Any serious effort to build a functional US welfare state will require the federal government to set up bureaucracies to bypass reactionary state governments for this sort of thing.
Seems like we should have learned this lesson after Medicaid expansion a decade ago, and yet, here we are again!
The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer
I canceled my subscription to WaPo a few years back because they did a very similar puff piece– it was about a ranch in TX that is a "home" for single pregnant women (and I am using "women" specifically here for a reason).
What it actually is is a Christian work camp.
Either the NY Times has staff reporters that can't recognize white supremacist shit unless it literally comes with swastikas, or they see a purpose in puff pieces about white supremacists.
Neither reflects well on them.
WERNER HERZOG: cast into the wilderness by an uncaring mother, the child must choose a companion, a beast of unnatural capabilities through which to channel his will. they will not rest until every gymnasium lies in ruin.
ASH: where's professor oak
HERZOG: this lizard is on fire
The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer
Getting ready for bed, high and marveling over the idea of little ice cream boats in Italy that pull up and sell you ice cream like if a good humor truck was more visually appealing and was also seaworthy
Tesla poisoned the groundwater in my hometown. I drive while standing atop my car like a chariot just in case I need to piss on one that's driving next to me on the freeway
since reddit is dying i want to share my favourite post about one of my favourite guys ever. i never really posted on reddit, just read stuff, but this post is now behind a locked wall. alt text to follow in a thread since it’s too long to fit in the alt text on the image
Gonna go to my first tournament since 1/20 and bring a bunch of my “I play Blue because” cards to hand out to my opponents and make so many new friends
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.
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As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.
Anyways hi, I appear to be getting involved in the Discourse re Neil. I believe the women involved, I am happy to answer questions about what I’m posting, it sucks that it’s a terf source that likely broke it , but it will not stop a flood gate effect for other victims stepping forward.
Hi, apologies, but trying to insert when I see people fretting about the terf podcast being a source. This is from a friend who’s indicated she’s ok with my sharing, isn’t associated with the terf podcast. And uh. This seems pretty cut and dry.