like, do you make a grocery store, which already runs on thin margins, artificially cheaper or do you give food insecure people money directly? or some third or fourth thing? the question is worth asking. none of the answers imply you hate hungry people.
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Colin McMillen
Профиль VivelyHe/him. Somerville, MA. Previously: Google, reCAPTCHA, Carnegie Mellon (Ph.D., Computer Science).
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if there’s anything I would want to drill into the public consciousness it’s that there are almost always like a dozen ways to approach any given problem and some of them will be more effective than others and we have to stop acting like the questions around it are against fixing the issue
if i were an airline, i would ban these people for life.
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As I've said many times, the revocation of TPS for Haitians is horrific on its face, but it's *also* going to have a devastating cascade of effects because Haitian workers are the backbone of health and human services supports for elderly and disabled folks, especially here in Massachusetts.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويدMy Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
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the corruption number here makes me want to turn into the joker and then, as the joker, turn into a significantly more unhinged joker
Polling USA"Who's better on..." 🔵Women's Rights: D +18 🔵Environment: D +17 🔵Democratic Norms: D +10 🔵Cost of Living: D +4 🟣Political Violence: Even 🟣Wars/Terrorism: Even 🔴AI: R +1 🔴Corruption: R +1 🔴Guns Control: R +3 🔴Immigration: R +5 🔴Crime: R +14 Ipsos / July 26, 2026