Uptown Thunk

@jonfavs.bsky.social @wagnertonight.msnbc.com Genuine question - does donating to food banks in absence of SNAP just give the administration more reason to cancel it long term?

All for helping those who need it. Just worried we are shooting ourselves in the foot. 😕

NEW analysis on the GOP megabill's core policy choice: each millionaire's tax cut is paid for by taking away health insurance from 4 people while reducing health care benefits from many others.

Lol

Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans The case appears set to return to the Supreme Court in a decisive battle over President Trump’s use of the 18th-century law to deport migrants.

Late last night, a federal appeals court blocked President Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants.

This is a huge win for the rule of law. Once again, a court ruled that Trump can't invoke a false emergency to grab power.

Political theater.

WATCH: “SUBSTANTIVE representation matters.”

@symonedsanders.bsky.social tells Dan Koh the women held out as examples of Trump *empowering* women (Susie Wiles, Kristi Noem) don’t actually have any power.

Full #PeoplesCabinet episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XHt...

(No, this doesn’t directly impact the use of the National Guard in DC)

Honestly the most outrageous new change at Cracker Barrel is that, when you fail at the peg game, it says there's "no reason to be embarrassed" instead of calling you an "eg-no-ra-moose." Our country is in tatters

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada

This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government.

(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

So funny!

This is a great point. People are forgetting we are operating under entirely different frameworks and the same old methods won't work.

turns out “grown-ups” are just kids with bills and trauma

Thanks to LLMs, when someone types consistently good grammar and capitalization, my gut reaction is to assume they are an AI chatbot

I don't think this has been widely enforced anyway.

I don't even know what specifically it's in reference to but with the code I deal with and with apps I use I'm 💯 inclined to believe it

WATCH: “Let’s do roll call. Let’s call them out.”

@mizzwelch.bsky.social calls out AIPAC-backed NY DEMS who won’t endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social — with the @roguednc.bsky.social @trackaipac.bsky.social numbers.

(their influence is over both parties)

This

This is overall good news and I'd like to see it gain traction. We need to see conservatives split because some of them will move left.

An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans.

This is Washington at its worst.

We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

Heart wrenching

“We’ve got about 26 Republican targets. We need four of them. This is not a done deal.“

@ezralevin.bsky.social highly encourages you to stop doomscrolling and start contacting your representative. We can still defeat Trump’s Tax Scam and save Medicaid and SNAP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

☎️ Start dialing NOW ☎️

Trump and the GOP’s reckless agenda just passed the Senate and is heading to the House for a final vote – but there’s still time to stop it.

Call Congress at (202) 224-3121 and tell your representative to VOTE NO.

This is a live fight - don’t let up!!

Preach!

I love so much how AOC gets it. People who are so separated from the real life of everyday people thinking they understand what it's like...

Less competent at what skills specifically?

I'd also be interested know to what degree they are more dependent on lobbyist legislation. How much legislation is lobbyist crafted today? I would venture nearly all of it.

Amazing, I wish I had representation like you!

We need better centralized tracking of these abuses. Especially if ICE gets 10x resources. Do you know if anyone is working on this?

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