Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

True for our whole 🇨🇦 apparatus of food banks. They are essential, but they are also testimony to the inadequacy of wage incomes and income assistance

Had the most wonderful day visiting Curve Lake FN with my kid for the Mnoominkewin, learning about wild rice, eating amazing food from Shawn Adler of the Flying Chestnut, getting out on the lake to try harvesting & planting, and hearing sublime talks by @biidaasamose.bsky.social & Winona LaDuke(!!)

*siiiiiiigggghhhh*

Wait, so he’s saying the core beliefs of the whole structure that is the US military are held up by one thing, which is ‘grooming standards’? Seems a bit cosplay-y, no?

If there’s a hell, then anyone who facilitates the cutting of effing Head Start is going straight there, do not pass Go.

Every criminologist:

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

economics not beating the “astrology for men” allegations with quotes like this

Imagine you’re just a bird teenager trying to live your life, and then a giant monster traps you, makes you wear ugly jewellery, puts your picture on the internet and says your name is ‘yellow rumped,’ and then flattens out your bum! So rude.

The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.

Mamdani's #ZCavengerHunt shows what politics can be when it's rooted in joy and community. We deserve leaders who uplift our neighborhoods, celebrate our culture and invite everyone to play along, rather than stoking fear or division. This is the energy we need.

This is a thousand layers of awesome! Engaging and social, cool but joyful, innovative and creative, resisting fear narratives, educational and political but not didactic, accessible for everyone but also geared to gen Zs. Wish we had even a single Ontario politician like this 😍

How anyone could write the phrase “decolonially trained AI” with a straight face, much less use it as a defence/justification/excuse for anything, is just amazing. It’s so beyond stupid.

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as...

*Taps sign* www.sup.org/books/sociol...

Universal childcare would be one of the best ways to stimulate the economy. Studies have shown an increase in workplace participation and wages. For kids, it helps foster development. The ROI on childcare is insane. apnews.com/article/chil... #econsky

The myth that the economy runs like a family's household finances is a myth that really needs to end.

The bulk of tech bros and people with inherited wealth do not fundamentally understand skilled labor at all because they have always been in a position to fail up, and they assume that they are actually the high performers and that everybody else is more incompetent than they are.

How did Reagan get us here? Essentially, Reagan gave us distrust in government, plus deregulation, plus belief in the benevolence of billionaires, plus trickle-down economics, plus precarity, plus scapegoats fueled by racist and sexist stereotypes. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Grok is a full blown nazi now.

Punishment and waste Family meals in Correctional Services of Canada’s Private Family Visits Else Marie Knudsen @elsebelle.bsky.social #CarceralFood #FoodSystems #PrisonFood #Punishment #Children #Families canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

How is this not a huge scandal?! This is textbook antisemitism- a disgusting trope that’s been used to dehumanize and justify discrimination & violence against Jews for eons And yet not a peep from B’nai B’rith & co.! If it doesn’t conflict w/ hard-right Israeli politicians, it’s not a concern?

A wee reminder that: - the treatment Garcia describes is clearly torture (per UNCAT) - the US is accountable for this (rendition/contracting to El Salvador doesn’t change that) - his legal status & criminal innocence isn’t the point - no prisoners should be treated this way. Obviously. OBVIOUSLY!

Let them eat wall.

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

not sure I've ever seen reddit humour that is so purely my kind of laugh

This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."

At least those Reaganites really did believe in trickle down and all that stuff (and conveniently it made them rich!) - but this is just naked corruption, no?

If you’re confused why ANYONE would cut medical research - research that would have led to cancer cures and treatment! - remember the neoliberal logic that ALL social policy is waste. Bc there is no ‘society’ - there are only (more and less successful) individuals, countries, and companies.

posters going up in Philly and some other cities

For conservatives, every dollar spent on food, housing, health and social care is a waste, and every dollar on policing and military is an investment.

My commitments to non-normative and non-punitive social policy run deep but when someone is this gross....

Homo Economicus and the broader idea that meeting one’s personal, short-term financial interest is the most rational goal run so deep in the West. Economists are (generally) just the worst.

Research on "millionaire migration" shows that it rarely happens and that states could raise their top tax rates way higher. www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

Horrific murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in the middle of DC. This kind of violence is illegal, immoral, inexcusable and of course - if the chant of ‘free Palestine’ by the alleged shooter is true - solves nothing and helps zero Palestinians.

'Vast majority of CEOs/prisoners" is such a wonderful faux datapoint, as if becoming a CEO or prisoner arises from a flawless objective process for determining the right people for those roles.

The lovely folks at @foodstudies.ca are putting on a launch of the themed section on Carceral Food System in their latest volume. Register here: lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... And read the whole volume (#OpenAccess) here: canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Cool! Hey remind me what the word “transaction” means real quick?

It’s really striking how irregular the bands of mostly men conducting federal immigration enforcement are. They seem to have no particular uniform, they wear a variety of different agency initials on their tactical vests, or none at all, they’re inconsistent about displaying a badge…

Hey check out this out: a themed edition of @foodstudies.ca journal on Carceral Food Systems. Edited by Amanda Wilson and Ami Stearns and #OpenAccess! (and w/ an article by me about the experiences of kids of incarcerated parents and #prisonersfamilies' of food in prison visiting rooms)

The hero we need

Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.

Can't remember who said it, but using ChatGPT for your college essays is like using a forklift to move the weights around at the gym. It's the process that's important to your development, not the end product.

Every prisons researcher, ex-prisoner & CO is shaking their head. Even if the premise was sound (which it isn’t - tougher prisons don’t make communities safer. At all. That’s not how crime works. At all.), this is so insanely infeasible for tons of reasons. It’s all theatre.