Fay Bracken

FACTS about SNAP:

-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

The luxury effect: why you’ll find more wildlife in wealthy areas – and what it means for your health The discovery that affluent neighbourhoods have more diversity of nature has implications for human wellbeing – and sheds light on the structural injustices in cities

Wild, diverse nature should be accessible to *all*, not just the wealthy.
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ABSOLUTELY 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽💯

Ukraine war latest updates: 'Normal people don't fight like this' — Russia bombs power plant in Donetsk Oblast, Zelensky says (8) Live coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine with breaking news and frontline updates, updated 8 times today. Russia on Oct. 30 bombed the Sloviansk Thermal Power Plant in Donetsk Oblast killing two ...

Russia on Oct. 30 bombed the Sloviansk Thermal Power Plant in Donetsk Oblast killing two people; Two soldiers working at a draft office in the city of Kremenchuk in Poltava Oblast have been injured, after a man shot them while being mobilized; and more.

Police have investigated over 1 000 avoidable baby deaths in NHS England, none in Edinburgh and none in Scotland where ‘maternity failings’ pay-outs are tellingly less than half, per head, those in En... of the UK’s busiest maternity units, claiming staff shortages and a culture of mistrust led to patients being harmed. Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland is headlining today: Damning re…

Police have investigated over 1 000 avoidable baby deaths in NHS England, none in Edinburgh and none in Scotland where ‘maternity failings’ pay-outs are tellingly less than half, per head, those in England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/29/p...

The reason 42 million Americans are on SNAP is because employers aren’t paying living wages.

Kyiv.
Evening.
No power at home.
The schedule says – four hours.
Dinner time,
under the songs of generators outside.

Catholic leaders seek reforms in Florida — an epicenter of support for Trump’s ICE agenda 'The detention conditions are horrid, and they're almost jubilant about those conditions,' said the vice president for advocacy at Jesuit Refugee Service/USA during a webinar his organization held wit...

Catholic leaders seek reforms in Florida — an epicenter of support for Trump’s ICE agenda

Quebec linemen help restore power in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa As Jamaica begins to recover from Hurricane Melissa, linemen from Quebec are on the ground helping to restore electricity to communities left in the dark.

🇨🇦♥️🇯🇲
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Now that’s a bath

UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America The labor union representing workers in auto, aircraft and agricultural implement manufacturing and other industries in

The UAW made history last year by organizing a Southern auto plant for the first time since the 1940s.

They might do so again, after authorizing a strike at the VW plant.

It takes enormous courage to fight for your rights on the job in a hostile environment. Solidarity.

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Schizophrenia exists.

Mental illness exists.

Psychiatric medications can be life-saving.

Psychotherapy can be life-saving.

Don't let misinformed people like @profjohnread.bsky.social tell you otherwise.

Enough with the anti-psychiatry propaganda and stigma. ✌️

Breakfast in Kharkiv.

So many Ukrainian children have become so accustomed to explosions during the years of war.

Sound on, if you can.

📹: Yekaterina Vershynina/Facebook

Trump sent the National Guard to Portland to stop “protests” that don’t exist.

Courts said it’s illegal — but the troops are still there, burning through tax dollars. @timdickinson.bsky.social reports.

Good thinking

Graphic with bold text over the image of the Capitol building, reading "Fund the Government. Fix the Health Care Crisis. Put Working People First." Below is the logo of the AFL-CIO.

What would happen to your family if you were forced to work for over a month *without* pay? That’s what many federal workers are experiencing right now.

Enough is enough.

Fund the government.
Fix the health care crisis.
Put working people first.
https://bit.ly/4ovmkjK

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

“Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.”

De-Amazon by ordering directly from bookshop.org

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Gov. DeSantis directs Florida universities to stop using H-1B visas Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday directed the state university system to end using what are known as H-1B visas to hire employees from other countries.

At what point do you stop thinking that states like Florida and Texas want their population to be educated?

For me, we're past that point.

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Report: Americans Most Physically Active When Getting Comfy

Report: Americans Most Physically Active When Getting Comfy https://theonion.com/report-americans-most-physically-active-when-getting-c-1819579560/

Dave Norton

Here's the USDA's contingency plan to keep SNAP funded during a shutdown. The USDA just deleted it from their website.
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Operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces are destroying enemy equipment&personnel as part of the Dobropillia counteroffensive operation.They have struck a “Grad” multiple launch rocket system,armored combat vehicles,military transport vehicles

📹Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

👏👏🎯🎯💥💥 More of this please!!!! 💥💥🎯🎯👏👏

YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones ICE GONE WILD: Raids ESCALATE from PORTLAND to CHICAGO

Repost if you stand with immigrants over the ICE gestapo.

This shit has to stop!!

I'll just leave this here. The GOP is gaslighting us.