🍁😷🌈 Just a progressive gen x mutt wondering if someone could conjure up an asteroid & put us out of our impending misery (no lists please not a great fan of dms) warning: there will be cussing #SlavaUkraine #Accessability #BeKind
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A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.
As an addendum to my commissions post, I'm having an extremely hard time finding even part-time work in my local area, let alone full time work in my field. It's a long shot, but I'm putting my credentials/training below, just in case anyone has any job leads I might be able to follow:
I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!
#Indigenous people genuinely need your support against #Fascism in #Australia. We literally can't stop these people because they don't see us as human, and our numbers are too small. Our voice is silenced by both of these things. No matter how loudly we shout. Please, #Fight with us, #auspol.
For all you “wait until midterms” prople— This is @marlatalks from IG
Uh subscribe to The Onion, by the way. For like one more week you also get a tote bag. membership.theonion.com
Netflix is putting its money where its mouth is: 💰 $2M to back Newsom in the redistricting fight 📺 A deal for Sesame Street — new episodes and the full archive free to watch. That’s how you pick a side.
A comfortable life used to be the American Dream. Not being a financial mogul. Not fighting for the top spot on the food chain. Working to get your share of the pie with the whip cream on top. Grabbing enough food to fill your plate, but leaving plenty on the table for others. Let’s do that again.
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
Took Sam for a walk (masked) and the smoke is so bad the street lights have been on for hours. PM1 is 120. And there's a parent watching 3 kids playing in the local playground. Public health communication is failing at everything.
Because of that union, she retired with a pension that let her live with dignity in her final years Both my sisters always had employment with unions, and neither know or even understand the fear and stress that being an average wage worker entails Unions are the security every worker deserves
from member to rep to steward to local secretary then president and finally ended her union activism as a member of the national negotiation committee She used to believe the lies that unions were corrupt, were bankrupting biz, but once a member realized how essential they were to worker welfare 2/
my mom was a waitress when I was little. She went to night school, got a bachelors and landed a job at a local hospital - a private non profit run by a religious group whose focus was maternity, and seniors. She started off as a virgin union member, and 30 years later 1/3
Norma Rae won Sally Field the Oscar in 1979 for her portrayal of a woman who organizes a union in her workplace. It’s a terrific movie. Here’s the “what a union is” clip.
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True Statement! Anyone else? #Pinks #ProudBlue
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
an icon canadian actor and activist so very sad to lose him
for context: This is happening over a year out from elections
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Yoooo. Indonesia is getting wild, and not in a good way. The regime gave itself a massive raise, while massively raising taxes on the population. Bunch of grifters in charge are now trying to crush a popular uprising.
Thank you on this labor day!!
“I began donating to get out of my lonely pandemic ship. I’ve continued because it was the easiest thing for me to do to help an unknown someone.” 🩸
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Hey, medical professionals: gonna need you to back way the hell off on judging disabled folks’ distrust of you. Many if not most of us have been subjected to humiliation, invalidation, or literal pain by members of your profession. Maybe practice some active listening or a self craniorectomy.
Debbie Reese, one of the most prominent reviewers of Native children’s literature, just spread incorrect information about Indigenous people in Texas. She wrote, “But, the state of Texas does not extend state recognition to anyone.” This lie’s been used to erase Lipan people fighting for recognition
Margaret Atwood takes aim at Alberta's school library books ban with satirical story (Alberta)
im at a rally in delaware where a congressperson is on the mic joking about the privilege of being on recess away from dc and the misery of having to go back there soon. not one word about the ongoing occupation of my city by armed goons. thanks a lot for the solidarity ❤️
Fixed the headline. "10 provinces have reached an agreement to break interprovincial barriers for regulated professions" CBC needs to be better! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
You’re ignorant if - you believe that the government is ‘chipping’ you with vaccines. You’re a ignorant if - you think that the mRNA in a vaccine is manipulating your DNA. You’re a ignorant if - you believe that vaccines cause autism. Vaccines are safe and effective! Vaccines cause old age.
The most revolutionary act Canadians can perform right now in Canada 🇨🇦 is to unionize your workplace, here is how: #Canadasky pipsc.ca/about/unioni...
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6t2dqEc/ I have discovered an odd quirk of my personality. I am incapable of feeling empathy for those who deny empathy to others. I feel nothing for the farmers who voted to deport their own workers and put tariffs on their own products. NADA. Not a thing.
Graham Nash "A prefect NYC afternoon. Took a nice walk in the park, saw lots of smiling faces, listened to some music, said hello to some trees, and yes… even a lamppost. Hey, I’m grateful for light wherever it comes from these days. Sending summer off in style. I sure do love this city! 🥨"
Excellent reporting from @elpais.com. Grateful for the English translation.
that tracks
Excellent
I walked down Milwaukee from Damen to Ashland and back and ran into 15 people I know. I don't even live in this neighborhood!!! Chicagoans YEARN for open streets.
I -hate- having to sit through a video for something I could just read. Ugh. There are tik-tokers out there whose whole thing is just reading articles into a camera, and it makes me sad. How pathetic that is. EVERYONE needs to read more!
🚨We🚨Must🚨Not🚨Allow🚨Brutalization🚨Of🚨Protesters🚨To🚨Be🚨Normalized!!!
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If we’re doing another round of “this website will die without me” remember that scientists, i.e. people that actually know things are all coming here. If the choice is between them and column guys, people who know nothing but are good at being annoying, it’s a pretty easy pick
I have a language suggestion, which everyone can do, but is primarily for media members who value truth and Democratic politicians: Instead of asking and adjudicating if an obvious lie is false, make the fact that it's false your premise. "Why are you lying?" instead of "some say that's not true."
