Whitney
@whitneyleann.bsky.social
Southern. Probably talking about progressive politics or pop culture.
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Need a refresher on what’s at stake for WIC in the FY 2026 budget? This blog breaks down the proposed cuts, the science behind the fruit and vegetable benefit, and why the House must fund WIC at $8.2 billion. frac.org/blog/wic-fru...
WIC Fruit and Vegetable Benefit At Risk - Food Research & Action Center
Published July 10, 2025 (Updated July 11, 2025) Currently, the budget process for fiscal year 2026 is in full swing. We have budget proposals from the White House, House, and Senate. As a discretionar...
frac.org
August 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Need a refresher on what’s at stake for WIC in the FY 2026 budget? This blog breaks down the proposed cuts, the science behind the fruit and vegetable benefit, and why the House must fund WIC at $8.2 billion. frac.org/blog/wic-fru...
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I thought the headline was exaggerating but it’s not. This is legitimately insane www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Texas is about to ban talking on college campuses at night | Opinion
If signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, this bill will ban speech at night — from study groups to newspaper reporting — at the state's public universities.
www.houstonchronicle.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I thought the headline was exaggerating but it’s not. This is legitimately insane www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
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This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.
In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.
www.newyorker.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.
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🚨🚨 A markup on a House budget resolution is expected this Thursday and the Senate Budget Committee is scheduled to mark up its budget resolution Wed. & and Thurs. Reach out TODAY to your Members of Congress to show your love of SNAP - bit.ly/3Q833pn #HandsOffSNAP
February 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
🚨🚨 A markup on a House budget resolution is expected this Thursday and the Senate Budget Committee is scheduled to mark up its budget resolution Wed. & and Thurs. Reach out TODAY to your Members of Congress to show your love of SNAP - bit.ly/3Q833pn #HandsOffSNAP
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SC Sen. Richard Cash is a human tube of unflavored Chapstick ... he's a used car dealer and apparently owns a fleet of ice cream trucks (which I guess someone has to but ...). THIS IS WHO SOUTH CAROLINA'S MEN IN THE LEGISLATURE ARE LETTING CALL THE SHOTS ON WOMEN'S HEALTHCARE ...
February 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
SC Sen. Richard Cash is a human tube of unflavored Chapstick ... he's a used car dealer and apparently owns a fleet of ice cream trucks (which I guess someone has to but ...). THIS IS WHO SOUTH CAROLINA'S MEN IN THE LEGISLATURE ARE LETTING CALL THE SHOTS ON WOMEN'S HEALTHCARE ...
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Do you think you could get the nutrition you need on $6 a day?
Sign up for #SNAPChallenge25 to find out. By taking part, you'll help raise awareness about hunger in America and show Congress why SNAP is a lifeline and must be protected. #HandsOffSNAP frac.org/snap-challen...
Sign up for #SNAPChallenge25 to find out. By taking part, you'll help raise awareness about hunger in America and show Congress why SNAP is a lifeline and must be protected. #HandsOffSNAP frac.org/snap-challen...
February 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Do you think you could get the nutrition you need on $6 a day?
Sign up for #SNAPChallenge25 to find out. By taking part, you'll help raise awareness about hunger in America and show Congress why SNAP is a lifeline and must be protected. #HandsOffSNAP frac.org/snap-challen...
Sign up for #SNAPChallenge25 to find out. By taking part, you'll help raise awareness about hunger in America and show Congress why SNAP is a lifeline and must be protected. #HandsOffSNAP frac.org/snap-challen...
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DEM SENATOR: Well there’s always next time 😃 a hearty “good game” to my colleagues across the aisle as they shepherd our great nation in the spirit of collaboration and teamwork! 🦅🫡
REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889]
REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889]
January 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
DEM SENATOR: Well there’s always next time 😃 a hearty “good game” to my colleagues across the aisle as they shepherd our great nation in the spirit of collaboration and teamwork! 🦅🫡
REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889]
REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889]
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days like today I think I’d really appreciate a news app with push notifications that respect my time and attention bandwidth. Ie “we know a ton of stuff will happen today so we will are only going to send you an alert if you *actually* need to stop what you’re doing and pay attention.”
January 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
days like today I think I’d really appreciate a news app with push notifications that respect my time and attention bandwidth. Ie “we know a ton of stuff will happen today so we will are only going to send you an alert if you *actually* need to stop what you’re doing and pay attention.”
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This is almost such an obvious point, it feels slightly crazy to point it out, but a politician winning a national election does not mean that the criticisms of that politician were wrong. Nixon and Bush both go reelected and everything their most unsparing critics said about them was right.
January 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is almost such an obvious point, it feels slightly crazy to point it out, but a politician winning a national election does not mean that the criticisms of that politician were wrong. Nixon and Bush both go reelected and everything their most unsparing critics said about them was right.
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Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood and feminist activist, died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.
Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died
Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.
19thnews.org
January 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Now what’s all this about drones?
December 16, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Now what’s all this about drones?
Last week in DC and finally got to see the White House Christmas decorations
December 8, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Last week in DC and finally got to see the White House Christmas decorations
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I hope I’m never shot in the streets after decades of evil doing but if I am, please God, don’t let the shooter be this attractive. I want to die at the hands of an uggo.
December 5, 2024 at 5:37 PM
I hope I’m never shot in the streets after decades of evil doing but if I am, please God, don’t let the shooter be this attractive. I want to die at the hands of an uggo.
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Ashley’s right, and there are too many people in this country who just don’t think children are people, with rights and feelings and dignity and full inner lives!
We have to stop thinking that what affects children won’t affect us. It always has and it always will. We could change the whole world—no hyperbole—by truly putting the welfare of children first, with all the considerations of their full human rights.
December 4, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Ashley’s right, and there are too many people in this country who just don’t think children are people, with rights and feelings and dignity and full inner lives!
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They are committed to the destruction of trans lives and trans existence. They will not win that fight, but understand, this is everyone's fight, and it won't be settled in the courts. These eliminationist politics will have to be fought at every level.
Matt Walsh outside the Supreme Court: "This case is just the beginning of the fight. It is not the end. We are not gonna rest ... until trans ideology is entirely erased from the earth. That's what we're fighting for, and we will not stop until we achieve it."
December 4, 2024 at 6:26 PM
They are committed to the destruction of trans lives and trans existence. They will not win that fight, but understand, this is everyone's fight, and it won't be settled in the courts. These eliminationist politics will have to be fought at every level.
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People are really out here like, "no Wicked spoilers!"
December 4, 2024 at 3:58 PM
People are really out here like, "no Wicked spoilers!"
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Response to coups by elected leaders:
- South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens
- Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics
- United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court
- South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens
- Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics
- United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court
December 3, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Response to coups by elected leaders:
- South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens
- Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics
- United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court
- South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens
- Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics
- United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court
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I don't think you have to be trans or have a trans family member to realize how scared so many of our trans communities members are right now. People deserve to live openly, freely, and fully themselves. Period.
December 4, 2024 at 1:57 PM
I don't think you have to be trans or have a trans family member to realize how scared so many of our trans communities members are right now. People deserve to live openly, freely, and fully themselves. Period.
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"did you read the article"
the article:
the article:
December 4, 2024 at 12:39 AM
"did you read the article"
the article:
the article:
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this has me thinking about how many people were witnesses to moments of great historical import while absolutely shithoused. hours that will become chapter titles in textbooks that they went through blasted to the gills. much respect honestly
December 3, 2024 at 5:49 PM
this has me thinking about how many people were witnesses to moments of great historical import while absolutely shithoused. hours that will become chapter titles in textbooks that they went through blasted to the gills. much respect honestly
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You pretty quickly learn that the rule is that any space or movement that is broadly right wing is authentic, virtuous, and can claim the mantle of being American, and that any space or movement that is broadly left wing is effete, out of touch, and cannot represent a viable version of America.
these people really seem to believe that twitter/x represents the broad public in some way
December 2, 2024 at 12:58 AM
You pretty quickly learn that the rule is that any space or movement that is broadly right wing is authentic, virtuous, and can claim the mantle of being American, and that any space or movement that is broadly left wing is effete, out of touch, and cannot represent a viable version of America.