Tim
@timmypi.bsky.social
Avid reader | Burrito enthusiast | Mathematics teacher | Social Justice educator | Pronouns: he/him/his 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
How dare they even think about small joys!
January 5, 2026 at 12:29 AM
How dare they even think about small joys!
The only efficiency they care about is efficiently denying people aid by throwing up new administrative burdens (increased paperwork, more intrusive questions and processes, forcing people to apply in-person, etc). Just give people aid and support 🙄
January 5, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The only efficiency they care about is efficiently denying people aid by throwing up new administrative burdens (increased paperwork, more intrusive questions and processes, forcing people to apply in-person, etc). Just give people aid and support 🙄
All this "means testing" and "rooting out fraud" is just thinly veiled cover for finding increasingly absurd ways to deny people aid. Surveillance systems suck up money and resources that *should* go to recipients. We're led to believe poor people lose their privacy rights and liberty to save a buck
January 5, 2026 at 12:15 AM
All this "means testing" and "rooting out fraud" is just thinly veiled cover for finding increasingly absurd ways to deny people aid. Surveillance systems suck up money and resources that *should* go to recipients. We're led to believe poor people lose their privacy rights and liberty to save a buck
Not a lawyer but some of these don't feel applicable? Also, chances none of these stick?
January 4, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Not a lawyer but some of these don't feel applicable? Also, chances none of these stick?
Looks like "worst takes of 2026" has started early
January 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Looks like "worst takes of 2026" has started early
Sounds like centrism: hollow and self-important.
Lots of words to say nothing in particular
Lots of words to say nothing in particular
January 2, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Sounds like centrism: hollow and self-important.
Lots of words to say nothing in particular
Lots of words to say nothing in particular
I mean, sounds like centrism: hollow, contradictory, and self-important
January 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM
I mean, sounds like centrism: hollow, contradictory, and self-important
I mean, sounds like centrism: hollow, contradictory, and self-important
January 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
I mean, sounds like centrism: hollow, contradictory, and self-important
Bing Bang Boom + their favorite slur = salvation
January 2, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Bing Bang Boom + their favorite slur = salvation
It's probably some cabinet members in those suits
January 1, 2026 at 5:27 PM
It's probably some cabinet members in those suits
"These attacks are baseless, racist, and despicable. And yet, they’re taking a page out of the same moral panic playbook the GOP has been running for decades to undermine public investment in childcare and achieve its broader (and often misogynistic) policy aims."
open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...
open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...
Panic at the Daycare
The 80s are back, and not in a good way
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM