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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16h

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

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h

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 · 17h

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 · 18h

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

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854.000
vailable
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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 · 18h

What Carly said! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 19h

Oh

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 19h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21h

This is very racist.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.

SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.

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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 21h

I was hoping someone somewhere would post some mundane costumes this year!

Thank you for this valuable public service.

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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 21h

Life-giving 🧵🧵🧵

Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 1d

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 1d

I agree to a point. The cat:happiness ratio is an inverted U-shaped curve (this post may or may not have been written from beneath a whole avalanche of cats).

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Feb 3

I know it's moving fast and you're trying to get info out there, but if you're posting images of official govt correspondence you need to get Really Fucking Serious about using your alt text.

When you don't, you're excluding some of the people Most Affected by this ongoing nightmare of a situation.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2d

A dishwasher is already a robot that does your dishes

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3d

The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.

🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1

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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 1d

I think of allergies as overreacting to the outside world rather than the body harming itself, but that jackass in the post prob has some antisemitic theory about them, too!

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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 1d

“The body would never harm itself”.

AWESOME! I can just retire then, and this guy can figure out how to save all these kids with cancer and immune dysregulation syndromes that have been soaking up so much of my time at the hospital.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3d

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

'Give your money away,' Billie Eilish tells billionaires

The singer called on the mega wealthy to donate more to charity, during a speech at the WSJ Awards attended by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and George Lucas.

www.bbc.co.uk

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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 4d

Argh - I read an article MONTHS ago by one of her former classmates that interviewed other shared classmates, but I think it was in the Cut (from New York magazine), which is paywalled.

I first read it thru the Libby app for free.

There's also this, but of course very wishy-washy bc NYT:

The Evolution of Usha Vance (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

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alixeden @alixeden.bsky.social · 4d

Sadly/infuriatingly, she architected most of his career. She is all in on this racist bullshit. The only people I feel sorry for in this soulless, craven, power-craving family are their children.

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