The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP

You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670

Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem

If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy?

You’re doing their dirty work.

"This is America, NYC. Don't let them tell you that we're the exception.

WE are the rule. We are the standard. We are the acceptance. We set the bar for America. I'm talking to you, Donald Trump.

There has been a day before his presidency. And there will be a day after.

And it belongs to us."

This. Said. It. All. ⬇️⬇️

Please. Share. So. Everyone. Knows. The. Truth.

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

Ah yes, Friday email from the chief medical officer

Provider update: Updates on acetaminophen and folinic acid

To say that there are, in fact, no changes to how we are to be using these, despite what that absolute weirdo at the HHS has to say about it

The OAH is documenting the experiences of federal workers affected by Trump’s purge. Let anyone interested in sharing their story know about it 🗃️

www.fecohp.org

Comic. [3-column table with headers Period, My Favorite Part, and My Biggest Complaint] [Row 1] P: *Precambrian*, MFP: Life develops, MBC: Snowball Earth episodes [Row 2] P: Cambrian, MFP: Trilobites!, MBC: Evolution could stand to calm down a little [Row 3] P: Ordovician, MFP: Earth might have had rings, MBC: Scary volcanic eruption in North America [Row 4] P: Silurian, MFP: First land animals, MBC: Earth’s newfound mold problem [Row 5] P: Devonian, MFP: Big mountains in Boston, MBC: Yeah, sure, what those giant killer fish needed was *armor* [Row 6] P: Carboniferous, MFP: Cool forests, MBC: Bugs too big [Row 7] P: Permian, MFP: Pangea, MBC: Google “The Great Dying” [Row 8] P: Triassic, MFP: Tanystropheus [dinosaur with extremely long neck next to tiny person for scale], MBC: Damage to Canada still visible from space at Manicouagan [Row 9] P: Jurassic, MFP: Birds, MBC: Parasitoid wasps [Row 10] P: Cretaceous, MFP: Raptors, MBC: Raptors [Row 11] P: Paleogene, MFP: Pretty horseys!!!, MBC: Paleocene-eocene thermal maximum [Row 12] P: Neogene, MFP: Forests of *Dracaena* Dragonblood Trees, MBC: Zanclean Flood [Row 13] P: Quaternary, MFP: Burrito invented, MBC: Whoever picked this name for the third period of the Cenozoic

Geologic Periods

xkcd.com/3120/

I pledge that I will not provide any service to Columbia University. I will not speak at conferences held at or organized by Columbia. I will not publish with Columbia publications or provide peer reviews for them. I will not provide outside tenure evaluations for Columbia departments. I will not contribute in any way to the institution until everyone who is responsible for this week’s shameful decision has resigned, retired, or been fired, and until Columbia repudiates their catastrophic choice.

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy.

This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading:

3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

Photo of Indiana Jones getting ready to punch a Nazi on a tank. Text reads I came here to study the humanities and punch Nazis, and they just cut funding for the humanities.

In honor of Harrison Ford’s birthday, we’re reposting a meme of one our favorite archeologists. We appreciate the Nazi punching and making archaeology trendy. Speaking of archaeology, (1/2)

The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.

Senate Ds did fight every step of way, made the bill toxic, forced Tillis to retire, made them vote in broad daylight as bill got worse, nixed some truly awful parts. They need more members. In 2026, vote out every R. That is what the lesson is here.

fellow nonfiction writers! if you're not currently saving EVERY SINGLE web page/web news story you cite to the Wayback Machine YOU SHOULD BE!!

no more dead links in footnotes!

no more dead links in bibliographies!

never ever forget how fragile the internet is—save internet history!

The propaganda of political division gives the illusion that it’s possible to punish the opposite party and not your own. As if there are two Americas and we can target our enemies to hurt only them. It’s a damn shame it will take Trump hurting all of America for some to find out we were never separate groups in the first place. Quote by Melissa Nadia Viviana

We have to stop dividing our problems into “left and right" and start seeing our problems like “top vs bottom.”

737 billionaires in the U.S. have a combined wealth of 5.5 trillion. And they funneled it out of the middle class.

Then Trump keeps us fighting with each other while they steal more.

Weird how they say that the Fourteenth Amendment was for children of slaves and is therefore no longer valid but the Second Amendment was for hand-loaded muskets and is somehow still very valid in the 21st century. 🤔

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

About Heat and Your Health Protect yourself and others when it’s hot outside

Good morning, friends. ☀️
Today is one of the hottest days in recent U.S. history.
Stay cool, stay hydrated, and watch out for signs of heat illness.

Learn more and protect yourself from the #heatwave:

New Yorkers: good luck today and remember not to vote for or even slate anyone who is a known sex pest

CNN and the New York Times can just dig out the lies they propagated in 2001, and do a quick search and replace for "Iraq" and "Iran".

Jesus Christ this country is so fucking stupid.

#RadioFreeAmerica

NCPH Call to Action | National Council on Public History Thank you for your continued advocacy during this challenging time, whether you’re sharing resources, materially supporting fellow public historians, or remaining steadfast in your commitment to inclu...

Thank you for your continued advocacy, whether you’re sharing resources, materially supporting fellow public historians, or remaining steadfast in your commitment to inclusive, ethical public history. Here is this week's @ncph.bsky.social Call to Action: ncph.org/news/ncph-ca...

A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for.

Kudos, Sir.🌦️

Love your sweater!!

Maybe I'm a crazy leftist,
but I think the Surgeon General
should be a licensed
medical professional.

The Medium lost the delighted smile she had worn til then. “Oh, why must you make me look at unpleasant things when there are so many delightful ones to see?” Again Mrs Which’s voice reverberated through the cave, “Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso manyy pplleasannt thinggs tto llookk att iff rressponssible ppeoplle ddo nnott ddo ssomethingg abboutt thee unnppleasanntt oness.” Madeleine L’Engle

Friends, many of us are finding it hard to feel hopeful. And that’s ok. When you can’t feel hope, do hope. Hope is getting out of bed. Hope is telling jokes, writing that paper, smiling at a stranger, permission to rest. Hope is a practice. What does hope in action look like for you?

Goodnight 💚

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I mean, I believe it. (Seems like I read something similar from Twitter staff a few years ago, as well. I'll see if I can find it.)

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.

2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."

3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."

This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

Not one