Nurse Julie (she/her)

We don't cast off one segment of society to save ourselves. It's a betrayal of everything we're trying to defend. It's a cowardly kind of self-preservation.

If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?

democrats preserving the fillibuster just for trump to direct republicans to get rid of it was for nothing. democrats should have done this day one in the biden administration but their biggest downfall was assuming that political “norms” were restored after biden won

There's a lot to parse here but "2.9 million individuals will not be pushed into poverty" if SNAP benefits aren't paid. They ARE in poverty which is why they are eligible for SNAP.

It’s truly wild how dumb he thinks we all are

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
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AI Overview The image displays a text that states: "I was set to interview Charlie Kirk next month. Then he was assassinated." This text appears to be a fictional or hypothetical scenario, as there are no reports of Charlie Kirk being assassinated.

Sure, let this thing control everything.

Whenever Trump brings up “the nuclear” we all go to the same dark “he wants the world to die with him” place, right? Just checking.

Silly cat laying on her back in the bathroom

When he's finally gone, there is going to be this flood of books and tell all interviews from Republicans about how hard it was to be a Republican in Washington during this time and I am going to be galatically furious about it.

A tweet from John Fugelsang reads in all caps: "NO FOOD FOR YOU UNTIL THE DEMOCRATS LET US TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE" – US House Speaker Mike Johnson.

This perfectly encapsulates what the GOP position is on the shutdown.

So, what are your political views? I'm an arachno-communist! Really, how old- wait did you just say "arachno?" OH SHIT GO MY CHILDREN, SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION

I am describing my politics as “arachno-communism” from now on

what stage of capitalism is this

Legally, this is no different from Iran sinking a Disney cruise in international waters and then saying "it's all good, they were terrorists carrying drugs."

Which is to say, it's wholly illegal and has been for centuries. You couldn't even do this with a Letter of Marque and Reprisal.

In view of the SNAP crisis, providing pantry stable items to those in need. Please take what you need and leave what you can, no perishible items please.

📣 IF YOU HAVE A LITTLE FREE LIBRARY TURN IT INTO A COMMUNITY PANTRY ASAP IF YOU ARE ABLE

What if we gave the worst people in the world, the people who are just fundamentally assholes, all the power? What an experiment.

If you are not at risk it is your civic duty to tell these guys they are embarrassing worms if you see them patrolling a supermarket to arrest people that the government is intentionally starving

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

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I think this plays into why ACES (adverse childhood experiences) has been dismissed by some. Toxic stress is so caustic in pregnancy and childhood, yet it doesn’t fit neatly into this good and bad simplified dichotomy… which is a shame, bc it and resilience factors are so important

White House fires entire commission that reviews designs for federal buildings The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.

The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings. n.pr/4ntG3PR

Elon Musk X @elonmusk •10h Wired, The Atlantic, Guardian and many other propaganda legacy publications would die immediately if they had to support themselves. Donations from far left organizations disguised as charities are what keep them alive. They serve simply as a means of influencing Wikipedia, Show more Austen Allred @Austen • 14h Kids today won't believe it but there was a time when Wired published the most fascinating tech deep dives you could find = WIRED SUBSCRIBE Revive Your Courage Discovi Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points The new Al-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS

Elon Musk spent $44 billion to transform Twitter into an unprofitable vector of far right propaganda so he could influence governments and elections around the world.

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.

While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION

(not a typo)

The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after. And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before. If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too. Saw this & thought I'd repost

Reposting with Alt-text:

neat trick the "centrists" love to pull: just blankly asserting that all of their personal biases are popular and the things they don't like are unpopular and dragging the party down

we see the transphobia, folks

I have at least one moment of rage about this every day.

This week the USA is going to intentionally starve people. Why? To cause harm. What is the economic impact of intentionally starving people? For every 1 dollar of cut SNAP benefits, society loses $14 to $20 at the federal level.

Seems costly

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits.

No, they don’t have to.

support whomever you’d like, but what is frustratingly dishonest about this take is that actual issue — the thing critics have identified as the problem — isn’t the decision of the 21-year old to get the tattoo, but of the judgment of the 40-year old who still has it.

We’ve got money for the Jeffrey Epstein memorial ballroom no one asked for but not enough money to help feed the kids of people who work at Wal-Mart.

Only in America.