Alicia Wilson Baker

As someone who has been on SNAP benefits in the past, what will happen Nov. 1 is that people will start diverting other funds towards groceries. They will choose to feed their families over making credit card payments, paying medical bills, car payments, etc. This is going to affect a lot of things.

This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.

In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.

CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.

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Millions across all 50 US states march in No Kings protests against Trump Crowds of Americans, many in costumes, aligned behind message that US is sliding into authoritarianism

Top story when you go to The Guardian this AM. Which it is not when you go to the Washington Post or the NY Times. Apt language here, whereas WaPo describes the day as an airing of grievances as though we are a bunch of whining George Costanzas, not a vast public fearful of losing everything.

Treating the Declaration of Independence’s list of grievances like a to do list.

"He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people."

"For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate …".

this is your periodic reminder that this doesn’t exist bc grandma didn’t take all of her antibiotics that one time. it’s because 80% of the antibiotic market is factory farming. *80 fucking percent.*

shit ain’t over til it’s over

a teddy bear wearing a clark 1 jersey stands on a balcony Alt: Clark the Cub (the Cubs Mascot) flies the W over Wrigley Field

They live to meet the Brewers on Saturday! Whee!

I need the Cubs to not shit the bed tonight so they can go on to win the World Series again, thus undoing the worldwide curse that started immediately following their 2016 win. 😅

It's always the people taking consistent action who feel they aren't doing "enough." Let that shit go. You are doing more than 85% of others.

I am personally at more than capacity. What we need is for others to do their part(s) too.

meanwhile at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

AI fans always seem puzzled why some people have a revulsion to AI and one issue is the people in charge of AI are repulsive

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.

“Use this list of senators and call immediately. Every call counts!”

Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees.

In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay.

Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024.

Textbook corporate greed.

Indianapolis please help! My bike was stolen from Sam’s Silver Circle in FtSq sometime last night, 9/14/25. It’s pink/purple with the words “HARD ROCK” in yellow lettering on the side. Please reach out if you see it

An appropriate response to this nonsense!!!

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Precisely.

Police can ruin lives just by doing their jobs. Landlords can make us homeless just by evicting. An employer might fire you if it's good for the bottom line. It seems that Capitalism wants us to be decent as children but then expects us to be corrupt and awful to each other as adults. Perhaps a system that delivers on the potential of that pro-social behavior we are taught as kids is a better system than the one we live under

It does not have to be this way.

An Open Letter to Bluey’s Parents: Please Stop Mum. Dad. Let me begin by saying I’m a fan. You are truly two of the finest method actors of your dog generation. Your commitment to playing Ground...

"As if the dancing weren’t enough, when my kids yell 'HEAVY,' I’m expected to pantomime that whatever I’m holding is unbearably heavy. That works fine with a pen. It’s even manageable with a cup of hot coffee. But when holding your best friend’s newborn?"

I, too, was harshly reminded of my evangelical upbringing just by opening the book of face for the first time in a while 🙃 but was pleasantly surprised by a few folks, too.

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’

Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”

This explains it better than I can

They tell us George Floyd deserved death every chance they get. Breona Taylor's death was her fault because her boyfriend did "something". They funded Rittenhouse and gave him speaking engagements

George Floyd was a father too and Charlie Kirk called him a “scumbag.”

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️