Norby
@sonneksoller.bsky.social
Fluffing the throw pillows in my cozy little corner of the void
Am I eating the candy that a stranger gave me in the subway? Yes.
December 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Am I eating the candy that a stranger gave me in the subway? Yes.
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
I tried but I'll never be the kind of person who can sub out spaghetti squash for spaghetti and pretend that everything's okay.
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I tried but I'll never be the kind of person who can sub out spaghetti squash for spaghetti and pretend that everything's okay.
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
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It was okay for Mamdani to call Trump a fascist and also accuse him of funding genocide because none of that matters to capital.
#mamdani #trump #fascism #antifascism
#mamdani #trump #fascism #antifascism
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
It was okay for Mamdani to call Trump a fascist and also accuse him of funding genocide because none of that matters to capital.
#mamdani #trump #fascism #antifascism
#mamdani #trump #fascism #antifascism
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In a country where the cost of living rises but wages don't, where illness can leave you in financial ruin, and where the young feel they have no chance at any upward mobility, 86 House Democrats joined Republicans to pass a resolution denouncing “the horrors of socialism.” trib.al/YmIjeGU
86 Democrats Condemn Socialism as Zohran Mamdani Meets With Trump
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries appeared to lead the charge.
trib.al
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
In a country where the cost of living rises but wages don't, where illness can leave you in financial ruin, and where the young feel they have no chance at any upward mobility, 86 House Democrats joined Republicans to pass a resolution denouncing “the horrors of socialism.” trib.al/YmIjeGU
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Apparently RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t remove the statement
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Apparently RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t remove the statement
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
Bovino and ICE pulling out of Chicago for the winter is a nice reminder that the biggest bullies are always the biggest wimps.
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Bovino and ICE pulling out of Chicago for the winter is a nice reminder that the biggest bullies are always the biggest wimps.
Tucker Carlson is right to fear Bonhoeffer. His call to act in the world as Christians is dangerous to men like him
When Tucker Carlson gives his talk for the 1819ers to raise even more dark money tonight I don’t suppose he’ll expand on how Bonhoeffer and Churchill were bad but … www.mediaite.com/media/news/u...
‘Utter Stupidity’: Conservatives Appalled by Tucker Carlson’s Latest Target
Tucker Carlson has his newest target: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi, Christian evangelist executed by the Third Reich in 1945.
www.mediaite.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Tucker Carlson is right to fear Bonhoeffer. His call to act in the world as Christians is dangerous to men like him
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Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
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Let’s be clear about what happened here: Donald Trump and congressional republicans shut down the government, and then used the most vulnerable people among us as bargaining chips so they could raise health care costs for millions of Americans.
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Let’s be clear about what happened here: Donald Trump and congressional republicans shut down the government, and then used the most vulnerable people among us as bargaining chips so they could raise health care costs for millions of Americans.
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I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.
I'm now "of the age" that my Gen Z coworkers think that every crusty Gen X thing I do is cute.
October 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I'm now "of the age" that my Gen Z coworkers think that every crusty Gen X thing I do is cute.
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George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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As I recall Abbott (and DeSantis) were responsible for busing immigrants from the former's border into Chicago a year or so ago. And now Trump is sending Abbott's army up here to, what, REcapture them? This timeline ... ugh.
October 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
As I recall Abbott (and DeSantis) were responsible for busing immigrants from the former's border into Chicago a year or so ago. And now Trump is sending Abbott's army up here to, what, REcapture them? This timeline ... ugh.
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It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.
September 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.
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Y'all realize, of course, that if they do this successfully, there's absolutely nothing stopping them from listing gay people, Black people, or people under 5'6" as violent extremists, right? This lets them brand entire demographics as terrorists under FBI labeling if it is not stopped.
The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...
FBI Readies New War on Trans People
“We’re looking at the entire web”
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Y'all realize, of course, that if they do this successfully, there's absolutely nothing stopping them from listing gay people, Black people, or people under 5'6" as violent extremists, right? This lets them brand entire demographics as terrorists under FBI labeling if it is not stopped.
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being early is the same as being wrong
September 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
being early is the same as being wrong
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What Political Violence Means
Political Violence is all around us.
brittanyepage.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Cats and dumplings make all things bearable.
August 20, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Cats and dumplings make all things bearable.
Additionally, does OSHA oversee work safety violations for elected officials because I'm pretty sure it's been illegal to lock someone inside of their workplace since the Triangle Shirt Factory.
Demand the TX GOP release Rep. Collier (D):
☎ Sergeant at Arms: (512) 463-0910
☎ Chairman Charlie Geren: (512) 463-0784
☎ Speaker’s Office: (512) 463-1000
☎ Speaker’s Chief of Staff: (512) 463-1000
We can't allow #UltraMAGA to normalize the taking of #PoliticalPrisoners
☎ Sergeant at Arms: (512) 463-0910
☎ Chairman Charlie Geren: (512) 463-0784
☎ Speaker’s Office: (512) 463-1000
☎ Speaker’s Chief of Staff: (512) 463-1000
We can't allow #UltraMAGA to normalize the taking of #PoliticalPrisoners
August 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Additionally, does OSHA oversee work safety violations for elected officials because I'm pretty sure it's been illegal to lock someone inside of their workplace since the Triangle Shirt Factory.
This moment is reminding me of when Abbot was terrified that Obama was going to invade Texas. The conservative imagination is severely limited by a lack of empathy. The only way they can try to understand the world is by projecting their own thoughts and desires onto others.
August 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This moment is reminding me of when Abbot was terrified that Obama was going to invade Texas. The conservative imagination is severely limited by a lack of empathy. The only way they can try to understand the world is by projecting their own thoughts and desires onto others.