Leah

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Gaudy Gatsby party on the eve of economic clampdown is about as tone-deaf a look as tight leather pants on a young widow.

So a guy who innocently caught a ride on a friend's plane a few times and has nothing to hide...is willing to starve tens of millions of Americans to keep the proof of that from being released 🤔

This

While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION

(not a typo)

Every single person of means is obligated to help fill the void in their local communities when SNAP benefits disappear.
It can be time, money or goods but please do something to help those who will be in need.

So that Mellon guy who gives away cash from his inheritance doesn’t have any left for SNAP?

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

I really enjoyed "The Gales of November" and maybe the most remarkable fact in it is that the recorded version of Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was not just the first take in the studio, but the first time the band ever played the song.

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

No longer a museum

Someone want to tell Mikey here that 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities?

Or that almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children?

And that Whites account for 37% of SNAP recipients?

A patient called to ask for medication samples because he lost his insurance and can’t afford his prescriptions. The United States is the only developed country in the world without universal health insurance.

@jreinermd.bsky.social

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

"Members of Congress get $79 a day for meals.
SNAP recipients receive an average of $6.31 per day.
Food stamps aren’t what’s bankrupting our country.
Hint: it’s greed."
-Fight for a Union

This

Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.

It is what you think it is… they mean to starve the poor folks.

Updating my LEGO White House

Literally

the orange one finally got the attention he was craving...

Keep these absurd images coming.

They make ICE look ridiculous.

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

I need to be able to tell my children I did not stay silent.

Sign of the day…

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

I don't know about you, but I feel inspired.

She couldn't get away from him fast enough.