Darren Nevares :vm:

I do have a soft spot for #SteakNShake because it was such a cheap place when I was in community college and walking miles and taking buses and trains to get to my classes during the day.
Getting two meals under $4 was peak and I'd usually tip well compared to the order 50 to 100% in some cases because the food was that cheap and was FRESH.
#college #poor #inflation #food #restaurant

Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS

Ugh, ugh, ugh! This is a way to (1) keep Americans uninformed by not funding *real* news coverage on #NPR and #PBS and to (2) ensure that many #poor #people around the world stay #ill, get no help with #disasters, and get no help when they #migrate or are #refugees.

WIST Quotations

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

   The real “haves” are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities.
   On the other hand, the real “have nots” are those who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 115 (1955)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoffer-eric/24752/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #confidence #freedom #makers #poor #potential #riches #selfreliance #takers #wealth #wealthy #zerosumgame

Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv

🐻🐻🐻*This poor old bear stayed for a couple of hours in the same spot in our backyard because there is something really wrong with his back hip and right hind leg.*& When he finally did leave up the path to the woods he struggled with walking big time the poor thing.🥹🥺🐻🐻🐻😥

#Poor #Old #Bear

Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv

🐻🐻🐻*This poor old bear stayed for a couple of hours in the same spot in our backyard because there is something really wrong with his back hip and right hind leg.*& When he finally did leave up the path to the woods he struggled with walking big time the poor thing.🥹🥺🐻🐻🐻😥

#Poor #Old #Bear

OccuWorld

More than 60 scientists issue dire warning that the Earth is careening toward catastrophe: 'Things are all moving in the wrong direction'

yahoo.com/news/more-60-scienti

"We're seeing some unprecedented changes, and we're also seeing the heating of the Earth and sea-level rise accelerating as well.“

#ClimateCatastrophe #Consequences #Carbon #Pollution #GHG #Unchecked #Accelerating #Threshold #ProfitMotive #Life #Suffering #Society #Poor #Change #ActNow #DirectAction

Lorry

This is interesting to me, at least. It looks like they trialled this in poorer areas of the country, so mostly I see Lancashire in the article, but also Plymouth; possibly places where kids wouldn't be expected to have access to books at home?

I went to school at a very early age, to a day-boarding school. They taught ITA and normal English together, I think, at least, I could read normal English, but I thought in ITA and still do.

If you ask me to spell something, I spell it in my head in the phonetic alphabet (ah, bu, ker, der, eh, pff, ger) and I have a mostly instinctive translation mechanism that translates it to normal English style before I speak it; except when I have to actually think about the spelling, and split my brain, then it comes out phonetically, I have to experiment with the spelling in phonetics before I can convert - I just can't think in normal English.

I am not sure it messed me up much. I have learned to spell, but some words don't make sense to me (which is just English), and some I am stubborn about.

I also collect ITA books now, the first one I got after 50 years or so, I realised I could read perfectly. I'd never thought about what happened to ITA, maybe I was lucky that I used both and wasn't suddenly hit with a whole new reading language; but I do wonder where it went, and when I stopped using it.

theguardian.com/education/2025

#English #Writing #Education #ITA #Pittman #Phonetics #Schools #UK #GB #Lancashire #Poor #Kids #Language

OccuWorld

Rick Scott Demands More Cuts to Medicaid, Which His Company Allegedly Scammed

rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who’s famous for his former hospital company’s record-setting Medicare fraud settlements, is currently leading an effort to make Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” even more painful for America’s poor...

#RickScott #PunchDown #Poor #Medicare #Fraud #Grifter #Sociopath #ProfitMotive

Nonilex

#Disinformation: #SocialSecurity email praising Trump’s tax bill is a lie

The #SSA sent an email claiming Trump’s bill eliminated taxes on benefits for most recipients.

The reconciliation bill–which #Trump called the #OneBigBeautifulBill before signing it after #Republicans in #Congress passed it–will strip people of their #HealthInsurance, cut #FoodAssistance for the #poor, kill off #CleanEnergy development & raise the #NationalDebt by trillions.

#propaganda
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

‘Blatant misinformation’: Social Security Administration email praising Trump’s tax bill blasted as a ‘lie’

Previously apolitical agency lauds Trump’s spending…

The Guardian
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦

@davidsirota

It will prematurely end the lives of many, and increase the suffering of many more of those who the endure.

Freezing to #death.
Sweltering to death.
Starving to death and not having needed medications to stay alive.

#republicans don't care

The #GOP never will care about the #poor

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