Big kulaks hoarding grain energy here.

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”

The result was “institutionalized hunger.”

@kristencrowell.bsky.social
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Tuberville: “We just saw what happened in NY. We lost NY. It will be completely Muslim in 3-4 years. That’s what they want. And it’s going to spread throughout the country.”

There is no ceasefire. It's a lie. More than 200 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli government since Trump claimed a ceasefire was achieved. The Israeli government never even stopped bombing Lebanon. They are still committing war crimes.

I feel like people on Bluesky who have convinced themselves that the institutional Left in the United States is pro Trump and falling over backwards to credit Trump should have to reckon with the fact that the only Palestinian in Congress, and a DSA member, says (rightly) that the ceasefire is fake.

The most common disease of mental capacity on here which cuts across ideological preference is Bluesky users seeing a random person in their phone and assigning them the role of spokesperson for their intra-coalition opponents.

the funniest part is that in a normal government, this would be a bog standard, easy compromise for republicans, who want the subsidies extended, too, but they're all terrified of the elderly tariff otaku, and johnson and thune are both extremely weak leaders in thrall to their most insane members

From the outside US evangelicalism is a very puzzling religious group because ostensibly they are very concerned with the moral teachings of a publicly accessible text but also they seem to have inferred completely the opposite lessons from that text than what everyone else thinks is the plain read.

RT celebrates its 20th birthday with a collection of influencers from West

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: Reuters Subscribe O Exclusive: US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes, former US officials say By Erin Banco, Jonathan Landay and Humeyra Pamuk November 7, 2025 10:17 AM CST • Updated 29 mins ago

The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow

After US intelligence learned that IDF lawyers had found evidence of IDF war crimes in Gaza, the Biden admin “determined that it was still legal to continue supporting Israel…because the US had not gathered its *own* evidence that Israel was violating [LOAC]”

Could they not have…collected harder?

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.

I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

This story has extra juice when you know the pretext behind "operation Midway Blitz"

I loathe to give Shor credit here but his theories really taking popular positions on *salient* issues. A lot of centrists think that you can just run on 80-20 issues no one cares about and win automatically. Which ironically is the GOP strategy with running on trans sports

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

It offers hope, in its portrayal of Duterte supporters who eventually turned on him and opposed him- but also a crushingly cynical last word from one of Evangelista’s colleagues.

Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista is a fantastic, haunting, nauseating look into this dynamic and Duterte’s dirty war. It feels even more prescient now than it did when she wrote it.

"the only thing preventing several of your neighbours from murdering you is their fear of getting caught"

in this thread the New Right discovers what the average immigrant feels at any given time

i'm unmentionably fresh, i'm a mensch, get correct
i will walk into a court while erect, screaming,
"yes, i am guilty, motherfuckers; i am death."
aye, you wanna hear a good joke?
nobody speak, nobody get choked
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One day this social media exchange will be presented as evidence in a court room, and I cannot wait.

sort of funny how people don't get how utterly ruthless the campaign was focused on the everyday affordability angle, even from people aligned with Mamdani!

but seriously I think if there's one thing for bsky progressives -- much more than "the left" really -- to take from Zohran it's this

you can't lead with your chin saying stuff that makes you feel good about whatever topic, you fine-tune that message to death and you drive it home

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

Or maybe it will mean that Zionists will continue to be frozen out of public life—as they have been throughout Mamdani’s campaign. It occurred to me before leaving for the victory party: Should I take off my Star of David necklace? That is the kind of calculation that many New Yorkers already make—and fear they will have to make more often.

After Mamdani’s celebration ended Tuesday night and his supporters spilled out onto the streets of Brooklyn, I remembered something that Sara Forman, the executive director of the New York Solidarity Network, a pro-Israel political action committee, recently told me. “The only people who lose are the Jews.”

Bari Weiss's website is being about as normal as I expected
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the future is red abundance, i guess?

REPUBLICAN Mayor of Oklahoma City on Trump saying too many people are on SNAP: “This is no way to make policy. This is chaos. People have been told by the federal government they’ll get these benefits, this is no time to pull the rug out from under them.”

heres our report on this — both on the number 1 case of death among ICE agents (covid 19) and the legal cases against protesters that are falling apart

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

But the police very soon had much bigger fish to fry, as out-of-state influencers swooped in to get in on the content-rich environs of the Portland ICE facility. On October 2nd, local police arrested Nick Sortor of Washington, DC, on suspicion of disorderly conduct. After Sortor was released the following morning, he told his 1.2 million followers on X that he had spoken to Attorney General Pam Bondi. (Bondi later opened an investigation into the Portland police.) Sortor, who was also invited to Trump’s roundtable on “antifa,” went on to publicly attack the Portland Police Bureau for being “Antifa-infiltrated,” an allegation that the Trump administration appears to be taking seriously — the word of an influencer being, apparently, much weightier than the thin blue line.

every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...

"All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands."

hold up. tell me more about that

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A picture of a sandwich labeled "Armour-piercing discarding sabot projectile with sabot (left), without sabot (center), and without jacket (right)." Diagram of all the layers of the sandwich, labeled :APFSDS long rod penetrator separating from "double-ramp" sabot." Diagram showing the operation of a discarding "spindle-shaped" sabot on an APDS-projectile.