@joehughes.bsky.social
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
My latest video for @propublica.org.
AJ West • 1h Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government Reply 6
lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day
13.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 5729 🔁 1146 💬 124 📌 77I hope all those Black ICE officers save their coins because they are going to be the ones taking the fall for all the illegal stuff their bosses who are not Black or of color are directing them to do. They will need those coins for good attorneys. They will go to jail, the question is how long!
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doronofircast • › los angeles 7h Can we discuss this insanity!!! While people are screaming about tariffs, look at all these freaking sales taxes for Los Angeles & California. This is for a basic purchase of goods. Subtotal $232.40 Shipping..................... $0.00 Los Angeles County Tax .................... $0.58 Los Angeles County District Tax Sp ..... $5.81 Los Angeles Co Local Tax SI $2.32 California State Tax ...... $13.94 Total ... $255.05
This is 9.7% total sales tax.
The highest total sales taxes in the nation are paid in Alabama (up to 13%), Oklahoma (up to 11.5%), Arkansas (up to 11.5.%) and Louisiana (10.11% on *average*).
So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you
12.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 3352 🔁 700 💬 55 📌 10yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
13.10.2025 16:38 — 👍 7593 🔁 2290 💬 88 📌 34Please re-post or alternatively hire me (shoot me a dm or email). :)
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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.
Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.
12.10.2025 21:48 — 👍 1391 🔁 212 💬 23 📌 16Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.
fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.
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Four ads from the Previews catalogue for Topps adaptation of the Coppola Dracula movie
30.10.2023 20:09 — 👍 357 🔁 111 💬 4 📌 5No matter how many hit clips you see from @govpritzker.illinois.gov, the fact remains that the Illinois State Police are actively protecting and aiding ICE in their terrorizing of our communities.
11.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 367 🔁 144 💬 11 📌 14
New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.
50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...
Derry Girls is so good. Have you watched We Are Lady Parts? That one might be a hit with everyone too.
12.10.2025 18:40 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.
12.10.2025 15:37 — 👍 4872 🔁 1045 💬 375 📌 170“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”
12.10.2025 11:52 — 👍 4427 🔁 879 💬 65 📌 22It’s pronounced cyclist.
11.10.2025 22:21 — 👍 21727 🔁 3639 💬 439 📌 346
My version of the predator meme but with Kermit and Fozzy’s arms clasped. “Fozzy, you son of a bitch!”
Perhaps my greatest work?
11.10.2025 22:32 — 👍 1230 🔁 237 💬 10 📌 3
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
11.10.2025 21:10 — 👍 16234 🔁 4978 💬 287 📌 731News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."
One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.
10.10.2025 10:24 — 👍 1531 🔁 375 💬 32 📌 32To be fair, we thought they said "the best and the brightest" but obviously they said "no breasts and the whitest."
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photo of part of Greg Pak's NYCC artist alleyvtable showing a donation for the New York Immigrant Coalition and some stacks of photo prints including a photo of Ras Baraka and a photo of a protest sign reading "Cruelty is not strength bitches"
Collecting donations for the New York Immigrant Coalition at the NYCC! Come get some free photos and donate to help immigrants in NYC! Artist Alley L25 @thenyic.bsky.social
09.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 378 🔁 100 💬 4 📌 2
In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
02.10.2025 20:22 — 👍 16409 🔁 6007 💬 855 📌 564Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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it’s all just a grift
08.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 11780 🔁 4670 💬 703 📌 292
So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."
