The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

War Crime trials.

My newest piece on SNAP & moral decrepitude of Trump Admin. contrarian.substack.com/p/the-ugline...

Fantastic piece by Andy Fisher -> Trump’s Pro-Hunger Agenda and the Cruel Logic of Capitalism thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/trumps-pro-h... #FoodInsecurity #Politics #SNAP via @mitpress.bsky.social

It won’t be a shortage of food, but rather the surplus of political hate & corporate greed that’ll ravage the global food supply as we know it @marianachilton.bsky.social offers a path towards redemption

Glad NYT finally covering this. One of the most important injustices behind by these illegal firings. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

🥗 city-owned grocery stores let’s gooo!

🥗 About 12 Million Households Receive Both Medicaid and SNAP. The Reconciliation Bill Puts Them At Risk. Jonathan Schwabish for @urbaninstitute.bsky.social www.urban.org/urban-wire/a...

My first piece with @contrariannews.org Were working with monsters - we need to step it up. substack.com/@contrarian/...

Glad to see NYT piece like this from a genocide scholar. Finally. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

ICYMI: “Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social has filed a bill to ban law enforcement officers in Tennessee, including ICE, from wearing masks while making arrests (and ID themselves) — the “Stop American Gestapo Act” www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

McGovern: Listen to this quote from Murkowski who just caved and voted for this. "My hope is that the house is going to look at this and recognize we are not there yet."  If you really believe that, why the hell did you vote for the bill?

Thorough, fantastic article about abuse of power and overreach of trauma specialists & CPS

The bill bars agents from wearing facial coverings during enforcement unless medically necessary or required for safety.

Great piece- plz read it. Heartbreaking, heart rending. Let's keep up the fight for trans rights. Gift article from New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

Rumpus admin carries out yet another betrayal of tribal govts. in Pacific northwest. Destroys a "deal" 10 yrs in the making to return water/salmon rights. Gift article here. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

Low-income families could lose food assistance entirely if their state can’t afford new #SNAP cost-sharing rules proposed in the Senate Agriculture Committee’s reconciliation proposal. See how states could be impacted: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Outstanding piece. Damning & grief filled. Touches the deepest places in me, as I try to stay human and loving. Plz read whole thing.

Fantastic analysis of massive inequalities in global economies, w. Policy recommendations for change wid.world/news-article...

Big thanks to Chris Costanzo for the very careful & tender read of Painful Truth— and to @fooddatanerd.com for sharing! ❤️

The gut punch news of how cuts in nutrition assistance programs and local buying programs affect farmers who grow good food. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

It's overwhelming, unbearable. And yet, the people who say they work on hunger in US are silent. I'll be coming back into the fray. I just need a little more time to get my lungs & vocal chords back. Meantime, plz read. Gift article The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/w...

Sad for this news. I admire his humility and integrity. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

People. This violence & indifference is intentional -- how is it that we allow it? The same way we allow "milder" forms of child hunger. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Tough read of the truth: mondoweiss.net/2025/03/four...

Good overview of the purge and its consequences. www.thenation.com/authors/greg...

Brilliant analysis and warning. Listen to the whole thing.

Brilliant essay by Siddhartha Mukherjee on the dangers of privatization of public health infrastructure. We're careening toward disaster if we don't intervene. Here's the "gift" link. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...

Greatest speech i've heard in a LONG time - Thank you, Chris Hedges. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Pn...

Americans want universal healthcare, not a colony on Mars. And don’t tell me it’s about “innovation.” Making sure every American has housing, food, and healthcare is innovation, too.

Thanks for calling it! The ugly truth comes out when ppl are under pressure.

Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at https://buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

Another in a long line of distressing fires. The CFPB protected all of us from predatory lending, bilking, extortion & other forms of extractive capitalism. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/b...

Just got word my interview has been posted by dear friends in Vancouver, BC Canada Such a deep conversation with Ian Marcuse www.vancouverfoodjustice.ca/latest-news/...

Please pay attention people - How Tyranny Begins It began many years ago, & will only get worse if we don't resist. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

The best news - finally

Good perspective on prison labor & firefighting. Deeply distressing.

It's US publication day for my new book, Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Off-Wh...

🥗 #guaranteedincome

Visited @powells.bsky.social in search of two books. Found them both. Been looking for Sacco's book for weeks & needed mine last minute. Wish more bookstores were like Powell's. I could live there.

Big thanks to MIT Press for believing in this project!

Check it out: The Cruel Reality of Public Assistance Programs thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cruel-re... #Food #Politics #SocialJustice via @mitpress.bsky.social

Check out an except from my book: Painful Truth about Hunger in America. Plz me know what you think! thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cruel-re...

The “Page 99” test is mind blowing. I invite you to page 99 of my book— lots going on there. Take a peak👀 americareads.blogspot.com/2025/01/pg-9...

Profoundly beautiful essay. Timothy Morton: On Ecotrauma thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/timothy-mort... #ClimateChange #Psychology via @mitpress.bsky.social

So great! Lays it out plain. New book from Joe Sacco www.haaretz.com/life/2024-12...

Finally, Canada food bank CEO’s are speaking up about bogus charity model. If only Feeding America food banks in USA would do the same. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...