CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

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Amazon's cheap delivery comes at a cost to the drivers, who are hired as contractors with fewer protections. "When we let the market play out, we know what happens. Customers get worse service, workers are, in a sense, screwed over." @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

The perplexing rise of protein shakes: how a ‘meaty sludge’ became a billion-dollar industry

the moon nearly full a big short on the horizon

After the free marketing from Trump & Elon, Zohran Mamdani wins Mayor of NYC! 🎉

SNAP is a domestic violence intervention. Being able to feed your family is foundational to leaving an abusive relationship.

If anyone needs a Halloween costume idea and struggles with a fear or anxiety, dress up as your biggest fear. Yesterday at Five Fleas Itchy Poetry. I love Roberta for giving us a chance to write these kinds of tweet-like poems.

Thanks to Deborah Karl-Brandt for including this poem in the long list for Haiku Dialogue on theme of music thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

Do you love the Chicago Public Library? Do you not want to wait weeks for books? Do you still want to be able to go to programs? Send a letter to electeds ! In the budget, Brandon Johnson is proposing 89 cuts to positions, and cutting our book budget in half. actionnetwork.org/letters/no-l...

As an editor, I don't want to see what AI has written. I want to see what writers have written. I exist to help writers, and after we talk, both of us will have learned something. With AI, no one learns anything. There is no improvement and growth for humans.

Secretary Rollins’ claim that the Trump Administration is unable to deliver November SNAP benefits during a shutdown is unequivocally false. The Administration is legally required to use contingency reserves to fund benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill.

I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.

you do you, haiku crew today's #haikufeels + #OneLineOctober #prompt is cellar 👉 check my pinned post for more info

Delighted to be nominated for the Touchstone Awards by Haiku Girl Summer. Huge thanks to editor, @teatimehaiku.bsky.social for nominating this haiku #haiku #touchstoneawards

If you live in the St. Louis area and are interested in writing haiku, please join me for my quarterly Haiku Walk in Soulard. We have a new meeting point at the Soulard Station (1911 S. 12th) and will take a U-shaped route to the Soulard Market. Beginners welcome!

"Ghostbusters" is a movie about three scientists who prove the existence of the afterlife, and use it for a tech startup.

We are sending hard earned taxpayer dollars outside this country. Not for humanitarian aid. Not to help the poor or needy No reciprocation. No good will But to enrich the Treasury Secretary's buddies. FUCK!!!!!!!!

"They weren't always like this" 25 years ago, Republicans were joking about killing gay people, torturing Muslims and Arabs, and deporting Latinos, only obviously that wasn't what they called them You want to tell me that the folks buying Liberal Hunting Permits at gun shows weren't like this?

If you see any post online saying that the #IRS is sending you inflation/stimulus payments, that is absolutely untrue. We are shutdown. There will be no checks coming from the IRS. #skytax #scamalert

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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

This is not the time in the history of our nation to be a bystander. . .

Congratulations to Maria Machado on receiving the coveted Nobel Peace Prize for her relentless activism in support of democracy. #NobelPeacePrize #democracy #politics #news

Michigan Avenue right now.

I initially wrote this article four years ago. But with Trump trying to eradicate Black history from our curriculum, I feel compelled to repost it. open.substack.com/pub/kellysca...

And do we really think the billionaires who will be able to pick up millions of acres of farmland for pennies on the dollar are going to plant orchards? No. They will install data centers and pump the drinking water out of the ground to cool them.

In the first quarter of 2025, farm bankruptcies increased by 95% Remember: the policies leading to bankruptcy are purposeful. Our food supply is in danger…there is no better way to bring a country to its knees than having control of its food supply.

DLMayfield: "Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism: They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement because they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled through terror. The best way to resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you."

The Trump administration said today it is freezing $2.1 billion in funding for major Chicago infrastructure projects, part of a broader effort to squeeze Democratic-led cities during the government shutdown. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought confirmed the move in a post on X.

thirty-two feet per second squared how a nation falls #wss366

psst, feelsfam 🤫 I always feel like somebody's watching me. i bet it's other hashtags 😒 today's #haikufeels + #OneLineOctober #prompt is splinter 👉 check my pinned post for more info

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

Trump trying to send a DM to Pam Bondi but actually posting it on TruthSocial instead raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental acuity.

wildfire ash the shopkeeper adjusts her flowered mask - Deborah A. Bennett Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2024

Oh my god. This musical number by a famous #Disney character is savage. Thank you @colbertlateshow.bsky.social. #Disney #ABC #DonaldTrump and #BrendanCarr won't be happy if you widely circulate this. So shut your trap. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGD...

azaleas recognizing another late bloomer

I’m at a community meeting about resisting ICE in Chicago. There are about 400 people in this high school auditorium. Chicago is showing up.

If you get arrested at a protest, and you need to fight a charge, who's your lawyer? A public defender may represent you at arraignment. (Love you, PDs!) Afterward, usually it's an NLG lawyer, working for free. The NLG Chicago needs your support. (ACLU doesn't do crim defense, with exceptions.)

NLG Chicago Denounces Violent Federal Law Enforcement Response to Protest in Broadview, IL (1/2) On Friday, federal agents significantly escalated their attacks on speech and people protesting at the now notorious ICE detention facility in suburban Broadview, IL.

NLG Chicago Denounces Violent Federal Law Enforcement Response to Protest in Broadview, IL (2/2)

Several times this year more than 100,000 people have been out in the streets in particular cities to protest this regime and the NYT & MSM barely covered those protests. I wonder why [I don't actually so no need to respond].

"Nepal is a caution that ignoring young people and citizen demands for accountability can cost leaders their office. looking at you, America" @out5p0ken.bsky.social 🎯 out5p0ken.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

If only there was an entire branch of literature dedicated to what happens to those who delegate their choices to machines