Feeling emotional whiplash between the sheer evil of the state preparing to starve 42 million human beings and the incredible variety of ways that communities around the country are mobilizing to feed their neighbors.

I’m praying the SNAP shutdown doesn’t happen. I can’t even imagine the scale of the suffering

If you could cast any spell right now, what would it be?

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

“Refusing to give up in apocalyptic times is an act of love, and in some ways, it’s an act of faith — it’s about making a commitment to what’s sacred to us, and refusing to abandon those people, places, and beliefs.” - @mskellymhayes.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/the...

Ruby Ibarra performs at GLIDE’s 40th Anniversary Holiday Jam on Nov 13 at The Warfield. Her music in English, Tagalog, Waray, and Bisaya connects and inspires. See Ruby with El DeBarge, Dominique Hammons, and the Glide Ensemble. Tickets: glide.org/holidayjam #GlideUnconditionally

At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.

Starting in Milan, in 73, revolutionary groups would mass up, go into supermarkets and chase out the bosses/security, get on the loudspeaker and declare everything free. They would then make revolutionary speeches while shoppers gleefully enjoyed the discount. They called this "proletariat shopping"

Three months from now: Why Trump Was Right to Put the New York Times Editors into a Work Camp

(my broad view is that everyone is trying to find an easy shortcut rather than the more difficult work of building an actual relationship between the party and both the voters it has and the voters it wants)

The dismissal of AOC makes me think that they care less about working-class politicians and more about a kind of workerist male aesthetic.

It seems like when Trump accepts bribes from companies (the ballroom) or foreign companies (the jet) he always pitches it as AT ZERO COST TO THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER

I absolutely love that someone thought this terrible pun was a good idea for their Halloween decor

“I think they wanted to make a point,” said Quinn Haberl, who is 4-foot-6 and legally blind. “So they picked the weakest person they could find and made a big show out of it.” www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

This account makes me laugh every time

Good to ration one’s minutes of doomscrolling.

Every person deserves dignity and healthy, delicious food to eat! We serve an average of 1,705 free meals per day. With SNAP cuts that’s going to go up. Worried about San Francisco’s families.

The Tenderloin is a beautiful place full of fun and joy sometimes, no matter what the media says about it.

i just keep hearing this quote in my head

I don’t understand why so many people are upset about White House architecture. It’s just a building. Who cares. Yes it has history— horrible history. It was built by slaves

ICE has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office. You read that right — SEVEN HUNDRED PERCENT. Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.

I think it’s a mistake to think that accountability has to look like punishment! (For example, banning people from being in positions of power is not punitive.) What we need here, e.g. is mostly stopping the flagrantly illegal actions — that’s not punishment.

Where I agree with Melissa is that demanding ideological purity IS a problem on the left, because we don't want to take on the responsibility of teaching and helping propagandized people. It's hard and we're tired, so instead we want people to show up already educated. That's not a path to winning

Grace Hopper resurrecting as a ball of incandescent rage and incinerating those who dare sully the Art is what we need today.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

It's tech being sold without an actual use case but it has absolutely fascinated the most mediocre minds by letting them efficiently replace themselves with a chatbot that is mostly wrong. That they can't see this is funny to us.

"There are two kinds of people in the world. The ones who think there are two kinds of people in the world , and the ones who know better." h/t Douglas Adams

When will the hypocritical woke mob extend their tolerance to the much-oppressed measles virus? by RFK Jr

When this ends, we enter a period of the total, corrupt weaponization of state power for vigilante purposes, which then can lead to total repression through anticipatory regression into private spheres because any public articulation of decency is corruptly and publicly crushed.

But when you realize that most violence is not by strangers (hence police violence being large %), you see why it's vital for cops to obscure it: no one believes more $$ for punishment bureaucracy is a solution to the reasons people **in some kind of relationship with each other** hurt each other.

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

...and at first I was like "The prosperity that I seek seeks me" then was like, "nvm. Bitch, any money that comes out of my account is coming back DOUBLE, okay?" So, just talk how you talk. It will be more honest and easy.

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

IMHO the actual thing about DV is that no one actually wants to listen to the victims or think about who we actually are, full human beings.

Beijing is not “delighted” by American failures. It’s more of a brows-raised pity— like sitting next to a rich kid at lunch who suddenly moons everyone, foams at the mouth, and starts babbling. You gently edge out of the splatter radius with one quiet sarcastic comment. That’s Beijing.

I agree @octoberk.bsky.social we need to make more fun of people who use AI.

THE ROMAN EMPIRE KILLED JESUS FOR FUCKS SAKE THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF THE STORY

If my writing about autism does anything, whether it be in my books, my columns or my reported stories, I hope it advances the idea that autistic people are whole human beings as they are with legitimate needs and inner lives that deserve to be told the same as other stories.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Love hearing, “Doomers are not realists!”

I already love my job, but it never hurts to bring some garden with me for the desk. 💚 #bloomscrolling

great analogy. also want to say that I am still totally available to help any stranger on the internet (that's you!) figure out how to plug in and where you can engage in some action to fight your despair. signal me @freeze.16 or email [email protected]

Roman cops killed Jesus. Jews literally didn’t have the jurisdiction to kill Jesus because they were not allowed to govern their own country.

Many Palestinians and other critics say Western nations are using the issue of recognizing Palestinian statehood to absolve them from the far more challenging diplomatic task of holding Israel accountable for the genocide in Gaza.

As an abolitionist, I have feelings about Erika Kirk crying while forgiving her husband’s killer at his funeral.

I would always rather be us than them, every fucking day, no matter how angry or scared I get trading our humanity for the feeble hope that proximity to power will protect us is not fucking worth it we all die as we live and their picture of what "success" looks like is truly so fucking bleak

Jay Jacobs actually cost National Democrats the House and he's STILL in power, LOLOLOLOL