"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

The Democratic Party summed up in one image: we welcome all marginalized groups as long as they aren't the filthy, disgusting poors:

The lady I was told was bad by other "Christians" for getting a divorce during my childhood is actually an ally to unhoused people and queer people? Fuck yeah!🤘🏻 Fuck the church & fuck you if you think it's okay to kick out a child for being queer. Jesus would NEVER condone your shameful behavior.

This is fascinating: the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe is asking for full control of Dungeness Spit, a federal wildlife refuge. It's a great idea, and we should start doing a lot more transfer of federal land to Indigenous nations here in #Cascadia: www.kuow.org/stories/wash...

call me controversial and finicky, but if I buy a car, I don't think it reasonable that I have to learn how to "hack" it so it doesn't kill my family But that might just be me. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

It’s very simple: the 6 republican Supreme Court justices are functionally no different than klansmen

Today marks four years since an Israeli soldier shot and killed US citizen and journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while she was wearing her press vest and covering the news. The IDF has continued to target journalists with impunity. No one has been held accountable for Shireen's killing.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Lebanon, TN is another community to feature: there, residents picketed, protested & partnered with officials across party lines to fully cancel a detention warehouse. They wrote & executed a winning playbook for their circumstances—and kept the people who would've been caged there at the center.

Reminds me of this old meme.

I think it’s shameful to own two homes when there are homeless people in your community.

#fuckai #aiisfascist

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.

My dog had an expensive stay at the emergency vet, so to assist with his care, I'm hosting a sale! Enjoy 25% off everything until 5/16 at 12 AM PST with the code "BISCUIT25". All proceeds will help offset the cost of his medical bills! Shares are appreciated 🐶 ➡️ Big Cartel ➡️ Etsy (UK customers)

So for the last two years I've been working on an instrumental hip hop album project, and it's finally done! It's now out on: Bandcamp: blackmetronome.bandcamp.com/album/trapgaze Tidal: tidal.com/album/493739... YouTube: youtu.be/ihmUoY9TqPE Itch.io: blackmetronome.itch.io/trapgaze #musicsky

Look, we all know Republicans are doing this because racism, but what if Democrats spent money running ads that say they're doing it to keep the Iran war going and the price of gas high to favor their oil donors? Start the propaganda war to defeat their racist gerrymanders now

Whimsy

He’s right, and to think otherwise is to commit a basic category error that never gets corrected, because the media and politicians refuse to acknowledge it. Under a human rights based framework, states cannot have human rights, since states are not people; and Israel has committed genocide in Gaza

Maybe unpopular opinion but I think a lot of Dems would prefer to keep their seat in a minority gov't without redistricting as long as they can serve until they're 800 years old without any interruptions 🤗

Estrogen is like fabric softener for people

You should be more worried about this. youtu.be/ExvV2mbXc7A

Are you sure an aggressive "no" will be enough? That word doesn't seem to be in their vocabulary.

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

“Sorry gas prices are sky high and you’ll never own a home — anyway check out these grainy UFO pics!” Cannot overstate how stupid these people think we are.

LET ME BUY ELECTRIC CARS FROM CHINA!!! THE FREE MARKET!!!!!!

"Black people should just leave the South!" is the same as "Trans people should just leave red states!" is the same as "Palestinians should just move to Egypt or Jordan!" is the same as "Lebanese people shouldn't live near Israel's border!"

Brazil: "Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that high-frequency ultrasound waves similar to those used in medical exams can eliminate viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and H1N1 without damaging human cells."

Ohio Republicans are trying to strip transgender adults of health insurance coverage www.advocate.com/pol... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

"Israeli soldiers have subjected a one-year-old child in central Gaza to torture to pressure his father into making confessions during an interrogation"

This is the most Boomer career trajectory of all time “just go drop off a resume and ask if they’re hiring” ass story

Once again, I. WILL. NEVER. SUPPORT GAVIN NEWSOM! Ronald Reagan was a fucking monster who caused the deaths of more than 100k people simply because the gay community bore the brunt of the disease. There was zero humanity in Reagan.

It’s a very Puritanical approach to politics where the voters must be “punished” to “learn their lesson” but somehow the fact that the people who suffer the most are most supportive of the Democratic Party, & the voters who have not voted Democratic in decades are constantly supposed to be coddled.

*record scratch* (freeze frame) Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here. It all started when-- ...Oh, you weren't wondering? OK, carry on then I guess. (movie continues with no flashbacks)

Trump Has a New Terrorist. It's You. open.substack.com/pub/barbaraf...

Voters? Who could possibly care about constituents when corporations are afforded the status of persons. Humans literally can’t compete.

So many people on here just assume that because I criticize establishment democrats that I don’t vote and that’s just not correct at all

These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.

'A Pigeon at Sunrise' Pastels on mint pastel card 💙 #SciArt #TraditionalArt #SoftPastel #Birds