All you have to do is poll a random group of adult women to see how many were abused in childhood to know we've already demonstrated this. Epidemic levels.

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement my out of pocket cost: $473 what my insurance paid: $4258 what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692

"Silence, for me, is now intolerable."

The burmese chicken curry from spice island tea house in Oakland in pgh. (Now, the best sandwich I ever ate is served in SF but I just can't get there barely ever. La Torta Gorda for those who can.)

I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out. He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:

"In a 40-page filing to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, the administration insisted that being forced to spend money Congress has already appropriated is a graver injury than the hunger and disruption that would follow from withholding it." abcnews.go.com/US/snap-appe...

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays. Listen in ⬇️

Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won? People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump. It’s always pure projection.

Fellas is loving a woman with everything you have gay?

At least they FINALLY admitted why they refused to negotiate on the shutdown. First they lied and promised Dems they would “negotiate” this, but only AFTER they voted for the CR. But Dems were correct when they assessed that Republicans NEVER intended to extend these subsidies.

Masterful use of Trash Humpers. I'm in awe.

The Trump administration has ordered visa officers to deny immigrants who are obese or have certain health issues, in yet another instance of the president’s strange obsession with physical traits. trib.al/tRBiY0C

For a $700,000 mortgage at a 5% interest rate with a 50-year (600-month) term, the estimated monthly principal and interest payment is approximately $2,891.13. Total Payments Over the Life of the Loan: ~$1,734,678. Total Interest Paid: ~$1,034,678.

It came out yesterday that the average age on first time home buyers is up to 40. So you'll finish paying off the mortgage at 90. How many times the purchase price will you have paid for your home by that time?

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

All of those shorthands and tests ruin people's media literacy. There is an episode of Seinfeld where all women only bicker about shoes. It passes the Bechdel test, and is quite sexist... as long as you don't consider the meta commentary about men writing women.

I am filled with constant rage at social media trend of having the important part of a video on screen for tiniest fraction of second. My android phone does not like to pause anything on IG and I ain't watching it ten times to falsely increase your views.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Make no mistake, this excavation wouldn’t be happening if Catherine Corless hadn’t stuck her neck out and defied people telling her to leave it alone. But the scale of this is unimaginable. It’s not just M&B homes, it’s laundries, it’s industrial schools, it’s giant psych hospitals.

An administration that for months claimed unilateral & absolute authority to shutter entire executive agencies suddenly finds without any agency to move money from one internal pot of money to another

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

I see everyone getting incredibly mad about this but… this is basically what the Dems have been asking for the entire time it’s a bad deal for the Dems! it’s super easy to say yes to! and we are over a month into a shutdown anyway because the response has been “you get nothing, good day sir”

Sen. Blumenthal: We cannot afford to go back to the days when preexisting conditions were a pretext for denying health care. If someone had a history of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, depression, pregnancy, insurers could force patients to pay more or refuse to offer them coverage at all

BREAKING: The USDA tells states funds will be made available later today to pay November SNAP benefits in full.

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

They really want us normal folk who have paid into this so much our whole lives to work until the day we die. But, wait, there's more! AI bias against any woman applicant over 40 + ageism in general pushing us out of our jobs. How TF are we supposed to survive?

years ago, a pitt student was training a service dog and we rode the bus together all the time. One day, the service dog started secretly nuzzling my foot under the seat. It was one of my best bus trips ever. I loved that dude.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

From a friend here, if you're wondering why what the GOP is really saying: "no food stamps until you agree to no insurance" "Yesterday we got a letter in the mail saying that our insurance in 2026 is going from $226/month to $2984/month. Let that sink in. More than our rent." #politics

BREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump admin "did not comply" with his order to fund SNAP benefits. Judge John McConnell has verbally ordered the admin to *fully fund* SNAP benefits for the month of November — by tomorrow.

This seems like a bad thing to have. I feel like the entirety of both parties should be anti-Hitler. But a senior Republican just publicly admitted that’s not true. That’s … really really bad.

Aside from Teterboro, this is every major airport in America. (And adding Teterboro to this is also going to really piss off the private jet crowd.)

US troops in Germany told to seek food banks amid shutdown

Reporting this story, I heard near universal concern from Heritage staff of discrimination against unmarried women. Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more. Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.

US citizen arrested by ICE at a Home Depot parking lot— they drove his car away with his toddler daughter.

GOOD.

Less exciting mayoral win (and one so expected that no ads ran after the primary), but a Dem win regardless

None of what Trump is doing is popular and voters are telling us that

My professional political opinion is that people who want to stay in power should not take glee in their constituents losing jobs and children going hungry.

FUCK YES: Democrats have retained a 5-2 seat majority in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. This is what democracy looks like.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Wow, Diane Ladd hurts. I can't overstate how much her role in Wild at Heart meant to me and Enlightenment too. The moment in season 1 episode 5 "not good enough mothers" when Laura Derm sees all the people on the bus as her mother moves me deeply and is basically my politics.

At the very least, watch S1E9 “Consider Helen.” It works as a standalone episode. Incredible performance by Ladd.

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