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@thewalkingjohn.bsky.social

Delco born and raised. Baseball is my religion. Hardcore MSTie. Yearly walker for St. Jude’s. Runner 5 Magoo super fan.

Have you recently gone to a Job Center in a red state where you went through an ID verification to file for unemployment insurance? I want to talk to you. Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass!

Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 3d ago

Rahm Emanuel: ‘You Don’t Like My Ideas? Show Me Yours’ The always pugnacious Democrat is ready to fight Republicans, the DSA, and Bibi Netanyahu. And maybe run for president.

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 3w ago

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

ST. JUDES WALK THREAD!! We are just 1 month until the walk and I think it is as good as time as any for a thread update about the walk! We currently have 89 donors and I would love to get to at least 100 this year! Any little donation helps get me there! fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR?pg=p...

St. Jude Walk

In September, supporters in communities across the country will participate in the St. Jude Walk. This exciting, family-friendly event helps raise funds to support the lifesaving mission of St. Jude d...

fundraising.stjude.org

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on