boy I saw that in person a LOT living there. particularly toxic in an expensive-ass city like DC, you basically can't start a family on staffer wages bsky.app/profile/seth...

STATE FUNDED. STATE FUNDED. Maryland using Maryland taxpayer funds to supplement the federal tax Marylanders have ALREADY paid in federal taxes to fund SNAP. Paying twice! But guys, we gotta pay the king. There's no mechanism not to pay the king. We must give him our money guys.

Amy Coney Barrett: "In truth, being a conservative woman in law school, particularly, takes a lot of courage and independence, and in many ways, shows more feminism than just falling into some predetermined vision of what a woman should be" @moiradonegan.bsky.social, I am going to become the Joker

X appears to be sending fake traffic across the web

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

Intuit, parent company of TurboTax, donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration. Always follow the money.

This passage puts Musk's arrogance and moral blinders on full display. At DOGE, Musk destroyed USAID and weakened other part of the compensatory state that have been shown to effectively address poverty. Yet here he babbling about robots and "wild sci-fi scenarios" as the "only way" to do so.

“I basically tailored the part for Rhea," Gilligan says. "I wanted her to be a star, I figured it was long past time for her to be number one on the call sheet, and I wanted to be the person to get her there.”

America in 2025. 😡

BioWare on N7 day: "the next Mass Effect game is in development, and EA and BioWare remain committed to telling more stories in this universe." buff.ly/md0nhGL

Wisconsin State Senator confirms SNAP recipients in the state have received their November benefits.

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

My book in progress shows inflation was disconnected from consumer sentiment under Biden to a ridiculous degree. Republicans drove down sentiment, the media did too, independents too. Had consumer sentiment reflected the actual economy to usual extent, Harris wins by 4 points.

I got laid off, I utilized SNAP, and I was able to remain in my chosen field of profession. The program is incredibly effective in mitigating the effects of unemployment, and that’s precisely why they want to gut it.

They know what they’re doing is wrong.

Also: This was all utterly predictable. The change in subgroup results from 2024 to 25 is highly correlated with change in Trump's approval ratings among key demographic groups from Jan to Nov. If you had a subscription to Strength In Numbers, you saw this coming: www.gelliottmorris.com/subscribe

Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

just thinking about billionaires panicking because all their money couldn't stop mamdani and that warms my heart

i hear this is an app for talking about sports so I wanted to let you guys know about my new newsletter and YouTube channel where we can talk about sports

Since we’re talking about affordability, a reminder that Trump’s culture war based economic policies are making everything more expensive for no discernable benefit to anyone but him www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Big Tech tax breaks could’ve funded benefits for millions, Senator Warren finds www.theverge.com/news/816267/...

Now is a great time to go check out that local coffee shop that's maybe a couple blocks away.

Richest nation in human history

This is a big heavy HC book so I’m Likely only bringing 10 with me to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social - if you’re for sure picking one up , let me know and if needed I’ll bring more

If you have a Tesla you should get rid of it immediately.

If I was running for Congress, I would promise to appropriate money for USAID, b/c as far as I am concerned it remains an agency as no-one repealed the statute that created it in 1998. It blew my mind at the time that we were like, yep, sure, we will just close an agency without authorization.

Unprecedented corruption - not just monetizing the presidency by selling branded products, but selling those products directly to government employees and having the Department of Homeland Security promote them to the media

(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡 @zacheverson.com www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

high salaries and robust public funding for elections

you look at Texas, they pay the state leg $7,200 a year and as a result like half of them are car dealership owning reactionaries

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages. Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

i think this is a pretty good take on pelosi, who is unquestionably one of the most consequential house speakers in the history of the institution

Also peep "no DEI" in point 5 🥴

So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.” No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

This is why government transparency litigation matters. Democracy Forward Secures Public Release of Key Details Related to Scheme to Disappear People, “Black Site” Agreement Between the United States and El Salvador. democracyforward.org/updates/us-s...

They know they’re violating the law, the constitutional order, and, for the sworn in, their oaths.

"there's a whole lot of public servants right now... drawn to the job by desire to make the world a better place, who are feeling... that maybe the world doesn't love them very much. And they're worried they're not going to get the wages they not only need, but the law says that they're owed."

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel. Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire. Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year. Glad everything worked out for them. How about you?

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

trial by jury clearly has a role to play today as it did then. you can read other lessons from this history - ways that multiracial groups people living and working in the North resisted slave power under Black leadership in the latest @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/unde...

A distraught man came to Broadview searching for his wife of five years after she was taken by ICE at her court hearing. He wasn’t told anything, tracked her by her phone, and was left weeping in the parking lot.

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...

Dear @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org: Please cancel your partnership with this evil company and stop pushing “A.i.” on teachers and students.

I think democrats should push for a thorough review of all Elon Musk govt contracts as part of their 2026-8 portfolio. Why are taxpayers financing the work of a racist near-trillionaire? Leaving that unexamined was one of the biggest failures of the last Dem majority.

Stefanik is a miserable bigot who should be shunned by decent New Yorkers whereever she goes.

Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah