Alas, I fear she’s right; hard to negotiate when the other side literally does not care about the suffering of constituents except to make their enemies wince. There’s no way out that doesn’t either break the bank for health care for ACA recipients or starve a significant portion of the populace.

This is good, and should actually make us feel better. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily blocked a ruling that required Trump to fully fund SNAP because she’s playing chess, not checkers. She sent it back to the lower courts for a reason. 👀

The next #AntigonidNetwork seminar is on Tuesday 11th November, 5pm (UK). John Holton presents his two books: 'Alexander’s Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship' and 'Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander’s Successors'. #AncientBluesky To join, please register:

For I was hungry and you argued all the way up to the Supreme Court that poor people don’t deserve to eat.

Remember the "Israel says they will cut agreed aid by half" headlines? Then shortly after, "Israel agrees to do what they said they would do and allow aid into Gaza"? The 'ceasefire' agreement was 600 trucks per day. Half was 300. They've allowed 100. Someone explain to me why this is okay.

Inspired by the shellacking Democrats gave Republicans in the elections yesterday. A student asked me earlier if Alexander ever faced opposition. Gave me a chance to talk about the Mutiny-that-wasn't (India) plus the real mutiny at Opis, which took ATG by surprise. What caused it + how he responded.

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

To my mind, this was the real wake-up call of the night. Some of this is in the (bluer) north, but still. MISSISSIPPI went blue.

That was a fast call. Given all the other wins tonight, not surprised. Now, I'd like to know by how much. :-D

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969

I’m sure there are many horror stories about sudden spikes in premium rates. This was totally avoidable and exactly why Democrats drew a hard line.

64. Ramsay MacMullen, "Persecution" from Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries open.spotify.com/episode/4sGM...

Don’t take it from me, listen to Snopes! Speaker Johnson signed a bill to cut $186 billion from SNAP. And again, it’s HIS party that won’t help millions of Americans put food on the table this month.

$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this

This is...not good.

This was an AMAZING series. Honestly. I enjoyed it so much. Was rooting for the Jays, but really great baseball...what this series *should* be. Both teams battling right to the end. Jays, you're awesome, even if you didn't win. Your US/southern fans have your back!

Trump hosted a glittering ‘Great Gatsby’-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago — just hours before millions of people were set to lose SNAP benefits

Second year in a row where applesauce was the big hit, especially with the littles. And especially because I had flavored (strawberry or cinnamon). Teens and older kids tend to want just candy. Ha.

You are here.

It’s never been necessary. Ever.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Seriously though. So shut the hell up about people getting food aid.

"In the U.S., 30 to 40 percent of the food supply is never eaten, wasting the resources used to produce it & creating many environmental impacts. Food waste is the single most common material landfilled and incinerated in the U.S." -US EPA In the Land of Plenty, scarcity must be enforced by police.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

i do think vance is mostly just regurgitating the half remembered ideas of dead slaveholder extremists but also this gives off the unmistakable scent of “i’ll say whatever you hogs want me to say,” which is fitting coming from america’s premier hogman

I really like how Zohran Mamdani has run a campaign that is so focused on making New York City a safe (including from the fascism of our current federal government) and affordable place for all its residents, and I am really appalled by how racist so much of the opposition to his candidacy has been.

If this doesn’t qualify as an emergency, what does? Even the USDA plan said it could be used as a buffer in the event of a shutdown.

They want them locked up to use for "free" labor; free for the wealthy owners of the prisons. Expensive for us.

Roman potters mass produced Lamps & Deitity figurines in pottery Workshops across the Empire. 🏺#AncientBluesky #Archaeology In my next session at the Roman Army Museum I'll be giving you the chance to create your own using authentic methods and replica moulds. BOOK NOW! share.google/hSTds6ZQzpQh...

Gun detection software falsely identified a chip bag as a gun in a Baltimore County Public School. In our quest for security theater and to throw technology at problems, not only are we not making people safer, we're actually putting people who do things as innocent as eating chips in danger.

As U.S. wheat farmers face painful losses in the global market due to President Trump's policies, one domestic flour mill on a reservation in Oregon is expanding its production twelvefold.

At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.

For those saying, SNAP people should just go to a food bank, Trump has already gutted those programs. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

THIS. UNO also has a subscription it offers staff and students.

I'm no doubt preaching to the choir here, but my latest YouTube video on why expertise matters, with a couple concrete examples. #Classicsbluesky #Alexanderthegreat #Ancientbluesky

Anybody have a favorite book about bats for toddler-age kids? Want to get a special Halloween present for my neighbor kids.

Triskell apparently has the Italian version of Dancing with the Lion on sale.... (Man, these are such pretty covers, I gotta say.) Alexander before he became "the Great." #Classicsbluesky #Ancientbluesky #historicalfiction

Fixed it, you shitty cowards @nytimes.com

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

You can't tear down ANYTHING historic without massive red tape, permits, approval, promises to preserve. Unless you're His Magasty. Then whateverthefuck.

I can't decide if he just genuinely believes this is HIS house and he's gonna be there forever, or if he simply doesn't GAF about destroying our national heritage. Or, more likely...

Awful. Historic building trashed for one man's ego.

Seems like an opportune moment to re-up our paper about AWS seeking infrastructural dominance in education through a range of operations that include platforming the edtech industry on its cloud services codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/h...

Fun fact (or terrifying one), today’s AWS outage took down Canvas, the #1 learning management system used by 4,000+ U.S. colleges and millions of students worldwide. One data center hiccup and half of higher ed disappears.

This dude is punk as fuck 🤘

If you can't protest, there are other ways to get involved. Phonebanks need volunteers. There are post card campaigns that need help too. I say this because I don't want anyone to feel left out or left behind. Community action boosts mood & strengthens your social links. S-rank those contacts!

This is how it's done... Just like the Frog vs. ICE.

Thank you all for a fantastic #NoKings in Omaha! We heard a low-end estimate of 6k and a high of 8k for the turnout -- what we can say is that we had so many donations we were able to give two food banks as much as they could haul away, with a carload left over for a third organization!