AKA EXCURSIVEY

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

In case facts still matter

Will turn 60 in March. Same.

Nothing to see here...just the US Secretary of Defense using his position to further "domination" of one religion over all others.

(Also, the notion that Hegseth is working any program that involves surrendering to a higher power at this point is unrealistic.)

People should scream bloody murder about RFK blocking vaccines for kids.

I mean it. Mothers and fathers should get hysterical.

I'd rarely advise this as a strategy. But, I think it's appropriate for this. What could be more clear and stark? It's not hard to explain to reporters.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Trump Is Building a Maximalist Government In a series of actions this week, the president sought to expand the government’s reach.

The New York Times uses the word “maximalist” because it’s afraid to use the word “dictatorship.”

This is the way

Don’t give in FBI

@schumer.senate.gov and @schatz.bsky.social have the ability to make this happen now: a media frenzy. They can do it by blaming Trump and Hegseth. On TV. And social media. Aggressively. With anger and direct blaming.

Listen, I'm donating the max amount to the first dem who says "President Childhood Cancer killed the people on that plane by gutting the FAA."

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

The censorship begins: According to officials, the Trump administration is instructing health agencies including the CDC, FDA, NIH, and HHS to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts.

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Heaven Can Wait

This was very blatantly a Nazi salute. Don't let them convince you otherwise.

They are going to try to tell you what you saw, you didn't really see, OR it wasn't REALLY that it was something else, and you are interpreting it wrong OR they will say it's fake and AI.

DO NOT BE GASLIT

For those saying it wasn't a Nazi salute.

Keep posting it. Keep sharing it.

Elon Musk: Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß Elon Musk streckt den rechten Arm, und alle springen drüber. Willkommen im neuen Aufmerksamkeitsregime.

The Germans press is not having as much trouble discerning what happened as the American press. www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

Labor historians are very familiar with this trajectory in industries: "once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets." I hadn't seen it apply to HE -students- before, and so this is well worth the read.

John Roberts is very upset that the public has lost confidence in John Roberts and the institution John Roberts leads following a series of confidence-cratering actions by John Roberts and his colleagues, and therefore would like everyone to know that this is not John Roberts' fault, it's yours.

You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch is one of the greatest songs ever written. The end.

I’m a Polio Survivor. I Don’t Want You to Get It. Polio is once again a public health threat in the United States. Grace is disappointed, though not surprised.

Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases

www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...

Winner!!!!

BREAKING: Republicans pushing Trump to ELIMINATE the IRS's Direct File program -- which allows you to file your taxes online for FREE

Why would anyone want to get rid of that?

Because giant corporates like H&R Block and Intuit (Turbotax) want to make you PAY MORE TO THEM

The thing to understand here is that oligarchs don't see people as human beings.

They view them as resources, to be optimized or discarded.

If they can get you to work longer and for less, they'll do in a heartbeat.

That's why it's never a good idea to put them in charge of your livelihood.

heading off the takes: I think it’s weird to have a blanket rule against vigilante justice that doesn’t acknowledge how much vigilante justice is already effectively legal depending on the race of the victim, and how much the police already operate like a criminal syndicate

Well. Duh.

‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and one group is profiting from these extremes: the water-grabbing multinational companies forcing angry citizens to pay for it in bottles

Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and water-grabbing multinationals are profiting by forcing citizens to pay for it in bottles.

Under capitalism, even climate collapse is just another profit opportunity. That's why it isn't being tackled.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...