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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

The Democrats who caved just taught Republicans that using mass starvation as a weapon works.

Senator AOC is definitely going to be an improvement

NYT Graphic showing where flight cancellations are having the biggest impact.

40 days for what? Why cave now? Why these particular Dem Senators? *Looks at map of cities most impacted by flight cancellations.* Ah...

Schumer (NY) 🛫

Booker (NJ) 🛫

King (ME)

Hassan (NH)

Durbin (IL) 🛫

Ossoff (GA) 🛫

Shaheen (NH)

Gillibrand (NY) 🛫

Masto (NV)

Warner (VA) 🛫

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

the gods are *that* kind of simcity player

so this is highly incentive based and relies on Tesla hitting ridiculous thresholds to vest lots of it which means we are about to see exciting new frontiers in fraud and bullshit

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."

MAU at any cost.

A NYT video asking "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?" And can conservative feminism fix it?

Y'all are really pushing all of the Black journalists out of the industry, so that you can ask trash questions like this?

Embarrassing.

Some questions are harmful in and of themselves. It doesn't matter what's said in the debate, or who "wins."

Pretending that this is not trash, is weakness.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

honestly cannot decide whether i want to watch cuomo's concession speech or mamdani's victory speech live

If the national leader of the Democratic Party does not find it disqualifying for a disgraced politician to baselessly say a Democratic candidate *supported the terror attacks on 9/11* and not accepts that hateful lie, but votes for the scum that advanced it? How can that party pretend it wants us?

obviously we want Mamdani to win for very serious policy reasons, but also for extremely funny reasons like watching how the worst new yorkers go through it.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

This is what I've been trying to tell y'all for the past *checks notes* 20 years. And why Lori Lightfoot was awful.

The data shows that the US murder rate is almost *entirely* driven by this dynamic.

The murder rate in the US is *highest* wherever Black people trust the police *the least".
🙂🙃

I want to see Mamdani win in NYC tomorrow for a lot of reasons, but one of them is absolutely to watch Bill Ackman crash out

Hey it's November! Trump is cutting SNAP benefits and people are worried about starving. He's more unpopular now than ever.

I keep saying that how he is "handling immigration" is his most popular policy with white folk.

Surely by now the majority of white people would not support ICE raids? Right?

Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.

Newsletter: Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, President Trump has offered a curious defense: he doesn’t even know the guy.

almost a decade in and it still surprises me how frequently men will start talking down to me. had to correct an instance last week. meanwhile I've forgotten more about tech than these guys will ever know. I like to tell cis women about these experiences, affirming they are not crazy, it's very real

You’ll never see attrition referenced in an RCA In the wake of the recent AWS us-east-1 outage, I saw speculation online about how the departure of experienced engineers played a role in the outage. The most notable one was from the acerbic clou…

New blog post, on the role of attrition in software incidents, and how we don't talk about that in incident write-ups:

surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/02/y...

Biden and Strom Thurmond.

Biden wearing a MAGA hat.

🤔White centrist dudes get so mad when I talk about Biden's policies that hurt Black people, and that Biden proudly took credit for.

They argue that he didn't say things that there is video of him saying, that he didn't sponsor laws that there's a public record of him sponsoring.

Make it make sense

i mean, they are *slow*

GitHub - blacksky-algorithms/Documentation: Documentation of the tools maintained by Blacksky Algorithms Documentation of the tools maintained by Blacksky Algorithms - blacksky-algorithms/Documentation

If the phrase `open source` means nothing to you
imagine if your favorite app worked like Wikipedia and anyone could come along and edit it

that's how the code for Blacksky works
anyone can edit it

it's also how our docs work; if you think something's missing or could be improved, change it

Apropos of nothing: now would be a real cool time for the CNCF to realize that North America includes both Mexico and Canada and decide that KubeCon NA can be somewhere other than the US

Just a thought