Mike Corones

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.

RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Please?

Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.

That's the year I became a DMV resident, so same!

I hope there’s at least one person on the sandwich jury who’s passive aggressively eating a sandwich while they deliberate, just to see what happens

lolololololololololllllll I wonder who's gonna win

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fuckoff

tech bros keep promising self-aware ai when they haven't even cracked making self-aware tech bros

The real winner of the Dodgers-Blue Jays marathon World Series game? Florida governor Ron DeSantis.

It’s like birdwatching, but bad

A Blue Jays scout died in Philly before the World Series. His friends have a new favorite team. Urcheck, a longtime baseball scout, was 49. He wasn't from Philadelphia, but he epitomized what the city was about, friends say.

www.inquirer.com/phillies/bre...

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

touch of gray

This might be better -- self-disassembly feels like it would cost fewer of our tax dollars.

If only they could rebrand as Meta...

Mensa merch is so embarrassing

the media had the internet in '09 my guy

🎵 One Flying Moment 🎶

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

he's equal parts unlikable and uninteresting

Kind of amazing that the photo Politico used of one of these folks -- the one who made a joke about gas chambers -- is from an event that Politico sponsored last summer.

naw

My great-grandmother was one of them.

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How Wes Moore can deal a blow to Trump’s immigration agenda | GUEST COMMENTARY Guest commentary: Gov. Wes Moore has a novel opportunity to undermine Trump’s immigration agenda by targeting an airline participating in ICE’s deportations.

In the Baltimore Sun today we ask Governor Wes Moore to cancel Avelo Airlines' contract with BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. He can do it today. It doesn't require the assembly. It will help stop ICE & help our patients and neighbors.

Please share widely.

www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/11/w...