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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.

Change my mind.

To this day you can’t buy Jarts but an 11 year old can ask AI how to make a noose with zero oversight or safeguards

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

This isn’t fair. He didn’t just “not solv[e] any problems,” he caused a shitload of new ones too.

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery

absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

How many kids first experience of the state will be of masked men grabbing people?

Amazing. He's saying the quiet part out loud without even realizing it.

I know how absurd this is to say these days, but it's important to remember that officially, redistricting isn't supposed to unfairly favor one party over another.

fox news is talking about mamdani this morning like he's the candyman coming for your kids, and i love it.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

to live through the Trump administration is to be inundated with news 24/7, story after story of absurd and horrible scandal

unless you are Mike Johnson, who lives in an idyllic world full of puppies and rainbows in which nothing ever happens

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Conservatives post No Kings rally: psh. He’s not a king. If he was you couldn’t protest.

Conservatives approaching Nov 1st: It’s fine that the people starve while our glorious leader builds his home into a golden palace

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown.

The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

Missing the days when, if a scary masked man approached us on the street, WE pepper sprayed HIM, not the other way around.

Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity

Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.

It aids fascism.

It is painfully clear Republicans are not listening to folks back home.
 
What families nationwide are saying is: "Please stop my premiums from doubling."
 
And what are Republican leaders saying? "Not our problem, we never wanted to lower health care costs in the first place."

You don't actually have to spend all of your coverage on how a disaster affects US tourists.

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.

Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

"Not only is Donald Trump not here, not negotiating, Mike Johnson has now shut down the House for 39 consecutive days. There's no one to negotiate with. Across town, Trump is building a $300 million ballroom while he is set to let Americans starve."

-- @repstansbury.bsky.social

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Reminder: there is funding and there are measures in place to make sure SNAP continues during government shutdowns.

This is a deliberate choice.

This is a malicious infliction of harm.

70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.

“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country

Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it .

it’s beyond comprehension that scenes like this have become routine in chicago.

masked soldiers are carelessly lobbing chemical weapons—that are banned from use during warfare—on random residential streets.

this is the third time feds have tear-gassed residents in chicago *this week!*