Unfortunately, they never seem to learn.
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Unfortunately, they never seem to learn.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
BREAKING: Trump’s use of the National Guard during immigration protests in Los Angeles is illegal, a judge rules. Follow AP's live updates.
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
“‘Nakba All Over Again': West Bank Palestinians Still Displaced More Than 6 Months After Israel Forced Them to Flee” The Israeli operation in Jenin, Tulkarm, and other cities, has displaced more than 40,000 people – the largest mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in decades.
🚨 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 98 killed and 404 injured arriving at hospitals. At least 46 aid seekers were killed. 📺 Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports on Israeli attacks overnight that killed multiple families in their sleep.
Everything this administration does serves either as a distraction, a means to further dictatorial ambitions, or to enrich himself and his cronies.
A vicious circle, as union power diminished, the rich used their excessive wealth to push our governments - Republican and Democratic - to pass more anti-labor legislation.
Hints that you may live in a police state under an authoritarian regime: There are so many different armed forces in your neighborhood you need a badge spotting guide.
Thank you for replying. Masterplan does a great job connecting all the players and strategies involved in getting us to a completely captured Supreme Court.
I call them animal torture factories. Now that Trump does away with food safety regulations might be a good time to start eating no meat, or less meat from actual farms. www.levernews.com/usda-moves-t...
Government for and by the rich.
Everybody’s talking about democratic socialism these days. Here’s what you need to know about it.
Indeed, the Lever’s Masterplan podcast tells the story of how we ended up here. www.levernews.com/tag/master-p...
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
Let's knock out general election fundraising before the summer ends. zohranfornyc.com/donate
My little tenants hard at work on the property. #BeaverLife #NatureConservation #WildlifeWonder
“.. authoritarianism does not operate outside law; it manipulates law until legality and illegality are indistinguishable.”
As a key deadline approaches in the United Nations General Assembly, a little-used UN mechanism, immune from the US veto, could bring military protection to the Palestinian people - if we demand it. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-... #Palestine #Israel
The head of pediatrics at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, describes the moment Israel killed 20 people including five journalists in a "double-tap" strike on Monday.
“We sail because governments have failed. We sail because silence enables atrocity. We sail to uphold human dignity.” 🇵🇸 Melanie Schweizer of the Global Sumud Flotilla details the aims of the largest convoy to Gaza since the blockade began.
Well, Mainers soon have the opportunity to send her packing by supporting, and voting for, Graham Platner. If you are in Main, check out his platform.
Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
So when we first showed up at the Union Station today, we ran ICE off as soon as we got here.
Your Daily Reminder: RFK jr is a menace to Public Health 👨🎨🎨 From political cartoonist Chris Britt
Israel has destroyed homes, universities, hospitals - killed and maimed thousands of children and adults and caused widespread starvation. None of these actions are self defense. Just consider that they are not allowing baby formula to come in.
“You love to see it! A construction revolution could ease the affordable housing crisis, an embattled law keeps winning in court, regulators catch up to a public health crisis, and a solar pioneer fights to save its sun-loving policies.” www.levernews.com/you-love-to-...
Former DOJ pardon attorney says that Trump has pardoned rapists, murderers, and child sex offenders
They wake up before the sun rises, work through the intense heat, and still go home with love in their hearts for their families. These are the hands that feeds our nation, the backbone of America’s economy and yet they are the ones being targeted, detained, and deported illegally!
For years, moderate Democrats refused to eliminate the filibuster and grant D.C. full statehood, leaving the door wide open for Trump’s coup d’état dry run. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/0jYqmUm
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
Beautiful art in my neighborhood #art
Did you know that soldiers have constitutional protection to NOT obey orders that violate their oath to the Constitution? A group is working to educate soldiers in advance of the possibility of martial law. Learn how you can get involved in this webinar: 📅 8/24 ⏰ 5 - 6:15pm ET 📍 bit.ly/oath0824
I love it.
I am guessing the first one is true as well.
Capitalism kills. Here is a link to the original article jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
They believe they can seize control of our city. Washington, D.C., is currently experiencing a beautiful vibe and energy tonight. Free DC ✊
Instead of trying to persuade the hundreds of millions of Americans to our right, sometimes we leftists seem to be competing to prove our radical bona fides to each other. That’s not politics — it’s just wasting precious time.
One light at the end of tunnel is not enough. A true transition away from fossils into renewables will take a global movement, powered by solidarity.
We are living in absurdity.
I certainly hope so.
The two-state solution has been a red herring all along. A real solution would be one state with equal rights and citizenship for all.
The purpose is grift not health.
The purpose of healthcare should be to heal, not to make a profit.
So true. Unless those in power get held accountable for war crimes, destruction of the climate and ecosystems, fraud, and all the rest of it, there can be no justice.
We need a wormhole.
L.A. is in a state - that hasn’t stopped them. They are testing what they can get away with.
📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
It’s outrageous!
Because, so far, they are getting away with it.
Thanks, I’ll check.
Dear @washingtonpost.com,
It’s awful.
Ann Arbor Indivisible showed up last night! We talked about how the only way to save democracy is to make it deliver for working people. And that will take ALL of us showing up for each other.
Hypocrisy of Western Media Al Jazeera journalist, Laila Al-Arian, joined the Drop Site livestream yesterday.
A child sits in quiet grief beside his father’s body, killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza.
