Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation.

They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.

If you're big mad someone blocked you on a website, that is very much a you problem, and it brings me back to point 1: how are you going to handle someone disagreeing with you if you can't handle someone just choosing to stop listening to you?

a party with a genuine interest in representing normal people and governing with their interests at heart would have embraced populism long since, instead here they are, as psychopathically hostile to the idea of normal people being able to afford necessities as ever

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Today is a great day to share the new party line: #DoubleTheFederalJudiciary. All we need is simple majorities in both houses of Congress to change the number of district court, appellate, and SCOTUS judges. Not 60 votes to impeach, not 3/4 to change Constitution; simple majorities. That's it.

My great grandfather was a farmer (produce and dairy) in central New York, and when the farm failed he became a jack-of-all-trades handyman in Cooperstown to keep a roof over his family's heads and sent every one of his eight children to college so that they wouldn't have to do the same.

For every Ivy-educated tech bro preaching “be an HVAC tech” (not that there’s anything wrong with that) there are many blue collar Dads (like mine!) who say “dude, get an email/laptop job if you can, esp if it pays well” bc they aren’t romanticizing manual labor.

slapping fannies and killing grannies

Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.

The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.

Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.

WATCH: “Even if these were real people this is an absurd story to cover — you’re a news organization. You need to confirm that person exists.”

@timmiller.bsky.social ethers 🔥@foxnews for falling for racist AI videos about SNAP recipients. (Then trying badly to cover it up)

In case there was any question: yes, the federal government is openly trying to starve people.

If your business plan is "we will make human-equivalent beings" and "we will buy and sell what we make," then you've just put billions of dollars into reinventing chattel slavery.

I'm not a Nobel winning economist, but it seems to me the world's largest retailer and the worlds largest delivery services laying off hundreds of thousands right before the busiest retail and delivery season of the year is perhaps not an optimistic indicator of Trump's promised "Golden Age"

There is no way to understand what is happening around SNAP without talking about the deep and pervasive stigma against being poor in America.

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

Food lines again, a repeat of 2018.

Trump is making hunger political by saying SNAP recipients are Democrats.

This is like COVID when Trump held back assistance and PPE because it affected Democratic cities.

He wants to see Democrats die.

What a morally bankrupt asshole.

Trump is illegally blocking SNAP benefits. He won't spend a cent to lower health care costs for American citizens.

But he'll spare no expense to refurbish his bathroom with statuary marble.

This was the toilet that horrified her.

do we all have amnesia. does nobody remember anything.

Professional designer here. Accurate assessment. Gross, tasteless, migraine inducing.