Bethany Lilly

I also bought myself two other chocolate bars--one I know I like and one that sounded good!

Sadly, they no longer carry it. But I did remember I needed coffee!

I'm back in my old neighborhood and the one thing I'm definitely doing is buying my favorite absurdly expensive chocolate bar at one of the two bougie specialty food stores.

Trump saw a 22-point drop in Hispanic support. We can't just attribute it to a declne from Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans Salvadorans and Colombians, who skew more Democratic. This means even Cubans and Venezuelans are breaking.

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.”

Carolyn June Dennis, 1944-2025
“There is no perfection on the physical plane.”
This was a saying that my mother, who died October 21, 2025 at 81 after a long period with Alzheimer’s, used to repeat often, especially when confronted with some daily frustration or tragedy of life. Cont'd. 🧵

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...

An embarrassingly obvious point, but...

This. Is. Illegal.

If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.

In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
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Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare.

I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger

I am genuinely not sure what to say about this. I think this was the first WH holiday party I ever attended. I guess those stairs are just... gone.

I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us. RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.

RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.

If being against a guy with a Nazi tattoo makes me a purist I guess I'm an anti-Nazi purist. If you think that makes me an anti-Nazi single issue voter, you're wrong, but also it's a pretty good single issue.

There is more than a year. Go get another real progressive who doesn't have a Nazi tattoo.

There’s a bunch of research demonstrating that shorter hours and work weeks don’t harm productivity even vs. the 40-hour week, so it’s funny that the people who consider themselves the most rational evaluators of fact alive still just want to dominate their workers for purely ideological reasons

a man with a ring on his finger is clapping ALT: a man with a ring on his finger is clapping

I'm old enough to remember what trying to get health insurance with a chronic illness was like pre-Obamacare (you didn't ha ha). We have a long ways yet to go. Not that we won't get there! 🫠

But this is the energy I'm bringing into the world for the next 20 years:

Absolutely surreal story from @annabower.bsky.social on how Lindsey Halligan continued to message her... and never said whether they were off the record or on. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

I'm so excited to get back to Qui Qui 2.0 this fall. I dream about the pastelon. Might do need to include a stop to St. V's afterwards.

A small waterfall tumbles out of a drainage pipe. The other end of the drainage pipe is visible showing more beautiful forest.

A drainage tunnel at the Falls of Falloch.

An Anglo-Saxon cross from the 8th century, made of red sandstone (darker red for the places where they have replaced pieces) and covered in depictions from the Bible. It is faint in the photo, but there is writing along all the edges of the cross.

The Ruthwell Cross. (For the non- English literature majors, this cross has one of the earliest poems in the English language inscribed along the edges.)

A friendly looking sheep is hanging out by the gate as if asking us to come let them out.

One of the thousands of sheep we saw.

Lots of arcing pink stone, covered in Moss and looking very weather worn. The outlines of stained glass windows are evident and open to the sky.

The ruins of Montrose Abbey.

A highland coo among the Glencoe mountains.

Some of my favorite photos from Scotland 😁

Gonna take a few to adjust from 50s in Scotland to 70s in DC lol

It is painful to think about how much individual detail is lost in Trump’s “pain by the wholesale” approach.

Midge Purce is elite with her feet 💃

I posted about this on X, and Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS spokesperson, QTed me to say the kid was actually a hardened criminal arrested with a knife and a gun.

So far she has provided no evidence of this. I share this to give DHS's response, and for the possibility she is telling the truth.

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

We‘ve gotten to the Anne Frank stage of the presidency.

Excerpt of Supreme Court transcript in Chiles v. Salazar: JUSTICE JACKSON: No, but here's what I mean, right? In Skrmetti, we had a state that wanted to prohibit certain medical treatment, gender-affirming care, being given to minors in the form of medication. And we said that was okay. And I understand there are particulars with respect to how the -- the arguments, the constitutional arguments, worked, but the state can prohibit that. Here, we have a state that wants to prohibit gender-related medical treatment in the form of talk therapy, but we now have the First Amendment that is inhibiting the state's ability to do that. And I'm just, from a very, very broad perspective, concerned about making sure that we have equivalence with respect to these things.

Supreme Court on banning gender-affirming care for trans youth: Sure, that's fine, no constitutional violation.

Supreme Court on banning so-called conversion therapy for gay youth: No, can't have that, grave constitutional violation.

Here, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets to the bottom of it:

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

Re-sharing & asking you to amplify: Every single fact about the South Shore federal raid just days ago is worse than the last. They kicked in doors & dragged Chicago families out in the middle of the night. I know we're all stressed but THIS IS VERY BAD blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/s...