I'm honestly scared. A $600 unexpected expense wrecks me for a month. A THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH for the exact same healthcare IS NOT HAPPENING.

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

It doesn't help that they're deporting a large segment of the home building workforce.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50. “Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.

Reminder that if you want a custom, one-of-a-kind knitted gift for someone for the holidays, the best time to order something fro my shop and get it ON TIME is now! Knitting takes time and if people ask me in December it just won't be as feasible or even possible at all. #GiftShop #BSNM #OpenComms

"I was late learning about science … For much of my scientific training I feared I was behind my peers. But I have been able to close the gap—and that is something to be proud of." #CelebrateFirstGen https://scim.ag/4nBoBJr

And that's important, because she was a working scientist with agency of her own and she collaborated willingly with so much more of that work than is usually mentioned. Both by Watson AND his critics. Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.

ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.” That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.” @jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

A friend and I talk a lot about how the beauty of money (small m) is that it allows you to buy your way out of problems. Car broke down? You can afford to fix it. But it seems with very rich people, the inability for money to "fix" a situation - like mortality - to their liking is THE problem.

We sent a message to management today with a Slack icon change. More than half of our union participated and are demanding management reinstate the four people who were unjustly fired. Ready to show your own support? Reach out to Condé Nast management telling them to reinstate the fired four.

James Watson was a thief and a racist. May Rosalind Franklin’s name live forever in our memories for her contributions to molecular biology. And may our cultural infatuation with mediocre white men one day be a distant memory.

"AI is a direct attack on the way we verify information: AI both creates fake sources and obscures its actual sources. That is the opposite of what librarians do, and teachers do, and scientists do, and experts do." 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Richest nation in human history

"biological pronouns" is an insane phrase

This quality of reporting is what made Teen Vogue indispensable—and why what's happening to it is so infuriating. Withholding SNAP could cause "the greatest hunger catastrophe in America since the Great Depression." A 22-year-old with diabetes said: "It's like a death sentence for people like me."

Taxing the super rich is actually the extremely moderate position compared with what A) they deserve and B) is likely necessary to restore anything like a functioning democratic order to public hands

you probably shouldn't let what commentators like Ezra Klein say be the limit of your imagination or determine what you think is politically possible. He doesn't have a clue what is possible.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Trump is appealing the judicial order to pay full SNAP benefits by tomorrow. He’s spending tax payer dollars going back to court to try and avoid giving folks money they are legally owed. He’s starving 42 million people because to him they are leverage. It’s enraging.

If Musk meets all the benchmarks of his new $1 trillion pay package from Tesla he will be paid $274 MILLION EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS This is his part-time job

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

McConnell on children going hungry: "This Should Never Happen in America." He goes back to gov't's argument being pretextual, citing numerous statements made by Trump and his adminisrtration over the last week.

McConnell is now defining "irreparable harm" for the gov't. McConnell orders the administration to make FULL SNAP payments to states by tomorrow. Court grants plaintiffs' order for second TRO. The administration decided not to use full Sec 32 funds to fund SNAP....

DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’

Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.

HIRE ALICE

Opinion | 34 is not old enough to govern by Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi

Live your life so that your retirement at AGE EIGHTY FIVE is not national news that takes people by surprise. The gerontocracy just needs to die. Literally and figuratively.

For those not clued in, GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic et al have been doing unexpectedly great things for people with long COVID, other autoimmune stuff, RA, etc. The medical establishment is largely shrugging and denying it to people who aren’t motivated by weight loss.

The EPA just approved the pesticide cyclobutrifluram for golf courses, lawns, cotton, soybeans, and lettuce. It's another #ForeverChemical — one of a group called #PFAS. Despite the vast agency furloughs, the pesticide office remains open for business. Read on ➡️ bit.ly/47qlFKO

Wow, huge credit to Katie and the rest of the nutrition team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social. USDA has now issued revised numbers because CBPP caught them either accidentally or intentionally making huge errors that would severely underfund SNAP, in direct violation of court orders.

Yes please

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?

Don't talk to the NYT. They've betrayed families' trust before. They will lie to you and use you and then turn around and tell you it was their job. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

I stand by the assertion that Mamdani should hire Sliwa as his Cuomo Czar. When Curtis was talking trash on Bill Ackman's shitty tennis playing in Newport, it was clear he knew where all the NYC politics bodies were buried. Sliwa can help the government cut ties with every Cuomo adjacent hanger-on

I been saying I don't think Republicans are uniquely capable of creative legal thinking personally I would like to see more 'if you wanna act funny, I can act hilarious'-type legal arguments in furtherance of good things

A photojournalist was arrested by ICE at gunpoint — and his DACA status revoked. “Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...

the Teen Vogue politics section's last newsy story 🥲 Rainesford knocked it out of the park

The wealthy donors and the Democratic "leadership" politicians who tried to make Cuomo happen showed nothing but contempt for the voters of New York and anyone who was inspired by Mamdani's campaign. The way they tried to win this election through the force of money and power was pure disrespect.

One of Rachel Reeves' minions was on the news saying we all had to "do our bit" and pay more in taxes No minion, we don't. We've been "doing our bit" for the past 18 years via austerity and yet the rich have been getting richer whilst we get poorer Tax wealth, NOT work #VoteGreen #LabourOut

Good morning. Last night was a referendum on Trump's corruption, cruelty, and chaos. But it's also not a coincidence these big wins came at the exact moment when Democrats are using our power to stand for something and be strong. A huge risk to not learn that lesson.

I asked you all to send me the funniest election night posts and this morning for my newsletter, I compiled them all for you! www.burnsnotice.com/the-best-ele...

Nandy, a 22-year-old in Kentucky, has Type 1 Diabetes. Foods he's supposed to eat are more expensive, he said. He goes to Walmart and Kroger trying to find lowest prices. He's been eating one meal a day to stretch food out. It's impacting his health: “It’s like a death sentence for people like me”

This Day in Labor History: November 5, 1916. Cop thugs opened fire on a group of IWW organizers and workers attempting to land in Everett, Washington. Let's talk about the horrors of the Everett Massacre and the murderous ways of cops.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.