to underscore this point: uber requires drivers to have a social security number. lyft allows drivers to use a temporary identification number provided they’ve had their license for at least a year. these folks all have legal authorization to work here.

perhaps spending more than half their ad budget on ads attacking trans children was a tactical error

Repro wins so far: - Virginia protected its status as the last abortion access haven in the South - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court retained the three Democratic justices needed to protect abortion - New Jersey elected a Dem governor (vital as one of the few states w/zero abortion restrictions)

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

now the real work begins

An “all you fascists bound to lose” sort of night

Israel continues to blockade Gaza and deny food and medicine to the people of Palestine. My friend Sama'a is trying to prepare for winter, and she needs our help to keep her family fed and warm. gofund.me/db56c7ce3

Not sure how many Cheney obits will mention this murderous legacy of his.

The people we are fighting are pathetic cowards and it's important to always remember that.

If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again

He should have died in The Hague.

Congratulations, you have outlived Dick Cheney!

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

I think every time someone pitches this article, which we have seen in one form or another for as long as class has existed, they should get a fastball from a pitching machine right to the groin

Normal country

Happy Samhain! 🕷️ @joyfulcarla.bsky.social & @danisavestheworld.bsky.social (and three guest writers!) getting witchy in this latest post! www.cawshinythings.com/the-thin-vei... 🕷️

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.

I think this is the answer to why straight men are more comfortable dating across the political divide than women are. It's not just that women are more directly affected by policy choices; it's also that these men have never once paid attention to what women actually say about their beliefs.

Mutual aid groups, food banks, etc are about to be under even more pressure in the US. Post your local one's donation link here, and if you're seeing this, and you can spare a few bucks, pick one two to give to.

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

Good morning! We’re at $1850 of our $2500 goal! $650 to go! Can you help us raise another $300 today to help our neighbors eat 👀

If you still mask & talk about covid I just want to say thank you. It makes me feel less alone as a disabled person. I know it’s mostly disabled people advocating for themselves but most people either abandoned us lot ago or never stood by us. We have to stand together as we always have. 🤎

i am constantly reminded that taking sexual violence seriously is almost everywhere derided ss "immature,"childlike, unserious. adults who have achieved "seriousness"--ie adult cis men--do not concern themselves with such frivolous, childish, immature subjects

Intentionally triple-tapping a group of easily identifiable journalists who are IN A HOSPITAL can in no possible scenario be described as an "error".

"oh this march is stupid it should have been a -" ok so do that. "people wearing costumes are silly they should be-" stop talking and do whatever the end of that sentence is.

Long overdue story on Leqaa Kordia. Read it, read her words from prison, and donate to her legal fees (both in our thread). www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The genocide is not over. Ceasefire is not liberation. Keep giving. chuffed.org/project/help... “Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

Solidarity is a verb, as in it's not just a noun, as in it's not just dance parties. It's about understanding what's at risk and putting skin in the game according to what you can offer.

Politico has now confirmed this. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

Journalist must be safely allowed into Gaza as this transition is occurring. A free press is the only guarantee that every day people will be protected. A free press is central to knowing the rules are being followed. A free press is essential to peace.

The war is not over yet. The bombing is still ongoing. The situation is still difficult. I am still displaced. My city, Rafah, has not been liberated yet. It is under the control of the army. The plane flies low and its sound is very scary

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

People will try to excuse/defend the chuds by saying they've just watched too much porn but I'm a dyke who watches porn all the time and don't have this problem. Chuds do this because forcing every woman into their ideal sex doll aesthetic is the power fantasy.

Want an introduction to digital surveillance, and how to protect your communications with others? Check out our Surveillance Self-Defense write-up. ssd.eff.org/en/module/c...

Capitalism 🤝 Authoritarianism

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

We already achieved 38k of 40k needed Help us cross the finish line, i’am so close🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Shimaa was shot by an Israeli quadcopter & urgently needs funds to treat her wound. She's a single mother who lost her husband trying to survive Israel's genocide with her baby daughter, please help by sharing & donating if you've anything to spare (no donations for 4 days):

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Perhaps most importantly, the Trump plan does nothing to advance Palestinian self-determination, which as @danaelkurd.bsky.social highlighted is strikingly absent from efforts to stop the war. To the contrary, Trump's plan further institutionalizes the obstacles to self-determination. (Gift link.)

An Andrew Tate and Charlie Kirk fan just murdered two teenage girls. In a livestream now taken down he claimed they had made fun of Charlie Kirk's death. This is the real world consequences of the hate and misogyny the right promotes while claiming the left is violent.

This family needs your support.

"You must dox yourself to use the internet" is dystopia shit, and everybody's just going along with it.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Deeply fucked how many people seem to think that blaming Diaspora Jews is somehow more radical than accepting the bitter truth that the American Empire and the politicians who maintain it are so fucking evil that they're backing a genocide because it benefits Empire Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me: