Eileen

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

An order of chicken fingers is called a hand. “Gimme a hand of fingies,” you say. If you want dipping sauce you ask for them to “paint the nails.”

“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

Historically speaking though, it’s true that parliamentary democracies are more resilient than presidential democracies - less prone to backsliding.

food stamps were necessary for us when my mom was a single parent raising four children, and they're still not enough for people to survive on. one year my sister got some birthday money from my grandparents and we had to use it to buy groceries. people will die without them

This is sickening. I can barely come up with words to describe the agony I feel watching it. I’m glad it was documented and I hope documentation serves to move the needle on public support for these inhumane and disgusting policies and actions. Not sure what else there is left to hope for.

If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

None of this is a policy failure... it's just their policy

The people tracking Melissa are doing it without pay. 😡

My god, I think about that all the time too.

Seems like an obvious way to bring up 9/11 and Muslims in reporting on him. The people reporting on this know that it’s used the way he used it. It’s beyond dumb.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

I’m gonna be angry at you for wanting higher wages

I’m gonna be angry at you for being on food stamps

I’m gonna be angry at you for working full time and being on food stamps

I’m gonna be angry at you for trying to get me to connect the dots to the actual problem

Listen I kinda digged Platner for a sec when he broke onto the scene, he said some good stuff. But I kinda draw the line on "I have a tattoo on my chest of an organization that murdered literal millions of people."

I know, I know, I'm small minded.

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.

that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.

but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.

Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

As a white person, if you think telling MILLIONS of Black people in the south to simply MOVE AWAY to a “blue state” is not only going to SPARE them any suffering in this country but is even financially feasible for everyone, please put a bag over your head and breathe deep.

It’s hard to decipher but if you look closely you can find an alarming secret message in this headline

every passing day, rightwingers are inventing new and unexpected ways to signal to the world they may be the dumbest iteration of humans so far

For many white people Black folks asking to be seen and treated as humans is viewed as a dangerous threat.

That’s the primary difference in these marches.

The government shutdown is especially tough on men, who are losing $1.00 for every 75¢ a woman loses.

> @newyorker.com

Before The Perfect Neighbor became a Netflix documentary, I was already following the story, and it’s heartbreaking.

Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” laws aren’t protecting citizens, they’re protecting bias. We can’t keep letting racial prejudice disguise itself as “self-defense.”

Netflix’s new documentary, “The Perfect Neighbor,” highlights the tragic reality of Shoot First laws. These laws—which the gun lobby calls “Stand Your Ground” laws to make them seem justifiable—have increased gun murders by up to 11% nationally, translating to more than 700 deaths each year.

Folks we need this picture of Angelo Elia and his swastika embedded into the American flag to go viral. This shithead works for Congressman (R) Dave Taylor’s office . Angelo needs to be fired for this. An investigation is ongoing, but not enough.