42 million Americans will stop receiving SNAP on Nov. 1, according to a new message from the USDA.

It looked like this in: 1. 2024, when police tear gassed a USF pro-Palestine encampment 2. 2020, when police tear gassed a Chicago protest against George Floyd’s murder 3. 2016, when the Nat’l Guard tear gassed water protectors at Standing Rock 4. 2014, when the Nat’l Guard tear gassed Ferguson, MO

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This is what they think about regular people and anyone who needs help affording food. They think you deserve to starve 👇

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Is this supposed to encourage people to vote for Mamdani? Because I think it might help

If the amount of fedposting going on on Instagram isn't a clear indication of rapid radicalization of normies against ICE, dunno what is really. The algorithm over there doesn't appear to yet be suppressing ICE related content much either (for us, anyway). TikTok, OTOH, has clamped down hard

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social Anyone who questions ACAB, especially Chicago ACAB, needs to review their history, even if only recent history. https://news.wttw.com/2024/01/22/repeated-police-misconduct-141-officers-cost-chicago-taxpayers-1428m-over-4-years

I read every word, and was not surprised. Police officers are people and are going to have a range of views. But, they will tend toward having authoritarian attitudes. I loved the guy who pretended you must enforce every law to the letter when we all know police have discretion and use it.

"Many officers blamed residents who threw things at agents as much as they did ICE or Border Patrol personnel themselves for the frightening, chaotic endings to those confrontations." ACAB

Not sure why this would surprise anyone who has been on the other side of the boot of the CPD.

Oh, I wasn't surprised at all

A bunch of newly activated people in Chicago need to read this. A troubling number of people believe the police "are on our side" because they have largely followed the law and orders they've been given about not helping ICE. The police will never be "on our side." Sometimes, they're just reined in.

She laughed in her face 🤣 Why does she keep posting her Ls? 😂

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Wow, respect to the mayor of Aurora

Strokes and major neural events don't directly change people. They do blast away a lot of neural connections and plasticize the brain a bunch so as people recover, they'll pick on on shit they wouldn't have before. So, stewing on xitter while in recovery from a stroke? There's Fetterman.

I just finished the new book by @chrislhayes.bsky.social about "the attention age" (The Sirens' Call), and now I can't stop seeing things like this that ought to be bonus chapters. Given that he wrote it while Biden was still running for re-election it is amazingly spot-on

Why is JD higher than Trump in this? Trump is much taller than JD

"Net Worth Held by the Top 0.1% (99.9th to 100th Wealth Percentiles)" Federal Reserve Economic Data

from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff

What

wow shocking 17% of ICE recruits fail written test after trying (with moderate success) to eat pencil 28%(!) of ICE recruits fail to make it up the steps of building to take test due to lack of cardio endurance 4% of ICE recruits were rejected after attempting to zip tie proctor

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Insane

Of course the fictional black man's face changes 🤦‍♀️

Release the Cuomo Files!

Damn.

Stop! He's already dead!

This might have something to do with the epidemic of illiteracy in the anglosphere partially due to disproven methods of teaching reading that don't emphasize phonics and people just not reading as much as they used to

Me too

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Illinois democrats being unwilling to even entertain the idea of redistricting to gain more power in congress is just so on the nose What the fuck is a supermajority trifecta even for anyways? (Btw, you can draw a 16-1 baconmander where no black districts are diluted)

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Elevated Chicago's Juan Sebastian Arias told us. "[Averting the transit fiscal cliff is] one of our biggest priorities right now, as well as enabling reforms for transit [agencies] to become more proactive partners in ETOD." @chicagocityscape.com @chicagodpd.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org

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Relatable

Ah, so we're just going to become Las Vegas then, huh?

If only Chicago could have a city income tax and Illinois could have a progressive income tax... 🥺

"Trump frames himself as a defender of religion, but many of the policies that he and his allies claim protect religious freedom—such as putting prayer in schools—impose white Christian nationalism on captive audiences." www.newsweek.com/trumps-next-...

Good.

Action speaks louder than words

Rep. Jim Jordan wants Jack Smith to testify before his committee. Be careful what you wish for. @cnn.com

Ah, so they're just petty criminals now, huh?

I mean, she was a real one