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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 2d

On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable

Tweet from Ella Devi: canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!!

Photo of Ella with another canvasser and Wallace Shawn

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 8d

I feel like "we've made an app that gives people psychosis and here's how many people we've sent insane" is past late-stage capitalism. It's some new stage of previously unforeseen horrors beyond human imagination.

evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 9d

by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week

www.wired.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8d

So Argentina gets a $40 billion bailout from our tax dollars but devastated small towns here at home — nothing.

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Jessica @thund3rh4wk.bsky.social · 8d

Having admitted I do not know how to cook a turkey I do feel like I have to defend myself a tiny bit and say you should still invite me to Thanksgiving because I will absolutely crush my assigned side dish. Proof in last night's Instagram story. 😂

A screenshot of an Instagram story with a photo of a roux being stirred on the stove with the caption "Any Uber drivers picking me up for a potluck, just know I will always make a roux for my Mac and cheese"

A screenshot of an Instagram story showing some very creamy and cheesy Mac and cheese with the caption "This has gotta earn clemency at the very least. Maybe some trees planted."

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Jessica @thund3rh4wk.bsky.social · 8d

I am a vegetarian who has never had to host Thanksgiving, so I wouldn't know what to do with a turkey if I had one, and therefore always forego the free supermarket turkey - I am sure I am not the only person in such a situation, and this is an opportunity for it to go somewhere it is needed.

Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 9d

In light of the govt shutdown and SNAP getting cut for a ton of folks, I have had a fun idea for how to help. I call it "Operation Turkey Heist (legal)."

Allow me to explain...

A lot of grocery stories are doing a "free turkey with X dollar purchase" and food banks very much want those turkeys.

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Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 9d

In light of the govt shutdown and SNAP getting cut for a ton of folks, I have had a fun idea for how to help. I call it "Operation Turkey Heist (legal)."

Allow me to explain...

A lot of grocery stories are doing a "free turkey with X dollar purchase" and food banks very much want those turkeys.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 9d

There are so many leading indicators that an avalanche of shit is currently racing downhill, and too many people are ignoring them.

Staffing shortages. Brain drains. Investment pull-backs. Cratering tourism. Expiring benefits. Continuing shutdowns.

It's about to get really bad. Are you prepared?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8d

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 9d

70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 9d

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

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Vivian Jenna Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social · 10d

200 billion dollar valuation btw💀💀💀

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9d

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10d

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing."

John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9d

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

METRO
EXCLUSIVE
Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC
mayor

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 9d

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people?

Does anyone work anymore?"

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 9d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Jessica @thund3rh4wk.bsky.social · 13d

a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room and the man is yelling at the woman .

ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room and the man is yelling at the woman .

media.tenor.com

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Jessica @thund3rh4wk.bsky.social · 14d

On behalf of my husband, who refuses to use social media: "If I had a Twitter, and I refuse to call it anything but Twitter, that would be a thing I would tweet: Strange New Worlds uses the transport buffer like the prison from Ghostbusters."

😂

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 15d

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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Mal Function @mister-fishy.bsky.social · 15d

Heist movies are going to be so different now, no more elaborate plans concocted by a team of highly skilled specialists in a series of stylish montage sequences, just a bunch of guys with a ladder

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Carrie @carebear620.bsky.social · 16d

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16d

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 18d

the idea of antifa paying protesters is so funny. if i wanted to get paid to destroy the government i’d run for congress

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 19d

It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.

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