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Concord, NH lit up today with the truth: when the people rise, no billionaire class can break our spirit. Voices rang out: The people united will never be divided. We’re done with crumbs while the rich feast. We’re all in for #WorkersOverBillionaires ✊🔥
You guys see where this is going? Right?
August 31, 2025
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.
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.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Texas Blocks Law That Would Ban Gun Stores From Operating Inside Psych Wards http://theonion.com/texas-blocks-law-that-would-ban-gun-stores-from-operating-inside-psych-wards/
How could that be? Trump died the day before.
The real problem isn’t immigrants. Recommending some documentaries about the abuse of workers, where they are essentially held captive, underpaid or not paid at all and are under the constant threat of deportation— Trafficked in America (2018), Food Chains (2014), and The Harvest/La Cosecha (2011)
"They're takin' our jobs!" has NEVER been true. It's a lie to make US-born people resent immigrants and get them to support harsh, cruel, anti-immigrant measures. No US-born citizens are rushing to fill the jobs undocumented people were doing.
I was already pretty done with the news media but seeing clips yesterday from the Sunday shows where an anchor is like “but what if living in a Police State does reduce car jackings? Why would you be against that?” probably was the end
Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
I wonder what the regime's reaction would be if we went about our social media business as if Trump is really dead & started directly blaming "President Vance", Vought, Miller, Bondi, Gabbard, et al for all the horror.
Few seem to know the relevant decades-long history at all, despite the fact that several books were written on the subject by Finance insiders. That's why we have "liberals" complaining that candidates advocating for New Deal style regulations are "radical leftists".
Bullshit racism spread by and among people who willfully suck at history and economics and finance and math. I argued against that night and day during Obama's re-election campaign, citing the history of the CRA, how FDR's New Deal regulations had been destroyed, and how their math wasn't mathing
Republicans: “Stop making everything about race.” Really? White people enslaved Black people for generations, stole Native land, lynched and segregated us, burned down Black communities that thrived, and treated Mexican land & labor like property to be taken. America already made it about race.
Rhode Island passed a law banning mandatory anti-union employee meetings. Union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson held a webinar for employers about the law. And they essentially told employers... to break the law! We got the transcript and the PowerPoint: prospect.org/justice/2025...
Mary Shelley wrote an entire book trying to warn us about extremely arrogant nerds who create things irresponsibly and take no accountability for them for when they wreck society, by the way.
In 1991, Patrick Stewart surprised Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry with a musical and dance performance on the USS Enterprise-D bridge to wish him a happy birthday it wasn't meant for public viewing, but a copy was made and later included as a DVD bonus #PatrickStewart
Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Is this dipshit faster than a speeding bullet?
Everywhere ya go, millionaires & billionaires are selfish fucking assholes.
#ComfortFood 🌿 #Violife #RebelCheeze #Food #Sunday #LaborDayWeekend 😊🌸🔆 #Sandwich 😉#Wellbeing #Hugs
What would great is if everyone just acted like he was dead anyway. Publish obituaries. Just act like he isn’t there anymore. Front it out like they did with the whole “We won the election” thing. Think how furious that would make him.
Medicare for all. Paid leave. Universal childcare. Break up corporate monopolies. Take on Wall Street greed. Get big money out of politics. Support unions. Raise wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda.
The Democratic Party has badly lost its way.
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Rising at the same rate they did during the mass layoffs that followed the collapse of global financial markets in 2009. Not a good sign.
POPE LEO: “Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.” He prays for the victims in Minneapolis, and “the countless children killed and injured every day around the world”
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Greta Thunberg is saying the truth we all know "Why are our government failing to step up and uphold international law?" "We are attempting to sail again with desperately needed humanitarian aid, But we are also delivering a message of hope and solidarity" Watch 👇
Slavery Was Defined by Sexual Violence Trump doesn’t want you to know that. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/slavery-wa...
Me: autoimmune defibrillator fairness doctrine field-effect transistor gas chromatography HDL human papillomavirus mass market modem necrotizing fasciitis one-upmanship Pap smear pegboard scuba space-faring stoned swing state tax shelter tetracycline underachiever viewership Zika virus all in 1952
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GvjPcr/ How in the HELL does any government lawfully deport 600 unaccompanied minors? Who does that? Who the fuck are we? What are we? What have we become?
Hageman looks like the last face you'd see before waking up in a cheap motel room just off the State Road in a bathtub filled with pink ice and missing a kidney.
Oil. On behalf of Exxon. Venezuela has the largest proven reserves in the world & by far the lowest production levels in OPEC. Exxon desperately wants it cheap and has been fucking with the Venezuelan economy & politics ever since Chavez declared opposition to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003
Exxon fucked Venezuela back in 2003 when it refused to pay $12bn for oil it had already received from its state-owned oil company. At the time, the entire federal budget of Venezuela was < $40bn, so this was an enormous hit to their revenue - right after Chavez opposed the US Iraq Invasion.
Is anyone really surprised liberal content creators are being paid $8k/mo to dispense party approved talking points without disclosing that theyre being paid to do so?
Take the time to watch this and follow @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
If you want religion in schools, build and operate them with your own God-given money. Don't demand that taxpayers subsidize you.
The police version of the crash, as relayed by a local Manchester reporter, is unsurprisingly quite different from what Giuliani's spokesman says. The whole thing is even more murky now, however. manchester.inklink.news/rudy-giulian...
@velshi.com Here in GEORGIA 14TH DISTRICT OF Marjorie Taylor Greene we have the OPPORTUNITY TO THOW HER OUT!!! RET. BRIGADIER GENERAL SHAWN HARRIS is running for Congress. He answered every question at his town hall this week in ROME GA, NO TAZING!!! He needs support and publicity!!!
