Allison Squires

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

gotta say this whole business about ‘electing a muslim mayor is basically pissing on the graves of 9/11 victims’ is just…just shockingly racist stuff i mean what else is there to say about it

We've all waited so long to hear a politician say this. Far too long.

Immigrants? In New York City???? sorry i've never read a book so this sounds scary and strange to me bsky.app/profile/park...

Who is wise? One who learns from all people.

Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world.

(Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)

I’m so excited about actual Millennial representation but I keep running into articles telling me why that’s Bad, Actually and no wonder so many young people are ready to throw in the towel

In the 1960s, local civil rights activists had to do a similar campaign to get the Fayetteville, NC Harris Teeter to hire Black cashiers. Except what they did was fill up their grocery carts and then abandon the carts when they didn't see a Black cashier. It worked!

Conservatives: “Private industry will come to help SNAP recipients.”

Private Industry: “Here is a plan to help—temporary discounts to SNAP recipients for groceries since they are getting NOTHING right now.”

Conservatives: “No, no, no. Not like that.”

Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago.

He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.

Apparently there was a Gatsby party at Mar a Lago, while Trump is trying to kick 42 million off SNAP

The dual assumption that “big city liberals” (1) are simply unaware what MAGA likes (even though it’s easily one of the most-covered topic of the last decade), and (2) should default to whatever MAGA likes (as if the White House isn’t We the People’s, only a subset’s)

I question those assumptions.

You can’t even use SNAP to buy a hot rotisserie chicken unless you live in a state with a special waiver.

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.

Homey literally said "touch mass"

Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness

i’m continually struck by the joy zohran has brought to this election and the absolute venom with which it’s been met.

CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs. All of them are women EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following a last-minute change by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

"...a male correspondent was initially included on the layoff list but was removed after he appealed directly to the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, leading to another female correspondent being added to the list at the last minute."

God as a former cigarette smoker, the best thing I ever did was not replace it with vape. None of my friends have managed to quit vaping

you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"

an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

This stuff really freaks me out. They see their future as one where the decisionmakers live in military installations, where the civil and military functions of government become merged.

no there is not. the law is clear, the constitution is clear, the intent of the lawmakers who passed it all is clear. the end. tired of entertaining this sophomoric nonsense

Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.

I can't get into the psyche of people who would cut off the world's best researchers from teaching their students because they happened to be born farther away from you than you are comfortable with. www.chronicle.com/article/flor...

I'm sure it's fine.

He had a Nazi tattoo. I don’t understand what is so radical about thinking this disqualifies a person from public office. We wouldn’t hesitate to call this out if he were a Republican.

A nine year old brown boy living in NYC on 9/11 who grew up to love the city knows more about New York culture and New York values than this bitter, bilious husk of man riding his father’s coattails into his seventh decade could ever know

This is a big part of what people warned about with “AI”: being able to delegate life and death decisions to an unaccountable black box algorithm… that they can program to do whatever they want

This is client journalism.

Playing politics with people lives is diabolical. I can't stop thinking about how many poor folks in the US are scrambling to find access to food.

Hating poor folks is not political ideology. It's just evil.