It’s disgraceful that the administration chose to go to court instead of fulfilling its responsibility to the American people. I will not stop fighting until every family has the resources they need to put food on the table. apnews.com/article/snap...

Failed country.

Nazis invaded Poland?

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.

yes. by design.

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

it's just all so humiliating

"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."

Keep track of the victories when they come

too damn much of this stuff this year, "shutting down after 50, 100, 200 years"

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

If you’re not following @riotgrlerin.bsky.social, please do. You may think this is a one-off flash of brilliance but she just keeps coming up with these magic threads.

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

What a fucking fucker.

Human beings are all like this. We KNOW things are terrible for us and yet we keep doing them or engaging with the terrible things because it's extremely difficult to change our behaviors.

I fucking can’t with this guy.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Notable that FIRE (@thefireorg.bsky.social) filed an amicus in support of bullying trans youth. This is why trans people don't trust your transphobic organization, @aricohn.com. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Soooo...why exactly should Mamdani take a call/meeting from this guy? First, it's not even a week since the election, and he doesn't have his team in place. Next, and I could not be more clear: speculators and landlords don't get a seat at the housing policy table.

You're a dopey carnival barker from Canada who hangs out with Mark Cuban and a lady who sells trinkets on QVC on TV. Know your role and shut your mouth

This is the way a coroner speaks. About dead people.

I have known tell of this cat for years, he is too fearsome to meet. It’s something @helenjp.bsky.social and I have in common - fearsome watchcats

File under: nice things we can’t have, somewhere down the list below universal healthcare and bodily autonomy.

There already aren’t enough dentists who accept Medicaid patients, said Kimberly Raleigh of the Michigan Oral Health Coalition, and “if there is a reduction in community water fluoridation, it’s just a downward spiral.” By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

One thing the NYC mayoral race underscored for me is how easily the phrase "I don't feel safe" can be weaponized. It's an argument I would hesitate ever to use again, even for a good cause. I hope we can all agree that we have the right to BE safe. Maybe we should leave it at that.

Does this mean that married women could be forced to have their passports in their maiden names? Are passports used to attest to historical facts at birth or to prove citizenship? If the latter, what is the need of the former?

Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.

small thing but i did notice and appreciate that Mamdani thanked his "incredible wife" instead of his "beautiful wife" even though she is obviously a straight up baddie

Good grief. This administration is so soft on crime.

It's difficult to sum up the abject chaos Trump has caused by using people's ability to eat as a bargaining chip. Communication re: SNAP varies widely state by state, and it's wonderful to hear some have gotten November benefits, but many, many millions still haven't. This was totally avoidable.

I have been screaming this to the heavens for years and it’s lovely to see more people noticing: BEING safe is a right, FEELING safe is between you and your therapist. And the demand to FEEL safe is constantly weaponized to deprive other people of their real, actual safety.

Appeasement will not save you.

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Y'all, JD Vance says the idea of continuing to provide food assistance to the needy during the shutdown "ABSURD!" Also, JD Vance had food to eat as kid because of SNAP

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.

A woman ruined my workplace By Haman

Again: If this were Biden it would be front page news and Fox would be talking about it non stop. Once again Trump gets a pass.

My take: implementation of Zohran’s policies is a tall order, *but* Tuesday’s election results themselves will help from practical and political standpoints. Not only did the housing ballot measures pass, I think it shows Hochul she has to worry more about leaving behind Zohran voters than Stefanik

I want to opt out of "Show more replies" "feature." If not globally, at least in replies to my own posts. Why tf someone is hiding replies for me?

Intro to American Government is 1 of my bread & butter classes that I've taught every year at least once in my 21 year academic career. There is no way to teach it now except to go historical and to show students the disparity between design & implementation of aspects of the Am political system.

Parents caring for adult children with severe developmental disabilities want to know why their pay is being cut when they are saving taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Let’s check in with people who threatened to leave Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: defector.com/lets-check-i...

@governor.ny.gov If Oregon can, surely we can?

The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.