Marie from the PNW

Whistleblower sues Oregon over school funding formula that shortchanges poor students A former state employee lost his job after he tried to alert lawmakers to problems with how the state calculates the extra funding it gives school districts for the costs of educating students from lo...

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I need a high equal to what a new Delia's catalog in my mailbox used to provide.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

I'm just finishing this book and it's so good. Measured, critical analysis, deeply informative and an actual page-turner.

8 hrs of sleep for everybody in the zohran for nyc font

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This wish is a true representation of the fact that we all contain multitudes

Two low-stakes, very inconsequential things I want so much are for Katie Holmes and Ian MacKaye to each write a memoir. I put this out into the universe every once in awhile because sometimes dreams do come true.

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Allowing myself to get misty eyed over other people’s political hope, as a little treat.

Look if you think losing one little hour of sunlight every day is gonna make me depressed you are very correct I hate it here

A reminder of this was last week when I was chatting with a coworker last week and they didn't know SNAP was about to run out.

...we work in a community mental health program!

Without SNAP: Finding Assistance in Uncertain Times Without SNAP: Finding Assistance in Uncertain Times Due to the completely preventable shutdown, the USDA says “the well has run dry” in regards to SNAP benefits. Beginning November 1st, SNAP benefits...

Thread 🧵: Food Assistance By State/Territory

The document below lists previously established food assistance programs, searchable by state.

Each state and territory is also listed alphabetically in the thread comments.

Help will come and go, so pls use this thread to update info for your state:

parents, check your kid’s candy; just found the communist manifesto in a snickers bar

i guess whatever ends up happening i very much appreciate the way that so much of what comes out of this campaign offers a positive depiction of what politics can offer to a community instead of just grim attack stuff and fear

Unfortunately no but I wish I did. Let's solve some nonsense!

Anyone remember the bowl-stuck-in-a-bowl situation on Twitter? That's what I need from the internet. Where's the fun where's the nonsense where's the group effort to solve a ridiculous problem. Yes I understand these are VERY SERIOUS times, this is mostly rhetorical. Mostly.

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week OpenAI says hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users may show signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week.

great cool cool very cool nothing to see here

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.

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Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

Just thinking: I am a double-boarded physician-scientist at @uclahealth.org, but I grew up in poverty. Gov't provided the welfare & foodstamps that aided my refugee family. Gov't grants subsidized my education.

I am only where I am today bc of the #America that was. And it makes me want to cry.

congress sounds so cool i wish it was real

Even if there weren't a shutdown that might impact SNAP deposits, it'd be hard to overstate how impactful the program changes are going to be for so many people.
apps.oregon.gov/oregon-newsr...

This is a very good thread

Black bird wrapped in red string on a pale yellow background

Transatlanticism, Death Cab for Cutie

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism