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This. Yes. Why would we want anyone to suffer like this? Is it really worth cheap eggs to let people live in hell when we could do something?
Here’s a novel thought. Fix nobody caring about Sudan by caring about Sudan.
December 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This. Yes. Why would we want anyone to suffer like this? Is it really worth cheap eggs to let people live in hell when we could do something?
This is powerful. We punish the victims in this country because we love the powerful.
Great piece on Trump's 'Quiet, piggy' moment. This phrase could be the new shorthand way to explain how abusers silence their victims. Keep quiet or be punished cruelly.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
Heidi Stevens: After Trump’s ‘Quiet, piggy’ moment, we’re done asking why survivors don’t come forward, right?
If we’re going to become a nation that truly protects children and women, we have to stop giving a pass to sexual abusers, writes Heidi Stevens.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is powerful. We punish the victims in this country because we love the powerful.
Tell me our Democratic politicians aren't grifters. Corey Booker stands bravely in front of the Senate so that he can sell his book two weeks later. Kamala Harris is completely silent until her book tour, where she stands up for democracy. Then falls silent when her sales trip ends. Grifters.
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Tell me our Democratic politicians aren't grifters. Corey Booker stands bravely in front of the Senate so that he can sell his book two weeks later. Kamala Harris is completely silent until her book tour, where she stands up for democracy. Then falls silent when her sales trip ends. Grifters.
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In case you're wondering how this will impact people with disabilities...Mercy and I pay $1600 per month for our health insurance BEFORE any increases and it *still* doesn't cover all of my Crohn's meds and procedures.
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 AM
In case you're wondering how this will impact people with disabilities...Mercy and I pay $1600 per month for our health insurance BEFORE any increases and it *still* doesn't cover all of my Crohn's meds and procedures.
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Curious as to how much more you’ll pay if @democrats.senate.gov decide your health isn’t worth fighting for?
Check out this calculator tool that shows what your ACA premiums will look like if @schumer.senate.gov and the Dems cave:
www.kff.org/interactive/...
Check out this calculator tool that shows what your ACA premiums will look like if @schumer.senate.gov and the Dems cave:
www.kff.org/interactive/...
Calculator: ACA Enhanced Premium Tax Credit
The ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire at the end of 2025. This calculator estimates how much out-of-pocket premiums would increase for families if Congress does not extend the credi...
www.kff.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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“I’m a law-abiding citizen who never thought I’d be of such interest that the U.S. government would use my tax dollars & yours to try to send me to prison…[after being] manhandled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent trying to remove my phone from my hand.”
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | A jury of my peers agreed that the feds wrongly charged me for watching ICE
I believe that filming what federal agents were doing that day counted as basic human decency.
www.msnbc.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“I’m a law-abiding citizen who never thought I’d be of such interest that the U.S. government would use my tax dollars & yours to try to send me to prison…[after being] manhandled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent trying to remove my phone from my hand.”
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
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$5 billion has been allotted to keep Americans from starving. Trump would rather starve them.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump administration won't tap contingency fund to keep food aid flowing, memo says
The Trump administration says it won’t use a roughly $5 billion contingency fund to keep food aid flowing in November amid the government shutdown
www.washingtonpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
$5 billion has been allotted to keep Americans from starving. Trump would rather starve them.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This is the bs we have to put up with in a post truth world.
SCOOP
The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered
The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”
I got the memo laying it all out
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered
The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”
I got the memo laying it all out
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This is the bs we have to put up with in a post truth world.
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MA residents:
If SNAP goes away, your EBT card still lets you use HIP to get fruits/vegetables: mass.gov/info-details...
You can still get Transitional/Emergency Economic Assistance: mass.gov/economic-ass...
This hotline gives access to other meal/pantry programs: projectbread.org/foodsource-h...
If SNAP goes away, your EBT card still lets you use HIP to get fruits/vegetables: mass.gov/info-details...
You can still get Transitional/Emergency Economic Assistance: mass.gov/economic-ass...
This hotline gives access to other meal/pantry programs: projectbread.org/foodsource-h...
October 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
MA residents:
If SNAP goes away, your EBT card still lets you use HIP to get fruits/vegetables: mass.gov/info-details...
You can still get Transitional/Emergency Economic Assistance: mass.gov/economic-ass...
This hotline gives access to other meal/pantry programs: projectbread.org/foodsource-h...
If SNAP goes away, your EBT card still lets you use HIP to get fruits/vegetables: mass.gov/info-details...
You can still get Transitional/Emergency Economic Assistance: mass.gov/economic-ass...
This hotline gives access to other meal/pantry programs: projectbread.org/foodsource-h...
People should stop calling the Epstein Ballroom the Epstein Ballroom. It's an inside joke that only Trump (and Epstein) would understand.
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
People should stop calling the Epstein Ballroom the Epstein Ballroom. It's an inside joke that only Trump (and Epstein) would understand.
This is the man running this country.
The year is 2003.
17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."
Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.
17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."
Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.
October 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This is the man running this country.
What is clear at this point is that we can't wind the clock back four or right years and simply continue as the United States of America. Our future is different, our institutions broken. The future is in our hands. What do we choose to do with it?
September 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
What is clear at this point is that we can't wind the clock back four or right years and simply continue as the United States of America. Our future is different, our institutions broken. The future is in our hands. What do we choose to do with it?
Let's be honest, Charlie Kirk believed in and practiced stochastic terrorism seeding.
September 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Let's be honest, Charlie Kirk believed in and practiced stochastic terrorism seeding.
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This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.
Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader'
Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.
www.pbs.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.
Two things can be true at once: Charlie Kirk's shooting is a tragedy and he was a monster who advocated for violence against others.
September 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Two things can be true at once: Charlie Kirk's shooting is a tragedy and he was a monster who advocated for violence against others.
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Officer Daniel Hodges: "Jan. 6 was an actual emergency that they could have activated the National Guard for...But Trump sat in his little chair and watched us get beaten on Fox. I had someone try to gouge out my eyes, someone beat me with my baton. But apparently that wasn't a national emergency."
August 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Officer Daniel Hodges: "Jan. 6 was an actual emergency that they could have activated the National Guard for...But Trump sat in his little chair and watched us get beaten on Fox. I had someone try to gouge out my eyes, someone beat me with my baton. But apparently that wasn't a national emergency."
Just like Patriot Front. apnews.com/article/immi...
Federal agents hid in back of rental truck at start of raid outside LA Home Depot
U.S. Border Patrol agents jumped out of the back of a rented Penske truck and made arrests at a Los Angeles Home Depot store during an immigration raid.
apnews.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Just like Patriot Front. apnews.com/article/immi...
To be clear, this "order" criminalizes people for existing in a way that offends fuck twat.
Oh, but the way an executive order is not a law by Fiat, it expresses the desire of a president for the executive branch. Let's make sure we disappoint him.
Oh, but the way an executive order is not a law by Fiat, it expresses the desire of a president for the executive branch. Let's make sure we disappoint him.
July 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
To be clear, this "order" criminalizes people for existing in a way that offends fuck twat.
Oh, but the way an executive order is not a law by Fiat, it expresses the desire of a president for the executive branch. Let's make sure we disappoint him.
Oh, but the way an executive order is not a law by Fiat, it expresses the desire of a president for the executive branch. Let's make sure we disappoint him.
America is a country without a memory, only passing a fetishistic yearning for a non existent past when things were better.
From a time when childhood vaccines were just a figment of imagination.
Row after row of baby headstones.
Row after row of baby headstones.
July 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
America is a country without a memory, only passing a fetishistic yearning for a non existent past when things were better.
Make America like Chile in the eighties!
Florida is committing "enforced disappearance," a very serious violation of international human rights law.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
July 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Make America like Chile in the eighties!
This is an internment camp. If they can illegally imprison legal residents they can imprison you and me. Trump meant it when he said there would never be another election -- at least not a free and fair election.
People who entered the US legally and have no criminal charges are being held in the Everglades camp, according to records obtained by the Miami Herald. Maybe that’s why the government won’t release the names of those being detained. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Hundreds at Alligator Alcatraz have no criminal charges, Miami Herald learns
Descriptions of the Everglades detention center as a place for violent criminals tell only part of the story.
www.miamiherald.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is an internment camp. If they can illegally imprison legal residents they can imprison you and me. Trump meant it when he said there would never be another election -- at least not a free and fair election.
The secret police have officially arrived. Be careful out there and resist resist resist!
"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"
our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got
dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...
our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got
dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...
Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous
Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...
dailynous.com
July 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The secret police have officially arrived. Be careful out there and resist resist resist!
The GOP's virtuous circle.
This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
July 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The GOP's virtuous circle.