"Beneath the jargon and negotiating and court proceedings is the human right to eat..." The three branches of our federal government do not care how immense the suffering is. In light of the latest SCOTUS news on SNAP, please read these stories of people relying on these benefits to feed themselves

all ryes for the cause of freedom

This is such a gorgeous first signal of good governance.

Shocking but unsurprising.

Mamdani's outro music is the Sunidhi Chauhan banger "Dhoom Machale" and a million Desi kids just felt seen.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

"Yes. Aunties." "This city is your city. And this democracy is yours too." "My brother, we are in City Hall now." Damn, the tears from Mamdani's speech.

Zohran beginning his victory speech by quoting Eugene Debs is a fucking baller move

WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!! Mayor-Elect Mamdani has such a gorgeous ring to it!!!! We did it. The entire movement behind @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's campaign did it! I love you, NYC.

I ❤️ NYC

Betting markets just dipped out on Cuomo. Zohran at 98% on Polymarket.

Brad Lander for Senate.

and for those Indian Americans who've swung hard against him because he's Muslim--if you can't be guided by good morals, try at least to remember that you're physically indistinguishable from many of the people you've helped demonize, and that you've lived the wrong end of this experience before

Daisy wants YOU to vote like you love your neighbors* *squirrels excluded

So Schumer never did endorse, huh. Nor Gillibrand. Just irredeemable pieces of shit, the entire NY senate delegation

"For all his claims to foresight, Cheney never expected to be displaced by what he empowered. He surely did not expect to die on a day when New Yorkers are poised to elect a Muslim socialist mayor in a repudiation of his legacy" Even if like me you were avoiding his obits, this is essential reading

BREAKING: Trump says no SNAP benefits during shutdown in shocking reversal from yesterday www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I'm sitting here, doing calls and writing, as if I am all calm, when in reality my insides are doing a little jig of nervous excitement over this election today. Go vote, NYC. Go vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. And all the other races (esp looking at Omar Fateh), good luck today. Flip it.

This entire thread is Subway-colored gold.

Dick Cheney lived long enough to witness the horrors he had unleashed.

This is gorgeous.

New Yorkers if this doesn’t convince you, I don’t know what will.

Brown lentils with sauteed tomatoes. Sounds simple but serve it with spiced yogurt and whatever toasted bread you can get -- and optionally add salty feta and dried herbs as garnish if you can afford it -- and it's filling, cheap, and scrumptious.

This entire thread

Every single journalist with expertise in extremism I know has been fired or their publication has folded. Not a coincidence, of course. Grateful for their work, but unfortunately for almost all of us, this work will now have to be the side hustle.

What a sad thing to have even less integrity than the old time racist who used to stage crimes for attention.

a helpful starter pack to find stuff you may be interested in and/or is local to you go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

good time to respectfully tap the "please support worker-led, billionaire-free, independent news" sign

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system. Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

The billionaires are coming for everything. Protect and support the indie news outlets that actually report the news instead of fascist apologia. And please pay attention to where the good @teenvogue.com writers and editors go and support them there. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

And replacing Versha Sharma with Chloe Malle at Teen Vogue means yet another woman of color is out of a job in media.

Hunger in the country with the most money in the world is a political choice-- of the most toxic kind. The only way to address this is community action. Donate to your local food bank. Strengthen your local networks. Kick out the elected bastards who are making this happen.

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around. Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

And that was a hell of a series and game

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In contrast, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's campaign is closing with community and pluralist joy. I canvassed today and so many people we met on the street looked at our Mamdani materials and broke out into smiles. It's the polar opposite of what Dean Obeidallah writes about in this great essay.

Peak Dad Halloween Energy.

Totally illegal, unconstitutional and an impeachable offense.

NYC! Voted early this week, and it felt amazing to cast a ballot for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Vote early to confront this national cast of darkness and violence and turn our city towards joy and community. (Also--a special thank you to the kind and spirited poll workers for their work.)

this is a key starter pack imo because no matter what happens on tuesday, we will have to fight like hell against fascism in this city for the next few years - and frankly probably for the rest of our lives. team up, y'all. find your organizing home. this is a good place to start looking.

i’m continually struck by the joy zohran has brought to this election and the absolute venom with which it’s been met.

What an appalling thing to say in light of all the shit being thrown at Mamdani right now. Shut up, you whiny bitch.

seeing people talk about setting up mini food pantries in tandem with giving out halloween candy while corporations fund extreme makeover: white house edition is the sign of sick, broken society. i mean what in the actual fuck.

The cruelty against the most vulnerable among us continues. In moral times this would not be considered, let alone allowed.

“If you are willing to accept that from a distance, as many Democrats say they are, a person may not be able to tell the real symbol of hate from its doppelgänger, that is for you to live with. But, I do care about the political trade-offs we will ask people to make in the name of pragmatism.”

Has there been an update on this?

A nine year old brown boy living in NYC on 9/11 who grew up to love the city knows more about New York culture and New York values than this bitter, bilious husk of man riding his father’s coattails into his seventh decade could ever know