SNAP benefits are about to lapse for 42 million people, because nothing says “save the children” like starving them.

Lead stories 12:30pm

WaPo: Wall St slides
Wall St Jrnl: Market turmoil
NYT: Stock slide deepens
BBC: UK FTSE falls
AP: Sell off worsens

Fox "News": No mention of stocks- Bondi announces arrests of suspected MS-13 gangbangers in brutal cold case murder

Thank you Wisconsin for not falling for Musk's bribery! You're sending MAGA and Project 2025 an important message.

The DOGE firing of people who work in nuclear programs and bird flu and then trying to figure out how to rehire them makes DOGE and the administration look stupid. like they don't know what they're doing. It also makes the US look stupid. It's also very inefficient.

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”

The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

Fear of books is fear of ideas. It's fear of democracy itself. Let's ban that!

The boys wait somewhat patiently at the co-op.

I love my propaganda books! 📚

Have I had my mind changed on social media? Yes - NOT by arguing with randoms, but by following experts and first hand folks who share what they do, what they think and what's going on. The change isn't binary - I used to think one thing, and suddenly now another - it's slow and additive: Learning.

Microsoft said it has identified the cause of a major Outlook and Teams outage, and is deploying a fix to the problem.