Cheryl

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

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OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.

OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.

A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

Imagine you’re a teenager who wants birth control pills. The problem is, your Planned Parenthood has shut down—financially devastated by Donald Trump’s budget bill. You don’t know anything about that; you just know the next closest clinic is a two-hour drive away. You look around for an OBGYN, but the few who haven’t fled your anti-choice state are booked solid for months. Besides, you’re on your parents’ health insurance, and you’d rather keep this visit private. So you go to a ‘pregnancy clinic’ you found on Google; the staff are wearing white coats and seem legit enough, so you don’t think much about the framed picture of a Bible quote on the wall. But when you ask about getting on the Pill, the woman there says hormones could give you cancer—and that it’s illegal for minors to get birth control without parental permission. You’re pretty sure that’s not true, but you’re 15 years old and aren’t going to argue with an adult. So you leave defeated, without contraception, hoping that your boyfriend might agree to wear a condom. Now imagine that’s happening in every community, every day, across the country.

Right now, Republicans are working to ‘replace’ reproductive healthcare clinics with crisis pregnancy centers—claiming that the fake clinics are perfectly acceptable alternatives to the credible healthcare centers their policies are shuttering.

Here's the reality:

I was working at the U.S. Attorney’s office taking on the opioid crisis at the very same time as Jack was making millions of dollars creating materials downplaying the dangers of opioids. Families across New Jersey suffered while Jack got rich.

Read the facts here: opioidjack.com

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit." Someone named Manny replies: "@grok why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Real estate donations to Ciattarelli place rising rents at center of NJ governor’s race A wealthy real estate family has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the tightening New Jersey governor's race, where both major party candidates have focused on how to tackle rising housing ...

Jack's biggest donor was sued for using an algorithm to jack up rents on New Jerseyans across the state.

And we're really supposed to believe he's going to make this state more affordable? Get real.
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This is how all Democrats should respond

Hollywood Reporter article about Wondery exec Jeanine Wright starting an AI generated podcast slop factory

"Lazy"!

Rowling once reported someone saying "I wish on JK Rowling only what she wishes on trans people" as a threat of violence. She wishes violence on trans people in her own words! By her own admission! I am so tired of being expected to pretend that she doesn't!

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

Just spitballing here but I think air conditioning is a much better use of energy than sophisticated predictive text models that lie to you and produce slop “art”

Brad with Zohran Mamdani at the Pride parade.

Yesterday I was so PROUD to stand with LGBTQ+ New Yorkers alongside my friend and our Democratic nominee for Mayor, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!

New Yorkers: good luck today and remember not to vote for or even slate anyone who is a known sex pest

The Onion: Cuomo Makes 11th-Hour Pass At Female New Yorkers

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[running into the room three days late, my eyes bloodshot and my beard unkempt, brandishing a sheaf of scribbled-on papers] a dodge charger for a charge dodger

Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

Brad Lander, NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate, is arrested outside immigration court New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested at a federal building in Manhattan as he was trying to accompany a person out of an immigration courtroom.

what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word

You know, I don't have a problem with sexual harassment being something that permanently disqualifies someone from holding public office.

*whispers*

liberals and leftists making alliances to take power away from centrists is good, actually

Tapping the sign

Important to remember that Cuomo resigned when a lengthy, detailed report on multiple varied instances of sexual misconduct was issued, and has never addressed several of the most serious charges.

Trans people: we would like to participate in society.

Anti-trans activists: trans people should not exist.

Politico: both sides are extreme!