If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven) projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...

What Voting Means to People in Prison

Affiliation attendance and membership Without Kindness Compassion and care is worthless

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.

That’s great and I’m so glad you were able to get the help you need. But I still think abortion would be worthy and vital even if its only function was to allow women to refuse motherhood altogether.

One of the best subscriptions out there. Reading and supporting The Flytrap are just what my old straight white cis ass needs from today's media: voices that don't look and sound like me. Also included in the subscription: occasional #TuesdayNightWineClub posts from @andreagrimes.com !

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

gotta have your papers on you if god forbid you’re in a car accident or fall off a roof or something bc EMTs gonna leave you to bleed out if you don’t I guess

- This guy is 100% the shittiest company commander you ever had, promoted beyond his abilities, without having learned a single goddamned thing about operating at the strategic level 3/

Imagine spending millions of taxpayer dollars and distrupting the global OPTEMPO just so you can brag to everyone about what a big boy PT stud you are

Truly, and speaking as a former combat arms MOS Soldier, this lameass failure of a battle captain can go fuck himself

Just gonna keep saying it. Mandatory firearm liability insurance would dramatically reduce the amount of and accessibility of guns in this country, thereby reducing crime, suicides, murder, and shootings without crimping anyone’s rights.

Houston Dash players put on #FreeDC shirts after the game #NWSL #WashingtonSpirit #WashingtonDC

A technocratic pitch that is focus grouped within an inch of its life won't help your project much if you misread the level of rage and desperation among a movement's base.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

solid article and big props to @milesklee.bsky.social for stating objective facts like calling libs of TikTok a “anti-trans hate account” instead of using some weak shit like “controversial account run by a conservative firebrand”

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

We’ve gone from “maybe just don’t provide trans care for minors because we aren’t sure of the risks or if it’s encouraging kids who aren’t really trans” to “all trans people are evil murders” pretty damn fast and it is terrifying to witness

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

"It is so easy to be a troll who is monetizes and built an empire on hate. It is easy to spew bigotry and stereotypes and find an audience in today's social media ecosystem. It is much harder to do the work of being a good person," says @meredithshiner.com. newrepublic.substack.com/p/this-week-...

hi, cis folks! the WSJ endangered trans lives with false reporting yesterday. it’s still accepted as truth by many, regardless of it being false. the article’s still up with a little note. it needs full retraction. it's not even a phone call—it's email. you can do this. contact info below.🧵⬇️

(Person who destroyed homeless peoples belongings with a smile on their face) political violence is bad

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

Still in shock Lee Corso on his very last broadcast said “Free Palestine.”

Honestly if I’m a National Guard armorer I’m hella pissed right now

Dying at the thought of finishing my PhD in only four years 😑

hell yeah timeline synergy

If Gilead doesn’t steal Hot to Go and change it to Y-E-Z-T-U-G-O what are we even doing here

*Parks Department: $4 million in cuts *Houston Public Libraries: $2 million in cuts *Houston Health Department: More than $2 million in cuts *Department of Neighborhoods: More than $7 million in cuts Houston Police Department: $67.2 million funding boost Fuck this guy and everyone who voted yes

Always a good time for a reminder to U.S. troops: Your obligation is to the Constitution, not the commander-in-chief

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

The same people who say Adriana Smith should stay hooked up to machines so a fetus can gestate inside her dead body for 7 months because “it’s a sacrifice a mother would make” can’t fathom a mother crossing the border with her children in hopes of providing a better life for them.

Literal genocide prove me wrong

I would rather fund HIV research and care than a ridiculous military parade www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Not a doctor don't listen to him. Not a doctor don't listen to him. Not a doctor don't listen to him. Not a doctor don't listen to him. Not a doctor don't listen to him. Not a doctor don't listen to him. Not a doctor don't listen to him.

Hear me out: new season of Slow Horses, but it’s just six hours of Gary Oldman insulting Pete Hegseth to his face.

A nice tribute by the immaculate grid staff today-

one way your insurance company can appear top of the list for “least amount of prior auths required” is if you just buy up a bunch of physician practices and prevent them from prescribing certain medications outright. can’t deny a prior auth if they’re not submitted in the first place

as your president, i will bring back local broadcast ads to mlb audio instead of running the same fucking in-house ads every inning

RIP everything that made the NIH great like free bombass publications they’ll still mail you hard copies of

I found the sick adults inappropriately messing with children’s sex hormones and it’s not healthcare providers or trans people

Listen to @cathygellis.bsky.social! "when Democrats get busy on impeachment...people can finally direct their energies toward the real danger to democracy and not have to keep expending so much effort pushing forward those recalcitrant leaders who should instead have been pulling everyone forward."

Because we aren’t ceding our home to anybody for any reason, but especially politicians acting in bad faith

One cool thing about the United States is that there are more people whose job is to deny healthcare coverage without having any medical background than there are people to provide healthcare coverage and they’ve somehow convinced people that the doctors are where the monetary waste is happening

Chris Beyrer opens his (already incredible just 2 minutes in) #CROI2025 plenary with 3 words..... DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!