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March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make it clear that America rejects the regime’s brutality at home and abroad. app.sosha.ai/s/W0hFqVYS
2 days. Share this with one person who needs to hear it. NO KINGS 3.0 is happening Saturday March 28 in 20 Alaska communities. Voting rights. Healthcare. Indigenous sovereignty. Housing. Food sovereignty. We stand up for all of it. 👑🚫 #NoKings3 #StandUpAlaska
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Maybe you live in an immoral country if its priority is killing people abroad instead of keeping people at home alive.
Layoffs over the last year:
UPS: 48,000
Amazon: 32000
Intel: 27,159
Microsoft: 15,387
Nestle: 16000
Verizon: 15000
Google: 12000
Chevron: 8000
Paramount: 7000
Walmart: 7000
P&G: 7000
Estée Lauder: 7000
Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.
Since when do we kidnap the leaders of other countries?
94% of Americans will pay into social security the entire year. Here’s when the wealthiest Americans will stop paying into it in Jan 1st: Musk- 12:00:28am Ellison- 12:00:29am Page- 12:00:58am Brin- 12:01:05am Bezos-12:01:45am Dell-12:02:09am Huang- 12:02:18am Scrap the cap.
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
The top 1% evade $163B in taxes each year
Employers steal $50B from workers each year
Insurance companies defrauded Medicare for at least $50B
Trump joked he’s giving himself a $1B settlement
Only caring about fraud when it’s immigrants means it’s not the fraud you care about
They keep saying that the only way to improve the economy is to give the wealthy and corporations tax breaks.
So we've been doing just that for forty years.
And the only ones doing well in this economy are the wealthy and corporations.
Can't you see we've been scammed?
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
"In the worst cases, the infected would die from liver cancer before reaching adulthood. Brian McMahon, a physician who treated some of those cases, told me about one particular patient—'18 years old, 4.0 GPA, with a full ride to University of Alaska.'"
Wish I could heart your comment 1,000 times!
According to the Federal Reserve, the richest 1% of Americans are now worth $52 TRILLION.
And most of us can't afford gas, groceries, rent, or healthcare.
“Trickle-down economics” is the greatest trick the wealthy and powerful have ever pulled.
As the Municipality of Anchorage nears the end of its 50th anniversary year, city leaders hope to incorporate the traditional quillwork designs of the Dena’ina people into its long-standing municipal seal. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
Ok, those 8 senators suck. But trying to see the silver lining, won't Speaker Johnson now have to swear in Grijalva and then there will be a vote on the Epstein files?
45 yrs of US history, in 25 words:
Follow up question needs to be, “how do you know that?”
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎
Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org
#BeThere 👍
🔥 MICHIGAN — Senate candidate Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Someone always gets paid… we have to become resistant to the games they play when they say the words ‘WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE.”
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We can be morally outraged by an assassination and at the same time acknowledge that Charlie Kirk’s racism and misogyny were immoral. Whitewashing his behavior and beliefs betrays the collective by masking how we got to this place in America.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He's a wartime president. He's the head of a war party. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Hispanics. A war on this state. War on institutions. Now he wants war on history."
Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators
Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators
DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover
How can you feel good about doing a job where you have to hide your face for fear of being recognized?
The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA.
I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.
I know it is a small thing, but that font carelessness drives me bonkers!
Happy birthday! July 31 was my 55th. My best advice to anyone is to look for ways not to take things personally. I wish you the best! And Lucky too!
UPDATE: @SenatorHagerty and the Republicans just voted to let Trump take the Qatari jet with him when he leaves office.
Insane corruption. There is no bottom.