“Let them go a month without meals. Maybe they will get a job”
First, many SNAP recipients have jobs. They’re just living below the poverty line because of tremendous wealth inequality.
Second, many are disabled and children and can’t work.
Third, no one should starve to death.
24.10.2025 03:40 — 👍 3852 🔁 1210 💬 159 📌 66
The Trump Supremacy
Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
I am not a doomer. But I am also someone who takes pride in updating my POV as new information arises.
So, when Mark Warner — not exactly a member of the DSA — says that he no longer feels sure the 2026 and 2028 elections will be free & fair, I try to take that seriously.
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24.10.2025 13:10 — 👍 68 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 1
Wow:
24.10.2025 13:25 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Using the military to build camps where politically undesirable ethnic groups will be concentrated
24.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 69 🔁 29 💬 7 📌 1
Good thread
24.10.2025 14:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes
What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
24.10.2025 04:07 — 👍 2651 🔁 676 💬 87 📌 70
The weirdest thing about modern politics, is this thing where if people found out their favorite politician were secretly having sex with turkeys, they wouldn't say "he's bad" but just, "this sort of thing is really going to give ammunition to those people who said he was a turkey-fucker."
24.10.2025 11:46 — 👍 325 🔁 53 💬 13 📌 3
“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
24.10.2025 11:51 — 👍 2819 🔁 1330 💬 169 📌 196
when all this is over we need to have a pretty serious conversation about the utter moral failure of the elite of this country
24.10.2025 12:36 — 👍 1504 🔁 354 💬 97 📌 25
WOW: "Covid-19 vaccines... set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & the University of Florida."
23.10.2025 23:54 — 👍 762 🔁 310 💬 23 📌 12
I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
23.10.2025 02:17 — 👍 19587 🔁 4744 💬 520 📌 236
Big year for photos of clergy enduring pain while protesting ICE.
· Rev. David Black, Chicago Sun-Times: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
· Rev. Jorge Bautista, SF Chron: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
· Rev. Hannah Kardon, Chicago Protest Photography: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
23.10.2025 18:51 — 👍 629 🔁 318 💬 14 📌 24
What on Orwell’s green earth is a “figurative” bounty?
23.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 2658 🔁 490 💬 234 📌 52
There's a haiku in that last sentence if you massage it a bit.
23.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump rewarded Changpeng Zhao, a business partner who boosted his crypto venture, with a pardon for crimes that Zhao pleaded guilty to.
Trading presidential favors for self-interest.
You can’t get more classically corrupt than this.
23.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 1300 🔁 462 💬 63 📌 16
Obama wore a tan suit.
23.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 139 🔁 37 💬 10 📌 1
Quid Pro Zhao
23.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 7997 🔁 3220 💬 484 📌 202
NYT
Breaking News
President Trump pardoned the billionaire founder of the
cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao.
6m ago
Notification
enter i
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NBC NEWS
Breaking news
27m ago
Trump pardons crypto executive
Changpeng Zhao, who served four months in prison after pleading guilty to enabling money laundering at Binance
12
WSJ
Breaking News
1h ago
Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange has been boosting the Trump family's own crypto venture
Not the WSJ having the only even moderately acceptable push alert here.
NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.
23.10.2025 16:14 — 👍 2966 🔁 820 💬 33 📌 33
The White House was three buildings connected by two walkways and Trump decided unilaterally to obliterate one of those buildings and one of those walkways to build a ballroom paid for by donations given by companies and people looking to curry favor.
23.10.2025 17:08 — 👍 751 🔁 206 💬 32 📌 8
a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House
23.10.2025 13:38 — 👍 6922 🔁 3302 💬 1048 📌 503
he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep
23.10.2025 14:24 — 👍 5564 🔁 1302 💬 138 📌 75
Thread
23.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
23.10.2025 12:54 — 👍 8992 🔁 4128 💬 785 📌 814
One thing that's become clear is that you can be a friend to big tech or a friend to democracy but not both.
23.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 675 🔁 217 💬 43 📌 18
SNAP benefits are about to lapse for 42 million people, because nothing says “save the children” like starving them.
23.10.2025 11:03 — 👍 9939 🔁 3527 💬 478 📌 206
The East Wing has learned its lesson.
by Susan Collins
23.10.2025 12:35 — 👍 1681 🔁 237 💬 33 📌 9
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