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At a time when the food-stamp system is under fire & more strict work requirements are starting to kick in, a review of companies with the most SNAP recipients in the state shows many are employed by high-profile companies in retail, health care & the gig economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
‘The government is subsidizing corporate profits’: Who employs the most SNAP recipients in Massachusetts? - The Boston Globe
In Massachusetts, 74 percent of working-age SNAP recipients have jobs.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
At a time when the food-stamp system is under fire & more strict work requirements are starting to kick in, a review of companies with the most SNAP recipients in the state shows many are employed by high-profile companies in retail, health care & the gig economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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Today was Friendsgiving, and much delicious food was had. Feeling a lot more in the holiday spirit now 🥰
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Today was Friendsgiving, and much delicious food was had. Feeling a lot more in the holiday spirit now 🥰
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It's coming whether we like it or not.
Terrifying new MIT study claims AI already has the 'cognitive and administrative' capability to replace 11.7% of the US workforce
Are the bots coming for your job?
www.yahoo.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
It's coming whether we like it or not.
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Greetings from Kyiv.
Just a quick note for those who care.
We’re fine.
The view from the window is still the same, luckily.
A loud night of drones and missiles is over.
Sadly, there are casualties and damage in the city.
Just a quick note for those who care.
We’re fine.
The view from the window is still the same, luckily.
A loud night of drones and missiles is over.
Sadly, there are casualties and damage in the city.
November 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Greetings from Kyiv.
Just a quick note for those who care.
We’re fine.
The view from the window is still the same, luckily.
A loud night of drones and missiles is over.
Sadly, there are casualties and damage in the city.
Just a quick note for those who care.
We’re fine.
The view from the window is still the same, luckily.
A loud night of drones and missiles is over.
Sadly, there are casualties and damage in the city.
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It was bad enough hiking through the dark forest to the drop zone away from the camping area when in the BWCA. I just can’t imagine the long dark walk through the vacuum of space. 😳🤣😂
Astronaut Hates Long Nightly Spacewalk To ISS Outhouse
LOW EARTH ORBIT—Saying the dreaded nightly ritual had quickly become his least favorite part of his mission, astronaut Dave Barron told reporters Wednesday that he absolutely hated the long, freezing ...
theonion.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It was bad enough hiking through the dark forest to the drop zone away from the camping area when in the BWCA. I just can’t imagine the long dark walk through the vacuum of space. 😳🤣😂
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The real Election Day is Tuesday, December 2, 2025. We’re closely monitoring this election and will keep you updated with any further warnings.
Democrats investigating flyers with wrong Tennessee special election date
Rachel Campbell, chair of the Tennessee Democratic Party, raised concerns about "fraudulent dates being circulated."
www.newsweek.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The real Election Day is Tuesday, December 2, 2025. We’re closely monitoring this election and will keep you updated with any further warnings.
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There are flyers circulating and even mailers showing up in people’s mailboxes in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District that list the wrong date for the upcoming special election. Voters are being told to vote on the incorrect day.
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
There are flyers circulating and even mailers showing up in people’s mailboxes in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District that list the wrong date for the upcoming special election. Voters are being told to vote on the incorrect day.
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"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
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🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder.
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder.
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
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Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running. This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running. This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
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How it started / How it’s going
November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
How it started / How it’s going
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When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored?
Started. Going.
Started. Going.
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored?
Started. Going.
Started. Going.
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My freaking Gawd!
They're gonna tear out the Reflecting Pool.. #fascism
www.newsweek.com/trump-reveal...
They're gonna tear out the Reflecting Pool.. #fascism
www.newsweek.com/trump-reveal...
Donald Trump reveals new DC National Mall project to fix "Biden filth"
Built in the 1920s, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has framed historic marches and serves as a symbolic link across the National Mall.
www.newsweek.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
My freaking Gawd!
They're gonna tear out the Reflecting Pool.. #fascism
www.newsweek.com/trump-reveal...
They're gonna tear out the Reflecting Pool.. #fascism
www.newsweek.com/trump-reveal...
#Shchedryk #UkrainianBellCarol · #PinkMartini · Pacific Youth Choir · #MykolaLeontovych
#CarolOfTheBells 🔔🇺🇦
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMxq...
#CarolOfTheBells 🔔🇺🇦
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMxq...
Shchedryk (Ukrainian Bell Carol)
YouTube video by Pink Martini - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
#Shchedryk #UkrainianBellCarol · #PinkMartini · Pacific Youth Choir · #MykolaLeontovych
#CarolOfTheBells 🔔🇺🇦
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMxq...
#CarolOfTheBells 🔔🇺🇦
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMxq...
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RIP. I think this is a guy who tried, in general, to encourage people to be more thoughtful and aware.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
RIP. I think this is a guy who tried, in general, to encourage people to be more thoughtful and aware.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
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What the fuck is wrong with people??! 😡
“Online child sexual exploitation, a global crime targeting children, increases yearly, not only in the number of confirmed reports showing child sexual abuse images, but also in the severity of the images and videos.”
infonews.ca/news/7443044...
“Online child sexual exploitation, a global crime targeting children, increases yearly, not only in the number of confirmed reports showing child sexual abuse images, but also in the severity of the images and videos.”
infonews.ca/news/7443044...
Sexual extortion of children for money is on the rise: financial intelligence agency | iNFOnews.ca
OTTAWA — Canada's financial intelligence agency is warning of an increase in cases of sexual extortion of children for profit — acts that often are linked to
infonews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
What the fuck is wrong with people??! 😡
“Online child sexual exploitation, a global crime targeting children, increases yearly, not only in the number of confirmed reports showing child sexual abuse images, but also in the severity of the images and videos.”
infonews.ca/news/7443044...
“Online child sexual exploitation, a global crime targeting children, increases yearly, not only in the number of confirmed reports showing child sexual abuse images, but also in the severity of the images and videos.”
infonews.ca/news/7443044...
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Biden had nothing to do with this. It is deliberate sabotage. Grifters have stolen billions and plan to crash our systems forever. Project 2025 spelled out every damn page. Wake up and push back. Unite. Peaceful but LOUD.
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Biden had nothing to do with this. It is deliberate sabotage. Grifters have stolen billions and plan to crash our systems forever. Project 2025 spelled out every damn page. Wake up and push back. Unite. Peaceful but LOUD.
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Looking like an unjust and uncalled for war Venezuela against Venezuela is either hours away. If it’s not starting in earnest right now.
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Looking like an unjust and uncalled for war Venezuela against Venezuela is either hours away. If it’s not starting in earnest right now.