I’m a well-seasoned mama dragon of one who homeschools. Also, DBT therapist. I love reading, knitting , and singing, among other things. (She/her)
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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.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Yikes!
Truth...
She knows nothing of the sort…
Executive orders are not laws and not binding to the public at large but only to the federal agencies and officers that report to the President. He’s not a king. We have no kings.
Or, it could be that people want an end to the suffering that we’re both watching and dreading… and it’s more about that than about wishing for death on anyone for the sake of death.
What timing. People will be receiving some off-the-wall medical advice from Dr. AI. 😢
Okay, so, let me get this straight… there are people who studied to be experts in different areas of science. They’ve researched & done studies; they were hired because of their expertise, & we’re not supposed to trust them. We’re supposed to instead trust our Google searches? Is that right?
I don’t know, but I have to show my ID every time I vote, so… What is he talking about?
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
What a ridiculous person.
For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.
Cascio You can use my flashlight
That wouldn’t fill up his “work camps” with people, who are “addicted” to SSRIs & other mental health meds, & who he bans from being able to take them so they can try his new, more effective, treatment of hard work & vitamin D directly from the sun.
CHICAGO…
Smart!
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
Would we even be able to build these? I mean, manufacturing requires materials that we won’t have access to due to the brilliant tariffs.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
Just saying...
This is disgusting. I heard a MAGA, recent law grad say she saw no videos of violence on J6 & doesn’t believe there was any. She cdn’t internalize the fact that people had admitted to attacking officers nor that trump took hours before acting but thinks LA has been a nightmare of violence.
Exactly! We need to pay attention. The messaging around this is deplorable and suggests more loss of rights… but not increased safety.
Early on in his “tenure,” he said that people are “addicted” to SSRIs & other meds, & what he thinks is best for people on psych meds is to get off all meds & go to “work camps” because working outdoors will cure a myriad of mental disorders. This mess fits into his agenda, & it’s sickening.
They’ll look into SSRIs, but sensible nationwide gun laws. NOPE!! Just call the shooter a coward and call it a day. I’m beyond angry about all the ways this will be warped to fit their political agenda, but nothing “good” wrt societal justice (and justice for those harmed) will happen.
There is research supporting this. I was pretty surprised by it myself…
In a stunning break from justice, DOJ is letting Ghislaine Maxwell rewrite her story. Proffers are supposed to expose the truth, this one gave a convicted child abuser a platform to lie. Mimi Rocah explains.
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
This is great. Thanks for sharing. Too many women have had hysterectomies due to endometriosis (my mother and her mother were among them). There has to be a better way. I made a huge dietary change to avoid unnecessary surgery, and it decreased my symptoms. Learning root causes would be invaluable.
It’s a strange dialectic. Despite what’s happening all around us, we still have our lives to live. Sometimes, I wonder what’s the point of doing any of it if we could lose it all tomorrow? And, yet, we look forward to the next positive event in our lives. Anyway, that’s what I’m experiencing…
With their history of complaining that an order wasn’t “written down,” she should have done so, even though DOJ said they understood. Not that it matters ultimately… 😢
Wow! This will be a fun ride for you! I’m in the middle of one of those. Solidarity!
Sending troops into US cities against their will. Strong-arming corporations and extracting gifts in exchange for tariff exemptions. Calling on state governments to gerrymander in his favor. Trump is the "big government" nightmare conservatives have always warned us about.
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Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
You know, someone scolded me the other day when I said I didn’t like how the media was presenting Maxwell’s conversation with Blanche uncritically and as though it has any useful meaning. I was told that I don’t understand the purpose of the media.
Anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles found dead in her jail cell and literally there is no mainstream reporting on this. The only reason her name was publicized was b/c @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social put it out there. Justice for Adrienne Villa!
