wait ballot initiatives aren't required to be unintelligible?

Yes and it also sounds to me like he's also queuing up to put himself on the ballot again.

I'm a little suspicious now that part of the reasons the Republicans have allowed this shutdown to drag out now is because it gives cover to the new SNAP rules going into effect because of the OBBB. People may not notice that their benefits are being taken away because of the OBBB vs shutdown

Americans LOVE this program. Here's a FAIR way to EXPAND it. Watch the whole interview w/ Nancy Altman of @socialsecurityworks.org at the link in the comments.

If you knew you could pay 100% of your bills for the next 10 years and then still have enough to pay 80% of your bills *forever* at current revenue rates -- would you call yourself bankrupt? Hell no. Link to full convo with Nancy Altman of @socialsecurityworks.org in the comments.

Project2025? May as well be Project1975. Republicans never gave up on destroying the American Dream Link to the full conversation with @hartmannreport.com in the comments

THIS Founding Father was the most popular author in 19th century #Appalachia? #history #America #books Link to the whole conversation with @harveyjkaye.bsky.social

West Virginia is America's future -- if Wall Street and Silicon Valley get their way #ai #economy Link to the whole conversation in comments.

DaMareo Cooper: I grew up on food stamps. I'm from Akron, Ohio and my mother, Patricia Coker, God rest her soul. You know, she literally worked herself to death so that my sister and I could have opportunities. We were in the projects and on welfare. Social safety nets helped my mom take care of us.

The Reagan Revolution is why we don't fund America first #healthcare w/ Nancy Altman of @socialsecurityworks.org

West Virginia would be one of, if not THE, hardest hit state because of this.

Means testing? Thomas Paine STRONGLY opposed it. Here's why. #history #politics #america #economics

From my continued conversation yesterday with @harveyjkaye.bsky.social ! (Link to the full conversation in comments)

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

This is the state of American media right now. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is [email protected] and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

Eisenhower called them "stupid". The rich who want to destroy #SocialSecurity #history #politics @socialsecurityworks.org Find the whole conversation: youtu.be/TQnB2DjhzkQ

We marched! What's next? Everyone has a health care story to share. Whether you had access to care when you needed it or you fear not having it in the future, our lawmakers need to hear from us. Together, we can power the movement to end the government shutdown and fix our health care crisis.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

We discuss gun safety policies, including background checks and a ban on military-style assault weapons, plus we hear breaking news on a verdict against a ghost gun manufacturer w/ @bradyunited.org / @krisbrown.bradyunited.org. Listen: momsrising.org/bt06oct25 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=o4EEI0hkJN4

‼️‼️‼️ Got word of a new way the billionaire in charge of SSA is fucking over the American people!!!! TLDR: This will definitely lead to people applying for benefits losing out on money, and probably some hefty lawsuits for attorneys that know what’s up. The long version is gonna be long so let’s go.

They sure are

Our President Nancy Altman spoke with @troynmiller.bsky.social about the past and future of Social Security — and why the biggest problem is that benefits are too low.

Find the whole conversation at blueridgebreakdown.substack.com/p/nancy-altm...

Coming up on blueridgebreakdown.substack.com -- my conversation with Nancy Altman of Social Security Works about Social Security yesterday, today and tomorrow. Quick clip here. Subscribe to that there or the podcast version to get it when the full video drops.

The White House looking at rural hospitals

This morning I'm popping this on for the first time. Owned it for months and haven't felt like the right time ever. Feels like the right energy coming into October. Allman Brothers Band -- Cream of the Crop 2003 #nowspinning

Everyone gets to pay more for electricity so that five nerds can profit from blasting computer generated native advertising for sports gambling 6" from your face every day until you die

"we're just gonna keep setting money and the planet on fire until God emerges from our tubes" - OpenAI business model

West Virginias governor wants to stake the future of our economy on this

This is from my conversation with @hartmannreport.com yesterday on the Blue Ridge Breakdown. The clip begins with a joke about the kind of problems that the so-called "Problem Solvers Caucus" are trying to solve. Find the whole convo over at blueridgebreakdown.substack.com

The new podcast from www.shineandrun.org (an organization which I chair and produce this podcast for) is out TODAY (w/ our first guest host)! Find "The Shine and Run Podcast" wherever you get your podcasts -- subscribe, tell your friends, and maybe even sign up to be a guest host!

So I'm chair of the board of a new org that launched a few weeks ago and I think fostering local Guy (gender neutral) economies falls firmly into our vision www.shineandrun.org

I gotta remember to post here too, damn

It's pre-emptively illegal in West Virginia as of the most recent legislative session.

For what it's worth I do spend as much or more energy lecturing people in rural areas about how urbanites are also not a monolith as I do vice versa. Because there's more in common between Anacostia and McDowell County than there is between NW DC and Anacostia. That's what we need to organize on

I left Wheeling WV in 2009 and went South to DC and I can't tell you how fucking contemptible people are toward anyone vaguely considered rural. People were as surprised that I wasn't some single-toothed cousin-fucking Cletus every time Id open my mouth as they were when Trump won the first time.

Bangs and whimpers and death and destruction ongoing But that's not the way our world ends Our world ends with each lonely sigh. Despairing sighs. Despondent sighs. Weary sighs. Our sighs, alone. And then silence. But together and in solidarity our world cannot end and Love is unceasing

There was no need to guess because some Americans were literally just like "what if we could do fascism without the overt racism" and then cultivated the GOP until the GOP lost control of its base to a reality TV host who just said the quiet parts loud. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...

Big thanks to a reader from Hagerstown who donated $100 paydayreport.com/its-my-39th-...

Here is some fun news! This fancy lady spider with a shiny mirrorball for a booty is a newly described species as of yesterday! I heard from the scientist who described her and my photos will be running in a local paper in Ecuador! (Chrysometa chuchaqui) Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve #invert

And from a red state standpoint it's basically a massive cut to revenue (because most red states are net beneficiaries of federal tax dollars) to give tax breaks to rich people in Connecticut and New Jersey.

New live-streaming episodes of #CareTalk 🩵 with @laurapackard.com TODAY and every Monday at 4:30 pm ET on YouTube and Facebook. #MSWMedia YT: www.youtube.com/@LauraPackard FB: www.facebook.com/LauraPackard...

Stop by and voice your concerns to the lump of coal

Look I get that folks here hate Twitter but in red states we still have to be there to dunk on and ratio our horrible congresspeople, and it does make a little bit of a difference

Leaders in Grant and Pendleton counties have voiced concerns about investing in Starlink to expand broadband, as the Trump administration looks to rework a historic investment for West Virginia. mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/05/16/b...

Kroger is allegedly overcharging consumers by listing expired sales prices on shelves and charging full price at checkout.  And thanks to decades of consolidation, Kroger stores are now the only grocers in some rural areas.   Minimal competition means maximized price gouging.