Parade content! Flag bearers during Conan Gray’s lil ballad time are doing the most: They’re running around with wishbone flags that also look like lambdas, intentional or otherwise, so right wingers can choke on it. As they* say*, happiness* is being a cultural sociologist.

Just imagine how these evildoers would react to Fahrenheit 451 if they didn’t misread it as a viable game plan.

Man*, NASA is rude as hell.

Did I just hear the riff from “How Soon Is Now?” on the cut to commercials from the Eagles/Cowboys game???? WHAT EVEN IS THIS TIMELINE

Great news for people who like MORE POLLUTANTS in our water:

For those of you who like to buy gifts and are not averse to Amazon if it gets needed goods to people, here are some options to support some of the sweetest kids and families around from one of Philly’s most caring schools:

Chicago has had one 9/11 worth of people disappeared since the attacks began in September. Los Angeles has had two 9/11s since June.

Solidarity is a verb:

www.givemiamiday.org/organization... Everything for everyone includes books for Florida kids (epicenter of book bans and punitive red-state policies targeting kids and others). Got $5? $50? $500? This is a trusted campaign.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy. 💯💯💯

In honor of America’s Mayor. See? Socialism* is already boosting the economy.

In honor of Alice Wong, now more than ever:

Found out my neighbor is a winter-shorts guy. Not surprised; still disappointed.

The Ozymandias of our times?

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging. They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”. They raped them. Sex implies consent. The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.

“We had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away.”

ICE is adding facial recognition, spyware & social media tracking to its toolkit turning immigration enforcement into mass surveillance.

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar: "So I'm putting a team together..." Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

Hello @support.bsky.team why has @sarahkendzior.bsky.social been suspended without explanation? Unlike ICE, I thought we didn’t disappear people here.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

if you were wondering how to prepare for a recession, the advice on the internet is “have a lot of liquid savings” and “don’t lose your job” 👍 very helpful, who could have predicted “having money saved” and “having income” would help a situation

This thread has health science, mask, AND amazing fan/purifier info or reminders for us all. Thank you to those who continue to keep us all safe(r).

Today is the day!

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.

The contrast could hardly be sharper. My friends and neighbors, armed only with whistles and voices, spend their weekend fighting off heavily-armed paramilitary goons. Meanwhile, these jagoffs capitulate, but not before securing another $1 billion for their own security.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Pretty sure the people say STOP TRYING TO STARVE AND KILL US TO APPEASE GENOCIDAL BILLIONAIRE GHOULS, actually. And they get PAID to do this, unlike furloughed* workers and the majority if the country who are supposed to provide essential services and whatever safety net exists!

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored. That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.

Donald Trump’s approval rating has tanked and Republican suffered heavy losses in last week’s elections. There’s never been a better time for Senate Democrats to cave on the ACA extension.

CPB tear gassed a baby

What if we lived in a country where politicians stopped trying to k111 us? Could we try that please? I mean. Really.

What if politicians did their job, rebuilt a social safety net, and stopped trying to starve and otherwise k111 their constituents? How ‘bout that? That would be a good thing.

“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”

My little cousin in Belgium is paying a few hundred dollars a year for university Americans, we could have this too, actually 😭

This thread is incredible;

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I've added this update to my story about the ongoing torture of SNAP recipients:

Powerful people are working overtime to keep poor people from eating.

Am I to understand that setting giant piles of cash on fire will somehow cure cancer and ensure abundance?

Small potatoes in the bigger picture, but I have to say, “AI your research into a comic” kind of shocks me:

This is what a functioning society does:

Books win!

Turns out a lot of Americans understand that trans people aren’t the reason shit is expensive and people are being starved

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment

I am sure others have said this already re: the SNAP nightmare, but I haven't seen it. It's called no-school-November — end of quarter, Veteran's Day, usually conferences, & Thanksgiving. So school as an emergency source of food is less so during this month. We have got to shore up the alternatives.

And if you have extra HSA or FSA funds to use before 12/31, this is a great way to spend them down