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New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown

So the trick it to ignore the edges of the sheet and work from the points of the 4 corners. Get them aligned. And then sort of mush it into a pile and shove it in the back of the linen shelf.

Screenshot of Morgan Freeman posting about SNAP funding on Twitter.

AG Campbell holding her phone in disbelief.

It’s not every day that Morgan Freeman tweets about your lawsuit!

Thank you for making this AG’s day @mjfree.bsky.social 💚

Ms Rachel via Instagram: I've eaten rice the way Zohran Mamdani does. A friend made me a meal years ago & showed me that way of eating rice. I thought it was cool. Teachers in NYC teach students to be kind & respectful toward other students' cultures. It's one of our learning standards to help children feel proud of who they are. It's disappointing that some adults can't model the same decency & kindness that students in NYC show every day. They would rather model something none of our religions teach us - racism and attacking our neighbors instead of loving them.

Ms Rachel just called Andrew Cuomo a raggedy old racist bitch

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, Who Fired Tear Gas at Little Village Crowd, Set to Face Federal Judge U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to appear in her courtroom at the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown Chicago at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is set to appear before U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis.
What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social:

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

He properly used the phrase antiblack for a sound bite while still being an enormous transphobe.
He is NOT the one for 2028.

Texas Is a Lot More Queer Than You Think. I Am Too. There are 1.8 million of us, and we’re not going anywhere.

I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready.

I am now.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...

If you're dealing with food insecurity with food stamps being cut off in November, you can find local food pantries at foodfinder.us
FindHelp also has food bank and pantry listings, as well as other mutual aid orgs and resources
findhelp.org

you are so much closer to needing disability benefits than you are to becoming a billionaire.

As orders for November and December start to be penciled in, a reminder about the freelance gigs I do, and that now is a great time to contact me if you want to see if I'm the right freelancer for you, or talk about work you may have coming up! Please do spread the word as well.

An oversized maroon hoodie with the pocket raised and off-center to function as a sling.

Me wearing the maroon hoodie-sling and leaning down to pet my nieces' dog, a poodly-looking good boy.

The same hoodie sling in use without the adorable dog.

We discussed options and I said, "I wish I could just have a hoodie sling where the pocket functions as a sling while I'm sitting so I don't have to constantly reposition pillows underneath my arm."

She dove on that and measured me for the correct position and height.

The hoodie-sling, friends. 2/

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is now the Philadelphia Art Museum October 8, 2025 – Today, the Philadelphia Museum of Art proudly reintroduces itself to the city, the nation, and the world as the Philadelphia Art Museum.The museum has unveiled a new brand that place...

Huh... It's going to take some practice (and maybe wincing) to switch from calling it the PMA to the PhAM press.philamuseum.org/the-philadel...

Not least because that was the name of my friends' polyam collective

New Yorkers: please vote!!!! Cuomo went all-in on racism in the final 2 weeks because he's got nothing else. And as we've seen, that's a very effective motivator.

SNAP’s Contingency Reserve Is Available for Regular SNAP Benefits, as USDA and OMB Have Ruled in Past The Administration must use all available options to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 people in the U.S. who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill.

The Trump Administration’s assertion that it can't use SNAP’s contingency reserves for SNAP benefits is contrary to:
▪️The plain language of the law
▪️Their own (now deleted) shutdown plan
▪️Guidance from prior Administrations

We have the receipts:

I don't want to overdo my personal hobby horse, but this is an example of "sheriff policing mentality" over progressive urban police (both bad but in different ways).

Python Software Foundation withdraws bid for $1.5m grant from US gov, because the terms require they do not "operate any programs that advance or promote DEI", and "it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community." Applause. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

billionaires have yet to realize that substantially raising their taxes is the compromise position

"Neomedievalism expropriates historical events out of any kind of context to produce media meant to influence the audience into action and belief. What DHS is advocating, essentially, is crusading."

Great piece.

Honestly a version of this, led to the end of Reconstruction.

It was white Northerners were too tired of holding white Southerners accountable and they figured they had more in common than not so….under the bus Black people went

So yeah, no…

i just need people to know it's not hypocrisy when Devout Christian Mike Johnson cuts off SNAP benefits. it's not a lack of "christian charity" to make kids starve; it's because the christian right wants to control who gets food, through churches, so they can deny queers and sluts at will

having the power to decide who eats or not and who gets shelter or not is a lot of power and the christian right is extremely open about wanting to control and mold people. they are 100% in earnest about wanting the government out of any aid help; unqualified aid robs churches of that position

oh hey das me

I have left it and gone to work. Curse capitalism!

My bed is too comfy

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

I don’t know how to comprehend 40 inches in that short a time, except with sorrow and anger.

putting my old defense hat on here — china supplies 90% of the world’s rare earths, which analysts have warned for years is a massive threat to our military because rare earths are needed to build and repair most of their shit. [1/2]

A huge skeleton prepares to take his well behaved skeleton dog for a walk. (The skeleton is higher than the eave of he house, and the yard is overflowing with Halloween decorations.)

At this point, I should probably warn you that I really like those Halloween skeletons doing interesting things that people put in their yards.

So I’m starting a #HalloweenSkeletonsLivingTheirBestLives thread.

They just hold interviews for fun? WTF?