I find it striking how in the aftermath of Helene, libraries are providing crucial community services like free wifi while cops are guarding stores with rotting food from potential "looters" instead of serving and protecting people. Worth considering how we spend local funding.
The best way we can all honor the memory of Pete Rose is by banning sports betting again
Of all the reasons to endorse Universal Basic Income, mental wellbeing is often overlooked. Imagine fewer people acting out of desperation and frustration. UBI has the power to alleviate stress and foster a more compassionate society. Turn down the suffering, turn up the empathy.
This is everything - desperation breeds desperation and dignity breeds dignity. Choose.
they get offended like how dare you leave a dollar on the table, that's unamerican
this is that "what's the big deal? we ALL do this!" thing I keep mentioning. how quickly the most corrupt and venal people try to insist what they're doing is normal and you're the weird onesthis is that "what's the big deal? we ALL do this!" thing I keep mentioning. how quickly the most corrupt and venal people try to insist what they're doing is normal and you're the weird ones
Again, I got to emphasize that as a welfare caseworker I had to do a training where they told me it was a crime if I accepted a bag of tomatoes from a client that I helped.
I am so grateful to see a piece like this in a major publication like @tnr.bsky.social@liberalcurrents.com. Immigration is good. Democrats have to say it, because attempting to triangulate the issue cedes the crucial narrative and strategic ground.
I’m in @tnr.bsky.social arguing for a full, alternate, message-disciplined competing vision of immigration pushed forcefully and cohesively by national Dems
Kamala Harris apparently believes—wrongly—that she has no influence on anti-immigrant sentiment in America, because she has effectively capitulated to MAGA messaging.
No idea how anyone vaguely informed about current events can be functioning normally rn