Over 71 million Americans are paid less than a living wage, and are forced into social safety nets like SNAP. If you think too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, don’t shame them. Shame their employers paying them poverty wages and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the rest.

A quick dip into the news, and it's obvious: this administration and their appointees are turning the US into a 3rd world country at breakneck speed. A🧵

This. Poverty isn't just a side effect-- it's another tool for maintaining control.

Or that those laws largely depend on one’s station in life? Poor starving black man steal a sandwich, well, that’s a death sentence. Silver spoon, trust fund, con man commits a lifetime of serious crimes and felonies, they make him president.

I would LOVE to see cars made with fewer computerized components. Much of it is far better for the manufacturer and predatory insurance companies than for the buyer. If we lived in a nation that actually had real consumer protection laws, harvesting your driving data and selling it would be illegal.

I will never stop supporting this. DST needs to go! #EndDaylightSavingsTime #EndDST

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1st POTUS to leave during shutdown. Massive lines at food banks. 42M ppl may starve to death. Argentina 💸 still crashing after $40B influx. Timothy Mellon donates $130M or 6.7 hrs of pay to military. Bunker renovation under gone east wing. 🤡: Regan loved tariffs. It was AI. Canada lied. Polls 📉

It was a method to breed #terror in the people, that much Dylan surmised. If there were no bodies, people would assign some kind of supernatural reason for it, that’s what humans did. But this was a technological thing. How they did it, he didn’t know, but they were not ghosts or demons. #vss365

A thousand years from now, the #Martians we become will look back on our history with awe and sadness. They'll wonder why we destroyed the paradise of our blue marble planet, why we spewed pollution until Earth was more toxic and inhospitable than the frozen deserts of Mars. #vss365

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This kind of thing is what led to the invention of the Guillotine. Just saying.

I was married to an Air Traffic Controller for a decade She’s been working mandatory 6 day weeks for 2 years due staffing shortages, now without pay This government shutdown is such a slap in the face to their dedication to safety and I think about them every day this shutdown continues

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If not jumpy spided-fren, why jumpy spider-fren shaped?

I've got a great picture of a crazed siamese on a bookshelf....

Holy yikes.

At this point I'm not even slightly surprised. This is right on brand.

I have a top tier gaming computer and Facebook is STILL slow to load. Which means... that website sucks so bad, it must be virtually unusable if you have a slower, older computer. Plot to get everyone to download the app, or just general incompetence?

Absolutely hilarious. Chicken Nick is a nobody funded by outside interests. He does not care about Alaskan outside of what we can do for him. Let’s vote him out in 2026 and elect a true Alaskan who will uphold our community values.

Trickle down economics must be nuked from orbit. Economics needs to grow tf up.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

I second this!

America has an affordability crisis America has a health care crisis America has a housing crisis America has a child care crisis Are things getting better for you? Democrats, run on this.

Thanks Dan and Lisa. You suck. Alaska is at the find out portion of voting for you grifters.

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Well said.

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Wow, who knew? All these critical public health workers were actually critical to public health.

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.

I like to do this at work, but it scares my coworkers.

I am also disappointed. Can't wait til this 4 years is up.

I was going to break into targetControlSystem and do terrible things to it.

“Falsely labeled as an antifa member.” See what has happened here? We’ve allowed the right wing clowns to misrepresent the meaning of words, which ultimately makes their viewpoint the only one as everyone else rushes around trying to appease them and not be a target of conservative terrorism.

Cuba’s “low autism rates” reflect underdiagnosis and lack of reporting, not reality. RFK Jr’s claim is misleading pseudoscience dressed up as fact. You can’t find an issue if you don’t look for it.

I freaking love Portland.

'Moonlight Murmuration' by artist Kerrie Ann Gardner, painting on stone #WomensArt #FullMoon #October

The #adverts say a new movie comes out today: film noir, based on the popular #pulp fiction of years past, pandering to the #elastic morals of today. The square-jawed hero slaughters his way through hundreds of disposable baddies to save the day. The pro-life crowd goes wild. #vss365

Editing something I wrote on my phone and found this: The fuckers had averaged him just as surely as if they'd sent him to the gulag or had him executed. I'm sure "averaged" was supposed to be another word, but I kinda like it. Did I just invent new slang?

I don't support government officials spraying nonviolent citizens in the face at point blank range with pepper spray foggers. It is a gross violation of their First Amendment rights to speech and protest, and their Fourth Amendment rights against excessive force.

This. And learn to use them if you're not already comfortable with firearms. Especially important for those of you who are likely to be automatically branded as "enemies of the state."

I think we should use the Russian playbook against them and escalate to de-escalate. Send the 2nd Cavalry Regiment and 41st Field Artillery Brigade from Germany into western Ukraine and have them hold at Lviv. Inform Putin he has 48 hours to cease hostilities in Ukraine or this shit gets much worse.

‘You come here every day for breakfast?’ ‘Yessereedy. They treat me like family here. Know how I like my eggs cooked. That I prefer sausage instead of bacon. But most importantly, they know exactly how I like my orange juice.’ ‘You mean, like, without #pulp?’ ‘No. I mean with vodka.’ #vss365

Couldn't agree more. If I don't get paid, they shouldn't either. Also, they're a hell of a lot more responsible for this shutdown than I am.

I am also Antifa. Don't like it? You know where the door is.

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