I mean, I wasn’t impressed with her before (to say the least), and I’m not now, but the more people who speak out against him the better at this point.
Although I’m still torn…the next option is Vance who might not have the whole cult of personality thing going on (not that I’ve got a clue why the lunatic-in-chief has that either), but he’s also a far more straightforward puppet a lot less likely to be distracted by shiny things.
Vance doesn’t/didn’t, but they martyred a random awful generic looking podcaster and seem to be slotting Vance into his place
Throwing this idea on here, too.
If you have means and opportunity to donate to food banks, consider choosing one that is likely under-resourced (high poverty area/county/state) as well as a local one.
I’ve been seeing a lot of Reddit posts about how food banks are not a viable substitute for SNAP, but one that caught my attention said “I’m in the poorest county in CA so the food bank doesn’t get as many donations as other places”
Thanks for this reminder! I just looked up which counties in my state and home state have the highest % of SNAP recipients and donated to food banks there.
while the university I graduated from is throwing every student under the bus, the organization I worked for is thriving - they hired 6 student employees (I was their single student employee) who have already started providing free breakfast on campus with the SNAP shutdown. they are holding emergency meetings to figure out how to respond to ICE because the school will not protect any of them. I have never been so proud of the people who fiercely stay and fight.
If people haven’t used it before
https://hdpulse.nimhd.nih.gov/data-portal/home
has a bunch of data…basically click on the state and then choose what Data Topic you’re looking for (for some reason it defaults to Mortality Map at least for CO which isn’t usually what I want to know, but Poverty is under Social, Economic, and Cultural Env) and then if you switch to table it’s sortable by things like percentage and count.
Jury nullification!
(It’s a gift link)
Also this speech by a judge in the Chicago ICE use of force lawsuits made me teary at my desk.
The trans passport ruling by SCOTUS also super sucks and I just want to acknowledge that among the things I’m happy about.
It’s been really affirming to see the Portland community response to the withholding of SNAP benefits. Without actively looking for news about it, I know the following:
Keep taking care of each other!
that made me tear up too.
No Shit! But as I have learned, being here “illegally” (nebulous meaning of course) is still enough for most conservatives to think This Is Fine.
A small bit of good news.
What they are describing is horrid but the way she characterized the resistance was beautiful and made me cry (in a good way)
I’m biased but Chicago is the best city in the world and no one can fuck with us