This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
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Thank you on this labor day!!
I stand with Labor Unions.
Oh christ. You have got to be kidding me.
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.
Right? When has he ever felt the need to "sign" his own post on his own platform? That's like a grade school kid trying to forge their parent's name on a permission slip.
I remember how the repubs mercilessly attacked Biden and Lloyd Austin, when Austin was being treated for prostate cancer. Every repub was screaming that Austin hadn't basically invited them into his treatment room and put his medical team on a live-cam. They wanted him fired. Hypocrites.
In the "old days" reporters would already have tracked down Gruden to ask about this photo. They would be dissecting every minute of the last week of the prez's time-line, and throwing theories. They would have interviewed 15 docs as to "what could be happening with his health".
I'm so glad for him! He deserves time with his family, sunshine, and all the ice cream cones, after a life in public service.
Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science. Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering. RIP, Margaret.
Love this! My dogs are too big for me to hold, but giving the cats a look. Thank you for the Sunday warm fuzzies!
They didn't eat enough tallow?
I don't often dip my toe in the River Styx of the deep cult, but recent noise has been extreme. Multiple groups coalescing around end-of-days, each with its own belief about being the only ones "saved/safe", and the rest of humanity unredeemable. "Truehuman", "Chosen", etc. Celebrating catastrophe.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, itās not criminals theyāre targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
And he just made an "executive order" giving the general public a gateway to sign up online to be "deputized" to "enforce federal law". The requirements are "LE or related experience". I imagine militias and paramilitary like 3% or proud bz count. Mobilization of vigilante nutters, en masse.
And I would let you calculate the trajectory through interpretive dance and yeet me into space before I would let RFKj advise me on a hangnail.
Women deserve bodily autonomy. Veterans deserve bodily autonomy.
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
Maybe it's like penguins, and CF needs to go first, to show him how?
Sigh. SIGH.
But also yes, I get the impression that Kroger is saying "fuck you" to their customers in so many ways. It's impossible to tell if it's corporate greed raising prices in advance, tariffs, inflation, etc anymore. Ugh.
I don't know, it's definitely across the board though. I bought razors at Sams, and the same pack went from 29.00 to 44.00. All the personal care has skyrocketed.
Hahaha, we don't actually drink, so I would probably faint at the prices!
And mouthwash, what on earth?? 9$ a bottle. It's not Cabernet, ffs.
I just looked up and watched the whole scene on YT!!
The closest thing I could find is some "influencer" who says (with absolutely no evidence) that he's alive and well, and a whole slew of articles about the trending rumors. Very weird. Someone opined that he's prepping for a major distraction, so I seriously hope that we're not invading Greenland.
A good link to a letter to send your member of Congress. Ask them to ensure that we are able to access the updated Covid-19 vaccine!
White House live-stream reported to be down. News reports that "#TrumpisDead" trending on twitter, 60k posts with the hashtag at press time (middle of the night my time). No official response/statement/denial. What's going on? Collective manifestation? Is that a thing?
I hope they clean the floor with meta. One thing I notice that most of these young women have in common is stalkers. I think it's reckless and dangerous to offer people a chance to indulge in full fantasies about their "relationships" with celebrities. Especially without their consent!!
Good lord, is everyone just an amoral grifter now??
Absolutely this.
This is a dumpster fire that has grown into an inferno threatening to consume the US. Another vital Federal employee forced to flee for their sanity and their soul.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
And the stories of abuse in that short time are staggering, culminating in the news today of prisoners beaten and gassed by guards for chanting "freedom". We are monsters.
Every person working in these "Detention facilties" should be prosecuted and jailed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
No!! This is expected but horrible. I am rooting all-in for his legal team. Our country is a backwater hellhole, in just 8 short months.
With multiple shootings tied to people espousing rw ideas in the past few months, he's deliberately putting her life at great risk. He has no moral compass, no empathy, no humanity. He's operating with the emotional intelligence of a toddler, and he needs to be impeached.
I cannot watch this without tears, and anger that this country refuses to take simple steps to protect kids like Fletcher Merkel. My heart breaks.
She's such a basic ass. Absolutely nothing prevents people from both prayer and action. Perhaps her God is up there yelling "I've given you all the tools to eradicate gun violence, now get off your dead arses and fix it!" Prayer obviously hasn't fixed it, time for some legislation.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
Please read through this thread, and take action to protect yourselves, your loved ones, and every other person, pet, and being from the madness gripping our government.
I can't stop thinking today about the first time during the pandemic that I counseled a family who lost their baby to Covid-19. How broken so many of my friends were who worked in hospitals. Living in trailers, nomads, watching people die desperate and alone, holding them. Vaccines were a miracle.
Gee, it's too bad that with all of these incredible breakthroughs the US is going all-in on sheep-dip and quackery.
Some of the people who did resign (unlike the head who certainly did not, contrary to lazy news reports) did so in order to speak out and speak up, unfettered by the massive constraints against free speech put in place by this regime. It is an emergency. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
The resignation letters from the brave doctors fleeing the CDC. This is a 5-alarm fire. RFK jr must be removed.
Thank you. For your work, your bravery, your honesty. I worked with families going through Covid-19 pre-vaccine, and I cannot believe we are choosing to go down that path again. Not to mention all the other research and brilliance being flushed away by a lunatic eugenecist with no medical knowledge.
This is disturbing because it is utter garbage. This is horrific because it so vividly shows his disdain for our kids. His statement is exactly what drives eugenics. The head of the HHS speaking openly about walking through airports filled with families, looking at their kids, and saying "eww, bad".
RFK is running the HHS as a eugenics experiment. I am extremely concerned that there is no "approval" for the vaccine for people who live or work with vulnerable people and populations. Healthcare workers, teachers, all the people who lived through the devastation of Covid-19 pre-vaccine.
Exactly. What is happening right now should be used like a cudgel to beat that argument to death forever.
I cannot believe that people go home and look at their guns and think "you, my deadly chunks of metal, are worth more than the lives of thousands of little kids." And then lobby and yell and legislate to elevate the importance of a tool over the faces of loss, grief, and death.
It seems that there is no "approval" for the vaccine to be used for people who live or work with immune-compromised or otherwise vulnerable people? Healthcare workers? Teachers? He is a monster.
I haven't read any guidance about people who live or work (health care workers) with immune-compromised individuals being eligible for the vaccine. Does this mean they aren't eligible? This is insane. How will already overloaded drs even have time to give the vaccine? This is a policy of murder.
This is the best analogy I've read.
The National Guard members, their families, their regular employers, their education, their kids. All of these people are being forced to sacrifice for deranged optics. His disrespect for the military is apparently a bottomless pit.
They should. No one who signed up for any branch of the military signed on for this. National Guard members balance full lives outside of their service with continuing training to be prepared for things we hope will never come, war and disasters. The disrespect he has for service members is obscene.
This man is so clear with his message, what a hero.
"...Since you took my lunch away"
This is really great news. Considering that a grand jury is a one sided presentation and almost always gets an indictment, our peers are rejecting these nonsense charges in heroic fashion.
As a teen, I marched in DC many times. Took a bus across country, took the Metro. As an adult I traveled many times to march and to visit. Took public transport, visited the museums, went to Georgetown. I never had an issue, other than running out of time to see everything. Still have my watch.
Today is the National Park Serviceās birthday! š„³šļø You know what would be a great birthday gift? Not firing staff or cutting funds from the agency responsible for keeping our public lands pristine and accessible!
Nice! Now my brain can play alternate overlays. My phone might live through the year.
All I see when I watch him atp is Diane Ladd and a tube of lipstick, "Wild at Heart", and that mental overlay might be the only thing keeping me from reflexively throwing my phone at the wall.
BREAKING: VETERAN'S BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN
My name is Josh Turek. I'm a two-time Paralympic gold medalist. I'm a proud State Legislator from Council Bluffs who represents the reddest seat held by a Democrat in Iowa. And I'm the guy who's going to beat Joni Ernst. Repost this, give us a follow, and letās win together.
They tried to force him into a "plea deal" to plead guilty to manufactured charges, and be deported to Costa Rica following serving his "sentence" here. (No option for an actual trial, because they made it all up.) He rightfully refused, so off to Uganda. Pure revenge, malice, and abuse of power.
Virginia Giuffre isnāt here to tell her story anymore, but she wrote a memoir and itās coming out in October. She deserves to be heard and remembered. #BookSky Details here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712958...
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
This is so fun!!!
I'm so sorry, sending best wishes for excellent care, good answers, and a speedy recovery.
The rotating mural wall at 12th and Christian Streets in South Philly has been refreshed with wheatpastes from over 20 local and national street artists. In todayās video, Streets Dept Lead Contributor, Eric Dale talks with the man who organizes it, Sean 9 Lugo:
More great news. The teens have been released.
As a person in recovery, we talk a lot about hitting your bottom. What happens when you are governed by a regime that has no bottom?
I think that we should flip the script somehow. Thank her for her beautiful mural celebrating the importance and beauty of the Black diaspora in the US.
What the actual fuck. Who made that white lady the arbiter of "how to talk about slavery honestly"? She needs to put away her Prager videos and Shut. Her. Mouth. *I couldn't recall the name, so I googled "right wing propaganda history videos" and bingo.
Here, fixed it.
Sometimes justice is a slow burn, but eventually it comes for everyone. I hope that the news of his demise gives some small comfort to all the people that he hurt over his lifetime.
DeSantis is an unforgiveable stain, a thing that grew twisted and stunted in the FL miasma. Pulse victims and survivors deserve to have their memorials honored, not whitewashed. BLM deserve to be represented and heard, not whitewashed. The US deserves to have its history intact, not whitewashed.
Big news, wonderful accomplishment! Congratulations!
History museums preserve our achievements, but perhaps even more importantly our errors, so that we may be able to learn from them and, hopefully, avoid repeating them. Despots need to destroy those lessons precisely because their intent is to take us down those wrong roads again.
I'm guessing they're going to start fires, harass tourists, arrest park personnel, and get dug in in preparation for potential protests when they start selling our parks off to whatever foreign interests wave cash (bitcoin?) at his fat orangeness.
I've had at least a 1 year wait for anything. I never see my primary provider outside of my annual physical because they aren't available. Continuity of care is virtually nonexistent.
Re-sharing something I learned yesterday: when they autopsied Andrew Goodman, they found traces of red dirt in his lungs. Which meant he may still have been alive when the Klan buried him in that earthen dam in Neshoba, Mississippi. History should make you uncomfortable so you don't repeat it.
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I cannot believe that this is actually a point of contention raised by the orange menace who is *supposed* to be the leader of all of the citizens of the USA, but since we've been dragged here, let me be clear: SLAVERY IS AN ABOMINATION.
Can you describe the president's perspective on taking a stake on Intel in exchange for federal grants? Are we expecting to see the white house make similar arrangements with other companies? Leavitt: It is a creative idea that has never been done before China, Russia, NKā¦ all are cry-laughing
A new legal filing casts doubt on claims made in a negligence lawsuit filed against attorneys Joey Gilbert and Sigal Chattah by the daughter of a man who died from COVID-19. Read the update to our exclusive story here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/siga...
I'll have to remember that for next year, it has been a terrible year for my tomatoes b/c of fungus.
Kidnapping school children. Separating families. Come on US, we are BETTER than our current regime!!
That's an awesome nod to some great history, and I love its mission statement.
Thankful for brave, kind, righteous people. Thankful for all of us standing up.
Oh look, another right wing misogynist. Great hire, Cuomo. I have money on Cuomo flipping republican if he's ever allowed near NY political office again. NYC deserves better.
"Silence in the face of oppression is not an option." Right on, right on, Mayor Wu.
They seem to be trying to creep back in, though. Anthony Weiner ran for NYC city council and Cuomo is running right now. I've lost count of the number of Supreme Court justices who've been credibly accused of sexual harassment and assault.
Their helmets and face masks are interfering with their hearing. I walk past whispering quietly "Fuck you, fuck you".
And the way they were dressed, that short skirt and....JFC.
I am glad that you said this. I have been thinking about how proud I am of the European leaders for standing with Zelensky and how deeply ashamed I am that it is necessary. How dishonorably our "prez" acted on his last visit, and how Zelensky keeps trying to rise above it like a true leader.