Claire Gysegem

Here's where to get help with food in southwestern Pennsylvania When SNAP benefits expire because of the federal government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of Western Pennsylvanians will struggle to afford food.

When SNAP runs out on Nov. 1st, hundreds of thousands of people in Pittsburgh and across SWPA will struggle to afford food. I compiled (with the help of community members) a non-exhaustive list of where people can find help, including sites in Pittsburgh & outer counties.

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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

not the blush

Everyone is sharing their stories about their distant relatives/family friends who held familial titles. Trumbull County had their own version of Tallulah Bankhead, and she was my Nana Marian. No blood relation, just the demand for children to perceive her as an enlightened matriarch. It worked.

how does donald trump keep breaking all these norms when all i'm doing is repeatedly suggesting he might do that with softball questions and then writing up the answers as if it's not a settled issue and attributing equal validity to his sundowning avarice and the written constitution

exactly. there are tattoo artists who cover these up, free of charge.

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Nooo Wichita Lineman! You Introspect Too Tough. Your Yearning Too Existential. Your Love Is Too Bittersweet. They’ll Kill You!!

Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes Ari Drennan, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:

transwrites.world/who-are-the-...

Who are the dolls which must be protected?

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It’s important in all this to remember: official press conferences are a minuscule part of the job and exist to present one side and control questioning.

Much reporting, often the best reporting, happens without ever having to flash a press pass

There is a natural inclination, especially among Americans steeped in our culture of mass incarceration, to judge the propriety of a person’s punishment not based on what they’ve done, but on how deserving one believes they are of receiving justice. On its face, any 13-year-old kid that allegedly made threats and was found to be in possession of a knife should be afforded the rights of due process in the juvenile court system. But because this boy was born in another country, because he and his family were asylum-seekers (authorized to work legally in the US) and not American citizens, and regardless of any piece of his personal story or history that led him to this point, some believe he is not owed those same rights. This boy—this child— deserves to rot in a federal facility, they say, and to be dragged across state lines away from his home. And for some, his mere existence in this country is crime enough. But it’s important to bust these myths. It’s crucial to remember, as so many speakers at the Everett City Council meeting reminded us, that all of our safety is intertwined. DHS and its many agencies are trying to turn neighbors against one another. But our neighbors are not our enemies—in fact, they are the ones most likely to protect us.

A few of my thoughts:

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Major news organizations have refused to sign on to the Pentagon's dangerous new media policy, which violates the First Amendment.

Tom Bowman of @npr.org explains what's at stake: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g-s1-93297/pentagon-reporter-opinion-press-policy

YouTube video by NBCUniversal Archives Anita Bryant's Pie to the Face - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com

Happy Anita Bryant Pie Day to all who celebrate.

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

It really is this simple

Gift link for those who want it: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

I support nonviolent action. It's literally what I do. But telling people that allowing themselves to be harmed to demonstrate the character of their enemy will be politically transformative denies the desensitized reality of the present.

brb gonna scream at passing cars

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

It was only two weeks ago when we first saw an ICE agent unholster his sidearm at Broadview. Since then, there have been many reports of agents directly pointing their guns at protesters. The escalation is escalating.

oh my god tim

it's quite remarkable how much better i become at writing once i completely give up

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

stifling my laughter at my desk like an idiot

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants to find the causes of #autism by September.

Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition.

RFK Jr. cut her entire lab.

My latest video for @propublica.org

NOW. Smithsonian cyber attack.

The Smithsonian has sent out a notice of an "ongoing denial of service" cyber attack at the African American History/Culture Museum, the Natl Portrait Gallery and the Museum of American History.

Note: all museums Pres. Trump has criticized.

Graph showing that the U.S. incarcerates women at a rate more than 3x any other founding NATO country

🚨NEW REPORT: The U.S. incarcerates women at a higher rate than almost any other country in the world

So much for the “land of the free” 🧵