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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5h

id love to see a zohran mamdani type in kansas, walking around a farm, nodding his head while he talks about how he or she is gonna make life better for ma and pa while taking on the agri-business fatcats.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5h

mamdani is the model for future dem candidates and it can work in all 50 states. not the boring milquetoast candidates who refuse to take a position on hot button issues. they inspire nobody but dnc ad makers.

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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 53m

SAME!

alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 55m

This is America, where we brutalize individuals, destroy families, and terrorize children.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1h

"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'"

apnews.com/article/chic...

Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns

In Chicago, children and families have been traumatized by an immigration enforcement action involving tear gas.

apnews.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

I'm looking to speak to people who rely on SNAP about what this past week has been like. If that's you, please reach out, or pass along to others. Can be anonymous.

Signal: marisakabas.04
Email: [email protected]

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2h

Out on patrol. ICE very active on the far North Side including Edgewater and Lincoln Square. Multiple abductions. Vulnerable folks should get off the street if they can. Street vendors should be bought out, landscapers warned. If you’re in Chicago and you’re not ICE watch trained, pls get trained.

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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 2h

Cruelty, humiliation, and dehumanization for cruelty's, humiliation's, and dehumanization's sakes.

So hard to find a balance between learning and opening your eyes to it and protecting yourself from the harm of knowing this exists.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h

I’m doing research for a project and found out about the “don’t buy where you can’t work” movement during the depression, where Black people boycotted and picketed places that wouldn’t hire us. Shout out to everyone who’s not going back to Target!

"Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" | National Museum of African American History & Culture.

<p>“Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” campaigns of the 1930s used effective direct-action tactics, such as boycotts and picketing. </p>

www.searchablemuseum.com

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 3d

Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:

- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital

SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!

Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program
Martha J. Bailey, Hilary W. Hoynes, Maya Rossin-Slater & Reed Walker
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Working Paper 26942
DOI 10.3386/w26942
Issue Date April 2020
We use novel, large-scale data on 43 million Americans from the 2000 Census and the 2001 to 2013 American Communities Survey linked to the Social Security Administration’s NUMIDENT to study how a policy-driven increase in economic resources for families affects children’s long-term outcomes. Using variation from the county-level roll-out of the Food Stamps program between 1961 and 1975, we find that children with access to greater economic resources before age five experience an increase of 6 percent of a standard deviation in their adult human capital, 3 percent of a standard deviation in their adult economic self-sufficiency, 8 percent of a standard deviation in the quality of their adult neighborhoods, 0.4 percentage-point increase in longevity, and a 0.5 percentage-point decrease in likelihood of being incarcerated. Based on these estimates, we conclude that Food Stamps’ transfer of resources to families is a highly cost-effective investment into young children, yielding a marginal value of public funds of approximately 56.

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 9h

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 7h

Not to mention all the ilku-duty and corvée work mandatory education every time there was an update.

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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 22h

And arrogant, insular, and xenophobic. Even they have layers.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social out here doing all the side quests

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22h

musk did another unspeakable, inexcusable racism that i'm not gonna spread around

but delete your twitter

no money for musk

no money for nazis

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I distributed all 150 copies of Megan's "How to Report ICE Philly edition" at Philly Zine Fest yesterday and at least 5 people returned to ask me if it was OK for them to print their own copies to distribute. I responded with an enthusiastic YES - that's the point and I hope everyone does so.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1d

In 13 days, applications open for The Perry Second Chances Scholarship!

NO GPA requirement
NO age restriction
Cisgender AND transgender women welcome to apply

You just have to be in America and attending an American college or trade school.

Apply 11/15 at ThurmanPerryFoundation.org

THE PERRY SECOND CHANCES SCHOLARSHIP
854.000
vailable
'Everyone Deserves A Second Chance!'
- Gabrielle Angelique Perry, MPH, Founder & Executive Director
The mission of The Perry 'Second Chances' Scholarship is to annually provide fiscal resources to formerly incarcerated women and the daughters of anyone who has been impacted by incarceration. women who are currently enrolled or recently accepted into an accredited 2-to-4-year educational institution will be given a one-time, $10,000 scholarship, paid directly to their institutions, to support their education & needs in order to thrive in their educational endeavors.
Applications open 11.15.2025 and close 2.27.2026, at www.theperryscholarship.org
Learn more at thurmanperryfoundation.org

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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 1d

What Carly said! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know any paper meeting the moment like @inquirer.com and I feel lucky to be a Philadelphian. You should subscribe!

Front page of the Sunday opinion section:

ICE shake-up bodes a Chicago-level terror here

The quiet terror in American classrooms

It's time for law schools, of all places, to stand up

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Mark Lindsay @markelindsay.bsky.social · 1d

Oh

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 1d

I think the primary reason SNAP is a voucher instead of cash is because it isn't universal. If we made it universal, I think the idea of converting it into a cash program would suddenly become very popular. This is why one possible strategy to winning UBI could be by first making SNAP universal.

Tea Berry-Blue @teaberryblue.net · 1d

Anyway, SNAP should be universal. Just like school lunches in NYC. Not everyone needs it to survive but everybody gets it, no means testing.

There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

He didn’t!

Trump played far more often in his first term (260+ in four years versus Obama’s 330+ over eight years) — and is playing *more often* this time around.

Term 1: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Term 2: www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

TAPPER: Obama's comments came within a day of Trump hosting a Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago while SNAP benefits are set to run out. Your response?

BESSENT: I believe President Obama played a record amount of golf of any president, so I'm not sure why he's out there throwing stones

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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 1d

Paz para sus seres queridos. Que descansen con fuerza.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 1d

Absofuckinglutely NOT. Just no.

Haven’t even started in academia and this old profile is being resurrected and turned into slop?!?

Seriously, though. Can you turn it off? Or should I just quit the service? Any point being on there?

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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 1d

Or advocating to supplement it with UBI?

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Liz W Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

This goes double of you’ve never been or had to help an overwhelmed wic recipient who’s crying because she picked up a brand of cereal that’s not covered.

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Liz W Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

Unless you’ve been on SNAP or had to be a cashier in a grocery store while someone discovers the insane restrictions placed on SNAP food choices, I simply think you should shut the hell up about food access.

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