And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.

To be clear, there’s a difference between a couple making $30k trapped in intergenerational poverty and downwardly mobile millennials who can’t pay for childcare, but building class solidarity among people who can’t afford shit makes it easier to organize against these impoverishing conditions

Some of you wouldn’t touch the word “poor” with a 10-foot pole and some of you are gatekeeping it like it’s a precious resource. If you can’t afford the basics— housing, healthcare, childcare, retirement— you’re poor, + the only debatable part is how poor. Most people can’t afford these things now!

It's difficult to sum up the abject chaos Trump has caused by using people's ability to eat as a bargaining chip. Communication re: SNAP varies widely state by state, and it's wonderful to hear some have gotten November benefits, but many, many millions still haven't. This was totally avoidable.

"Person who received an important call right when they were about to eat"

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