Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
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.
Chicago #LaborDay #NoTrumpTroops
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!
My sibling has some heavy grievances about bedtime during our school years. They also found structure/order to be stifling/suffocating. Meanwhile, I thrived with the security that came from having a routine. There is no way our parents could have made my sibling feel content with our upbringing.
Looks like LA's ice thugs have been taking notes from Portland's ice thugs.
🚨We🚨Must🚨Not🚨Allow🚨Brutalization🚨Of🚨Protesters🚨To🚨Be🚨Normalized!!!
PREMIERE TOMORROW 17:00utc Who wants “profound autism”? Where are the calls for this “new diagnosis” coming from? "Profound Autism" & Anti-Neurodiversity youtu.be/AWF__SCuWsY
This song should be at the top of the 2025 Hits List!
Democratic Wins Media BREAKING: An enormous protest has erupted outside of Trump Tower in NYC against Donald Trump. The American people are rising up against Trump. Let’s go.
Austin Labor Day: really catchy music and great energy! Really love the vibe!
I'm just gonna flip on some corporate media really quick... ABC: ads CNN: ads Back to CNN: Trump's Chicago "immigration enforcement" MSNBC: Protests in Chicago Back to ABC: A "federal judge getting in the way of Trump's immigration crackdown" Back to CNN: Weekend travel Nothing about Trump MIA
Way to rise up San Diego Labor Day ✊
Democratic Wins Media In a remarkable moment, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez just laid out Democrats' path to winning back working people. This is the Labor Day message that everyone should hear.
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
Prosecuted and sued! The kids involved's parents should have to take huge financial hits, as a consequence for raising racist bullies.
Hope!
Yeah “surprising,” as a 2008 law requires unaccompanied kids from countries other than Canada/Mexico to be "placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child." A 3AM plane to Guatemala—ignoring potential harm upon arrival—is not that. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Thank you on this labor day!!
Matthew Cooke @matthewcooke.bsky.social 1/2
📌 Nice to see D.C. show up day after day. ✊🏼 Power to the people!
Portland, OR Rush Hour Resistance/I-5 Overpass Challenge action on the Blumenauer Bicycle and Pedestrian bridge. Fri, August 29. #WorkersOverBillionaires 🇺🇸 "Help Save Our Democracy" 🇺🇸
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.
Graham Greene has sadly passed away at the age of 73. He played Skully in ‘Echo’
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Fascism arrived Teachers vilified Doctors arrested Scientists shunned Librarians threatened Pregnancy kills Disease welcome Hatred grows War approaches Reality manipulated Laws weaponized Violence rewarded Empathy demonized Books burned Schools closed Innocents killed Futures gone (2-14-2025)
What a wonderful interview. 🕊Peace for Ukraine 🇺🇦 youtu.be/HcG1hSxbeIQ?...
How wonderful. A new online magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers run by the brilliant @sfmontgomery.bsky.social 👇
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The National Guardners
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
Day 224 REALITY CHECK: The election was highly compromised. There was a coup. The Supreme Court was the primary lever. Everything we have witnessed is TREASON. There’s no way out of this without MASS MOVEMENTS of the people. No one is coming to save us. We must rise up in peaceful revolution NOW.
All of Giuliani’s life events that I know about hit like season ending cliffhangers where you’re like ‘How’s he gonna get outta this one?’ People forget that Four Seasons Landscaping debacle was All Him, which is understandable because he also committed actual sexual harassment in a Borat movie.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
I can't wait to find out why this statement is so bizarre.
carver langston. #FreeDC
You guys see where this is going? Right?
BREAKING: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson defies President Trump by leading a "no troops in Chicago!"
QUACK! QUACK! Secretary of Health RFK Jr. said a paper that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and disease must be retracted. The journal refused. In an extraordinary move for a U.S. public official, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demanded the retraction
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.
🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
Listen to the victims. If you think rape is okay, then fuck off. youtube.com/shorts/4q2vM...
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This. And a big part of the FCC doctrine was created to prevent another demagogue like Father Coughlin. Who was he? The Rush Limbaugh of his day, spreading non-stop propaganda rooted in hatred and intolerance during the 1930s. www.pbs.org/wnet/explori...
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Targeting firefighters while they work. Dragging children from their beds in the dead of night. MAGA will go to any length. We’ve said it before, eventually the monster comes for us all!
Why has Trump been attacking unions and workers’ rights? He wants working people to feel helpless and divided. Trump and his billionaire backers realize that the collective power of a unified labor movement outweighs their own power. Know this: Workers outnumber the oligarchs.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
He put chalk on his shoes then walked on the Pulse Memorial crosswalk. Police arrested him. But the court said they had no cause and he was released. The man arrested is now considering suing the state of Florida citing first amendment right violations.
