Chelsea Manning is one of the few people who has both fought and suffered enough that she has arguably earned the right to sit and do absolutely nothing for the rest of her life, guilt-free.
Instead, she willingly risks incarceration, *again*, in order to protest war and genocide.
It's bad for the trees, and if a tree is small enough to fit a normal bike lock around it isn't even a secure mounting point to lock to.
Who needs social security / medicare and who doesn't yet is what
The Trump administration pledged to root out “rampant” fraud in federal benefit programs like SNAP and welfare.
But the DOJ has shut down more than 900 cases of federal program or procurement fraud in the first six months of this administration.
This means that the Liberal Party will not have to pass more progressive policies due to not having to meet the New Democratic Party (labor, left-leaning party) in the middle.
I know the bar is hell in the US, but centrism isn't often a move towards equity.
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As an Xer, a white person, a human, all the things, ofc I hate this--
& --
+ the illusion of safety in a white supremacist system
+ wealth accumulation
= a lot of us are not aging well
+ we have to talk about what a chokehold these concepts have on our demographic
AND how to shift that
I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."
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NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
oh. was suddenly reminded that at least one of them wanted me to prove they had data on me.
which I could only do by purchasing a copy of their tranche of data on me.
you can, of course, imagine what I thought of that.
Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police.
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
(Published Nov. 2025 with @startribune.com)
Pacific Island leaders excluded the U.S., China, the U.K. and 18 other international partners from their annual summit last year.
As @cwilson-journalist.bsky.social writes, the region is pushing back against geopolitical coercion—from both sides.
I just introduced a War Powers Resolution to rein in Trump’s illegal war with Iran.
Democrats are sending a clear message: we’re going to keep voting on these resolutions until they pass.
Republicans need to fulfill their oath to the Constitution and vote YES.
Some of you stan politicians too much (and shocker, me a journalist who is Jewish would be critical of a tattoo that is associated with Nazis.)
So... they're considering firing half the Chicago PD?
it just gets worse. i didn't know about this.
I use @labeler.antisubstack.fyi to hide Substack links, although the account owner's noticed that there's an appview-related issue impacting label visibility/action for about a week now.
WHY ARE YOU STILL ON SUBSTACK.
if you're a big creator particularly, you will legit make more money on beehiv. and you won't be asking your readers to pay revenue to a site that promotes literal sex traffickers and pushes Nazi content to your goddamn phone.
i'm gonna lose my mind
don't make me tap the motherfucking sign
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This implies... interesting things about the general security of the White House and access to Trump's person
if you wanna keep your job, don't be a fucking creep. it's really that simple.
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the conflation of "dark" and "gritty" with cursing and excessive violence will be the end of me. somehow, as always, game of thrones and the severe misunderstanding of the text as it's been used as inspiration for other prominent pieces of media (games, television, books) is to blame for this.
wild fucking list. Mpls folks, has anyone spoken to Wajeeh about substack's nazi bar tendencies?
“We are not able to overcome operational challenges resulting from Israel’s targeted criminalization,” DCI-P’s general director said.
Writing fat characters who are easy to love but *impossible* to desire is not the favor to fat people that many writers seem to think.
(It is, in fact, precisely what Shallow Hal set out to do.)