It looks like his skin is decaying…
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 absolutely love this painting. It breathes with calmness. Yes, it is Ukrainian art. Ivan Pylypenko, The River of Time, 2020
1. An anon invents a story about Big Balls that’s not in the police report or in the Daily Beast piece he links to. 2. The post goes viral because it tells a story a lot of people want to hear. 3. A Columbia Law School lecturer with 10K followers copies the original BS post. Misinfo is bad!
Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.
This is not “intended” for child safety. We know what this is really about.
Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
We often speak of trump cultists as ignorant, isolated & impoverished and we err. Watch Colorado District Judge Barrett for 20m of what may be the finest sentencing take down ever & you may feel a fresh, motivating burst of yearning for the return of the rule of law. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNNe...
FUCK REPUBLICUNTS!
Does anyone like him?
A somewhat funny aspect of this moment history is the colorful and creative ways that people insult him. The things that people are saying about him are far beyond his worst nightmare 😂 — a person who requires the level of idolatry that he does, and who doesn’t fully understand these insults.
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I’m tired of them asking us for money to support Dems in the midterms like there will BE midterms. I’m seriously done with them behaving like it’s business as usual. Meanwhile, they throw some votes in favor of this regime.
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is escalating its effort to pressure states to hand over sensitive voter data, including by threatening legal action, according to letters from a top department official obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Wow! 🤩
Same. Because of this, our children and young adults are unsafe. Women are unsafe. LGBTQ people are unsafe. Period.
Let’s be clear that this is authoritarianism.
Newsom releases new ad 🔥
He didn’t create it; he stoked the flame of it. Hate has been around since forever. Robert Frost even wrote a short poem about the end of the world acknowledging it…
Holy shit.
He should never again be expected to do that…
So, THIS is a part of what Friday’s meeting accomplished…
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All you had to do was listen to her.
"The hold Putin has over Trump is existential for Trump. And unless we can expose that, the US will increasingly become a mere satellite of Russia."
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
This is so great!
I would like to recommend “God Save the Hungry” by Grace Petrie. search.yahoo.com/search?p=god...
We know who did this. And, then he pardoned them and deputized them to kidnap people off the streets, from where they work, and the courthouses where they are legally following the immigration system. All while he cheers them on. As he did then…
@corpsepilot.bsky.social @loaferess.bsky.social @gratefuldeadpool.bsky.social
Exactly right. ⬇️
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
Governor Abbott just said he’s got “bullets in his belt” that he’s ready to use against Texas Democrats. As a prosecutor, I’ve had criminals threaten my life. I never thought I’d see the day that the Governor of Texas threatens my life. Governor Abbott, retract your statement.
Wait, according to Bill Maher, t’s reason for promising a Ukraine capitulation to end a war they didn’t start is that he hates war? Um, yeah, that tracks, for sure.
The president and vice president of the US meet in Alaska. A day of national embarrassment for the United States. The KGB leader and undercover agent meet in Alaska. A day of national victory for Russia.
"Not welcome in the USA and that goes for Putin too."
You might also ask why when a prisoner at Ghislaine’s new glam camp complained about a sexual predator’s presence there, that prisoner was removed from same camp and sent to another prison.
If Trump weren’t compromised, the world’s worst characters wouldn’t waltz onto American soil. From Maxwell to Putin, access isn’t earned—it’s bought with loyalty. Our democracy can’t survive VIP passes for criminals and autocrats.
If you don’t think Trump is compromised, ask yourself how Ghislaine Maxwell got a meeting with Todd Blanche and how Putin got a summit on American soil.
After surviving another week of human created stress, let #Nature balance your biology #NorthernLights #RespectWildlife #BlueEarth #OV1 #TTDS
📣 Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the wealthy. 🌉
Release the Epstein Files!
That sounds amazing!
And, he wants Ukraine to cede land to Russia as part of the “peace” agreement. Who is surprised by that?
The REAL STORY is STILL THIS: AND WE MUST KEEP IT THAT WAY.
I am SO loving these…
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