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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 1d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

The economy is increasingly reliant on the wealthiest 10%.

(via MS) @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

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NullHedge BongFella @nullhedge.bsky.social · 5m

Touch grass.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 20h

This narrative doesn't make sense. You can't blame Brexit for harming the economy ... (UK businesses, for example, lose £37bn a year due to a drop in EU trade) ... yet at the same time categorically rule out returning even to the Single Market. So Starmer needs to do a masssive U-turn or step down.

Starmer ‘planning to blame Farage and Brexit’ for budget tax hikes

Sir Keir Starmer has been ramping up his attacks on Nigel Farage in recent weeks as Labour falls behind in the polls

www.independent.co.uk

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 6h

That asshole fired all the people who help kids with disabilities in education.

Fuck him. Fuck everyone who enabled him

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GrouchyMarkx @grouchymarkx.bsky.social · 16h

2nd Amendment and NRA folks:

Where ya at?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Corpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 19h

"The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped."

Hubert H. Humphrey

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6h

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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Boomer @boomer1956.bsky.social · 17h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 9h

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 1d

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 13h

Who was President that day, Pumpkin?????

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NullHedge BongFella @nullhedge.bsky.social · 7h

Well, if Pauly Shore was a fascist, and Rob Schneider was a murderous, genocidal dictator.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

JORDAN: Comey is where weaponization all started. 9 years ago he took the dossier--

BASH: But that's not what he's being prosecuted for

JORDAN: I'm just saying, you want to talk about weaponization, that's where it started

BASH: So this is retribution then

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 12h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

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Kaos von Mayhem ~ Release the Epstein Client List @kaosvonmayhem.bsky.social · 8h

Please share this. This is the reason they don't want to compromise on the budget bill.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 16h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 16h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11h

Remind me, who was the president who sat on his fat ass in the White House cheering this on during J6?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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