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Similar horror story here. We have a major surgery in our family coming up and have to decide whether to be financially devastated now or later.

One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law! That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

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if the leftists win they will destroy our way of life (constant unnecessary suffering)

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

“Despite her grievous losses, Ms. van de Perre expressed awe in her memoir…. “I can still hardly believe that people who should have remained unremarkable ended up memorialized on lists and monuments,” she wrote. “We were ordinary people plunged into extraordinary circumstances.”” 🕯️

Meanwhile, in Chicago, hundreds waited in line at food pantries after SNAP benefits were halted. "I work a full-time job," said 26-year-old Jazmine Blair. "But I still can't afford basic stuff and it's kind of sad. I'm surviving. I'm not living."

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.

Givin’g ‘em the ol’ razzle dazzle.

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For the record, Melissa's main targets of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas account for, respectively, 0.016%, 0.0089%, 0.064%, and 0.0038% of the global annual total of CO2 emissions.

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

AND that’s even with the cost of food kept artificially low due by the suppression of wages! It’s a magic circle of shit

My father, who was unhoused, died outdoors on a 90+ degree day. His cause of death was listed as alcohol-related, which it was, but he almost certainly died of heat. There must be countless like him. Thank you for this reporting, @ninalakhani.bsky.social

Given how few people notice or stop at the four way stop (next to a school) on my street, eyes-off driving is already the norm We have the technology to prevent drivers from breaking the law, it should be required (speed limiters, full stop at intersections, etc)

AI sure seems more and more like primarily an instrument of fascism designed to destroy independent agency and thought but what do I know

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"Look around. Your enemy is a barista named River." www.theverge.com/policy/80231...

“Framing the stakes as clean versus corrupt shifts debate from rigid ideological divisions to a universally resonant moral question: are you on the side of the people or a corrupt elite?” How many Democrats would have an earnest, untroubled answer to this question?

Notch another win for automatic traffic enforcement. After San Francisco began using cameras to ticket vehicles, speeding dropped 72% across 15 sites (20,000 fewer speeding drivers).

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end. In the meantime: • Figure out a small way to help someone • Figure out a small way to fight back • Figure out a small place to find joy • Figure out a small way to grow and thrive And do it often.

Last month marked one year since the launch of electrified service. In that time, total ridership has grown 57% year-over-year, with weekend ridership doubling. Thank you for riding with us!

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

the nobel peace prize has been awarded to adolf hitler, for killing himself!

$11 billion to raise and widen a highway, through a wetland, during a climate crisis. Imagine spending $11 billion on workforce housing in Marin/Sonoma/Napa/San Francisco so the people driving across 37 every day to get to work ... could just live where they work. California is a climate pariah.

The pearl clutching crackdown on e-bikes would be more convincing if the same leagues of concerned parents fought for slower speeds, traffic calming, and protected bike lanes Not to mention speed limiters on cars that can be driven 100+ mph on freeways

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Absolutely molten-hot language here from Professor Fraser Shilling, Director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis, on the decision to spend *half a billion* to widen Highway 37, which is sinking into the bay.

"In 1933 it was no longer a question of overthrowing a state by an act of violence; meanwhile the new State had been built up and all that there remained to do was to destroy the last remnants of the old State—and that took but a few hours.” Shirer, William L. Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p. 204

before and after hegseth's directive

the playbook is to destroy the safety net and blame the left for the results, over and over www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

They're going to try to overturn Obergefell and end marriage equality. Eyes wide open, folks. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

It appears the federal government is invading Portland because Trump tweeted it would and they scrambled to put together an invasion in response.

War ravaged Portland

Tonight's Milky Way taken from Point Reyes, California. The frames were taken about 33 miles, as the pelican flies, from San francisco. Light the curvature of the Earth is weird!

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

The first public media station to go dark thanks to Trump’s cutoff of federal funding to public media is a 70 year old station in Pennsylvania. https://loom.ly/IjOHdzI

"Existing evidence also shows that azelastine is one of several drugs that can stop SARS-CoV-2 from replicating itself, halting the virus in its tracks. However it works, though, the drug is clearly effective at preventing COVID-19." www.sciencealert.com/over-the-cou...

Many downtown SF streets resemble this. I wish anyone in power here would consider widening sidewalks, adding protected bike lanes, and carving new parks and plazas out of overwide roads as ways to revitalize downtown... instead of constantly cutting corporate taxes and developer fees.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

To put this loan amount in perspective: California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less). But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.

being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic

This is a generational talent at work