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Bob Costas nailed it. 🎯

submitted 2 days ago • 365 comments

Be on the side of protesters. Period.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Don't comply in advance. Don't assume that what they are doing is valid and defensible.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Yes!!! This. Please.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

1/4: NEWS: We’re suing the USDA with @protectdemocracy.org‬ and @studentdefense.bsky.social‬ on behalf of @Epic.org and @mazonusa.bsky.social. The USDA’s illegal demands for the personal information of millions of SNAP recipients will not be tolerated.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Sotomayor’s support for the aggressive pro-democracy movement is so important at this critical time. She understands that while we must bring difficult cases and be willing to lose, we must always fight to win. And by lending her voice she affirmed that it is “our time to stand up and be heard.”

submitted 31 days ago • 245 comments

I love to see New York doing the right thing while critical food assistance is under attack at the federal level. Everyone needs to eat every single day.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Member Meghan Hullinger shared her story w/ U.S. House Committee on Agriculture Democrats about the importance of SNAP for her family "It feels like Republican lawmakers don't understand that SNAP recipients power our economy." No cuts to SNAP https://action.momsrising.org/sign/reject-cuts-SNAP/

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I feel this deep in my bones.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

the US government shuttering every public service and promising a time of financial hardship for the poor while spending a fortune reopening a prison that was closed due to its unsustainably high operating expenses is a pretty good distillation of the fiscal priorities of fascism

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submitted 44 days ago • 20 comments

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

submitted 50 days ago • 398 comments

Gave me chills. Breathtaking.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

100% this. You cannot sit at the table to negotiate reasonably with fascism and not be part of the problem.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly this. Due Process means that when the government takes any kind of adverse action implicating certain specific rights they have to do it according to the rules for everyone, so it's not arbitrary punishment.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Right overview of what's at stake in the current budget negotiation re #SNAP benefits. prospect.org/health/2025-...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Let’s have a general strike soonest and also on May Day, shall we? The dismantling of social security is what general strikes were made for, not that there aren’t a thousand other reasons. The people, united … ✊

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Who could have imagined that a government of rapists, racists, coup plotters, conmen, tax dodgers, conspiracy fantasists and bullshit artists might not work very well?

submitted 82 days ago • 58 comments

Happy Resistance Saturday! 💙🇺🇸💙

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

submitted 75 days ago • 327 comments

I'm so here for Cory Booker's energy. 🧨🧨🧨

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

This is how the administration tries to do indirectly what they won't do directly- not coming to break social security to your face; just making it so hard for folks to get the money they paid in, the program would effectively become smaller while they look for a way to steal the unclaimed funds.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

The party of small government and individual libertiesstikes again. 😑

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

To recap: Not only is the richest man in the world attacking the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world and in our country, he also wants you to feel sorry for him while he does it.

submitted 88 days ago • 123 comments

Some decent analysis on one big question that has been bugging me - when a court renders an order, generally, the executive is charged with enforcing or enacting that order but clearly under the current federal administration that is a non-starter... www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

LOUD AND CLEAR 📢 It’s time for Sen Chuck Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. Quite frankly, it should’ve happened already. @schumer.senate.gov

submitted 92 days ago • 340 comments

Primary them. Seriously. This is revolting

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Really good 🧵 from the ever knowledgeable @katiebergh.bsky.social Imposing state cost sharing in #SNAP will leave more people hungry, shifting the cost burden to states for food benefits that have been 100% federally funded, and functionally cut the available benefits. Strongly oppose.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Food insecurity will continue to rise. From BEACON, a basic needs analysis for individuals, families and communities along with general strategies for risk management

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments