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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Honestly, I don't care what people seeking assistance at food banks do for a living, whether they work or not, what they drive, etc.

People are hungry. Give them food to eat. Plain and simple.

The SNAP fight is actually a recapitulation of the entire purpose of the shutdown.
There's a contingency fund, Trump is required to spend it, but he's not, usurping Congress's power of the purse, essentially so he can do it again with normal appropriations whenever he wants

Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS

THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

Alabama HBCU receives historic $38 million donation from MacKenzie Scott Alabama's second-largest HBCU received a historic donation from a famous philanthropist.

Jeff Bezos' ex is constantly donating millions to HBCUs and DEI causes and I need a think piece from @theflytrapmedia.com. LOL

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Abbie Mills. No question.

Because people think you're a bitch if you don't.

See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.

I'm going to start a new political party. It's called Shut The Fuck Up and Feed People.

"But what if they're on drugs?"

Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People

"Or not really THAT poor?"

Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People

"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"

SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE

A Black Trans woman who’s the sole care-taker of her Autistic brother is asking for help with bills after losing her job. She’ll be able to bounce back but behind on water and electric bills. If we each give $1 she’ll reach her goal. We’ve helped 166 people so far let’s keep going.

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown.

The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

Do not be a doomer about this. Just call your New York friends and remind them to vote, and tell them to do the same. He is more popular and will win with good turnout.

Randall Gamboa in Nazi Noem custody for 8 months then died when deported back to Costa Rica.

🧵This horrific story is being reported all over Latin America, but not the US.

Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican, was deported from the US in such a critical health condition it required an ambulance flight.

He then died upon his return to Costa Rica after being detained for 8 months by DHS.

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218.

Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

"These findings underscore the enduring value of immunization against respiratory viruses as a cornerstone of preventive care and support the feasibility of maintaining rigorous, evidence-based guidance during periods of institutional disruption."

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You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.

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Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

Some people don’t have family to feed them

Some lack access to a church that will accept them

Personal responsibility isn’t the solution to hunger

Many SNAP recipients work. 1.3 million are active duty military

The problem is low wages & high cost of living

Tax the billionaires. Feed the hungry

They are doing what they are seeing

The disregard of JOC as people and not concepts

And she’s attacked POC every where she goes and everytime people have brought this up in journalism it’s been dismissed or silence

If it didn’t hit JOC is say reap the whirlwind and be done with it

They admit they’re murdering random unidentified people.

I keep using the word shredding. They aren't dismantling, they aren't breaking, they are shredding everything that is good about this country, whether that's because they don't recognize it, whether it's for somebody's profit, whether it's to hasten the heat death of the universe, shredded.

Screenshot from article reading Kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to a parade do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer,” U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis told Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, a man who hates Halloween for children but loves to cosplay for work every day, in a hearing Tuesday. “You can’t use riot-control weapons against them,” she continued. “These kids, you can imagine their sense of safety was shattered on Saturday. And it’s going to take a long time for that to come back, if ever.” The Bovino dis is highlighted

I appreciate that this story about the horror unleashed on Chicago and the courage of local residents is punctuated with moments like this appropriately savage takedown of costumed crusader Greg Bovino newrepublic.com/article/2023...

Covering this as a national ban is absolutely correct, and is the only framing that it needs to be. Its horrifying. There's no reason to think they'd stop at kids too.

You would be kicked out of any writer’s room in existence if you had the villains celebrating a Great Gatsby-themed party while taking away food benefits from millions of poor people.

All political ads should feature the candidate petting a cat

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

11Alive news headline: "Woman sits in car for 14 hours to get food during New Birth Baptist church food giveaway More than 2,000 people waited in their cars in line Saturday morning in order to receive food."

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.

Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

Woman sits in car for 14 hours to get food during New Birth Baptist church food giveaway More than 2,000 people waited in their cars in line Saturday morning in order to receive food.

Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway.

500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food.

Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9.

By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.