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More than 5 million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. That has meant many more people are turning to food banks for support. https://to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

Go Paige! cc @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social @jh-indivisible.bsky.social #PA08

Warnock: "I worry that Democrats are missing a real opportunity to invest in a serious & sustained way in the South. If we would just lean in and stay in through the election & after the election, the kind of victory you saw us achieve here in Georgia, it is achievable in a place like Mississippi."

Do you need a nice little cry? Here you go.

fine

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

“In my reign—uh in my journey—as the leader”

Andy Beshear forever, man

“This poem more than any other makes me feel the totality and the weight of our historical moment, which is perhaps terminal. The rage of, the goodbye of it all” I wrote about some recent poetry for @bookpostusa.bsky.social cc @joriegraham.bsky.social books.substack.com/p/review-mic...

Boycott

AES has been so much better on addressing intra-party disagreements than so-called “moderates” punching left.

To my friends in the Bay Area: I'm hearing Rob Bonta is about to cave and hand Warner Bros over to the Ellisons. We can't let him do that. Can you show up outside his AG office in Oakland tomorrow at 5pm to reject this backroom deal? Reject the deal. www.mobilize.us/notabovethel...

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

re the Five Thirty Eight reboot, has anyone written about how far Nate Silver has drifted from being any sort of empirical analyst?

“Every walk of life has a seat” is a hilarious turn of phrase. Sit down, you walk of life!

This seems like a misleading headline? @katiehonan.bsky.social @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Those who speak out for AI regulation will have a ready claim on voters’ trust

New York City, do you think our hydrant water is actually safe to drink? Dean Meminger took that question straight to the NYC Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa Garcia to find out.

And Meghan also has a yearning to give her children a traditional English upbringing?

Lamming resists traditional investment in character writes Caryl Phillips on Book Post, from the introduction to a new edition of Natives of My Person by @doubledaybooks.bsky.social , part of its new Outsider Editions series: books.substack.com/p/diary-cary... @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Insane that AOC is being quoted as saying "Woke 1 was crazy" when this is what she actually said. youtu.be/SFwAnMLBSOw?...

Read Jason Mott's review of a new translation of Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations” only on Book Post, free for for a limited time: books.substack.com/p/review-jas...

The latest novel, People Like Us, by our author Jason Mott, who received the National Book Award for Hell of A Book, is out this week in paperback! Order from our partner bookstore, bookshop.org/p/books/peop...

Point counterpoint

HT: The Odyssey (movie) should have been more like Andor

From "Torchlight," some of my "fable-dispatches" about living in Trump's hellish America . First time in English. Pubbed in Japan in trans by #MotoyukiShibata #twililight

I don’t like these pile-ons. I thinks there’s a gladiatorial element. And all the schadenfreude seals us off from self-scrutiny. Way too much reveling in our own virtuousness and not enough sincere reflection.

Incredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I kind of wish instead of running to “I always knew it, the rest of you people are jerks,” we might consider the natural vulnerabilities at work here and what we can learn

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

I have this experience … “he comes out rationally …”

As DC residents clean up the mess from an earsplitting midnight firework show, a dangerous heat dome, and a white supremacist march through town, we’re thinking about all the wonderful people who call this city home. Here’s to our customers, neighbors, and local authors who make DC great 💛

The Coast Guard just removed the Clearwater from the tall ship parade in NYC for having "Save the Clean Water Act" and "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions” banners. They were escorted out by the Coast Guard, US Navy, and NYPD. www.instagram.com/p/DaYOP8OlIq...

Stand Up for Yale, a group representing thousands of #Yale alums condemns the Trump administration investigation and warns against settlement, calls on the university to defend its students, its independence, its lawful commitment to an inclusive academic community. More at www.standupforyale.org

In a few years, the NYT or Post will win a Pulitzer for a sprawling investigation into how tech money poured into every nook and cranny of our political system at an unprecedented scale. Until then, enjoy the silence.

Yesterday 6/24: @jumaane.bsky.social on Max Politics with @benmax.bsky.social: a lot of wisdom here about facing generational change and respecting place and those who came before podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

BREAKING: @aoc.bsky.social just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act in the House. The bill would ban the construction of data centers until Congress addresses the economic, environmental, and safety impacts of AI.

Amazing that when mainstream Democrats lose to Republicans - who peddle lies, sow fear & weaponize social media - lesson is Dems must change their policy priorities & messages but when mainstream Dems lose to socialists lesson is waaahhhhh no fair.

It’s incredible to me that these Democrats can’t say, fresh youthful energy, yay! Let’s find a way to bring them in!

NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:

Clinton Hill

Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions