Let PoliticsGirl tell you about how their plan will make rich oligarchs much richer, while keeping the rest of us poorer and more stressed. This is the best breakdown of the new 30% tax Republicans are trying to add to every single thing you purchase pic.twitter.com/VM3XeRdcCF — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) January 26, 2023
Continue reading →Beaten for no reason, dragged off the street for violations of modesty laws, subject to torture in those detention centers, refused school and work choices—this report shows exactly how women in Afghanistan are treated by the Taliban. Women who dare to protest, and some women do dare to, are treated even more harshly. In the New York Times (gift link, no paywall) another report shows the same brutal situation. Taliban Rewind the Clock: ‘A Woman Is a Helpless and Powerless Creature’ Girls are barred from secondary schools and women from traveling any significant distance without a male relative. Men … Continue reading →
I know I have said here more than once that I believe the right-wing patriarchy, the white supremacist movement in this country wants me and everyone like me to be dead so long as we refuse to conform to their ideas of how human culture should be structured. They don’t want feminists to exist, or queers of any variety. They are uncomfortable with creative artists and free-thinkers. They don’t like science because they can’t control it. They definitely hate people of color and immigrants who come from non-Western countries. Even a whiff of social democracy as it exists in European … Continue reading →
Starbucks workers are unionizing all over, but Starbucks is fighting the trend by firing union organizers. As we see in the video below, the ultimate power belongs to the workers. Without us, they have nothing but an empty store. Starbucks fired an @SBWorkersUnited union leader in Buffalo. The whole store walked out in protest. This video has over 17 million views on TikTok. pic.twitter.com/WgObqa2ZAN — Josh Miller-Lewis (@jmillerlewis) August 10, 2022
Continue reading →Please don’t look away. 20 GOP-led states are suing the USDA over a rule from the agency that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ students in free school lunch programs. The AGs argue schools have the right to deny queer and trans kids lunch money. https://t.co/xM3IGonUIB — Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) July 27, 2022
Continue reading →Hat tip to Balloon Juice commenters for the title. Eric Levitz at New York Magazine seems to like that title too. He lays out details of what’s in the bill. Biden’s COVID-Relief Bill Is a Big F**king Deal • The average household in the bottom quintile of America’s economic ladder will see its annual income rise by more than 20 percent. • A family of four with one working parent and one unemployed one will have $12,460 more in government benefits to help them make ends meet. • The poorest single mothers in America will receive at least $3,000 more … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →We couldn’t get close, but I’m watching it all with a big song in my heart.
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