This is what oligarchy looks like:

If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.

If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.

Obscene.

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I loved the West Wing storyline about this, actually. Sam keeps trying to convince the party they need to pour money into races they know they’ll lose because it energizes the state and local parties to see the Dems actually get in the game and draft someone with something to say

Is a 62 point lead a lot? because I’m concerned that massive wins of this sort will cause Democrats to learn the wrong lesson that standing up for principles and people and getting votes is more politically successful than spending 50 years trying to make a family of imaginary bigots like you.

This is why Chuck has NO REASON to come back to the table. Let them twist. If you're coming back with wins this big during a shutdown, the people know where their bread is buttered. Don't throw them a lifeline. These aren't tiny margin wins. They're blowouts.

It's the exact same ideology embraced by the elite enslavers before the Civil War: some people are better than others, and have the right-- and maybe the duty-- to rule. It was the Mudsill Theory then, and it's the Mudsill Theory today, dress it up in whatever elegant language you may.

Julie Moore, Off the Top Rope I don’t know whose idea it was to make Natural Resources Secretary Julie Moore the lead signatory on an opinion essay aimed squarely at Vermont’s environmental community, but… it&…

Is it just me, or is it noteworthy that Phil Scott's top environmental official has come out with guns a-blazing in an op-ed aimed squarely at Vermont's environmental community?

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It Is Cruel to Deny Food Assistance to Those Who Truly Deserve It: Corporations “Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of beneficiaries of federal aid programs like Medicaid and food stamps, according to a study by...

"How would less fortunate corporations like Walmart, McDonald’s, and Amazon get by without SNAP and other programs to subsidize their sub-poverty level wages that leave many of their workers reliant on benefits?"

Phil Scott’s Back-to-the-Office Order Is Going to Cost Something, Whether He Wants to Admit It or Not There are questions circulating in legislative circles about the potential cost of Gov. Phil Scott’s return-to-office mandate, which takes effect on December 1 and requires at least three day…

Phil Scott's back-to-the-office order may or may not result in leasing office space owned by his friends and political supporters, but it will definitely cost something -- at a time of tremendous fiscal uncertainty for state government.

thevpo.org/2025/11/03/p...

Preventive effect of vaccination on long COVID in adolescents with SARS-CoV-2 infection In adolescents (12–17 years), it is unknown whether COVID-19 vaccination reduces progression from COVID-19 to Long COVID (LC) beyond preventing SARS-C…

"Given profound impact Long Covid can have on health and well-being of adolescents &limited availability of treatments,..this supports vaccination..by demonstrating imp secondary prevention effect"

"risk of LC 36% lower in vaccinated compared to unvaccinated"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“There’s too many Americans on SNAP!”

Yes there are. Too many corporations refuse to pay a living wage.

Huge companyies are encouraging their employees to apply for SNAP because they don’t pay them enough to survive.

The government encourages this & then blames the poor.

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.

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

“a global insurance firm that analyzes mortality risk pegged the # of excess deaths at 2% above the pre-pandemic annual mortality rate…that’s 120K unanticipated dead people per year in North America. That’s roughly 2 fully loaded standard commercial jets crashing & killing everyone aboard each day.”

When Worlds Collide Couple at fall farmers market Sign: FARMERS MARKET TODAY Woman: LIFE IS SO STRANGE THESE DAYS. I SEE PEOPLE GOING ABOUT THEIR EVERYDAY BUSINESS. THINGS LOOK PRETTY NORMAL ON THE SURFACE. Strolling through stalls, woman checking phone, man holding up gourd Woman: BUT WHEN I CHECK THE NEWS, IT'S TOTALLY SURREAL. THE EAST WING OF THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN RAZED?! RANDOM BOATS ARE GETTING BLOWN UP! PEOPLE ARE BEING DISAPPEARED! Walking between stands selling pies and cider Woman: IT'S LIKE THE GAP BETWEEN ORDINARY EXPERIENCE AND THE BIZARRE HELLWORLD OF POLITICS HAS GROWN SO VAST, IT'S DISORIENTING. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO NOT BE DIRECTLY AFFECTED YET. ONE YEAR LATER In background: Stall named SURVIVOR ORCHARDS with sign saying THIEVES WILL BE SHOT BY DRONE Drone hovering overhead Gruel stall, $30/ bowl Food bank donations box Woman: OKAY, I GUESS THE TWO REALITIES FINALLY OVERLAPPED.

This week's comic: When Worlds Collide

If there were a competent opposition party in this country, the only message we’d get is that a starving, desperate country where your only hope of safety is blind allegiance to a violent, capricious autocrat and prosperity exists for only his inner circle is what GOP governance looks like

It's interesting that wise conservative business guys implicitly understand "return on investment" except when it comes to this. It's better for YOU if your neighbor gets enough to eat so he can become your community's mechanic, accountant, dentist--whatever!--instead of lying dead in a ditch

from people magazine Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results The president predicted that Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam By Greta Bjornson | Updated on October 28, 2025 10:24AM EDT

from people magazine Donald Trump Hosts Great Gatsby-Themed Halloween Party as 42 Million Americans Brace for SNAP Benefits to Expire The president hosted the Roaring '20s bash at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31 amid the ongoing government shutdown By Bailey Richards Published on November 1, 2025 06:19PM EDT

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

lol Obama should call Hakeem Jeffries to yell at him for his terrible political instincts tbh

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

Learn more about how to #CancelSpotify and some of the other mega corporations supprting ICE at boycotthere.com

#Boycott #50501Movement #BoycottHomeDepot #BoycottTarget

Wondering if Spotify needs the Fox and Tesla treatment with people protesting outside their headquarters. After all optics is another big part of being a big company 🤔

Suddenly when puberty blockers are given to cis kids, the Daily Mail (the same newspaper which backed Hitler btw) finally admits that "their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal."

Which is true for trans kids too.

The Dems who voted to confirm Brooke Rollins:

Baldwin (WI)
Bennet (CO)
Booker (NJ)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gallego (AZ)
Hassan (NH)
Heinrich (NM)
Hickenlooper (CO)
Klobuchar (MN)
Ossoff (GA)
Peters (MI)
Rosen (NV)
Schiff (CA)
Shaheen (NH)
Slotkin (MI)
Warnock (GA)
Welch (VT)

The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row and the DoD has confirmed nearly $11 billion in fraud in just 7 years. But the concern is the poorest Americans abusing the average $342 monthly alotment. foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

"Because COVID destabilizes the immune system, researchers are now beginning to see a link between repeat COVID infections and rising cancer rates in young people."
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

"Children did not face increased risk for mood&anxiety disorders compared w adults but did have an increased risk of cognitive deficit,insomnia,intracranial haemorrhage, ischaemic stroke, nerve, nerve root, and plexus disorders, psychotic disorders, &epilepsy or seizures.”
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

"symptoms&conditions of long COVID in children can include heart muscle inflammation,changes in taste&smell,blood clots..kidney injury..generalized pain..chest pain,fatigue&malaise,headache,musculoskeletal pain,abdominal pain,cognitive impairment
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

"In fact, a second infection doubles the long-COVID risk for a child."
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...