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I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Heather Cox Richardson is my hero.
I know we’re all angry about a lot of stuff right now and frightened, and I think some of that anger comes out of being frightened. Heather Cox Richardson is here to tell us that this attempted dictatorship is not going well for the Trump regime. 💕 youtu.be/Qoy1ezu0zhk?...
Great read by Heather Cox Richardson: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Also, the News is now "STATE MEDIA". I watch PBS, Heather Cox Richardson, and local news for weather and traffic. Occasionally I watch the Bulwark or Meidus, or a few other podcasters.
Home work for Labor Day, please listen to my interview of Professor Heather Cox Richardson. I asked her about interviewing President Obama. m.soundcloud.com/profciara/de... #blacksky #booksky #beans
The wealthy and the government have been working together to screw the average working man for so long, that by 1894, the ONLY concession to people who actually worked was to make Labor Day an official holiday, according to Heather Cox Richardson.
Agreed. Yes. @hcrichardson.bsky.social is awesome. 🤜🏾🫳🏾🎤https://soundcloud.com/profciara/democracy-destiny-with-historian-heather-cox-richardson-wbai-version
Heather Cox Richardson The history of Labor Day and why we need to remember it now. August 31, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
This is the way. Another masterclass summary of where we are and why we will prevail 💪 from Heather Cox Richardson!! 💙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoy1...
@50501movement.bsky.social Topeka, KS 9/1/25.
They can't cover things that are antagonistic to the interests of their owners... & also they support what Trump is doing.
Vermont showed up @50501movement.bsky.social #workersoverbillionares #resist
Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day Protest in Macomb, Illinois @50501movement.bsky.social
@50501movement.bsky.social Tampa Florida, where organizers were kind enough to hold the protest at 5 pm when it was "only" 88 degrees.
Showing up and standing up 🌺🌈❤️ #Honolulu #Hawaii #LaborDay #workersoverbillionaires #familiesoverbillionaires @indivisible.org @indivisiblehawaii.bsky.social @indwind808.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
@50501movement.bsky.social @50501sd.bsky.social @sarajacobs.house.gov @ammarcampanajjar.bsky.social #workersoverbillionsires San Diego Always great to have our representative there @sarajacobs.house.gov & @ammarcampanajjar.bsky.social running for CA48 ! ( @maddow.msnbc.com )
#WorkersOverBillionaires on 135th in south Overland Park, KS! @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org
We the People — the workers, immigrants, families, Americans — are PISSED and we are rising, with over 1,000 actions across the U.S. today! ❤️🩹 #FamiliesOverBillionaires #WorkersOverBillionaires #WeThePeopleArePISSED Find your local protest at www.FiftyFifty.one. #50501movement #SolidaritySeptember
$5 trillion in new business investment, hundreds of thousands of new jobs tied to those investments, and record low gas prices. While the numbers sound impressive, none of them are true.
Trump spent Labor Day promoting what he called a “Golden Age,” but the claims being pushed don’t hold up. The White House circulated talking points on social media boasting of $8 trillion in new tariff revenue, $4 trillion in deficit reduction,
At 7:45 pm ET, over 75,000 attendees are counted, but we still need data from basically every major city (NYC, LA, Philly, Atlanta, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Seattle, San Diego, San Francisco, Phoenix, etc.!) The estimate has now slighly narrowed to 250k-560k:
Now over 50,000 attendees counted, with no numbers in yet from any major city except Boston. The estimate is still really fuzzy, at roughly 240k to 675k docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
As of 3:20 pm ET, @thexylom.com is projecting roughly 220k - 492k Americans attending Labor Day rallies nationwide, using a methodology developed by @gelliottmorris.com. That would put "Workers over Billionaires" on track as one of the 20 largest protests and demonstrations in American history:
And we are live! Please comment or DM with any protest counts.
