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Maroon Phoenix @maroonphoenix.bsky.social · 22h

Be skeptical about the 49.8%. The data throw a lot of red flags.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23h

Project 2025 calls for the removal of kids from poor single parent households to be placed with “proper” parents.

With SNAP being cut, the judgement on low income families is only increasing.

Meanwhile 1,790 kids went missing from Georgia foster care. Many of them were likely sex trafficked

'An urgent issue': Hundreds of Georgia foster kids may have been sex trafficked, report says

A new report shows that hundreds of children have likely been sex trafficked while in Georgia’s foster care system.

www.gpb.org

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

Trump, Rubio parrying it up in lavish, opulent Gatsby style party as 42 million Americans about to loss their food stamps and millions about to lose health care.

Why isn’t there coverage in U.S. corporate media about this.

Remember the outcry when Newsom was at a French laundry during Covid?

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Trump with Marco Rubio at his Mar-a-Lago party as the government remains shut down

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

“70% of wage-earning adults who rely on government programs like SNAP and Medicaid work full-time, many at hugely profitable companies like Walmart and McDonald’s whose low wages are effectively subsidized by tax dollars without any of the blame or paternalistic lectures.”

SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more

Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Amanda Kaschube @amandakaschube.bsky.social · 1d

Despite pleas from Gov. JB Pritzker to pause federal immigration enforcement operations while children celebrate Halloween, teams of Border Patrol agents — including one led by Cmdr. Greg Bovino — tore through Chicago’s Northwest Side and nearby suburbs.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...

Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino makes small talk with a concrete worker after his agents questioned the man for his citizenship documents on Oct. 31, 2025, in Chicago's Edison Park neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

A neighbor yells as U.S. Border Patrol agents detain a man they found painting a house in Chicago’s Edison Park neighborhood on Oct. 31, 2025, during immigration enforcement operations. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

Members of the community film Border Patrol officers while they detain a person in the Albany Park neighborhood on Oct. 31, 2025, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

U.S. Border Patrol agents question and detain a man they found painting a house in Chicago’s Edison Park neighborhood on Oct. 31, 2025, during immigration enforcement operations. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

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Daniel Bergstresser @dbergstresser.bsky.social · 1d

Fwiw my wife works with a nonprofit that serves lower-income families in the Boston area and the amount of gratuitous and destructive cruelty now being dealt to the folks she works with is totally insane.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a sort of Dunning-Kruger effect happening where people who read widely, consider various perspectives, and put in effort to understand views they disagree with worry that they don’t do that enough, while people who don’t do any of that accuse others of being in a bubble and call it a day.

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Mark Boslough @boslough.bsky.social · 1d

SNAP is in fact another subsidy to corporations that don’t pay a living wage to their workers.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP

You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670

Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem

If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy?

You’re doing their dirty work.

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Grant Lorrell @grantlorrell.bsky.social · 1d

The implicit assumption that white rural voters are the *real* voice of the masses, while the people who live around the major population centers (ie the majority of the country) are out of touch degenerates remains an unshakable feature of punditry. Truly nasty work

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Maroon Phoenix @maroonphoenix.bsky.social · 1d

Melinda Gates was probably the driving force behind the humanitarian work and she is gone now.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Firstly, billionaires are not physically made of stocks, if a billionaire falls down a hole and expires his stock portfolio persists and continues to have value, secondarily, this is why one diversifies one's investment portfolio outside of the stock market, thirdly, okay, let's test this hypothesis

Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 1d

deal

If you eliminate billionaires, the stock market will go, too, according to Mark Cuban

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 1d

The magnitude of the #Melissa disaster is becoming clearer: BBC reporting that food and water are becoming scarce in parts of devastated Jamaica. How will the US respond without USAID - and how you can help those impacted. Also, a warm Oct for much of US closes. https://tinyurl.com/m5a8dfdt

Magnitude of disaster in Jamaica and Haiti becoming clearer

BBC reports food and water becoming scarce in areas of western Jamaica as US mounts relief efforts for first time without USAID. In weather, a warm October gives way to a warm start to November.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about some kids and parents staying home tonight for fear of ICE. The ghouls are unquestionably real this year.

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

ICE marauding around Evanston all day, snatching people near schools, all schools on soft lockdown, on fucking Halloween. 🖕🖕

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Maroon Phoenix @maroonphoenix.bsky.social · 1d

They probably laughed and laughed. Then told their favorite story from the Dukakis campaign again. Then checked that sweet home equity balance. Then went home to a weekend of weaponized incompetence against their wives.

#NotAllBoomerMen #ButDefinitelyABoomerMan

Maroon Phoenix @maroonphoenix.bsky.social · 1d

How much were the boomer consultants paid to come up with that zinger?

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Maroon Phoenix @maroonphoenix.bsky.social · 1d

The Ed Yong costume is my fave

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?

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kleinline @kleinline.bsky.social · 2d

That leather is couch-inspired.
JD's cryptonite.

She knew what she was doing.

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Maroon Phoenix @maroonphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, as I look around me at this world today in 2025 with all the powers that be and how they shape it, the first thing that I think is “overfeminated.”

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 2d

A reminder that Musk is a mass murderer. It's not hyperbole.

Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Apr 22

“DOGE’s latest efficiency is halting $500 million in food deliveries to the nation's food banks.”
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2d

Again: If SNAP payments don't go out tomorrow, it's because Trump and the Republicans went out of their way to defy judges' orders so that they could continue to refuse to help keep people alive.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d

Something that's very clearly going on is that Fuentes et al are trying to capitalize on very real changes in American attitudes towards Israel. He thinks that those changes -- opposing the Netanyahu govt -- could equate with convincing people that Hitler was cool. 6/x

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 2d

My kids’ school is on lockdown. Because of ICE. On fucking Halloween.

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Maroon Phoenix @maroonphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

I think some of us are wondering why you have been un-banned at this moment.

I certainly understand why people maintain connections and communities on platforms that are problematic in and of themselves. I’ve been able to cut ties with some and with others the community is irreplaceable.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

There it is.

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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