Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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you should never stan politicians but i'm allowed to lib out for one night and this made me cry

Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor! Dick?

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

gavin newsom is trash. protect trans kids

at this point in the season i really only have lettuces in my garden to donate, but i’d love to give that to anyone who could use it. does anyone have any recos for types of places to google for produce donations? do i just start with local food banks? or is cash just better in this situation?

70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.

stop sharing ai videos for any reason challenge

you’re goddamn right they are out there barefoot in their pajamas chasing nazis out of their neighborhood HELL YEAH

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

someone at work sent an email asking us to use plain language and then later in the same email said that we are "in the iterative phase" of something so i'm gonna go ahead and call it a day

“It gets better” okay WHEN

if you are looking to learn more about the axolotl i highly recommend World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. lovely reading about axolotls and other incredibly cool creatures

we figured seattle would have enough people so went to renton’s protest instead and I’m so glad we did. the crowd was enormous and someone was handing out tiny john brown zines 🥹

personal fave

catturd has fallen

i'm writing again!! pls enjoy this plea for eliminating plastic in gardens and let me know if there are other gardening things you'd like to read about, especially if they have to do with growing groceries in a landlord's yard

eric adams, it's your time

the bad news is i forgot i was getting my flu and covid shots today and wore a long sleeved shirt, so everyone in the UW student union saw my bra. the good news is the nurse felt so bad she gave me two lollipops

every time i see someone in the regime call portland “war-ravaged” this is all i can think about

does anyone else ever see shit like this and just think "there is no place in the modern workforce where i won't have an existential crisis every single day"

THIS.

repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out

sometimes i think about how my dad called me the morning after trump won in 2016 and told me i was overreacting while I sobbed. i don’t talk to that mf anymore but i sure hope wherever he is he feels like a real dumbass

If U.S. Customs and Border Patrol can unlawfully detain someone in secret, without notice or access to counsel, then no ones’ due-process rights are safe, one attorney said this morning. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

as a seattle freeze experiencer it always baffles me that PNWers don't make a bigger deal of this. like if you don't want new people to come here this is all you have to tell them. it would have worked on me but no one said anything and now i live in abject fear every september

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

Context that didn't make it into the story, a quick 🧵 About 60,000 people are currently in custody across the country, said Matt Adams, legal director for the nonprofit Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. 1/9

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

This article just reminded me of this old tweet

i see they're swapping the blackshirts for the white hoods

"America is not a good place to be an early adult" lmao no shit i entered the workforce 12 years ago this month and it's been an increasingly awful nightmare with each passing godforsaken year

starting to think the only way to survive All Of This is to have a consistent supply of donuts around at all times, so that i can have at least 1 if not 2 donuts per morning. has anyone tried this

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

ok, here is a strawberry rhubarb pie i rage-baked with stuff from the farmers market

thinkin of this tweet for no particular reason

this book about this guy literally changed my life, please read it and happy pride month bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

yesterday was a hell of a day to come back from a weeklong vacation but at least i got to look at these incredible plants before food, let alone travel of any kind, becomes prohibitively expensive

i don't know if i've ever felt more hopeless than watching an elderly black man get dragged out of the room for calling out fascism while dozens of white people sat silently with their lollipop signs and watched and did nothing

Staff at NOAA forecast extreme weather like hurricanes, wildfires and floods, guard against overfishing and track the effects of climate change. They're a crucial part of understanding our world. The Trump administration just fired 880 of them. www.seattletimes.com?p=18243961

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

A great read from @climatehuman.bsky.social

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo