I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

SO much of the cultural and artistic nostalgia that society chases was just art made when people got paid to do it. Lavish movie posters made by human artists, video games made by people without sixteen different investment companies breathing down their neck, movies made by studios taking a chance.

Two thoughts: - few men are "trophies" - the fact that the division of household is only roughly equal in hetero couples when the wife is the sole breadwinner & the husband does not work outside the home says SO MUCH

According to a state epidemiologist, "CDC personnel who normally share information with state officials during outbreaks have been eliminated."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportation flights. The AP spoke to a number of people who said they were placed in the device after they had already been shackled.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

How long will it be before we learn that ICE is murdering some of these people the minute they’re off camera? When we learn the kidnapping squads are death squads, will that be enough to grind everything to a halt? To stop showing up to work normally, to stop throwing parties, until this ends?

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

8 million people in Sudan are facing emergency levels of hunger, part of a strategy of deliberate starvation.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

St. Louis deserves a leader who is built different. That’s why I’m running to represent Missouri’s 1st District in Congress. We need a fighter who will lower costs, protect our communities, and make life fairer. I’ll be that fighter. Join us: coribush.org

Six Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Durbin, Schiff, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, and Welch) voted yes on two Trump district court nominees this morning, and my question remains, why do senior members of this party keep voluntarily ceding political capital to Donald Trump

Reagan can be best understood as white voters rejecting the New Deal if they had to share it with Black people

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court will consider expanding Trump’s power to shape independent agencies by overturning 90-year-old precedent.

This was a fantastic interview with @motherjones.com. Thanks to Isabela for spending an hour on Zoom to ask great questions about the book and its relevance tot he Hyundai raid in Ellabell.

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Sorry for the janky video. This is an excerpt from a more perfect union story about how West Virginia went from deep blue to deep red. Schumer makes an appearance, he really was always this guy. (I'll drop a full link below)

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

I went on Bechdel Cast to talk about when a woman shaves her head and withstands torture so she can…idk man it gets complicated just listen to us lose our minds @jamieloftus.bsky.social @caitlindurante.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6tSZ...?

Education is for liberation, not control.

The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified

I just got word that the faculty senate of my university is now dissolved and no longer exists, in compliance with the new Texas law. Yikes! I thought my university would somehow find a loophole, or an exemption, but it's official. It's a sad day for shared governance and checks and balances.

Oh HELL yes

I went long about Netflix’s Fit for TV docuseries, the fatphobic legacy of The Biggest Loser, and the complex rise of GLP-1s for my comrades @theflytrapmedia.com.

Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

People will protect their children from anything except another adult who they want to like them.

The goal is to weaponize the law to write public health out of existence: "By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character." That means, for example: no vaccine recommendations at all. Not fewer; none.

Important clarification, multiple CDC sources tell me: Federal employees are not allowed to strike/walk out, so this is *not* a walkout but a "clap out" to show support for departing leadership. Current employees were either given permission to attend by a supervisor or used leave time to attend.

the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now

I keep saying. (may have some new designs soon)

You might say she’s… white noise.

Every reframing, from "they won't admit to being wrong" to "they don't want to occupy the city but it's their job," is a white person telling you how much empathy they have for people who'd at minimum kidnap and disappear you in the middle of the night for money. Take note.

Looking at this map, I think about @isabelwilkerson.bsky.social's book - The Warmth of Other Suns. It is a book about the great migration and how those who migrated were "welcomed." It explains a lot (if people are willing to absorb the lesson). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

If you have to know a baby’s race before you can answer the question of whether it deserves food and safety then you are a colossal piece of shit and nobody should be asking you anything of importance except to get rid of yourself for us.

🚨🚨🚨We need to identify the man in the green shirt. I don’t know what is going on here, but I know this man is far too comfortable beating women. Thank goodness the cops are there. 😡

wanna hear about Dobson’s first boss and mentor, a eugenicist who was thanked by the literal Nazi regime for his book on sterilization? you can listen to me chat about the Nazi piece of shit that inspired the Christianist piece of shit on Excommunication Station podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“You enter legally, and suddenly, because of someone else’s whim, you’re illegal. It doesn’t make sense.” Trump is running the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.

‘The people we have been starving were already quite ill’ is an admission of guilt not a defense.

This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

It's important to know about things that happened before you developed consciousness. If you have never been aware of a world without birth control access, gay marriage, women w/ bank accounts, etc, listen when elders speak. Shouting them down with "that's not how it is now" is a oneway ticket back