dollars, this time breaking the 🇯🇵 Yen.

“…in two weeks.” You forgot to say that it will be happening “in two weeks”.

Someone please tell Pee Wee German than the Supreme Court only granted certain immunities to the President himself—and explicitly did *not* extend those immunities to other Federal officers. Including WH staff.

Families are already hanging by a thread, but the sad truth is it’s about to get a lot worse when SNAP benefits don’t go out in November. It’s time to find our local food banks and help out with donations and volunteer hours if you are able.

Wake up babe sesame street just dropped some new iconic scicomm

We need to remove the cancer in the Oval Office to restore funding to children’s cancer research.

In the midst of a government shutdown, and in the face of fundamental challenges to the rule of law and to democratic accountability, the House of Representatives--the people's house, the heart of our democratic republic--hasn't cast a vote since Sep. 19. An extraordinary failure of responsibility.

“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. So maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.” -- the president who thinks the government ought to pay him a quarter billion dollars for all the investigations of his criming

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

Or…. This is the thank you kiss for the $10m his campaign took. Can someone check his bags for gold bricks?

Hey @chicagocta.bsky.social, please take notes.

Just 'cause it has to be said every now and then. GOP Senators and Representatives are obviously okay with...everything...that's happening.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

How money works:

“Democratic strongholds”? Democrats are not some faction engaged in stochastic terrorism. Your reporting consistently neglects to mention that the only “chaos” happening is the chaos ICE and CBP bring with them. “Getting around legal obstacles” is a weird way of saying “breaking the law.”

TX Gov Abbott: Here are some migrants we don’t want to deal with, Chicago… Also TX Gov Abbott: Here are some troops to deal with the migrants we didn’t want to deal with, Chicago…

Your status will not protect you. This flaccid and impotent Regime demands unquestioning loyalty. In exchange, they only offer fear. Fear and surprise. Fear, surprise, and shambolic incompetence.

(For anyone needing a translation: “Especially all of the Latinos and Latinas in the world, here in the US, who have worked to open doors—it's not just a win for me, it's a win for all of us. Our footprints and our contribution to this country—no one will ever be able to take that or erase it.”)

Bad Bunny responds to his Super Bowl critics in Spanish, and then English: “And, if you didn’t understand know what I just said, you have four months to learn!”

Had a great time at the live taping of the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social podcast. Thank you, Profs @profmmurray.bsky.social, @leahlitman.bsky.social, @kateshaw.bsky.social for recognizing putting respect back in the name “Thomas”!

Cardinal Robert McElroy at the Mass for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “We are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our nation…this assault is intended to make life miserable for undocumented migrants…our government is engaged in a comprehensive campaign of fear at its core.”

Forty Acres Fresh Market is now open in Austin, an area facing "food apartheid." blockclubchi.co/48cjOdr

I remember reading stories in high school and college of Gorbachev’s fight against “technical alcohol” in the USSR—especially in the Red Army. These “diseases of despair” are only going to get worse, so long as Putin continues to treat #RussiaAsATerroristState.

That’s . . . An interesting way to say that he “lied”. Or, @kyledcheney.bsky.social could have gone with “prevaricated”. prevaricate verb [ Intransitive ] formal US /prɪˈver.ə.keɪt/ UK /prɪˈvær.ɪ.keɪt/ To avoid telling the truth or saying exactly what you think.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

So, how’s that “Drill Baby Drill” going?

When you’ve lost <checks notes> noted war-crime apologist John Yoo. . . .

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, as the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships to minority students works to raise $1 billion to strengthen all 37 of its historically Black colleges and universities. apnews.com/article/mack...

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

Starting November 1st, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal childcare to all its residents. It's expected to save families over $12,000 per child annually. This is a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

It’s clear that the screenwriters for this #Bills #Ravens game really should have been writing last year’s election series. #NFL

Slightly diminish a book… “The Raisins of Wrath”

EJ Antoni, walking into BLS…

“Dems have to give up on the idea the Republican Party is a traditional political party… they need to wake up every day and say ‘we’re right, they’re wrong’.” Stuart Stevens, a veteran of 5 Republican presidential campaigns, tells @timmiller.bsky.social how Dems need to adjust.

[This should not replace solid, unadulterated data from Bureau of Labor Statistics.]

The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.