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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 5h

"Republicans (and Joe Manchin) don’t attack SNAP and UBI because the programs are failures. They attack them because the programs are successful, and conservatives hate the idea that some poor person somewhere may be experiencing autonomy, freedom, or joy."

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 5h

There's extensive evidence that just giving poor people money is very effective public policy. The moral panic over what ppl buy with SNAP is about sadism and entitlement. the wealthy enjoy policing and tormenting those they see as their inferiors. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/republican...

Republicans Want Poor People to Suffer

GOP policy on poverty is driven by sadism

www.everythingishorrible.net

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StoptheButterflyRevolution @bluestockings59.bsky.social · 1d

SNAP not only supports working families, disabled folks, and the elderly. It supports jobs. Lots of jobs. Grocery stores, farmers, the suppliers that get food from farms to grocery stores. The ROI on SNAP is unparalleled. These are some of the best dollars the government spends.

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Mnemosyne @goddessofhellfyre.bsky.social · 1d

Back when there was more than one rep house in Portland, I saw both films for the first time - it was a double feature, a mini Angela Lansbury film festival.

She was a dish.

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Mnemosyne @goddessofhellfyre.bsky.social · 1d

Watch Gaslight or the Picture of Dorian Grey and see for yourself.

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

This guy’s a Christian pastor, in case you think Diocletian didn’t have a point.

R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 2d

Evangelicals are hot for starving kids.

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Mnemosyne @goddessofhellfyre.bsky.social · 2d

I can think of no one more deserving! So happy for you! Congratulations 🎊

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loschare.bsky.social @loschare.bsky.social · 2d

This led me down a rabbit hole of mandatory voting laws. The Wikipedia entry was interesting, and it seems to me that if democrats ever get back in power, they should introduce mandatory voting laws.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 2d

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

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Liz W Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 2d

Unless you’ve been on SNAP or had to be a cashier in a grocery store while someone discovers the insane restrictions placed on SNAP food choices, I simply think you should shut the hell up about food access.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3d

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 4d

The day I was so excited about THE DAGON COLLECTION being a World Fantasy Award finalist in the Anthology category, I didn’t notice I was a finalist in the Artist category.

Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · Jul 7

Oh my goodness, The Dagon Collection is on the World Fantasy Awards shortlist for anthologies! I didn't just make woodcut art for this one, I wrote the story for it as well!
worldfantasy2025.co.uk/world-fantas...

A black ink woodcut printo n cream colored paper. It depicts a spotted sea monster with two plumes of water spouting out of its head. A tiny human on a cliff stands before it's toothy maw gesturing.

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Mnemosyne @goddessofhellfyre.bsky.social · 4d

And the excellent film, Panther, is impossible to find

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

Do people actually understand the war waged against the Panthers by the U.S government? I think that most people really do not.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 4d

SNAP should be the most popular thing the government does

if you’re socialist, it’s the government meeting basic human needs

if you’re 20th century liberal, it’s a form of welfare that helps the poor without directly transferring wealth

if you’re conservative, it subsidizes farmers and grocers

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Mnemosyne @goddessofhellfyre.bsky.social · 5d

Trying hard to be Eyepatch Morty.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 6d

Being laid off feels especially hard when I remember how many times I put my job first before my own health, well-being, and family. When I worked weeknights until 11pm and on weekends to hit production quotas, during PTO, and filed three stories the day before it happened. There's a lot of grief.

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logan, hater club CEO @logan.hater.club · 6d

oh my god by the time the World Series is over I'm going to be exponentially more radicalized against AI bullshit than I already am

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Mnemosyne @goddessofhellfyre.bsky.social · 7d

Man, the bath tub should be a safe place! Enjoy Brighton, in my imagination, it's stuck in the Edwardian Era. Weird to think of folks in modern dress hanging out there.

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Mnemosyne @goddessofhellfyre.bsky.social · 7d

Having the tism made me appreciate learning the generational rule.

In beauty school

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 7d

Ms Rachel just called Andrew Cuomo a raggedy old racist bitch

Ms Rachel via Instagram:

I've eaten rice the way Zohran Mamdani does. A friend made me a meal years ago & showed me that way of eating rice. I thought it was cool.
Teachers in NYC teach students to be kind & respectful toward other students' cultures. It's one of our learning standards to help children feel proud of who they are.
It's disappointing that some adults can't model the same decency & kindness that students in NYC show every day.
They would rather model something none of our religions teach us - racism and attacking our neighbors instead of loving them.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 7d

When I see "the resistance" get up and make these bold speeches, and then I see the signs saying "if Kamala had won, we'd be a brunch," I don't feel hopeful. I feel annoyed. Because brunch is where they were when millions of children were acquiring lifelong illness and bird flu was training up.

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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 8d

"Rainey-Smith is a xylographer – she makes woodcuts. She doesn’t make images that look like woodcuts, she doesn’t use computers, she doesn’t use AI, she actually carves wood the old-fashioned way, which is a tradition that goes back at least two thousand years."
www.orartswatch.org/liv-rainey-s...

Liv Rainey-Smith: Woodblock by woodblock, building toward a World Fantasy Award • Oregon ArtsWatch

The Portland artist talks about the allure of fantasy worlds, the ancient art of woodblock printing, and the long journey that has made her a finalist for a prestigious prize.

www.orartswatch.org

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Mnemosyne @goddessofhellfyre.bsky.social · 7d

OMG wow! Have a great con!!

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 7d

ICYMI

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7d

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

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