Soooo...he is a typical douche-canoe. Got it! ✔️ His resume reads like that of a conservative U.S.A. politician.
I’m not an ornithologist. Can anyone identify the bird in this photo?
Finally able to nab @restingdinoface.bsky.social’s When the Earth Was Green from the library. Despite not being a botanist, plant evolutionary history is one of my favorite topics to teach. What a lovely and meditative walk through the entangled history of plants, animals, and the larger environment
Your daily reminder that when Republicans say they’re pro-military, they really mean pro-military contractor.
I’m going to give you insight from me - a Veteran. Cleaning like that was reserved for people who had gotten into trouble, back when I was serving. So, when I see that, I hate Trump a little more each time. It’s like he’s punishing them for serving their country.
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Fatality.
Dig this guy's style. Chaz Langley, the man behind the camera, runs a great Instagram account if you like street style. Unfortunately had to clip the video bc Bluesky only allows 3mins (developers pls change this!) IG langleyseye and iamsuedeofficial
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
"Everyday People" by Sly & The Family Stone is a powerful anthem of unity, highlighting that despite differences, all people are equal and should coexist peacefully. Its messages challenged prejudice and celebrated inclusivity, as the band was one of the first major integrated rock groups.
Hi. I’m the executive director of the organization that had the honor of hosting the FEMA Katrina Declaration and I can confirm this is a lie. NICE TRY, KRISTI! @standupforscience.bsky.social @atrupar.com
yep but with extra context because nobody—including Americans—grasps how enormous Australia is (I’m teaching Australian history this semester)
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”
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?
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
The National Guard was built for disasters and emergencies. Now it’s being turned into a domestic police force. I wrote about it in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Last night, at the final show of her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, Cyndi Lauper brought out Joni Mitchell (for “Carey”), Cher (“Girls Just Want To Have Fun”), SZA (“True Colors”), John Legend (“Time After Time”), and more. www.stereogum.com/2321337/cynd...
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Karp is another rich nazi who hates like a nazi. youtu.be/QZrlfBE6UI4?...
Monsters Nazis How many nazis are in the US? How many nazis are in South Africa? How many nazis are in Germany? What the hell is wrong with these assholes? youtu.be/riX2Ww80Ow0?...
Many in the US do NOT want to conquer or bully other nations. Peace from the US for Greenland!! youtube.com/shorts/XzYFu...
Watch out Wyoming! youtube.com/shorts/Q4G-i...
You know Russia and Israel must have them. Someone has to have copies of the videos and the victim's statements. That person hanging onto them, hiding them, protecting rapists, is a prick.
“Jobs disappear and the markets cheer.” On Labor Day 30 years ago, I issued a warning the growing divide between workers and the super-rich. Watch. youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw
This video is waaay too long, given what it’s documenting—books to be removed from all Edmonton Public Schools. Alberta, please don’t go the way of the U.S. and start banning books. 🎬@non_toxic_masculinity
U.S. politicians' responses to mass shootings are "always performative," says @cameronkasky.bsky.social. "This administration... is so defined by tragedy, cruelty, and violence that something like children being shot dead while they are praying is not going to be a topic next week."
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
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They're both lying to you.
In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. www.goodreads.com/book/show/40...
...with a set of low-hanging golden trump-branded truck nuts swinging from the rear, no doubt.
The C word: Colonies youtu.be/RvlUGYvLg0s?...
Why was the US attacked? youtu.be/tx72tAWVcoM?...
If you’re in favor of shutting down museum exhibitions or banning books because they make you feel bad, that’s a pretty good tip that you deserve to feel bad.
Wake up America‼️
Nothing will have me hating trump anymore than I already do. This is so stupid. We always knew he would screw over any contractor. Fuck you for contracting with this fascist, nazi regime. youtube.com/shorts/e1iCt...
With the corporations in charge of the EPA, Congress, and our top court, we need to fight for the right NOT to be poisoned. youtu.be/Y0lsLnXX4U8?...
Will the genocide of Native Peoples ever end? RESIST! youtu.be/qP38E9RWUb8?...
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
This whole thread is exhausting. The questions vary between insulting to teachers’ professionalism, trivial, and irrelevant (but requiring a particular set of beliefs). Nothing about actual teacher qualification.
FAMOUS QUOTES; "Christians, get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore, you know what? Four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians" Candidate Donald Trump youtu.be/gE7xoHJkgvE?...
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