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YouTube video by Black Lit Geek Why Physical Books Are VITAL in the Digital Age!

Digital information can be wiped, altered.

A book is forever.

a cartoon of a fox wearing a hat and sunglasses holding a mug ALT: a cartoon of a fox wearing a hat and sunglasses holding a mug

The fact that most of the people utilizing the social safety net (ie Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, etc) work full time just proves that corporations have been using gov subsidies to profit multiple ways.
They get corporate welfare + pay their workers so little the gov pays to keep them alive.
#WarOnThePoor

At the behest of corporate lobbyists, Trump's CFPB will block states from erasing medical debt from credit reports.

This comes as the GOP allows ACA subsidies to expire – which could cause millions to go uninsured and medical debt to skyrocket.

A perfect storm of cruelty.

Here’s What Trump’s Ballroom Donors Want - The American Prospect The price tag on Donald Trump’s garish White House ballroom, now up to $350 million, keeps increasing. That’s because th

The first Gilded Age was an era of conspicuous consumption.

The second Gilded Age that we're living in is an era of conspicuous corruption.

Look no further than the corporations bankrolling Trump’s vanity ballroom — and what business they have with the government.

The return of dumb things: Why young people are ditching their smartphones for MP3 players and digital cameras Young people are using dumb phones, MP3 players and digital cameras in lieu of iPhones. Experts explain why.

One of the reasons I love retro-SF futures is because they speak to this increasing trend of turning shit off and disconnecting devices. When AWS goes down and bricks your bed, fridge, and thermostat, the appeal of analog is keenly felt.

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Reminder: November 4th is extremely important, don’t forget to vote!

Churches, charities & family are not a substitute for SNAP

They can help but they’re not accessible to everyone

They can’t scale up to support an influx of 42 million people

The government could easily fund SNAP, they’re choosing not to

They’re choosing to let people starve

Weather Service is now hiring back hundreds of positions that got cut in the DOGE chaos | CNN The National Weather Service has received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians just

DOGE takes an axe to the National Weather Service. 

550 vital employees are either laid off or retire early.

Now the Trump regime is scrambling to hire them back.

"Efficiency." https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/weather/nws-rehiring-doge-layoffs-climate

Just sayin’

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. has called off nearly $500 million in grants and contracts aimed at advancing mRNA vaccine development. This technology, first deployed during the Covid19 pandemic, allows vaccines to be produced rapidly and adapted as viruses evolve. His brain worms are getting worse!

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: "Reality is that hospitals are gonna close, nursing homes are gonna shut down, people are going to die if these Medicaid cuts and their efforts to detonate parts of the ACA are successfully enacted into law."

Why is the Colorado River running dry? It's not just drought. It's putting sacred cows above farmers, cities, and a secure future.

So we should admit and accept, up front, that the Colorado never was and never will be a mighty river system, and that it is climate-­challenged and prone to drought. We never should have asked it for so much. We invaded it like cancer, turning water into property. I wish it wasn’t so. (From 2023)

Puppets…

Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States

lol, you all should see the gravity-defying acts that Goats do! Search Norwegian Fjords & goats.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Sign reads HEY! You're about to walk by a BOOKSTORE. Are you okay?

2 books, the handmaid tale and the color purple

The indie bookstore around the corner had this sign. So I went inside and bought 2 books from the banned book section. Support local small businesses. Read banned books. Drink your Ovaltine.

Love to finish a season of gripping television and realize you’re gonna have to wait years until the plot resolves.

This flew under the radar, but Trump revoked a minimum wage hike for companies that contract with the government.

An estimated 390,000 workers will now see significant pay cuts.

It's not surprising that Trump's populism is fake, but it's hardly ever been more clear.

‘The Right to Vote Is Not Absolute’: GOP Bid to Steal North Carolina Supreme Court Election Heard by Court of Appeals Read more here.

On Friday, lawyers for Griffin laid out their case for retroactively disqualifying 65,000 ballots, disenfranchising tens of thousands of registered voters and overturning the election results and Riggs’s victory. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

'Despicable': Trump Official Threatens Total Social Security Shutdown Over DOGE Ruling | Common Dreams Defenders of Social Security are outraged at acting Commissioner Dudek's threat to shut down the agency over a court order against DOGE's data grab.

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Screenshot: Recovering from measles does not protect against cancer or any other disease besides measles. In fact, a measles infection has the ability to wipe out immune responses built up against other infections— a phenomenon called immune amnesia, driven by the destruction of memory T- and B-cells. This leaves people who recover from the measles virus more vulnerable to all other germs.

This bears repeating.

The whole, ‘good for your immune system’ rhetoric is nonsense generally, but it’s PARTICULARLY dangerous when it comes to measles 👇

Supreme Court to Hear Latest GOP Bid to Gut the VRA “It feels like whatever the SCOTUS ruling is, this is just going to be a sort of an ongoing, non-stop battle.”

NEW: At stake is not only whether Black voters in Louisiana have access to fair representation — but also whether the landmark law, already badly weakened over the last decade-plus, can remain an effective tool to block racial discrimination in the redistricting process.

DOGE plans to fire 430 workers at the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service — which helps low-income and small business filers.

Meanwhile, its wider agency layoffs will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe.

See what DOGE is really about?

Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind?

It's not because of immigrants, trans people, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. 

It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

An infographic titled "SOME OF THE DEPT OF EDUCATION’S KEY PROGRAMS:" featuring the U.S. Department of Education seal at the center, which includes a tree and the text "DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." Surrounding the seal are seven circular labels, each listing a key program: "School lunch programs," "Pell Grants," "Low-income school funding," "School safety programs," "Vocational training and services," "Aid for schools on federal land," and "Student debt relief programs." The background is white, and the text is in black.

This is what he signed an EO and might destroy at the Education Department.

Under the House GOP’s budget plan, the lowest-income taxpayers would see a LOSS of $1,125.

The richest 0.1 percent of taxpayers, on the other hand, would see a more than $180,000 GAIN.

This is trickle down economics on steroids.