"Getting rid of fraud" is a euphemism for starving people to death.

oh god I have so many leftists never should have abandoned masks or lied to themselves about COVID being "mild" or "non-existent." too many people treat health issues like a moral failing whether they realize it or not.

Only 41% of rural hospitals in the U.S. deliver babies. www.healthcaredive.com/news/rural-h...

If you think this is badass, wait until we win. katforillinois.com/legal

Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...

NYT: House Republicans released 23,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate after months of delays. The move came shortly after Democrats released emails suggesting that President Trump knew more about Epstein’s sex trafficking than he has previously acknowledged. Emails ⬇️

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

It's cool that on top of still worrying I'm going to get kicked off of Medicaid eventually, I now have to worry about the skyrocketing healthcare premiums of people I care about, more people losing health insurance, and the damage this will do to our already collapsing healthcare system

The IL-Khan Pritzker criticizes the deal (likely a message to Durbin and Duckworth)

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.

I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but I can't believe people are saying "FAFO" to poor people in red states not getting SNAP benefits instead of directing that anger towards the Republican politicians and billionaires helping starve them.

tell me about it, tiny aloe plant on the counter at the cafe near my house

my best friend is going through a fuck-ton right now without an offline support system. they’re a disabled nonbinary femme lesbian. if you’ve been talking a big game about funding mutual aid to cover SNAP cuts, now’s the time. paypal: paypal.me/xenonarrior cashapp: $zeelovette venmo: deviantdyke

you probably shouldn't let what commentators like Ezra Klein say be the limit of your imagination or determine what you think is politically possible. He doesn't have a clue what is possible.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Amid horrendously long lines at food banks around the country, the president is willing to let Americans go hungry.

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It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”

Reading Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future today <3

congratulations to cuomo's 13 (probably more) survivors on getting to watch this man get humiliated so thoroughly in front of the entire world yet again

Mamdani won, Cuomo lost, a transphobic and homophobic candidate running in my town lost, nature is healing 🙏

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shout out chicago.

one of the most embarrassing moments in U.S. history... [a lot of people won't admit this was them but we saw you]

The insulin patent was sold for $1 to ensure it would always be available to anyone who needs it. It should be free, and healthcare should be a basic human right guaranteed to everyone.

This open-access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities & rationales of key leaders in their own words. Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

As legislative attacks on unhoused people ramp up, disabled people are on the front lines. Sources told me they are terrified of being rounded up and forced into a detention camp, as Trump promises to make those part of his administration's legacy.

The anti-trans crusade is exapanding to target same sex marriage, something that no one could ever have foreseen, except everybody. Our top stories for the week ahead, in Leading Off. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

There is a book out called “The Sin of Empathy,” which is written by a white Christian nationalist cult leader out in Idaho. The idea that the left is “weaponizing empathy against Christians” is an EXTREMELY popular & growing sentiment being bolstered by the church. And we all need to be aware of it

It's cool and all that Brianna Wu finally recognizes that her TERF buddies are snakes, but she spent months cheerleading genocide and where's her apology for that? She spent weeks calling an Asian woman racist names on social media and said it was okay because her husband is Asian.

I have started having nightmares about people losing SNAP benefits. I hate when the hellish reality of the world seeps into my dreams.

Okay, we're starting the day with a $50 donation to the grocery-card SNAP replacement project [thank you, SB ❤️]! How many people can match it? "Friend's and family" here, with "SNAP replacement" in the notes section: paypal.me/diegowings.

It’s great to see people getting vaccinated, but some are using this as a license to pretend Covid is over. Protection from infection fades within months & is modest to begin with. Protection against long COVID is only about ~25–40%, not high enough given the severity of the condition

I will say this is where talking about Social Security as only about seniors and consistently leaving Disabled people out of it gets us. The programs that support Disabled people are seen as acceptable targets for this kind of showy cruelty.

Once again, this is about cruelty, not fiscal responsibility. Making it even harder for people to get Social Security Disability benefits would not extend the solvency of Social Security Retirement benefits.

Sharing @decolonialclothing Our Culture is Not a Costume Your yearly reminder that cultural appropriation and mockery is not a good look. Indigenous Peoples all around the world are not costumes or caricatures. We are resilient people with beautiful, rich histories and cultures.

Means testing destroys societies. All those angry people who hate the poor for getting SNAP and Medicare and Medicaid and so on are ready to go for fascism because we are too cowardly to tax the rich to just give everyone a universal basic income

While hundreds of thousands of furloughed workers are going without pay, food stamps, formally known as SNAP, are set to run out on Saturday. Normally, the federal government would use contingency money to keep SNAP going, but the Trump administration said it had no intention of doing so.

Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!