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Urban walls, sidewalks, and even utility meters are the unlikely canvases behind this clever collection of genius street art. From an illusion of a zebra being striped to a sidewalk creature with a real rock for a head, these eight works turn... 👇
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
On #LaborDay, we recognize the workers who make so much of our everyday lives possible. And every day, we should have American workers' back by supporting their organized efforts to secure higher wages, good benefits, and safe & dignified workplaces.
lying sack of shit
Dogs are amazing! ❤️🐕🐾 #dog #dogday #bluesky
Met a lady and her tiny daughter while checking a construction site for shark teeth earlier. She found a meg toward the end of the hunt. I could see the little girl jumping in circles from across the lot. Husband took some pics when he went to see what the fuss was about. Killer find! #fossilhunting
good luck with that
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
I just feel #RAGE 24/7
someone explain to me why putin is still alive he is a terrorist of unprecedented global scale
Ursula von der Leyen’s plane was forced to land in Bulgaria and use paper maps after suspected Russian GPS jamming disabled its navigation, the FT reports.
RECENT SCOTUS RULINGS ARE A REMINDER OF HOW IMPORTANT JUDGES ARE. 📣 #Pennsylvania has 3 Dem State Supreme Court Justices up for retention this fall. Help keep them on the bench! There's also seats up in #WI & #NC next year. Donate today! secure.actblue.com/donate/state...
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
because people are an incredible degree of stupid and ignorant in combination with assholes
Why does this have to be repeated at every fire?
Not for nothing, but everyone talking about not throwing a marginalized group under buses is masking in public, right?
A reminder that all of my Dem fundraising links can be found in one place here: --Not a PAC --No "consultants" --96% of donations go to the campaigns (other 4% to cc processing fees) --No spam emails or text messages --You can opt out of sharing email/phone w/campaigns blue26.org?refcode=dkos
The Norwegian Government has made a new tourism ad, and it's surprsingly honest and informative! 🇳🇴
Excellent display of truthful knowledge.
DOL is trying to take away minimum wage and overtime from millions of workers. Just thought I’d mention that.
Having lived through a decade of harrowing events as a child, I'll say it's *good* to imagine the day you'll move beyond the reach of a cruel person—even if that moment won't fix everything. They want to convince you of your powerlessness, but that's not how this story ends.
the same country that tolerated children being stolen from their parents and locked up in cages with zero consequences for the perpetrators thats who
Now I understand why Atwood didn't issue a statement to the CBC This is so much better Plus, knowing the CBC, they'd have Kevin O'Leary on to "provide balance" #cdnmedia #cdnpoli
voter disenfranchisement, suppression and subversion is a uniquely american thing amongst democratic nations its the hallmark of political policy that doesn't actually want to be a democracy by your standard, if people want to live in a democracy so badly, they should get the fk out of america
cnn had a series across america with jamal ?? one episode was with farmers who were in actual tears at the damage krasnov did to them vowing to never vote krasnov again. and then they got their big fat bailout checks and voted for him excuse me if I don't shed a tear for their self-imposed plight
If you're looking for a good lesson in PR, optics and crisis management - learn why companies have them. If you saw this moment online where a man stole a hat from a kid that a player gave him - here's what NOT to put out as a public statement. The reply is real. I tracked it down. Absolute knob.
The book burning should have waken you. The attacks on LGBTQ+ should have waken you. The stripping away of civil and voting rights right in front of your goddamn ignorant, oblivious, worthless FACES should have waken you. Go back the goddamn fuck to sleep, you worthless pieces of SHIT.
Canada's history isn't much better, with enslaved Asians and the most successful cultural genocide against aboriginal people ever. and we still put our kids lives over guns Australia - same this statement is yet another lame ass excuse for the nra corrupted political body (funded by russia btw)
Canadian scientists discovered the brightest space radio burst of all time. They spotted it using the CHIME telescope. "The burst lasted less than one-thousandth of a second but carried more energy than the sun produces in four days." They then built 3 mini versions 1/2 mashable.com/article/astr...
I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Governor Lisa Cook Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
This year alone PSAF has supported more than 500 people—including two South Carolina women cruelly denied miscarriage care. We’ve helped folks from Alabama and Mississippi travel as far as Maryland, and we’ve helped Georgians get to clinics in North Carolina. Every caller’s story is proof that
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
save it for when krasnovs admin and ice Gestapo get charged
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
Police say 15,000 people attended Sydney’s anti-immigration march. Meanwhile, 35,000 people registered to run in the Sydney Marathon. So more than twice as many people wanted to get up early on a Sunday and run a marathon (or maybe the shorter event at least) So that’s something, right? #auspol
I don't think "bet it all on the midterms" is a better strategy now than "bet it all on 24" was in 21, but if we're doing it anyway, I'd like to see the authors of that strategy at least working right now on the question of "how do we protect and encourage minority voting if ICE is at the polls?"
How did a civilized society come to embrace Hitler’s extreme ideas?
It is just wild to me that the largest facility used during Japanese internment will now be used to intern immigrants from ICE raids, people who are disappeared by masked officers off the streets, and there is still a debate about whether naming and shaming those doing it is fair.
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
Don't look away 😔 this isn't the American 🇺🇸 way 👉🏼it's sadistic psychopathic Hatemeister Steven Millers wet dream of Amerikkka👿👇🏼
sadder still for fellow 'nuks to watch
Did you know that sars2 affects vision? Color perception, dyschromatopsia, worsening of contrast sensitivity, and photophobia. Visual perception alterations in COVID-19
I believe tesler lost as much as I believe krasnov flipped 88 districts