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Need a refresher on what’s at stake for WIC in the FY 2026 budget? This blog breaks down the proposed cuts, the science behind the fruit and vegetable benefit, and why the House must fund WIC at $8.2 billion. frac.org/blog/wic-fru...

Texas is about to ban talking on college campuses at night | Opinion If signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, this bill will ban speech at night — from study groups to newspaper reporting — at the state's public universities.

I thought the headline was exaggerating but it’s not. This is legitimately insane www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

In Defense of Despair The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.

This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.

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SC Sen. Richard Cash is a human tube of unflavored Chapstick ... he's a used car dealer and apparently owns a fleet of ice cream trucks (which I guess someone has to but ...). THIS IS WHO SOUTH CAROLINA'S MEN IN THE LEGISLATURE ARE LETTING CALL THE SHOTS ON WOMEN'S HEALTHCARE ...

It’s so annoying having people be like “I thought you were working but you’re sitting around on your computer” and it’s like first of all you’ll never guess where the work is but second that’s the same thing I’d do in an office?

Do you think you could get the nutrition you need on $6 a day?

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DEM SENATOR: Well there’s always next time 😃 a hearty “good game” to my colleagues across the aisle as they shepherd our great nation in the spirit of collaboration and teamwork! 🦅🫡
REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889]

days like today I think I’d really appreciate a news app with push notifications that respect my time and attention bandwidth. Ie “we know a ton of stuff will happen today so we will are only going to send you an alert if you *actually* need to stop what you’re doing and pay attention.”

This is almost such an obvious point, it feels slightly crazy to point it out, but a politician winning a national election does not mean that the criticisms of that politician were wrong. Nixon and Bush both go reelected and everything their most unsparing critics said about them was right.

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Now what’s all this about drones?

Last week in DC and finally got to see the White House Christmas decorations

I hope I’m never shot in the streets after decades of evil doing but if I am, please God, don’t let the shooter be this attractive. I want to die at the hands of an uggo.

Ashley’s right, and there are too many people in this country who just don’t think children are people, with rights and feelings and dignity and full inner lives!

They are committed to the destruction of trans lives and trans existence. They will not win that fight, but understand, this is everyone's fight, and it won't be settled in the courts. These eliminationist politics will have to be fought at every level.

People are really out here like, "no Wicked spoilers!"

Response to coups by elected leaders:

- South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens

- Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics

- United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court

I don't think you have to be trans or have a trans family member to realize how scared so many of our trans communities members are right now. People deserve to live openly, freely, and fully themselves. Period.

"did you read the article"
the article:

well yes

this has me thinking about how many people were witnesses to moments of great historical import while absolutely shithoused. hours that will become chapter titles in textbooks that they went through blasted to the gills. much respect honestly

You pretty quickly learn that the rule is that any space or movement that is broadly right wing is authentic, virtuous, and can claim the mantle of being American, and that any space or movement that is broadly left wing is effete, out of touch, and cannot represent a viable version of America.

No thank you

Anyways me and Finn are fully in Christmas mode now

I didn’t leave X because people there had different opinions and ideologies, I left because it stopped being fun. I get on social media to chat with people who think thinking is fun. X stopped being a place where that was true.