It is beyond wild to me that there is zero coverage of "Workers over Billionaires" rallies anywhere on The New York Times or The Washington Post right now. This is a colossal failure in journalism. Mainstream media can't just pretend that hundreds of thousands of protesters don't exist
More than 445,000 federal employees saw their union protections disappear in August, as agencies moved to comply with an executive order President Trump signed earlier this year that called for ignoring collective bargaining contracts with nearly one million workers.
Great turn out today for the Labor Day Union Support Rally in Sioux Falls, SD organized by @50501southdakota.bsky.social and Indivisible 605 🙌🏼💙
🚨CHICAGO—Emergency Protest Plan
My favorite sign at the Boston Labor Day parade today: “End this ICE Age”
I love this guy
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldn’t be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
Here are some independent publications to support: - @wired.com - @reuters.com - @theguardian.com - @apnews.com - @motherjones.com - @404media.co - @democracydocket.com - @commondreams.org - @meidastouch.com
There are so many great people and publications to support. Here are some folks to follow: - @hcrichardson.bsky.social - @sifill.bsky.social - @marcelias.bsky.social - @marisakabas.bsky.social - @rbreich.bsky.social - @gilduran.com - @timothysnyder.bsky.social - @esqueer.net
Right-wing billionaires who own the media are enabling the Trump regime’s authoritarian takeover. This is why it is so critical to support independent journalism right now. Traditional media is no longer a trustworthy source of information for the public to stay informed and fight against fascism.
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Activists, Democratic leaders and voters gathered in crowds large and small around the U.S. on Monday to protest the Trump administration and voice support for workers on the Labor Day holiday.
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Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Join me and the incomparable Heather Cox Richardson for a members-only live podcast to explore the urgent challenges facing democracy today, and how history helps us understand the path forward. Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. ET | Live on Zoom Sign up now! newsletters.democracydocket.com/hcr-podcast
No, not easy. I get the feeling they can't wait to see the backside of us because of oversimplifications like this. Rather chilling.
Blaze(right-wing outlet) not buying Peter Thiel's Antichrist schtick. "It's interesting and maybe questionable that someone who makes a lot of money through technology would say that stopping technological innovation is actually going to...usher in the Antichrist.” www.theblaze.com/shows/relata...
Trump appointed a Russian spy, Sergio Gor, as his Chief of Presidential Appointments. Sergio lied about where he was born and refused to submit the paperwork for a proper security clearance. Sergio appointed 4,000 people to the federal government before Trump fired him. youtu.be/Ag7yv95d1i0
OPINION by Ja’han Jones: “HHS is basically telling states it will inhibit their ability to combat the scourges of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases unless these states adopt the administration’s warped and demonstrably wrong views on gender.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
I am reposting for the humanity displayed here…
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
With with Bessent’s most optimistic projections, that would take about 27 years.
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Thank you so much for adding this.
That's an oversimplification. Voters 22-29, now 67-74, voted 44% Reagan, 44% Carter. Those who voted for Reagan were *against* 15% mortgage rates, gasoline rationing, and stagflation. So the narrative is that Boomers were 25-year-olds planning to steal money from their granddkids 40 years later?
Powerful reminder of what it is to be waged labor, and a reminder of the long working class cultural resistance to bourgeois culture.
You can read the study here It’s actually pretty positive www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Today is the first day of public trading for Trump’s crypto scam.
Right-wing Daily Caller just released a transcript of an interview they did with Trump last week. This was part of it.
It’s still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner’s (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
Lots of people with questions about this The government said there were 76 putative class members (children) loaded on planes yesterday But the putative class covered by the judge’s order isn’t limited to kids that were loaded on planes for imminent deportation That’s why the ~600 estimate
Going live with @wajali.bsky.social at about 10:10 a.m. PST. thelefthook.substack.com
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CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @andertoon.bsky.social )
Boston Common, start of the Labor Day Parade
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Maple, an English springer spaniel and former police dog, uses her strong sense of smell to help save thousands of honeybee hives. She sniffs bee colonies for American foulbrood, a highly contagious bacteria that’s fatal to the insects. https://wapo.st/41phn2Y
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
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Managed to see him twice...I consider myself very lucky to have done so.
A reminder on this Labor Day: Slavery still exists in the form of incarcerated labor. It’s long overdue to end forced labor in prisons.
Wonderful, I had forgotten about this song of his! So glad you included it here. 🫶🏻
John McCutcheon’s “Labor Day,” In history books I often find That children worked in mill and mine No time to play, to learn, or grow Just send 'em in or down below Today too many have forgot The goals for which our parents fought When I grow up I hope to be As strong as those who fought for me
A U.S. federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting migrant Guatemalan children. Video recorded by local television station KVEO showed Guatemalan children deplaning in Texas, and being driven away on buses. MSNBC’s Vaughn Hillyard has the latest.
Happy Labor Day everyone! A reminder that Trump has just about decimated the federal workforce. Nearly 10% of all federal workers forced out of their jobs since Jan. "We’re seeing the arson of our government." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The labor movement has long fought for better wages, safer workplaces, and dignity on the job for all workers That’s why it’s under attack. And that’s why Democracy Defenders Fund defends it. This Labor Day, we stand with unions in the fight for democracy & economic justice.
What a beautiful memory.
A DOGE whistleblower revealed that employees uploaded a Social Security database—containing full names, dates of birth, and addresses of hundreds of millions of Americans— to a cloud server without “independent security or oversight," creating “enormous vulnerabilities" to hackers. trib.al/FDTWG43
Ukrainian sanctions are beginning to bite in occupied Luhansk, where massive fuel shortages have caused long lines at gas stations. Local residents are waiting for hours as supplies of AI-92 and AI-95 gasoline run dry.
The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
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Sorry to all those stuck working today. The best way to honor them is by staying home and relaxing so we don’t encourage businesses to stay open. To those in jobs that are always necessary and rarely get a break: thank you for your sacrifice and service. We know many don’t get the day off.
We hope to see you out there at the nationwide protest today. Let’s raise our voices, honor the workers who’ve been cast aside, and keep fighting for the dignity and security every worker deserves. We hope you enjoy the day, you’ve earned it. 💚
the government is still on track to spend more this year than last. As we gather with friends and family, let’s also stand together. Labor Day is not only about enjoying a well-earned rest it’s about remembering the struggles and sacrifices that built this holiday in the first place.
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
The experiences of cancer patients have long been told through a narrow, often sanitized lens — framed as battles to be fought and wrapped in neatly packaged survival stories. But today, a new generation of patients is rewriting that script.
The fight for working people is personal to me. I come from a union family, I carried a union card. This Labor Day—and every day—the Democratic Party is standing up for union jobs and against these sweeping Republican attacks on working men and women.
Wow that's so cool! Lucky you!
I always think of U. Utah Phillips and his powerful song "All Used Up" on Labor Day: poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/u...
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Seeger-worthy: "I spent my whole life making somebody rich I busted my ass for that son of a bitch He left me to die like a dog in a ditch And told me I’m all used up... They use up the oil, they use up the trees They use up the air and they use up the seas... What’s left, when we’re all used ulp"
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Yesterday, after enjoining DOJ/DHS from removing dozens of unaccompanied Guatemalan minors, Judge Sooknanan ordered DOJ to file 4 status reports *later that same day*—with a 5th still due this morning—to prove it complied. (“Presumption of regularity” is gone for this DOJ.) ... 1/2
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Trump's Ego is a National Security Risk: India Was the Economic Alternative to China. Trump Ended That. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
Telling it like it is 🔥 "Once again, we are seeing the federal government retaliate against our civil servants for whistleblowing—which is both illegal and a deep betrayal of the most dedicated among us." www.newsweek.com/fema-staff-l...