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"My newest hobby is finding lines from The Simpsons that could pass for Morrissey song titles." I took this image from somewhere else and can't write all of these out on my phone, so if you're reading this because you need the alt-text, take the opportunity to brainstorm some good ones of your own.

oh my god

As SNAP cutoff looms, Mass. to double November funding for food banks - The Boston Globe Massachusetts will provide $8 million — up from $4 million — for the Massachusetts Emergency Food Assistance Program for November, Healey said.

Days before federal SNAP funding is set to run out, Governor Maura Healey announced that Massachusetts will double its support for food banks and pantries for next month to help bridge the gap.

LoL almost like the state could fund and run grocery stores without a problem. And provide vital nutrition and good paying jobs to areas that lack these things...
Almost as if "the free market" is just a lie to keep people desperate, poor and starving...

Trump Orders Nuclear Testing As Nuke Workers Go Unpaid Everyone loses and nobody wins if America decides to resume nuclear testing after a 30 year moratorium.

Last night Trump directed the Pentagon to start testing nukes again. If that happens, it’ll be the first time the US has detonated a nuke in more than 30 years.

🔗 www.404media.co/trump-orders...

Executive orders aimed at trans people affect and hurt cis people, too!

New York City Mayoral Election 2025: Latest Polls Track the latest polls about Mamdani, Cuomo, Adams and Sliwa in the New York City mayoral election.

New Quinnipiac University poll out today and hoo boy. If you can vote in New York or know people who can, then you need to activate. Not liking this Q-Poll trend as the racist attacks have mounted.

Oct. 23-27: Mamdani +10
Oct. 3-7: Mamdani +13
Sep. 4-8: Mamdani +16

BREAKING: Both Satmar factions decide not to endorse a candidate for mayor and decry the vicious campaign against Mamdani that paints him as hostile to Jews.

In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.

Honor Mtulazaji Davis: Support His Family

*THIS IS THE ONLY GOFUNDME FOR P.E.A.C.E.* Our Beloved Angel: Honoring the Life of Mtulazaji (P.E.A.C.E.) Davis The world feels quieter now. A beautiful, brilliant light in our lives went out on the morning of October 24th, 2025, with the passing of Mtulazaji Davis—the legendary P.E.A.C.E. of Freestyle Fellowship. To the world, he was an amazingly gifted emcee, a founding member whose rhythmic genius and innovative spirit helped shape the entire landscape of underground hip-hop. But to us, he was simply Dad. Not only a father, but also a son, a brother, an uncle, and a truly cherished friend. His heart was massive, his spirit unforgettable. There wasn't a dull moment or a boring interaction with our father; his personality was electric, unforgettable, and touched everyone lucky enough to know him.

A GoFundMe: give if you can www.gofundme.com/f/honor-mtul...

The Defamation League

"clearly no longer relevant or reflective of ADL’s work today,”

Yeah, we've noticed.

Man arrested with body armor and a suitcase filled with ammunition after threatening multiple synagogues, officials say | CNN In the latest antisemitic incident to rock a community, threatened attacks on synagogues in Alabama and surrounding states were thwarted when a person was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, ...

A person in Alabama was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, body armor, and other items, intending to attack synagogues across the US South. www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/u...

Kennedy directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports | Reuters

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Centrist D66 party set to win most seats in Dutch election, exit poll suggests Result would pave the way for the Netherlands’ first out gay prime minister and end far-right populist Geert Wilders’ time in power The liberal-progressive D66 party was on track to become the largest in the Dutch parliament, according to an exit poll, after a snap general election in which Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom party was seen losing a third of its seats. The poll, with a one- to two-seat margin of error, gave the centrist party an estimated 27 MPs in the 150-seat assembly, possibly clearing a path for its 38-year-old leader, Rob Jetten, to become the Netherlands’ youngest and first out gay prime minister. Continue reading...

Centrist D66 party set to win most seats in Dutch election, exit poll suggests

Thugs from ICE - Forest Park Review ICE agents descended on Concordia Cemetery, entering private property without a warrant, detaining four citizens

Last month, ICE / CBP detained two cemetery workers in suburban Forest Hills and attacked them with chemical weapons in their pursuit of an abduction. WGN covered that story at wgntv.com/news/operati... but I prefer the local paper's op-ed, linked below.

not to downplay the seriousness of this indictment but the federal government is claiming that kat abughazaleh, a labubu-sized woman, impeded the movement of an SUV

> statement if they believed antisemitism would rise. They tend to suffer the most from "street antisemitism." They know what it means to feel unsafe simply for being Jewish.

And they know Zohran would be an ally to fight antisemitism!

Listen you all, I have my share of disagreements with both of these communities.

But, keep in mind: those are the most visible Jews, which means they are usually the ones who suffer a lot directly when there is a rise of antisemitism.

Make of it what you wish, that they would not release such a >

I don’t. She made her own bed

A collection of three unrelated mpox cases recently detected in California is raising concerns, as they were caused by a more infectious, more dangerous strain of the virus called clade I mpox.
thehill.com/policy/healt...

Who Are the Holy Land Foundation Five? Israelis and Palestinians live in different worlds and under different laws.

From 2018
Who Are the Holy Land Foundation Five? | Truthout

truthout.org/articles/who...

An underrated storyline in 9 days: Youngkin has made it so people lose their voting rights for life for any felony at present. A Dem proposal that’s started advancing to restore voting rights hinges on Dems keeping the state House

If UCLA were stupid enough to agree to this deal then the state of California should simply revoke its public charter and close it. It's a pretty campus, it would make for an excellent golf course.

- A "resolution monitor" with massive snoop powers nominally selected by the feds and ucla, but with a 60 day fallback to just the Feds if they can't agree---so they could basically just spend 2 months saying "nick fuentes is the only acceptable monitor" and then get him.

- an extreme version of the usual package of anti-trans bigotry, including purporting to forbid the hospital from performing gender-affirming care on minors and demanding all kinds of notices endorsing the anti-trans stuff
(Cont)

- Authorization for wide-ranging federal fishing expeditions through university records
- mandatory viewpoint-based discrimination against foreign students (recall that UCLA is a public entity, so it would be as unconstitutional for it to accept this deal as it was for Trump to demand it) (cont)

Yeah this is completely deranged. Among other things:

- a billion dollar payment
- Much more aggressive anti-diversity rules than required by law, including arguably forbidding stuff the Supreme Court explicitly said was permissible in SFFA
(Cont)

I’m going to stake drive the author’s car.

Sorry, it’s mine now! I drove a stake and now I drive your car!

How Trump Demolished the White House East Wing By putting the demolition of the East Wing before the necessary approvals for his ballroom, President Donald Trump borrowed a tactic known as “stake-driving” to force an outcome.

By proceeding with the demolition of the White House East Wing before seeking approval from federal agencies for a new ballroom, President Donald Trump forced the issue. It's a strategy known as "stake-driving."

Schools are closing, social services are being cut, third places are being shuttered or made hostile to kids, costs of higher ed are spiking, and there are no jobs.

Getting fifty bucks from the government baby incentive fund isn't gonna cut it.

it’s almost as if all of the things folks argued would happen after race-conscious admissions were limited - precipitous declines in Black enrollment, among them - are happening. weird how looking at history can tell you a lot. who would have guessed it.