Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

Seems like a valid question. Why is ICE considered essential while ATCs are not?

Future Plans No future plans found.

i wonder why that is, ACA Insurance Selector Portal. do you think it could be that health insurance for a family of three costs more than a mortgage and a car loan put together

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

New from 404 Media: libraries are scrambling for books after a giant distributor shut down. This is a huge disruption to public libraries across the country, some of which are warning their communities the shut down will limit their ability to lend books.

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

So you can change the endpoint Claude Code uses, I had a little success with litellm as a proxy to local models served by llama.cpp—but you need a lot of RAM/GPU for tool calling context. Local LLM has been great for less intensive tasks that should be private (like analyzing med results), though.

“Alexa, ask Radio Time Warp to play a Halloween show!”

I can’t believe this still works. Thank you, @archive.org 💕

Gotta log off for a while after this one. Just too much.

It's not gonna absolve our sins, and it might not even help, but ffff. Can't just keep pressing the space bar.

Compañeros: Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center Please select your language: Favor de seleccionar su idioma:

When faced with absolutely horrific stuff, scan articles to find the helpers. They're often and usually 501c3s, like www.companeros.org and www.805undocufund.org. Donate, and get that corporate match if you have it.

Laugh Factory manager charged with assaulting Border Patrol agent outside Chicago comedy club last week The night manager at the Chicago Laugh Factory has been charged with assaulting U.S. Border Patrol agent during a confrontation outside the North Side comedy club last week.

A source familiar with this incident told me today that not only did they arrest and charge the comedy club manager, but the Latino man he was defending from ICE -- who was also arrested and whisked away -- **is also a U.S. citizen.**

It's unclear where the Latino man is now.

I’m writing for the local paper again!

Sounds a lot like what @katmabu.bsky.social is doing, making mutual aid a key component of her campaign www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/kat...

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

Walmart Pulls 25% of SNAP Spending Retailers, Third-Party Delivery Platforms Expanding Access

Walmart pulls in 25% of all SNAP dollars. Megacorps constantly fight amongst themselves for SNAP business…are any of them lobbying to help their customers, their underpaid employees, and—let us never forget—their shareholders? www.numerator.com/press/walmar...

www.dbbnwa.com/articles/wal...

The trees...
bsky.app/profile/very...

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

We must as Americans stop arming Israel. And Israelis must bring down Netanyahu. May the memory of Anas Al Sharif and the memories of all who died on October 7 and beyond be for more than a blessing. May their memories pressure us to move beyond the horror of the present to end this war and rebuild

www.gofundme.com/f/7xahr9-off...

Kiese Laymon’s Written Creations Remain ‘Rooted in Jackson’ Jackson-native writer Kiese Laymon considers his childhood in Jackson and Mississippi’s cultural traditions to be the foundation of his creative works.

"I love to write about Mississippi’s music and culture, the families and relationships you’ll find here and the generational change that has occurred over the years, from the Mississippi my grandmother grew up in to the ones that my mother and then I grew up in," Kiese Laymon said.

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

Kitty eats all the flowers.

Kitty wistful.

Kitty at a campsite on a lake.

Kitty argues with a crow at Lake Mead.

We lost this legend. It’s been two weeks, but owww still.

ChatGPT totally needs to add a cute little crazyexgirlfriend.gif icon for every answer’s final paragraph.

Old person here to say that ICE did not exist before 2003

We opened this door after 9/11 and can close it again

Very bad things, in fact

ICE raids have 'overwhelmed' coastal California communities Communities in three California counties "overwhelmed" as ICE raids ramp up in the region.

A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind.
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street