#deadinside

I'm addicted to love. And Andy Capp's Hot Fries.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state.

The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return.

When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut.

That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k.

It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.

[b @wwxwashere]

there’s just not enough hours in the day to work, stay informed, clean, take care of myself, cook, do laundry, read 100k words of fanfiction, yearn and plot a revenge plan against my enemies

[a blast from the past @a_past24460]

Good evening 👋

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

"The average American taxpayer spends $36 per year to support the SNAP program. The average American taxpayer spends $670 per year on corporate subsidies."

[sylvia plathleisure @SorryMomDotGov]

I can’t believe they make horses and dogs be cops. Pure evil

[staid @staidindoors]

the news acting like it's some tragedy if a waymo car gets burnt up. that is a piece of corporate property designed specifically to put people out if work. why should i be upset about that? why should anyone?

[Not the RTÉ News @notthertenews]

BREAKING: British Government reminds public that posing with a flag is "terrorism" and that arming a genocide is "robust foreign policy"

[Henry Burke @burkehenryt]

With three House Democrats passing away since January, it's looking like being a Democratic House Rep. is by far the most deadly job in America, with an annualized estimate of 3689 deaths per 100,000. Logging is a distant second at 100.7 per 100,000

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

"The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity."

- Anthony Bourdain

[cwew @cwew4L]

We should ban and get rid of ALL private schools. Being able to opt out of the public means the rich don’t invest in their communities and just further isolate. Requiring all people to go to public school would force them to improve all schools, not just the ones for richies

[Sundaye @BrightLikeSunny]

You are not smart enough to homeschool your children

[The Onion @TheOnion]

“How can I return an innocent man to the United States when I don’t have the ability to feel empathy or compassion?” said Nayib Bukele
https://t.co/IN2evjA4Jl

[Mia K. @miakhalifa]

im so glad I don’t have the gene that makes vacationing in places like dubai look appealing

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

Nine paragraphs into today's NYT story on the situation with the Gaza ceasefire, readers are informed that Israeli officials and international mediators "said that Hamas’s claims were accurate."

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israel wasn't subjected to a deliberate starvation blockade like Gaza was, yet its hostages come back looking far more emaciated than the hostages held by Hamas. Palestinian hostages were starved deliberately out of cruelty, but it's the Israeli hostages we're told to focus on.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Two massive unions have sued the Treasury Department for granting Musk's “Department of Government Efficiency” access to federal government payment systems.

SEIU and AFGE, with nearly 3 million combined members, are fighting DOGE's illegal activity.

https://t.co/1wu8EKy52D

[Sick Sad World @YesYoureRacist]

My politics come down to one simple principle: We have enough for everyone, so everyone should have enough. We don't have a scarcity problem or even a logistics problem, we have a greed problem.

[Assaf @_assaf_ps]

Anyone find it odd that this is one main pieces of armaments in Israel’s arsenal?

It’s almost as if the demolition of homes and civilian infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank is a core tactic.