In the Good Old Days, One Fourth of Income Went to Food

You spend approximately a quarter of what your ancestors spend on food in 1947 and the food quality is far superior and more varied. cepr.net/publications...

I am going to share transcribed story I helped with in the National Archives, its brief but several skeets long. So bear with me and read it all. I think its and interesting look into the WW2 ETO Dog Face's world.

Fantastic and easy to understand analysis.

If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

This is what they have now. There are no ideas, only "oh you don't like that? Then I'll do it more." That's the sum total of the right's brain trust now

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago. The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Hand holding a black and white illustrated zine of two people holding signs that say “we marched! Now what?”

No Kings logo: a drawing of a crown with a red x over it

I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th!

If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.

drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...

If you know anyone using a menstrual tracking app, tell them to see using it immediately and delete all their data

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

@drjengunter.bsky.social - check it out!

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

Pritzker is the best of Chicago in the most Chicago way.

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’ Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech

Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%

Incredible! Saturday morning's sunrise -- ahead of the rain forecast this afternoon -- was a stunner.

CWG's Kevin Ambrose caught this pair of fantastic shots.

The adage seems prescient: Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.

See more photos at cwg.live

Project 2025 Seeks to Dismantle Agencies, Terminate Up To 1 Million Federal Workers Here are the highlights – or rather lowlights – of Project 2025 to help you understand how these plans would undermine national security, destroy democracy, and take away our rights.

Firing people has been the plan from the beginning but if the Dems force a government shutdown the firings can be blamed on them.

AFGE | Project 2025 Seeks to Dismantle Agencies, Terminate Up To 1 Million Federal Workers share.google/gvekkEbKxgtT...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Science 101. Correlation does not equal causation. Tylenol aka paracetamol doesn’t cause autism. A correlation can lead to all sorts of causal fallacy. Like so. 👇

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918.

Office David Rose

killed during
mass shooting at CDC by anti-vax extremist.

“He was a loving father, a devoted husband, a cherished brother, and a loyal friend.

His kindness, courage, & unwavering commitment to his family and community touched the lives of everyone who knew him.”

We're going to be in movement for the rest of our lives, there's a world to win & so much between us and freedom. How do we make struggle sustainable? So ask yourself, what is the best use of my skills and resources. Limit yourself to that work, because you can't be everywhere.

Shout out to the engineer driving @wmata.com 3057 yellow line to Mount Vernon. At each stop, he’s making a kind comment, wishing ppl safe travels at DCA, commenting on why he likes a stop, and encouraging everyone to make someone’s day with a smile. Love and community are resistance.