NEW: Oregon liberals, opposed to nuclear power in the 1970s, created a complex process for getting new energy projects approved. It’s now being used to stall developments in wind and solar — with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge. With @opb.org
It bears repeating that support for DC statehood — and eliminating the Senate filibuster to pass it if that hasn't already been done to some other end — should be a basic litmus test for Democratic candidates in 2028.
A Palestinian man comes back carrying a body instead of the bag of flour he had set out to collect for his family, after visiting what has become the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s death camp.
European states have armed Israel through almost two years of genocide in Gaza. While the European Union’s trade deal with Israel is meant to be conditional on human rights, in practice EU leaders have turned a blind eye to its crimes.
This time, no one can claim they didn’t know.
The people of Gaza are starving because of a man-made famine as Israel draws up plans for a full-scale military occupation. US government officials haven’t just turned a blind eye to the historic atrocities in Gaza — they’ve been cheering them on.
Hostile takeover
Israeli soldiers and mercenaries have now killed 1000 people at the US aid distribution centers, many of them children. If you can, donate to Emergency Relief for Gaza Families: Food, Clothing & Hygiene Aid. chuffed.org/project/1373...
So wait: 25 years ago, oligarchs sold dereg as a way to create housing abundance, which resulted in a mortgage-fueled financial crisis, mass foreclosures & a contraction of housing construction…and now we’re asked to assume more dereg is the key to creating housing abundance?
Undocumented immigrants aren’t showing up to work because they face a double threat: 📌 ICE could roll up to the job site, because it’s easier to target hardworking people than go after real criminals. 📌 When the work’s done, some employers refuse to pay and threaten to call ICE.
“Maybe the world won’t act, maybe the world won’t help us but there might be a motive to stop this war—every time I document a massacre or event or bombing, I think that maybe through this bombing or this image that the war could stop and this war would end...”
🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Not surprising that this odious person wants to turn the US into Gilead.
In defending and arming Israel over the last two years, Western governments have shown the hollowness of international law. The genocide will be remembered as a decisive moment in the collapse of liberalism.
The US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on this day 80 years ago.
Private equity on the prowl.
Shut this concentration camp down! Attorneys for a Venezuelan man who collapsed inside “Alligator Alcatraz” are accusing the facility of failing to provide adequate care for sick detainees.
Profiting from misery - what an insane economy we have.
He likes to hang out with war criminals.
Israel, helped by the US and most of Europe, is committing genocide. Stopping it will take all of us.
Done with bombs send, first, by Biden, now by Trump.
Despicable and, I hope, a little desperate.
Thank you for your voice Chris Smalls. Video via @democracynow.org
Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine. The world has, by objective measure, never seen anything like this.
Beautiful
Sydney turning out in support of Palestine. So good to see.
America, we have a problem. In the largest democracy in the world, Texas Republicans want to bend the knee to Trump because Republicans are afraid to lose an election.
911 CALLS FROM ICE JAILS INFORM 🔹️Pregnancy emergencies 🔹️Suicide attempts 🔹️Rapes —some by staff THOSE CALLS REVEAL 🔹️Untrained guards 🔹️0 medical gear 🔹️Lives in danger. They cut DHS control so NO ONE reports rape or abuse. THIS IS NOT IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT. IT IS TAX-PAYER-FUNDED TORTURE !
Talarico and Texas Dems break quorum to Halt Gerrymandering Vote.
Good discussion
Who wants to go to a country with a secret thuggish police and concentration camps.
The head of the Mossad spy agency was recently in Washington to coordinate with the White House on plans to expel Palestinians from Gaza. The plan, along with the forced starvation and mass killing of Gazans, echoes the worst of the Nazi Holocaust.
The "democracy crisis" is 24 million people about to be priced out of medical care and the press deciding that The Political Discourse™ must focus on a celebrity's ads for denim pants.
A telecom giant gave $400K to the RNC & Nixon killed a case against its merger - a scandal prompting a new anti-corruption law. A tech giant gave $250K to Trump's inauguration & Trump aides killed a case against its merger, despite that Watergate-era law. History rhymes.
Bill Clinton (already a rapist) was pressuring his intern into Oval Office blowjobs & it only ruined her life not his. Anita Hill was destroyed by the press while Clarence Thomas was confirmed to SCOTUS to later destroy your democracy. Susan Faludi wrote 'Backlash' which was about WHAT WAS HAPPENING
ICYMI: Amazon still doing Amazon things The company is not only reintroducing new versions of old features that allow police to access footage from Ring users Amazon is introducing a new Ring feature that will allow police to request *livestream* access to our home security devices. @eff.org
Urgent Emergency Relief for Gaza Families: Food, Clothing & Hygiene Aid chuffed.org/project/1373...
"The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something." Blinne Ni Ghralaigh at the ICJ in the Hague. Over 18 months ago.
If you’ll recall, the “antisemitism” at UCLA involved primarily campus police allowing Zionist counter protesters to attack the pro-Palestinian camps (incl. many Jewish participants) while they did nothing, and arresting the anti-genocide students & faculty afterwards.
The Trump administration wants to revoke an Obama-era rule, known as the Endangerment Finding, that allows the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars, power plants and other sources. "What this administration is doing is a danger to the entire planet," says @michaelemann.bsky.social.
"Our children are dying." Roishetta and Kamea Ozane are a mother and daughter from Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," where oil and gas pollution is linked to a host of health issues. They are in New York this week to protest "toxic billionaires" who finance the industry harming their community.
Big bird, little bird - Northern Flicker and, I believe, a House Finch
