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This is an excellent idea!!!

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats

This is HUGE

Waiting for the Teen Vogue team to go Teen Rogue and start their site so we can all subscribe.

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Federal weather enterprise rises to the occasion again with Melissa - thanks to volunteers and unpaid employees When a federal government "shutdown" is not really a shutdown. And also looking at the continued longer term impacts of ongoing and threatened budget cuts.

ICYMI: the federal weather enterprise again rose to the occasion for #Melissa, but on backs of NOAA retirees volunteering for aircraft reconnaissance duty and employees not currently getting paid. Why the "shutdown" isn't really a shutdown due to feds dedicated to public safety: tinyurl.com/2wk36686

I call bullshit. Since the gazpacho (sic) descended upon us, I haven’t heard a *single* credible account of an ICE/CBP/etc agent sustaining anything like a life threatening wound they didn’t inflict on themselves. This article details 5 instances in which they shot others in just the last few weeks.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

“Grocery stores throw out far more food than is shoplifted. Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then. Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.” ~ mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/...

Grapes of Wrath 1939:

Open enrollment starts this week—and millions of Americans are finding out just how much their premiums have skyrocketed after Republicans let ACA tax credits expire.

Make no mistake: the GOP owns this crisis.

They had every opportunity to prevent this fallout and are still choosing not to.

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71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

Yes. This! Absolutely agree. ❤️

Happy Halloween everyone.
#WorldBollardAssociation 👻

Two glowing jack-o-lanterns inside a dark room. One is carved with the words "Signal Tips" and the ProPublica logo, while the other is carved with ProPublica's Signal tipline: 917-512-0201.

Tip-or-treat 🎃

This Halloween, a reminder that a great way to scare those abusing their power is to reach out to us on Signal: 917-512-0201.

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ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

The Onion: ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

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Just another reminder: stop shopping on November 1st. Don't buy from any corporate stores. Use what you have.

Don't give them a ¢. Make this a #Billionaire 's problem.

This is a collective action drill. If you marched on #NoKings, which did nothing, it's on you to do SOMETHING here. #StoptheShop !

Saw something very similar after Hurricane Ian in 2022. New NOAA-funded research published in March found this sort of upwelling from strong hurricanes (causing the aquamarine color) and engorged river runoff stimulate phytoplankton blooms, leading to severe red tide outbreaks.

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

An absolutely beautiful photo! I plan to bookmark it to come back to repeatedly as a timeline cleanse. ❤️

what? There's no naval shipyard in Philadelphia at all, let alone one that can handle the specialized needs of submarines, or of building nuclear propulsion systems.

This is relevant again today. The directive just went out. Keep in mind, it’s illegal for the president to use the military as police without invoking the insurrection act.

… and by the way, there is NO statute of limitations for violating the Posse Comitatus Act.

So any guard member who engages in police actions when Trump demands, even though it's an illegal order?

COULE BE PROSECUTED AT ANY TIME, FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.

Ya might wanna think twice about that.

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means. Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually guaran...

Most plastic items are too small for recyclers to bother sorting and processing, or they're assembled in such a way that it's less expensive to just make new plastic.

In fact, only 5% of Americans’ plastic finds new life.

(Published Aug. 2024)
By @lisalsong.bsky.social

While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION

(not a typo)

it’s not a great way to live but spite is a better way than despair

Every mention of SNAP being frozen should include this simple fact:

TRUMP is CHOOSING TO CANCEL FOOD ASSISTANCE. There are literally emergency dollars available to keep SNAP funded.

From a 1970’s knitting patterns booklet, by chance? That was a wild time…