The whole reason anyone is getting SNAP benefits at all is that blue state governors & AGs & some nonprofits sued. Not one red state joined suit. Blue states sued for their constituents (and blue state tax dollars paid for those suits) but b/c we did so the whole country is benefiting. 1/

cyberinsider.com/precise-loca... This #databrooker business must be stopped. FYI @carissaveliz.bsky.social

The US has gone WAY too far in terms of the privatization of certain goods and services that should be public programs and utilities. NO private individual should be in control of whether or not we continue space exploration or of our access to satellite services. We need a MAJOR correction.

I think democrats should push for a thorough review of all Elon Musk govt contracts as part of their 2026-8 portfolio. Why are taxpayers financing the work of a racist near-trillionaire? Leaving that unexamined was one of the biggest failures of the last Dem majority.

“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵

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.

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next. ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ www.authoritarian-stack.info

West coast elections are always so nerve-wracking, the way it can take weeks to determine the result. But there is a ballot drop in 2 hrs that should shed some light on whether Katie Wilson can close the gap. bsky.app/profile/eric...

it's lazy engagement simulacrum by terrible, dull, trust fund brats keen on undermining, minimizing, or distracting the plebs from ideologies they disagree with. otherwise NYT would be awash in columns demanding rich people pay their fucking taxes and U.S. corporations see functional oversight

Evanston mayor @danielbiss.bsky.social is launching investigations into reports of immigration agents brutalizing community members. “They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason.”

X is a fascist propaganda website. If you’re on X, you’re helping keep people on a fascist propaganda website.

The biggest uncalled election is the SEATTLE mayoral race. Mayor Bruce Harrell leads Katie Wilson by 11,183 votes (or 8.2%), with 137K ballots counted. Why is this not over? Here's what we know. ⬇️

ai ads will always be a hallmark of losers, even if the candidate wins. it's just intrinsically loser shit. no consent, environmental and other externalities? loser shit zohran had staffers who cared to think about the transliteration of his name into Chinese. giving a shit is intrinsically anti-AI

Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

WTH is this timeline

The GOP's primary policies involve destroying corporate oversight, gutting consumer protection regulators, and demolishing labor rights. That's not an opinion. Yet major outlets love to reprint their lies about this stuff unchallenged.

The video now rapidly circulating (which also does not have a date or time marked) does not blur this poor woman's face. Here's one that does: wgntv.com/news/chicago...

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

The front isn’t a spatial location, it's a way of engaging with events. "Everyone can open up a new front of struggle by identifying a vulnerability in the ruling order and going on the offensive. The more fronts there are, the safer we all will be." crimethinc.com/2025/01/28/i...

This is so important to know: "[The last half-century] was about pushing policies designed to redistribute income upward [..] it is much easier to tell workers losing their jobs or taking big pay cuts that it was the market that did it, rather than policies designed by the rich to screw them."

We need to combat the Big Lie about neoliberalism. It was not about the free market, it's about redistributing income upward cepr.net/publications...

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

His campaign gives me hope.

Mayor Katrina Thompson and a few of the village trustees are visibly laughing as a resident gives public comment about village corruption allegations including those leveraged at the mayor.

"They can gain access to law-enforcement-only areas of Flock’s website and search the billions of photos of Americans’ license plates collected by taxpayer-funded cameras across the country,” Senator Ron Wyden wrote to the FTC.

The people who complain about Dems as a circular firing squad don't understand that it's not circular because regular people aren't holding any guns. When Dem senators vote for Trump's nominees, they've lined up with the Republicans to shoot at us. All we can do is shout from behind the blindfold.

When someone votes to install a Trump member of cabinet and that person enacts Trump's agenda, that's literally voting for Trump's agenda. One of the first things Brooke Rollins did at USDA was get rid of $1 billion in funding for meals at schools and food banks. That's Trump's agenda.

The Dems who voted to confirm Brooke Rollins: Baldwin (WI) Bennet (CO) Booker (NJ) Cortez Masto (NV) Durbin (IL) Fetterman (PA) Gallego (AZ) Hassan (NH) Heinrich (NM) Hickenlooper (CO) Klobuchar (MN) Ossoff (GA) Peters (MI) Rosen (NV) Schiff (CA) Shaheen (NH) Slotkin (MI) Warnock (GA) Welch (VT)

And then still be discerning! "Am I listening to someone upper-class and invested in projecting a certain image of their country? Am I talking to someone who is conservative and supports the country's local right-wing parties? Am I talking to an activist or a worker or a zealot?"

Non-Western women have our homegrown patriarchies treated as a fact of life by our own cultures and as a racist fiction by our diaspora and by Westerners who grant said diapsora epistemic authority over our lives. And we need you all to FUCKING STOP.

Still in a bit of a standoff. No more pepper balls for now but ISP is telling people they have five minutes to move back away from the ICE building. Crowd is chanting, "Pritzker's police protect ICE!"

This is the way.

Opinion | Zohran Mamdani said the quiet part out loud. Finally. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

"Family farms are not who you think they are. Most small family farms in the US are millionaires with a six-figure income." Another excellent video by Farm to Taber, this time about farm bankruptcies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xon9...

"One of the hardest things to watch.. Well I'll just say I did not know there were so many cowards in this country. Some of the loudest people talking about the durability of American institutions and how great America is and Americans [..] It's one of two things either you cowards or you with him."

This report convinces me that right-wing propaganda works, most notably on Dem operatives who are supposed to be shaping public opinion, not merely reacting to it.

As Zitron’s profile has risen, so has the delight with which some journalists pass around stories about him—the maverick scourge of AI—peddling pitches about this or that AI service, helping to inflate the bubble with one hand while poking at it with the other. www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...

The GOP is using the shutdown to literally make people choose between starving and losing their healthcare. That’s how sadistic this is and what the age of fascism is going to look like unless we defeat it.

And one more thing I forgot to mention, the USDA is not only holding their contingency funds for SNAP, but telling every state that if they use their own state funds to cover their SNAP benefit residents, they won't be reimbursed for it from the USDA. This is cruel, heartless & inhumane.

“West of Pulaski, all the restaurants are mostly empty and dark,” he said. “Once you get past Pulaski, you just start seeing all these full businesses. And I’m, like, man, if just a portion of those customers came a couple blocks west, it would make such a difference.”

wait till these guys hear about the 30 percent of national income paid to owners of capital, I'm sure they'll be very upset

Ding ding ding. Not punishing Confederates and Nazi sympathizers are part of what got us here. Why do you think McCarthy latched on to punishing communists and socialists? That was gutting the opposition not protecting America

Honestly a version of this, led to the end of Reconstruction. It was white Northerners were too tired of holding white Southerners accountable and they figured they had more in common than not so….under the bus Black people went So yeah, no…

The "now that they're suffering too, right wing voters will learn and we must reach out to them" rhetoric is starting and I need people to be so fucking for real