The radical idea that your own government shouldn't hate you and want to make your life harder at every opportunity.

As are a lot of game creators.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

CANADA: May correctly calls out Poilievre for stealing from the Trump/Project 2025 playbook again. Oh, and it’s ANOTHER good day to remind everyone that Poilievre STILL hasn’t done the normal security check, still hasn’t received the standard security clearance that EVERYONE in his position gets.

“This isn’t how you build a credible opposition. It’s how you run a cult.” #cdnpoli #NeverPoilievre

Freedom means being able to be patriotic of your country and critical of it at the same time. To do both stops fascist dictatorships. Because dictatorships are not patriotic. They are not about country. They are about self snd wealth.

How The Government Shutdown Is Impacting Surveillance Of COVID-19, Flu And RSV The ongoing government shutdown since Oct 1st has disrupted CDC disease surveillance. COVID wastewater data hasn’t been updated since late September, and Flu/RSV data stopped on Sept 26, hindering public health tracking.

👇🎯 Unfortunately, this is true & probably the only way. Voters need to realize that hating government, & illegally defunding & dismantling it, & pretending that we can run a modern society/economy on Ronald Reagan's shabby talking point & worn copies of Atlas Shrugged & Mein Kampf is untenable.

These are at the Cline House Gallery in Cornwall, Ontario, from November 6th to December 20th. Vernissage November 6th at 7pm. #botanicalart #mushrooms #fungi #flowers #bloomsky

This dumb motherfucker is getting the shit booed out of him by people with the inclination and means to buy NFL tickets.

I truly don’t know how you look at the past week and THEN decide THIS is an appropriate — let alone the right — response.

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People don't leave jobs, they leave bosses. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

We need to get a proper UBI, with disability supports piled on top of that, not clawed back from it. And this is *not* how I want disability supports rules to be administered. We all need and deserve better than this. Austerity rules will make it worse.

big ceaușescu vibes tbh

Johnson’s crony directors and client journalists should have been cleaned out of the BBC within the first year. Very disappointing that they weren’t. @bylinetimes.bsky.social

"Some threats are blunt — “we have oppo on you” — others are subtler, the kind of late-night phone calls that remind MPs of every vulnerable moment from their past." Canada deserves a better, honest, more trust-worthy opposition, and not this cult of bigots and bullies.

Marc Andreesen,🥚, picked a fight with *the Pope* over a pretty basic call to exercise discernment when building AI. Marc truly believes that any constraint on anything he does is fundamentally illegitimate.

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Healthcare is a basic human right. Food is basic human right. Education, housing, clean air & water are human rights. Using healthcare and food as leverage should be grounds for removal from office. SNAP, Medicaid and the ACA are worth fighting for. People will die without them.

#Poilievre’sLongGoodbye and take Scheer with you! #canpoli #cdnpoli

The UCP’s excuses for using the notwithstanding clause — “because we can,” “because we have to,” and “because we say so” — do not meet Lougheed's standards. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.

Talking about childhood vaccinations now and yeah, it's grim. Our federal experts were replaced with anti vaxers. 🩺🧪 "Do not believe anything coming out of the current CDC ACIP."--- Dr. Tan Go to America Academy of Pediatric, other trustworthy orgs. #SciWri25

UPDATE: NSO just hired former Trump ambassador to Israel. They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America. Your rights and freedoms are in danger. NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/

Why America just forgot about his presiding over Covid will forever be a mystery to me

Listening to fightingmatters.bsky.social episode on how ending SNAP benefits for 40 million Americans is about to hit martial arts gyms and other businesses that depend on discretionary income. open.substack.com/pub/fighting...

A reminder to those who maybe forgot or haven't heard anything new: Microsoft and Halo Studios have still not made official comment in regards to the US government's use of Halo imagery to dehumanize immigrants and minorities in their recruitment ads. No statement is still a statement. This harms.

Here's the deal. People are going to need to Disney+ Cancel Microsoft. It has to be coordinated and it has to be across console and PC. Cancel your Gamepass subscription. Uninstall games from 343/Halo Studios and MS game studios. All of it. Those metrics are tracked and it sends a message.

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi

Mike Pence: I don't believe the Constitution affords the President the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs on friend and foe, and I hope the Supreme Court turns that around. Ultimately, American businesses and American consumers pay the tariffs.

UBI opens up a lot of space for all sorts of monetizable but hard to get off the ground professions like journalism. UBI would pave way to fix outrage slop media because real journalists could actually survive.

I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.

WE'RE TAKING EVERYONE DOWN WITH US tpb is out in December so FOC is right now. If you don't know what FOC is or why preorders matter SO MUCH I'll explain. But in order to encourage folks to preorder we made ltd edition signed bookplates only available at select comic shops. List of them below. ⬇️

I'm guessing that this is why he's the *former* chair, right? Because he's denouncing a method of enslavement.

globalnews.ca/news/1151735... Health Canada warns of serious health risks after raid of Kelowna wellness clinic - Okanagan | Globalnews.ca

Pardoned for crimes of aggravating air pollution...

PragerU, a conservative media company with millions of followers, moved beyond producing videos into teacher licensing by creating an exam designed to screen out "woke" teachers in Oklahoma. The company's influence over who can teach is expanding.

After the largest peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations in American history, and a blue wave election where voters clearly and loudly said FIGHT ALL OF THIS CHAOS, it is malpractice and disqualifying for an elected Democrat to suggest caving to Trump. I'm looking in your direction, Chuck Schumer.

Once again: this seems fair.

to be clear: the government's claim - validated by the Court - is that it would *irreparably harm* the president to not misgender trans people

Phaser installation templates.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Land doesn't vote. People do.

“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing

Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.