i’m originally from queens so i swear a lot.
We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Coming Food-Stamp CrisisA looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.www.theatlantic.com
Actually quite angry reading this. I know it’s a bit passé to talk about “why don’t politicians crack down on people not using headphones on the bus” but I think we do need to reckon with platforms that incentivise people to completely disregard the norms of civil society and get away with it.
TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using Meta 'smart glasses'The "content maker" published videos of encounters with young women and a female Sikh shop worker where he talked of a plot to "breed out the white race".www.bbc.co.uk
Spain estimates some 49,000 migrants crossed into the enclave of Ceuta in North Africa over the past 24 hours, as they rushed by sea and land from Morocco reut.rs/4fNM8F6
Pope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.
2028 tier list, vibes only - Viable AOC Pritzker Ossoff - Boring Beshear Shapiro Buttigieg - GTFO Newsom Emanuel
So where are all those ‘Don’t tread on me’ people? Individual rights being ignored, personal information being accessed and compiled by Palantir, cameras monitoring your everyday moves. Crickets.
The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...therealnews.com
If you want to know more about how *legal* immigration for farm workers can actually make them *more* vulnerable to exploitation, abuse, & even trafficking, this linked article from cdmigrante.org is GREAT.
digitaldesertGood thread on how the government’s H2A program turned migrant farmworkers into little more than trafficked slaves, the 2024 reforms that mitigated the abuse, and last year’s Trump directive(see below) that stripped away those reforms. cdmigrante.org/trump-dol-ro...
Remember you can always choose *not* to make sex jokes to random women on the internet.
Jesus christ Maine, wtf
PierceJackson’s longtime partner he has 2 kids with is apparently his second cousin.
A new @epi.org report found that US companies are spending more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting consultants and lawyers. They’ll spend unlimited money crushing workers’ voices and then claim there’s no money for better conditions.
US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report findsCritics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workerswww.theguardian.com
🏃🏾♀️ USA women’s team also won the gold in the 4x100. Jamaica came in 2nd and it’s Shelly-Ann’s final race 🥹 Sha’Carri carried cuz Kayla got beat up in that 3rd leg and if it was a few more meters Jamaica would won gold