Tasha Williams

One reason I know he's lying is because there's plenty of groceries which every household needs that aren't purchasable with a SNAP card,
including toilet paper, diapers, dish soap, bath soap, and more.
Poor people know how money works at the grocery store better than ANYONE else.

as gas prices soar bc of foreign policy chaos,

now is probably a great time to discuss how investing in mass transit infrastructure is an effective economic hedging strategy for metropolitan regions.

Folks are pointing out that recent NYT on Mamdani article uses framing to disguise bias and bad journalism.
Black folks are not surprised.
"If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” -- Malcolm X

Unfortunately, a whole new section of society is going to find out what actually fuels the prison industrial complex --criminalizing hardship and profiling marginalized identities who tend to experience those hardships.

Here, it's women of reproductive age who are going to be under the microscope.

Even though I'm an economist, I wish there was more focus on the human suffering from this war and less focus on the economic consequences. Hundreds of little girls are dead, and we're worried about oil prices.

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

'Ridiculous': Kristi Noem's 28-year-old aide wasted millions on unusable ICE vehicles A former deputy to outgoing Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem saddled the department with millions of dollars in wasted funding for vehicles that cannot be used.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

This thread is truth.

Also, the nerve of someone even claiming it happened only one generation ago.
As if GenX wasn't infamous for being latchkey kids bc when they got home from school their (Boomer and older generation) parents were still at WORK.

They’re literally pushing out Black women to make sure they can try to permanently staff the federal government with white supremacists.

Reconciling this story of petty theft for thrills by the affluent against memory of Kalief Browder, a Bronx youth held in Rikers w/o trial for nearly 3 yrs for allegedly stealing a backpack. He was kept in solitary for 700 days of that time.
Two yrs after his release, Browder unalived himself.

Too many folks on the left mistakenly believed DEI was about Black people getting opportunities they didn’t deserve and therefore sat on your hands while this regime went about dismantling it.

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

Influencers are promoting peptides for better health. What does the science say? The latest wellness craze involves injecting these molecules for athletic performance, longevity and more. Scientists say the research isn't keeping pace with the health claims.

I don't understand how we have to beg people to get vaccinated while other people are fine shooting themselves up with untested compounds for unproven "gains" risking god knows what

Was she too hard to train OR maybe she had a “wretched smell” and was so “nasty and mean” she terrorized the children?

We'll never truly know which of her faults led to her downfall.

"Tough decisions like this happen all the time."

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

I talked to a Texan friend today.
People stood in line for hours before being told that there were separate lines for each party -- a departure from the norm.

Noem's pathological behavior toward animals is revealing.
Imagine being proud of killing a puppy you could've donated to a family or surrendered to a shelter.
Or killing a goat, too, because it smelled bad and behaved like a goat.
Killing is how she treats beings that displease her.

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i wasn't ready.

yes, I came here to say Black Philadelphians were already bombed by the city government.
Thanks sharing for the Lorde extract.

This. Also:
Other minorities have been talked about this way (transgender, Latine, Black people, etc.)
Her stance is a continuation of his 1st term.
This is why Black people said we couldn't afford to sit home Nov /24.
So at what point do we retire the word "doomsayers" and use "analysts" instead?

Those delusions fuel capacity for mobilizing around so-called "color blind" econ policy agendas that may help a few ppl but mainly repeat past racial injustices.

Also, enables closeted white nationalists (i.e. Fetterman) to gain power on the backs of multi-racial working class coalitions.

This is the magic of the "boostrap myth" in which white people refuse to acknowledge the existence of the working poor, even their own.
That myth hides how generational wealth and econ polices historically restricted to white ppl protect many white WC from economic precarity faced by Black WC

The problem I have with certain progressives is they REFUSE to acknowledge the existence and needs of the Black working class.
They can then pedal economic anxiety as an excuse for the (white) working class supporting racists.
You'd think they learned better during COVID's early days, but no.

in this week's episode of "Believe Black People The First Time" ...

When folks ask you why Black people maintain spaces just for Black people,

Show them Exhibit A:

The recent NAACP awards vs what went down last week at the BAFTAs

The Harlem Baker Who Turns Out the City’s Best Rugelach For more than three decades, Alvin Lee Smalls has been turning out trays of rugelach—made the old-fashioned way.

yes, put that in the file with this:

www.afar.com/magazine/at-...

"...they had editorial discretion and used it to silence voluntary expression, but not involuntary harm."

The more we learn about what wasn't done, the worse the story gets.

Now is a great opportunity to discuss how disability accommodations benefit everyone and why empathy is not a 1-way street.

yes, AND
Frazier v. Cupp, '69 SCOTUS affirmed police can lie.
Black activists have talked about failures of due process across all policing for decades.
But only now some y'all wanna discuss concerns while taking every opportunity possible to say "Actually the Black guy wasn't any better than Trump"

Yes, look at what happened to tin fish (e.g.sardines), oxtails, and even chicken wings.
And that's just meat.
When demand soars for trad staples of modest income kitchens, prices soar, too.
Communities who pioneered the cooking of this food get shut out.
Also his offal advice is giving slave master.

Don't forget the 1,400 passport services locations in non-profit libraries were also ordered to shut down. While they're pushing through a law that requires voter ID, which a passport qualifies as.