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“Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of beneficiaries of federal aid programs like Medicaid and food stamps, according to a study by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.” —CNBC

It is unconscionable for the government to let SNAP benefits lapse when emergency funds are available to cover the program. Yes, suspending benefits could teach a lesson to those undeserving food voucher recipients, 40 percent of whom are children, who have been living large on an average of six dollars a day in assistance for far too long. But it wouldn’t be worth the cruelty of denying the program to those vulnerable Americans who genuinely deserve it: corporations.

How do you feel when you try to check your messages, but they are not refreshing, and you realise that there is a problem with the app? Or when you check a website only to find strange server errors accompanied by numbers such as 500, 501, or 503? Now imagine that the same happens to […]

This feminist housing collective has endured for 75 years. Now, a new generation is moving in, bringing change – and men

- by Aeon Video

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Local police participated in a drug raid. The feds had coordinated beforehand to have ICE to take cannabis farm workers into custody.

The post Local Cops Aren’t Allowed to Help ICE. Did the Feds Dupe Them Into Raids That Rounded Up Immigrants? appeared first on The Intercept.

Hassles are part of life, but the way we react often makes them worse. ACT skills can help you handle them with greater ease

- by Patricia E Zurita Ona

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The great complexity and extraordinary simplicity of a constructed language with no more than 140 words

- by Hannah H Kim

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Scientific progress depends on disagreement. So why are vaccine sceptics and other science critics not worth listening to?

- by Collin Rice & Kareem Khalifa

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For decades, the Left has correctly insisted that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Your eco dishwasher soap is owned by a giant multinational that drives down workers’ wages and destroys the planet, while promoting the idea that individual responsibility is the solution to society’s ills. However, necessary though it may be, such criticism […]

Immediately after October 7, a little know company shipped over 100 reconnaissance drones to Israel for use in its siege of Gaza.  Having been battle-tested on Palestinian civilians, the UAVs are now being used to surveil protesters across the US. This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic! AI-powered quadcopter drones used by the IDF to commit genocide in Gaza are flying over American cities, surveilling protestors and automatically uploading millions of images to an evidence database. The drones are […]

The post AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities first appeared on The Grayzone.

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The Illinois congressional candidate on why more Democrats aren’t taking direct action and how leaders should be responding to the right.

The post Kat Abughazaleh on the Right to Protest appeared first on The Intercept.

Graham Platner’s firearms trainings are only the most public example of the left’s efforts to arm themselves.

The post Inside the World of Leftist Gun Nuts appeared first on The Intercept.