(AP) — The US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food, said Monday it would shutter operations.

Soaring #electricity prices are triggering a wave of power shutoffs nationwide, leaving more Americans in the dark as unpaid #bills pile up. Although there is no national count of electricity shutoffs, data from select utilities in 11 states show that disconnections have risen in at least eight […]

The policy and effectiveness arguments against UBI have been settled in favor of UBI. The political argument is trending the same.

@futurebird I shall use this opportunity to introduce people to some rad blogging methods and platforms: Neocities - open source, free (with paid options) Bearblog - proprietary, free (with paid option), minimal with a simplistic discovery page and community Micro.blog - proprietary, paid (as […]

"Writing code is easy. Once you have a solution in mind, and have mastered the syntax of your favorite programming language, writing code is easy. Having an LLM write entire functions for you? Even easier. But the hard part isn’t the writing. It’s the reading. It’s the time it takes to load the […]

There’s a lot of political commentary about Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning, but one important point is this: she entered Congress in 2021 with an estimated net worth of about $700,000, and is leaving in 2025 with a net worth of roughly $25 million.

One of the reasons we need universal basic income plus higher taxes on the rich is to boost the spending power of the bottom 60% and in doing so, reorient our economy around the needs of the majority of people who comprise it. As inequality has increased, our economy has adjusted to meet rich wants.

Women and older career switchers are generally not even exposed to red team as an option of interest that they’d be good at using socialized skills, which is kinda crazy when the most ignored people in society who can pretty much walk in anywhere are older women. Instead we portray it like esports.

The Cook County, IL budget for 2026 that just passed sets aside $7.5 million per year from the county budget for a permanent guaranteed basic income program, making it the largest permanent county-level GBI program in the US. No details yet on design, just funding. It could pay 1,250 people $500/mo.

New from me: Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI. Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

@gsuberland new styro video this is not a dril

/2 Are some marginal weirdos genuinely pro-Hamas? Yes. But when you are part of a movement that calls EVERYONE pro-Hamas if they criticize or question Israel or express concern for Palestinians, I’m not going to waste my time listening to you when you tell me someone is pro-Hamas.

I have quite a few projects I'm super excited to publish in the coming weeks. But honestly, the main thing that's consuming my brain cycles story-wise is a year-end piece about just how badly this administration has fscked our cybers in so many ways. This won't be a polemical soliloquy. I […]

Rep. Rashida Tlaib as part of her Economic Dignity for All agenda has introduced a new version of her BOOST Act which is now a Universal Basic Income of $250/mo paired with a new 2.5% tax on incomes over $30k to function as a phaseout. That means everyone under $150k would see a net boost in income.

I don’t normally link to bluesky posts but, please, take the time to watch/listen to this message from U.S. Senator Chris Murphy. He is responding to Donald Trump’s cal for political violence against Democratic Senators and Representatives in the U.S. Congress […]

If you use 7zip, or its forks and derivatives, then ensure you have updated to v25.0 or later. Check now! 🙂👍 https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/11/19/7-zip-vulnerability-is-being-actively-exploited-nhs-england-warns-cve-2025-11001/ #7zip #CVE2005-11011 #rce

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says: “The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center we're really not prepared for what's coming

In a 70% consumer-based economy such as ours, consumers are ultimately the true job creators. It's their spending on goods and services that creates the demand for new jobs. Any owner of a business that sells to the bottom 80% of the income spectrum should be pushing for UBI, not wage loss due to AI

S. Korea has doubled the budget for its massive universal basic income experiment, increasing the number of rural counties included in it from 7 to 12, and relieving counties of more of the cost. As a result, the number of participants in the 2-yr UBI pilot will go from ~250k to near 400,000 people.

Serious post, please boost... On #internationalmensday here's your periodic reminder, fellow AMAB prostate carrying people who are over 50: Go see your doctor. Don't put it off. Ask for a DRE or a PSA test. Yes, DRE means a finger up your bum, get over it. They probably won't find anything […]

"Israeli officials openly stated the goal: to destroy #Gaza and make it uninhabitable. By textbook definition, this is genocide: the deliberate targeting of people not for who they are as individuals, but because they are members of a group marked for destruction" #gazagenocide#gaza[…]

Things happen. Heads just fall off bodies. Dismemberments can happen to anyone really. And clearly the question to ask when it comes to murdering a journalist is, "Did you like him?"

Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue. AND. We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.

Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election, a three-judge panel rules in a major setback for Republicans. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/texas-redistricting-ruling-lawsuit-el-paso-court-2026-midterms/

Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions? I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?

Dear #getfedihired, Despite “my” contract ending with the end of the year, but the company being a side in that contract decided to kick out some people, including me, earlier. So their Christmas present for me is the lack of a job. So I'm looking for opportunities for a jack of all trades […]

Shock Discovery Reveals Sea Urchins Are Basically 'All Brain' https://www.sciencealert.com/shock-discovery-reveals-sea-urchins-are-basically-all-brain

Severance was great because it was essentially a documentary about a lot of ‘knowledge work’ “I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that […]

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston, was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by state police while protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility, Illinois. He writes for Religion News Service about why he continues to show up at Broadview, the atmosphere at […]

Really interesting teen subculture: straightedge #noai art kids. (They're developing IT skills just to turn off or avoid "AI" slop—this gives me hope for the future) For a lot of these kids (I've also heard them called the "AI vegans") a big college decision is coming up. And colleges […]

Millions of Americans are likely to lose their health insurance next year. @Vox spoke to four of them about the financial burden and impossible choices they're facing. https://flip.it/B-3buE #usnews #uspolitics #healthcare #unitedstates

We absolutely need universal basic income as a secure floor below which no one can fall and everyone can build from. It should not be normalized for people to seek 2nd, 3rd, and 4th jobs in order to make enough money to survive or have a backup plan in case of unexpected job and income loss.

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

We are at a point where the vice-President can claim that one of the most widely used and tested medications is "useless" because disregard for science is seen as a virtue.

Starbucks workers are on strike starting tomorrow, Nov 13th. Don't cross the picket line!

Trump regime is still withholding SNAP benefits for November, and food banks still face surging demand for help. Mastodon for Hunger Relief is nearing $15,000. Thanks from the food banks we are funding have started to come in. Help hit the mark at […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/

You can just… not like something. You don't need to harass people about it, or tell people off for liking it, or even comment on them liking it.

AP: ‘A day without fear': Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid immigration crackdown CHICAGO (AP) — The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands and candy stalls. They buy out every last item — every tamale, every […]

On the historical use of starvation as a bludgeon used by despotic governments over their own citizens, something I wrote for Indivisible Santa Fe. https://indivisiblesantafe.org/food-and-the-illegitimacy-of-the-current-united-states-federal-government/

Please do not use "AI-slop" to illustrate your articles or presentations. If you need images and have none just use one of the free stock image sites. It's not harder and doesn't make you look like a dumbass.

This is a cute can design :gosh:

New: A judge in Washington has ruled images from Flock surveillance cameras are public records and that anyone can request them. Highlights the pervasiveness of this tech and just how much surveillance is being done. Very notable ruling […]

#aurora ribbons from cockpit of a flight heading to Fort MacMurray #alberta as major solar storm hits earth.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Descended from lions #cats #catsofmastodon #torties

Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.

Many are calling for Chuck Schumer's resignation. What hasn't been reported until now is that any Senate Democrat can offer a motion to challenge his leadership position, and it would have to get a vote within 7 days. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: prospect.org/2025/11/11/o...