The real question is, why do 42 million people, ~15% of the population of the USA, require food assistance in the richest country in human history? Why has our government writ large caused its people's impoverishment for so long?

Don't just take the fight they put in front of you. Think deeper.

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Every talking head is going to try to sell you the idea that
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's win was a fluke.

But working people are sending a message: they WANT a politics that prioritizes them, not the billionaires.

Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

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.”

a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes

a day in an american life

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

It’s not even a cumulative effect. This effect is often immediate. I’ve now seen at least 10 incidents of ICE goons showing up, getting yelled at, and then giving up

I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

Congrats, The Atlantic and The New York Times, this is the country you've created.

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

The question to ask all young men is 'how many people have you helped this week? how many have you cared for?"

As someone who’s been a vocal supporter of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, his reported decision to keep Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner is a big mistake that seems like a reasonable compromise. The NYPD will understand it as weakness, not good will. Tisch cooperated with ICE to lock up Leqaa Kordia

There is a faction of the US left (such as it is) that has itself absolutely convinced that the key to reaching the Noble Salt Of The Earth Everyman is to be performatively chill about people bringing Nazi shit into political space.

Nope. All that does is turn your political space into a Nazi space

PEOPLE WON'T BEHAVE IF THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE

LABOR IS A LIFE-DESTROYING ACTIVITY

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.

you could give an infinite number of reactionaries an infinite number of typewriters over an infinite timeline and they would never invent a sesame street

"What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver? . We might be forced to conclude that the real business of human life is not contributing toward something called the economy but the fact that we are all, and have always been, projects of mutual creation." . - David Graeber

One of David Graeber's most interesting pieces was from 2013 called - 'A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse.'

Here is an extract.

DNA testing links dead man to Texas ‘yogurt shop’ killings, police say Robert Eugene Brashers has been named by police as a suspect in the 1991 killings of four teenage girls in Austin - the subject of “The Yogurt Shop Murders” miniseries.

The way the media spins stories like this is “look how the dogged cops cleared this terrible quadruple-murder 34 years later” and not “oh by the way they totally accused and convicted the wrong guys before, oops lol”

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

"Who would have predicted this?"

- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.

"Well why didn't I hear them."

You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

A political party that was serious about defeating fascism, strengthening real democracy, pursuing justice and promoting the common welfare could do a whole host of effective things before sending us each 7000 texts a day asking for more money. But that’s what they think their job is!

The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades.

Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?

🚨 Breaking | 9 attacks have been reported targeting at least 5 boats of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla in international waters!

Joe Manchin needs to “move to the center” of a big flaming pit.

Fevers are dangerous early in pregnancy and Tylenol is the only fever reducer pregnant people are supposed to take. In this freak’s mind, having a baby with congenital anomalies incompatible with life is *less bad* than having a child with autism