Ross Douthat looks like one of the great character actors of a generation but instead he’s Ross Douthat, just a staggering waste of potential
Meg
@megosman.bsky.social
Brooklyn-based brown food defender and overzealous mom.
These affordability profiles always get to me. Mr. Green sounds like he's made a wonderful life, but damn does this man deserve more for 30 years of service. You can support the non-profit $29 minimum wage increase at bump-ny.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How a Social Worker Lives on $40,000 a Year in Brooklyn
At age 63, Everette Green is considering how to afford a future he never thought he would get after being incarcerated.
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It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.
It is genuinely heartbreaking to see all of the people losing SNAP benefits. In West Virginia, 14,000 SNAP participants have lost their benefits. In Arizona, it’s 500,000. That’s not a typo. Half a million people in AZ no longer have nutrition assistance. Republicans strike again.
14K West Virginians have lost food assistance because of Big Beautiful Bill changes • West Virginia Watch
With some exceptions, recipients of SNAP have been required to do at least 80 hours per month of work, training or volunteering.
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This piece will consume a good chunk of your Saturday morning, but lordy it's worth it.
The Rosenberg Boys
When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed by the U.S. government, they left behind two sons, ages 6 and 10. All these years later, Robby and Michael are still trying to make sense of what happened...
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I hate being a hater, but the menu reads like they prattled off dishes from southern chefs circa 2012 into an AI prompt and then continued to do way too much....
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 4w agoAre the Americans awake yet? Okay so a restaurant just opened in London called ‘Appalachia’ and this is their ‘June’ menu; discuss
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
Ms. Rachel would never (thank God), but I say we let this rumor percolate on X, as a treat.
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 4w agoDo you want to see something that would make your average Republican political consultant's blood run cold, if they had blood in their body
It’s New Foods Day for the Minnesota State Fair and this, to me, is the promise of America www.mnstatefair.org/new/food
RIP Bonnie Tyler - when I was 5 I would spin to this track in my parents living room daily (in front of the mural of a stacked albino woman under a waterfall, no less) until I nearly threw up.
Bonnie Tyler - Faster Than the Speed of Night (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by bonnietylerVEVO
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I like how every far right party has realizes all they need to do is weaponize the mid life crisis bsky.app/profile/core...
Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 4w agocan't stop laughing at this Poilievre: "We will reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture."
It’s a beautiful evening, the National Mall is open and people are having a wonderful time.
Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two
'viktor shtrum'@viktorshtrum.bsky.social · last mo.Ok wait NOW he really is watching himself watch himself on Fox News.
Louis Armstrong pretending his birthday was July 4th is even more perfectly American than if it really had been.
witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing
“It’s just in NYC, it’s not like this type of candidate can win anywhere else”
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last mo.BREAKING: Melat Kiros has won the Democratic primary in Colorado’s 1st district. The democratic socialist has unseated the district’s 29-year incumbent by running on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, ending forever wars and more.
This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up
Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF BAYER'S BID TO LIMIT LAWSUITS IN STATE COURT CLAIMING ITS ROUNDUP WEEDKILLER CAUSES CANCER
I honestly think Summer Streets are the best events in NYC, and possibly the world. 10 miles of car free walking, riding, and jogging through all of Manhattan, completely free. Just unbeatable.
