“According to a 2019 USDA report, every dollar in new SNAP benefits increases GDP by $1.50 in a weak economy.”

“SNAP benefits are one of the fastest, most effective forms of economic stimulus because they get money into the economy quickly during a recession.”

~Center for Budget and Policy

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

SecDef announces another (now 10th) lawless strike in the Caribbean.

Allegedly the vessel was operated by Tren de Aragua.

Despite the administration's bogus "narco-terrorism" framing, this is not a counterterrorism action and there is no armed conflict.

Just illegal, premeditated killing.

rushing to integrate undercooked, misrepresented, and misunderstood technology into every corner of our lives just so a handful of terrible people could make more money might have been a bad idea

PERRY COUNTY, TN: “I played on Facebook. I may have been an as*hole, but don’t think I committed a crime.”

Body cam of Larry Bushart’s arrest for posting a Trump meme in a Charlie Kirk vigil group.

STILL in jail a month later.
$2 MILLION (!) bond.

More: theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...

Using the military to build camps where politically undesirable ethnic groups will be concentrated

In case you think this is a joke

to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Spectacular(ly scary) article.

I discovered @sarahkendzior.bsky.social in 2015 & a decade later she's still my go-to on all-things autocracy.

"The Trump administration is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government".

Follow her. You won't regret it, I promise

FYI :“Destruction of federal property is a federal crime. 18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines the crime as willfully injuring or committing any depredation against U.S. government property. If the damage exceeds $1k it is a felony with a fine, up to ten years in prison or both.”

Awaiting law enforcement.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see

Like the US economy

Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.

Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗

That’s the shift between Allen v. Milligan (2023) and Louisiana v. Callais (2025).

Acknowledging race to undo racism now counts as racism. In conservatives' world, taking race into account to make things fair is somehow worse than centuries of using race to keep things unequal.

Why is the Court revisiting an issue it decided 2 years ago regarding Alabama's racist maps in Allen v. Milligan?

The 6 jamokes on the Court have decided the real question isn’t whether Black voters are being disenfranchised; it’s whether fixing that disenfranchisement might hurt white feelings.

Two posts below yours, I saw:

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA"

* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

Do better, OPB

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

History shows us what happens when corrupt Kings destroy palaces and temples to rebuild for their golden visions and it often ends in flames and looting and razing when they die, just speaking as an archaeologist here, nothing whatsoever to do with anything modern *clutches pearls*

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

I think this is a version of the left critique of the recent mass mobilizations that makes sense. No Kings mobilizations are not a diversion of energy that would be used more effectively otherwise they are fertile ground for the organizing folks say they want to do.

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped