I've seen so many people online using the government shutdown as an opportunity to demonize people who receive SNAP benefits, WIC and any kind of government assistance.

Here's the thing:

I agree with those people.

We need to end the WHITE welfare state

BECAUSE welfare works.

A thread:

USEFUL BACK IN THE DAY KNOWLEDGE

*packs a weed pipe*

So back in the day in America when there was no ACA and the 'safety net' was shit, my uninsured friends when they HAD to be seen medically for bad shit

would not take IDs to the hospital and would give a fake name and claim to be indigent.

Prince Andrew To Lose 'Prince' Title, Buckingham Palace Says The disgraced prince will also be moving out of his home, Royal Lodge.

Read:

Dogs dressed as a Krispy Kreme worker, a box of McDonald’s fries, an Eat N Park happy face, and a Burger King burger

I unfortunately do not know the original provenance of this photo, but it has a very important place in my heart for a very specific reason. (1/)

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

The leftwing defense of Graham Platner is rooted in a false Democratic vision | Moira Donegan Tolerance for behavior like Platner’s is tied to a wrongheaded theory of the male working class. Zohran Mamdani illustrates a different path

I wrote about Graham Platner, Zohran Mamdani, and how the insurgent left wing of the Democratic Party is grappling with the question of masculinity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Growing Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout, 2008–2022 The gap is increasing nationwide, especially in counties that had been subject to federal oversight until the Supreme Court invalidated preclearance in 2013.

And for folks who think I'm just talking out of my ass about voter suppression, there are numerous studies in this particular field.

This one talks about the growing racial gap in voter turnout.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them

CBS News Cuts ‘Evening News,’ ‘Mornings’ Streaming Shows in Newsroom-Wide Layoffs The newsroom downsizing comes as Paramount Skydance lays off 1,000 employees throughout the newly merged company

CBS News has reportedly disbanded its race and culture unit, which was formed in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020

NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month

“Welcome to the confederate broadcasting system”

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“I find it hard to imagine that we would be having this conversation at all were Platner anything other than a fit middle-aged white guy who dresses like a stock photo of a “real man.’”

Straight to the point, as usual from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Dozens of States Sue Trump Administration Over Planned Food Stamp Cuts

The Trump administration has a rainy day fund that will keep SNAP from expiring in November. Trump is refusing to use it.

Funding SNAP isn't a choice he can make. It's a legal obligation. USDA must release the funds and stop punishing the American people.
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Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits.

No, they don’t have to.

"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/

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Elon Musk's involvement in politics really hurt Tesla sales.

"Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles."

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.

Read this whole, replies and all

several years ago I said there should be a reality TV show where each team is given a fixed budget and access to various DIY hardware stores/junkyards and 48 hours to build the best guillotine they can.

I'm still disappointed that no one has filled this gap in the market

IIRC, it was spelled Maxamillion!?
(there was an outtake with the tagline “Tax a Billion down to Max, a Million” on the network’s behind-the-scenes YouTube; maybe the team took the pun too far, but they wanted to clarify it was intentional and not a typo)

(In case you forgot, Jed Rubenfeld was suspended from Yale law for sexually harassing his graduate students.)

“According to a 2019 USDA report, every dollar in new SNAP benefits increases GDP by $1.50 in a weak economy.”

“SNAP benefits are one of the fastest, most effective forms of economic stimulus because they get money into the economy quickly during a recession.”

~Center for Budget and Policy

From David Sirota on Twitter: Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered. LeverNews.com/book Citizens United v. FEC, 558 U.S. 310 (2010) This Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy.