OldHippieChick

Is he on crack? Per the USDA, the ave. per person monthly benefit is $177. I'd love to see this guy attempt to feed himself for ca. $5.90 a day.

The recipes I saw online to help with that start by buying staples in bulk which - good luck buying other ingredients after purchasing a $66 bag of oats.

Today in lying liars who lie news.

F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls

Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers"

The Jan 6 insurrection was successful, & now it gets to be preserved as a success by this administration it brought to power.

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This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

I can't prove the person creating this image understood the neo-Nazi connection. The number of times such words and symbols get used tends to lead me to believe they do.

Thank goodness this is AI. It's a terrible idea to bring most wild animals into your home. Rabbits can transmit diseases to both your cat and to humans.

Wild animals should stay wild. Pets should have regular checkups.

All these political leaders and capitalists who are tossing aside their obligations to slow climate change are directly implicated in the record hurricane that is right now hitting Jamaica.

"The proverbial kinds of falsehoods, ‘lies, damned lies, and [carefully selected] statistics.’”

Of Trees, Tenderness, and the Moon: Hasui Kawase’s Stunning Japanese Woodblock Prints from the 1920s-1950s Sylvan sublimity between the heavens and the deep blue sea.

Of trees, tenderness, and the Moon – Japanese artist Hasui Kawase's stunning century-old woodblock prints www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/22/h...

Whatever the man's politics, no one in the US should be "deported" without due process and sending someone to prison in a country they have never lived in isn't deportation; it's kidnapping.

Yes, in the Jewish family I married into, you don't have to be related by blood. If you were one of my MIL's BFF's, you're "Auntie" & your husband is "Unkie". Confused me a lot at first. My family did genealogy and had a lot of 'related but only by marriage' family discourse.

Really excellent summary of Amendments 1-4.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Most recent DHS posts I have seen are dogs whistles of one kind or another to neo-Nazis of one type or another.

A post on X (formerly Twitter) from user Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) dated October 28, 2025, at 8:38 AM. The post claims that the food stamp program artificially increases grocery prices because the federal government subsidizes groceries for 40 million people. It asserts that the rise in grocery costs matches the increase in food stamp recipients, arguing that working Americans are being “scammed twice”—through taxes and higher grocery prices. The post ends by stating that people are “paying twice so that morbidly obese people can buy Doritos,” calling it “infuriating.” The post has 510.9K views.

"We would have cheaper groceries if we let 40 million people including children starve" is a hell of take.

Thucydides thought that one of the causes of the Peloponnesian War was that a new generation of young men in Sparta and Athens had never had the experience of war, and were therefore eager to try one of their own.

Projecting strength and "overwhelming" force is part of authoritarian propaganda. It's meant to make anti-fascists give up and to persuade people "who don't pay much attention to politics" sit on the sidelines.

No fate but what we make

The gang of lying liars who lie are at it again.

Yes climate breakdown means more turbulence for flyers.

It’s also on track to heat the planet by 4C+ this century, kill billions of people & collapse our civilization.

Keep on seeing the deadliest crisis our species has ever faced framed as some minor consumerist inconvenience.

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects

The only two places in the world free of mosquitoes are Antarctica and Iceland — that is, until now. This month, three specimens were discovered in Iceland, which is warming four times faster than any other country in the Northern Hemisphere.

As the Atlantic Ocean warms, climate change is fueling Hurricane Melissa's ferocity Hurricane Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm due to warming oceans linked to climate change.

I am thinking of the people of Jamaica, and the many New Yorkers with loved ones there, as Hurricane Melissa — fueled by a warming ocean — grows into the strongest storm ever to bear down upon the island.

Definitely we should look at more modern Constitutions!

You know, I am starting to doubt the account of the couple that worked on that estate for years but had no idea anything was going on with the girls there. Saw them on one of the docs about Maxwell. (OK, I doubted it while I was watching.)

Meanwhile in the
23rd Century...

Later commenter noted she's been open about having a history of eating disorder.

Someone who cares about her does need to check in.