I really hope that Carney goes along with the gag somehow.
I really hope that Carney goes along with the gag somehow.
The bailout deals had begun even before the 2008 election, and Obama went along with them.
5/ ... those banks & insurance companies began defaulting on THEIR debts. By 2008, the entire house of cards had begun to collapse and many huge financial entities suddenly became insolvent.
4/ Foreclosures followed and "unsold inventory" of housing and even commercial real estate began increasing leading to a collapse of real estate values across the board. Many CDO investors had leverage them as "assets" & borrowed against their value & ROI. When those values & ROI evaporated ...
3/ Insurance companies & pension funds that would have been barred from making such investments prior to the repeal of Glass-Steagal, ate up these CDOs, as did hedge funds, banks, and even Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. When the ARM balloon payments started hitting in 2007, mortgage defaults skyrocketed.
2/ Brokers then purchased these sketchy mortgages and packaged them with standard 30-yr mortgages into "Collateralized Debt Obligations" & sold them as investment instruments that were ludicrously overrated by debt-rating agencies (S&P, Moody's, etc.)
1/ Exactly. Beginning ~2002, yuppies who were eager to buy McMansions in new suburban developments (as "starter homes") were pushed into ARMs by unregulated, non-FDIC lenders (Wall St banks) - activity that had been illegal until the repeal of Glass-Steagall. This mortgage rush inflated home values.
A brief history of the establishment of Labor Day during The Gilded Age in the context of the Republican "Business Man's" Party (supported by the NYT) and of the Democrats pledging to help workers but ultimately capitulating. Sound familiar? August 31, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Utah is one of the most racist places on Earth. So naturally, it overwhelmingly voted for Trump and Republicans. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
#bebest 😆
Hey! Just icymi: FEMA is now evicting THOUSANDS of Hurricane Helene survivors Our government hates us. And millions voted for this degree of brutality and cruelty. Why?
We are really lucky that CourtListener exists. I think it would be basically impossible to cover this insane administration without it. Certainly much harder.
Q: Would you welcome federal resources going into a part of South Carolina with a high crime rate? Nancy Mace: I hear that DC is safer than it's ever been…I look forward to watching the videos of soldiers entering Chicago
Cantor Fitzgerald. Run by a certain Commerce Secretary's sons. What an amazing coincidence
I’ve heard wall streeters are buying up the tariff refund rights from importers as speculative investments.
Another shocker.
Shocker.
Began in the 90s, first with the legalization of market derivatives that had previously been considered gambling (incl CDOs), then w/ the repeal of Glass-Steagall. Set the table for the global debt collapse of 08-09 because so much borrowing was against CDOs based on inflated US real estate values.
I was underwhelmed by him last season. He doesn't seem to have improved much since. Feels like a lot of wishcasting going on.
In DC, where mainstream media at? #dc #arresttrump
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
Wealthy Americans are helping keep the economy in good stead as they continue to buy first-class plane tickets and high-end sneakers, while more Americans are clipping coupons and cutting back on nonessentials. The economy is changing to reflect the will of the wealthy.
A Steady State "Deep Dive" : "America First: A Really Terrible Idea that Weakens and Endangers America" "The... idea of “America First” – that the U.S. has somehow been fooled by others and must regain some imaginary lost status – is a pernicious illusion. " open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
The man in the viral video stealing a signed hat from a boy is Multi millionaire CEO of Furore, Piotr Szczerek. The hat was being given to the boy by tennis star Kamil Majchrzak at the US Open tennis game. The CEO snatched it from the boy and hid it in his wife's bag. It was all caught on camera.
New copypasta just dropped.
"Slipping"? Feels more like a swan dive off a mesa.
That sitcom laugh track thing is really tempting.
Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
When you cut the social safety nets, you can expect people to fall and land on the streets.
Definitely true with the business part of American sports and sports media. Soap opera storylines are how they make bank. The game itself is an afterthought.
a pretty good summary of the 21st century is that the humiliation of america's defeats in the middle east post-9/11 curdled into a reactionary politics that seeks affirmation in the humiliation of anyone who is an other: liberals, minorities, the global south, china, europe, whoever.
I really appreciate the combination of these extremely pained, serious comments about the government trying to deport unaccompanied children in the wee hours of a holiday weekend…and the name Judge Sparkle Sooknanan
No follow-up or pushback to Krusty Gnome's bullshit non-answer. Good to know that corporate mass media "news" is still worthless.
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
We understand illiteracy & the dire consequences. To a lesser extent, also the effects of innumeracy. We are understanding in real time what happens when civics education is eroded; peeps lack basic understanding of how politics/govt actually works & his highness' royal tweets are taken as policy.
BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car crash last night. www.rawstory.com/giuliani-tra...
And we're back in La Niña territory...
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
How stupid is #Trump? This stupid. Enough stupid to bankrupt a casino or university. Of course, when a country elects a crook who steals from a children's charity, rapes children and steals from everyone blind, could you expect better? =====================
Back to the Dark Ages, because The Plague was so much damn fun!
Deaths from preventable illnesses are on the rise due to the spread of scientifically unfounded fears about vaccines across social media. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/baby...
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is exactly what "conservative" Republicans are doing to our federal govt.
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
IOW, soon we'll having nothing but CVS and Wal-Mart. We once had rules to prevent this shit, but FDR's New Deal regulations on the Finance industry are considered "radical left socialism" now.
*Poof* SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes. Less than 30 minutes after the #SocialSecurity Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email. www.wired.com/story/charle...