Schumer and his ilk are trying to do politics according the rules of a world that no longer exists, while Trump and his supporters are operating in a world that doesn’t exist at all
Posts by Mary Beth Rockwell
This is weird! I don’t want politicians to be my friend, I just want healthcare
Tweeting our way through a full blown constitutional crisis.
oh look the delusional left has once again turned out to be correct, what a surprise
A new FTC report shows that Big Pharma middlemen are jacking up prices by as much as 7,736%.
Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, are marking up the prices of specialty generic drugs and have made over $7 billion in excess revenue in the last 5 years.
www.commondreams.org/news/pharmac...
We're making all your websites shitty and evil. What are you gonna do, log off and spend time with your family
meta cut 5% of work force focusing on lowest perfomers hiv aids
i cant imagine what itd take to be a "top performer" at the depraved & miserable meta corporation. Is it whoever clogs the toilet the most?
When people rob banks, they go to prison.
When banks rob people, nothing.
Capital One stole $2 billion from its customers and will likely only pay a fine, if anything — proving once again that everything is legal for a price if you’re powerful.
Disagree. If you’re trying to prove incompetence or unfitness, you ask a really easy question where a wrong answer is immediately disqualifying.
Like, “Would you follow an unlawful order to shoot peaceful protesters?”
Top military contractors pay their CEOs $25 million per year, on average. These corporations rely heavily on public funds. This table lists the top five recipients of federal contracts in 2023, which are all military contractors, along with their 2023 revenue, the percent of that revenue that came from the US government, the name of their CEO, and each CEO’s pay. Lockheed Martin: $68 billion, 73%, James Taiclet, $22.8 million. RTX: $69 billion, 46%, Gregory Hayes, $21.9 million. General Dynamics: $42 billion, 72%, Phebe Novakovic, $22.6 million. Boeing: $78 billion, 28%, David Calhoun, $32.8 million. Northrop Grumman: $39 billion, 86%, Kathy Warden, $23.5 million. Data: Company 10-K SEC filings, annual proxy statements; SAM dot gov.
Biden’s foreign policy was bad for most but great for some. Here are a few of the winners:
www.stephensemler.com/p/bidens-far...
the shoplifting tantrum was a press operation to make older white americans terrified via breathless media reporting in order to achieve electoral goals. with those goals achieved, they're winding it down. this entire shoplifting panic has been a social experiment, thank you for your participation
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Humanity First USA is providing free legal aid to those affected by the devastating LA wildfires.
WHEN: Jan 15th and Jan 16th, from 10AM-3PM
WHERE: NAACP Pasadena Branch @ 595 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA
No appt needed. Walk-ins welcome. This is a free service.
Absolutely hate “we went too far” revisionist history. “We all believed women and it went too far.” No we did not all believe women. I was there
Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: ‘When you lock things up…you don’t sell as many of them’
the best part of going to the drug store used to be buying random shit you either forgot you needed or don’t need but buy anyway. the deodorant prisons destroyed that experience.
oh my god finally something that can handle reminders and to-dos, I've been waiting decades for something that can handle reminders and to-dos
ICE raids as immigrants continue to help w/ fire relief.
Our special newsletter on worker abuse in LA fires.
paydayreport.com/fire-relief-...
It's a beautiful day to organize the working class 🥰
My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.
While many of you are likely blaming the wildfires on "POLITICIANS!" or "CLIMATE CHANGE!" I'm yelling "BOTH!"
Will Stancil’s argument was that everyone was wrong about the economy and it was obviously just “vibes” and media that were driving their sentiment.
Now that there is evidence he was wrong all along he’s saying it doesn’t matter, it’s still just “vibes” because people (other than him) are stupid.
The only thing Democrats really care about anymore is convincing people that they didn’t do anything wrong, that none of this is their fault, and that they don’t need to change anything at all.
R.I.P. 2024 (2024 - 2024)
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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
I'd read the grapes of wrath like 25 years ago but i recently listened to the audiobook and was like holy shit this is a manifesto in prose form this guy must've caught a lotta shit when it came out so I looked it up n he got so many death threats he started carrying a gun
Seems like maybe part of the problem is turning to 80 year-olds who don’t know what TikTok is to ask them what the problem is?
Seems like maybe part of the problem is turning to 80 year-olds who don’t know what TikTok is and are just now realizing people get their information differently to ask them what the problem is? newrepublic.com/article/1888...