Before I Forget...

That's an excellent question! Why aren't we seeing media coverage?

Q: What do you call it when many people in multiple events are deliberately killed on the open seas outside of a declaration of war?

A: Murder. Mass murder. Crimes against humanity.

One fact to add: SNAP benefits have been maintained in every previous shutdown. This is a choice they have made, not an inevitability.

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.

Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.

Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.

Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

She's a liar.

Cole's Story: An Empathetic, Curious Lover of Animals and Nature Without Medicaid, I would be bankrupt, homeless, and separated from my child.

"When I hear about Medicaid cuts, it feels like they’re threatening to kill my child, because they are," says Victoria Schiano. "It doesn’t feel like a policy change or improvement to the program, it feels like people personally attacking my child,"

littlelobbyists.org/coles-story-...

Mike Johnson being broadcast on all networks lying to the American people seems like treason.

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

How do we test nuclear weapons that doesn't damage the planet anyway?

ACAB.

If ICE is showing up at food pantries, your work as white folks is to ASK US WHAT OUR NUTRITIONAL NEEDS ARE and help meet them.

Whether that's sending direct aid, buying from people's lists, or you and your friends prep and deliver meals to Black and Brown folks in need

One of the worst journeys everrrrrr.
Mine is New Year's Eve.
Cheers!

If my husband doesn't find a therapist instead of having drunken breakdowns in my living room I'm gonna need a stronger anxiety med.

Me too, big guy. Wishful thinking? I do really love Halloween.

Goddammit I gotta figure out how to change the clock on my car.

His victims were bereft, too.
I'd feel some sympathy for you if you hadn't let Epstein bankroll you for years.

Cool we can fund SNAP, pay air traffic controllers, ACA subsidies, all kinds of stuff. Right when we really need it. When do we get the cash?

He's not gonna be happy until he kills all the Black people and all the brown folks and all the LGBTQIA+ people and all the poor folks is he?

You should care about Jamaica and Sudan even if you don't know anyone there and the news isn't covering it. The anti-Blackness embedded in folks' lack of empathy is gross.

There will come a day when people will look back at this period like they do the Mccarthy era.

Oh noooooo!

I just came to Bluesky to check and see if today is the day!

I'm no economist but the fact that more than 42 million Americans (1 in 8!) are on SNAP (i.e., food stamps) says that the federal minimum wage is way too low.

If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

When they’re racist: they’re just kids.

When our kids are targeted: they’re adults.

No one has ever had such a good MRI.

I'm flabbergasted that it's only 2.7%. It feels much more than that.

People using my tax dollars to buy food doesn’t bother me. Wealthy people using them to buy private jets does.

Republicans are willing to starve poor children to protect rich men who raped children.

It's just another form of child abuse.