Mark Avo

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.

But you chose to surrender the day when you hd the high ground both figuratively and morally, so why then the insistence on losing?! What the people hear is you won’t fight if it’s a hard fight. You deserve only shame and scorn today and tomorrow.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

🏳️ BREAKING: Democrats Surrender. Again Mehdi's Monday morning update on the senators voting to reopen the government without a guarantee on heathcare; the BBC rolling over for Donald Trump; and Kathy Hochul's clash with Zohran Mamdani.

"Is there a more feckless, spineless opposition party anywhere in the democratic world? Why do Democrats insist on repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?"

Me for Zeteo's First Draft this morning on the Democratic surrender in the Senate:

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

The Alabama Solution couldn’t have been made without incarcerated people having access to cell phones.

Think that has to do with why the Trump administration now wants to jam cell phones in prisons?

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It’s also why the Overton window continues to go further right. The contemporary Dems are responsible for whats happening now because their false fighting enables fascists. Like many “moderates” in other nations that fell to dictatorships, they instead blame the far left and we take two steps back.

A while ago, I was at the grocery store, and picked up one of the 2lb packs of store brand hamburger, and looked at the price. I sort of whispered under my breath "Jesus Christ.." and the people on each side of me looked up at the same time and said "I KNOW."

Just solidarity in the grocery store.

YouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk Chuck Schumer Thinks You’re Too Dumb to Notice

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This person took this when they called the race

That t-shirt rocks. Congratulations 🎊🎉🎈

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Those state officials have fallen for the Just World Fallacy whilst simultaneously making it come true for people who don’t deserve inhumane treatment. Cruelty for the sake of an erroneous dogma.

I hope it flys up the ranking of evry new player. It’s my all-time favorite video game… especially the war of the lions version.

I can't think of a better tragic metaphor for Trump's second term than him bulldozing Jackie Kennedy's rose garden to build a UFC octagon, to cut down a 200 yr old magnolia for a gaudy ballroom, and to gold leaf and spray-paint the entire Oval Office.

Tacky, valueless, ostentatious yet cheap.

Next fall we can play rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock… no seriously i still have my unglued set and all it needs now is Spock.

Dont forget all the service projects. The number of elderly folks lawns, gardens, trees etc I trimmed in my youth is countless. I still carry work gloves with me everywhere.

There are many people whose lives are so much better for having you in it.

Remember that. You are important, and you are loved.

It’s easier to walk away from a religion than to abandon an enculturation.

He wants Black people out there so they can crack our skulls and he can impose martial law. Nope, I'm good.

“It depends on where they come from and how they grew up—what their grandma and granddaddy told them. Because when you tell our story”—she brought her index finger to her chest—“you’re really shaking the foundation of other people’s stories.” -Janice Canaday

I’ve never seen an episode but I instantly knew it was a One Piece flag. Maybe I should finally check it out? I even hear the card game is a good time and tbh a TCG is more my jam.

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Half my family resembles those remarks and the other half is confounded and disappointed with the lot of em.

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
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This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

Many in the US are about to learn how good they had it when the dollar was hegemonic.

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness