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.

Read this whole thread. Learn about what our government is trying to hide from us and the world. We can not expect to live up to our full potential as a multiracial democracy if we cannot acknowledge the full truth of how we came to be.

Quick: when are Republicans going to commission multimillion dollar studies on winning Gen Z women? When will Republicans search for the “Taylor Swift of the right?”

Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.

I better see no less than six stories this week in the NYT about Mamdani voters talking about their economic anxiety in Brooklyn diners and what the GOP can do to win them back.

well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

‘We cannot fix what we cannot see’ In her 2025 Beatty Lecture, delivered at McGill, Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson diagnoses the divisions besetting U.S. society. reporter.mcgill.ca/we-cannot-fi...

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

This clip of Rep Joe Neguse responding with some plain truths to a vaguely accusatory question about the shutdown is 🎯🎯🔥🔥. The regime has been violating the law for a long time. Sucks so hard that some media are still "questioning" their tactics, or trying to "both sides" things.😡😡

these people went from “please submit your diversity statement with your application” to “if your syllabus does not affirm white supremacist christian nationalism, you will be fired” in record time.

Forget about politics & policy, Americans have lots of trouble understanding basic demographic information about their own country. YouGov did a survey in 2022 asking Americans basic demographic questions like what % of the country is white, Hispanic, are transgender, etc. and the results are WILD.

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

WHOSE JOB, MOTHERFUCKERS?

I've been harping on using FSA funds because workers lose $4 BILLION in unspent funds each year. I don't think many people even know about the FSA store as just one example of a simpler way to spend some of that money. Use it for others if you don't need it yourself. money.com/unspent-fsa-...

With SNAP being lost at the end of the week I keep thinking about how we almost ended food insecurity in children when we had the COVID checks. The US government could ensure every child was safe by investing in Americans, but the president is investing in other countries and ballrooms instead.

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

💙💙💙💙

Mind blowing. Even for this administration.

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them. That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

Look I am just saying that if we simply threw women, Black folks, immigrants, LGBTQ people, Muslims and other minorities under the bus we could go back to discussing the class-based white people politics that I, a white male pundit, am most comfortable discussing. Is that so hard?

ICE stepped up activities in NYC today and New Yorkers were not having it. (Seen on @keithboykin.bsky.social threads)

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Ah, yes. I see the Department of Metaphors and Idioms is still fully staffed, despite other government cuts. This one is a little on the nose, but effective.

That number is low IMO. I know sooooo many hugely qualified people who cannot get hired right now.

the grievances of the Right are 'legitimate' and exist because the Left 'goes too far.' The grievances of the Left(s) are illegitimate because they are disfavored groups who should be grateful to get to live in this country.

McSweeney's is often funny. In this case, it's a gut punch of heavily documented truth. Click the links and share them with any politician who claims these were kids, or that the rot doesn't start at the top. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...

“I love America more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” ~James Baldwin

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

"You cannot occasionally tell Americans the truth that this regime is veering into dictatorship while also promising to meet and negotiate in good faith with it." @anatosaurus.bsky.social in Weekend Reading. Read the full piece here:

To say: "This new info I'm receiving about myself, my people, my history, the U.S. project, etc hard for me grapple with, but it resonates. Thank you for telling me" in earnest goes a lonnnnggg way. The lack of humility and the gaslighting is way too much.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Right now, the unemployment rate is 4.3%, but for Black women it's a staggering 6.7%. Over 320,000 Black women have lost their jobs from the federal govt to the private sector. This systematic targeting of Black women is intentional. It's devastating for our communities, economy, and our country.

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact." New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

.@morganevelyncook on TikTok is trying to figure out why Trump is sending troops to Portland, Oregon, and her video is the greatest thing ever 🤣

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

i was invited to a gathering tonight and initially wasn’t gonna go because every extra thing feels like so much these days but i made myself go and i’m so glad i did because it turns out community is so fucking important right now

I agree with this 1000%

So exhausting..

79. American citizen.

Anyway, I’m not sure this country deserves Coates. This passage in particular was excellent: “I don’t even focus on people. I am at war with certain ideologies and ideas, and I want them expunged. I want to turn them into phrenology. That’s what I want. But I don’t want the people out.” 3/3

He didn’t end 7 wars or win 2024 by a landslide. There is no war in Portland. Tariffs don’t build strong economies. Vaccines save lives. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. Crime is not skyrocketing. Facts are not partisan. The only thing unhinged is his grip on reality and the danger is real.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

it's really jarring to see how little media attention the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog Gilbert received in comparison to the notable death of a non-elected leader of a right-wing organization.