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Chicago Public Schools, CTU agree to make May 1 day of civic action; school will remain in session Chicago Public Schools has agreed with the Chicago Teachers Union to declare May 1 a day of civic action, the union and the school district said.

May Day has been declared a day of civic action in Chicago schools, which means buses will be provided for students and educators to join the rally in Union Park.

...100s of 1000s of mobilized union workers, community activists, and advocates from the shores of Lake Erie to Long Island are calling on @governor.ny.gov, @leaderasc.bsky.social & @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social to do the right thing in this budget: tax the rich!” - James Davis, PSC President.

“A pied-à-terre tax on penthouse mansions is a start, but it will not generate revenue statewide to protect healthcare access & food assistance, let alone close the City’s budget deficit or fund the affordability agenda that NYers are clamoring for...

The PSC is proud to be part of a coalition of unions and community groups pushing NY lawmakers to #TaxTheRich.

Slovenia is the Vermont of Europe again!

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You by undefined Delgado Lopera (Fiebre Tropical) dives into Colombia’s taboo queer culture in this scintillating narrative of a man torn between...

Julián Delgado Lopera dives into Colombia’s taboo queer culture in this scintillating narrative of a man torn between belonging and self-expression. It’s exquisite. @liveright.bsky.social

@alexgbardsley.epicure.social.ap.brid.gy Hagerstown!!

#MedicareForAllNOW

Mamdani's Tax the Rich Agenda Isn't Spooking Wall Street Record jobs and fat real estate leases make finance the No. 1 industry again.

Efforts to defeat Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push for higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations have led to stories predicting companies would flee New York.

But the numbers tell a different story.

U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement an...

Before we start falling over ourselves with praise for the Pope, remember, the Church did this last November.

This composite photograph features a warm, close-up portrait of Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939), the internationally acclaimed Canadian author, poet, and literary critic widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the late 20th and 21st centuries. In the main image, the older Atwood gazes directly at the viewer with a gentle, knowing smile, her short curly gray hair softly framing her face. She rests her left hand against her cheek in a relaxed, contemplative pose, wearing a dark top accented by a patterned gray-and-yellow scarf. The solid black background isolates her face and upper torso, creating an intimate and timeless studio portrait. Overlapping in the lower right is the iconic black-and-red cover of her 1985 dystopian masterpiece The Handmaid’s Tale, showing the famous red-robed figure with a white winged bonnet and the bold text “THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER” and “MARGARET ATWOOD.”

Margaret Atwood 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘥'𝘴 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦 was first published in Canada #OTD in 1985 (US, Feb 1986).

The book has stayed in print for >40 years, been translated into >40 languages & was adapted into a 1990 film, a 2000 opera, a 2017 television series & and other media.

#litsky #booksky #filmsky

WATCH — @khanna.house.gov : “ @schumer.senate.gov just voted with Republicans to send more bulldozers and bombs to Israel… you are out of touch with the base of this party and your own caucus. Step aside.”

Palantir Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax in 2025 While Raking in Taxpayer Funds to Surveil Americans Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year.

A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.

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Home Care Workers Launch Hunger Strike as 24-Hour Work Shifts Persist The battle over 24-hour shifts has pitted the mostly immigrant women working in the home care industry against vulnerable patients who rely on round-the-clock care.

Fifteen home health aides started what they called an indefinite hunger strike on Thursday after the City Council failed to advance a bill banning 24-hour shifts.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/16/h...

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

DOJ Rapid Response • O @DOJRR47 X.com Yesterday the Department of Justice filed a motion to vacate the convictions of several Americans who had received clemency from President Trump. This ends these years-long, Biden-era weaponized prosecutions. President Trump demanded we stop the two-tiered injustice—and we are delivering. No more rigged system. 1:32 PM • 4/15/26 • 6.7K Views

The individuals referenced here are adjudicated terrorists.

They were found guilty of conspiring to use force against their own government to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

A conservative, Trump-appointed judge applied terrorism enhancements to their sentences.

If you’re reading this, then you almost certainly paid more in taxes this year than many billionaires and giant corporations did.

It’s time for the richest among us to pay their fair share.
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Our tax code rewards wealth over work.

The Equal Tax Act flips that. If you make over $1 million, you pay the same rate—no matter how you make your money.

Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States

screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -

POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad

VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??

POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

Stop the Federal Book Ban Bill! We made it easy to take these four actions to fight against HR 7661 and stand up for your right to read!

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Pied a terre tax at last!!! Pay up, or sell so we can have actual humans reside in the city!!

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Are we living in an 18th allegorical fiction and no one told me?

David Byrne - Life During Wartime - Live at Coachella 2026 YouTube video by Coachella

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Now more than ever?