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Here are a list of General Strike US resources to help introduce you to who we are, what we’re doing, and how you can get involved.
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Commit to going on strike w/ us or sign in solidarity: generalstrikeus.com
Here are a list of General Strike US resources to help introduce you to who we are, what we’re doing, and how you can get involved.
👇 STRIKE CARD👇
Commit to going on strike w/ us or sign in solidarity: generalstrikeus.com
I've signed my strike card, will you?
Marching gives you a chance to offer your demands, and issue your threat of what you'll do if the demands aren't met. This is one way to execute the threat.
We've seen that marching alone got us nowhere; it is time to act. ✊🏻
Marching gives you a chance to offer your demands, and issue your threat of what you'll do if the demands aren't met. This is one way to execute the threat.
We've seen that marching alone got us nowhere; it is time to act. ✊🏻
Reposted by Michelle Walker (she/her)
Spotify Wrapped, YouTube Recap, Amazon Delivered, Apple Replay, and other year-end summaries of what we listened to and watched on streaming platforms, is a reminder that our data is being harvested by corporations we pay to steal our data.
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Spotify Wrapped, YouTube Recap, Amazon Delivered, Apple Replay, and other year-end summaries of what we listened to and watched on streaming platforms, is a reminder that our data is being harvested by corporations we pay to steal our data.
Happy Labor Day!
Support workers and unions around the world today:
1. Disengage with Amazon as much as you are able.
2. Commit to ditching all Starbucks products.
3. Remember that your labor, and how you choose to use or withhold it, has power. Sign your strike card here:
generalstrikeus.com
Support workers and unions around the world today:
1. Disengage with Amazon as much as you are able.
2. Commit to ditching all Starbucks products.
3. Remember that your labor, and how you choose to use or withhold it, has power. Sign your strike card here:
generalstrikeus.com
The General Strike
The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.
generalstrikeus.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Happy Labor Day!
Support workers and unions around the world today:
1. Disengage with Amazon as much as you are able.
2. Commit to ditching all Starbucks products.
3. Remember that your labor, and how you choose to use or withhold it, has power. Sign your strike card here:
generalstrikeus.com
Support workers and unions around the world today:
1. Disengage with Amazon as much as you are able.
2. Commit to ditching all Starbucks products.
3. Remember that your labor, and how you choose to use or withhold it, has power. Sign your strike card here:
generalstrikeus.com
This is one reason I have been buying so many DVDs lately. I can't trust streaming services.
August 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
This is one reason I have been buying so many DVDs lately. I can't trust streaming services.
The state decides if what you were legally doing is now illegal (ie protesting/boycotting Israel), can decide to designate you as disabled to lock you away (they will make up disabilities to do it, ie Drapetomania), and now they want to weaponize citizenship to funnel people to concentration camps.
Trump is threatening to take away Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship. He can't do that, she was born in the US.
July 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The state decides if what you were legally doing is now illegal (ie protesting/boycotting Israel), can decide to designate you as disabled to lock you away (they will make up disabilities to do it, ie Drapetomania), and now they want to weaponize citizenship to funnel people to concentration camps.
Reposted by Michelle Walker (she/her)
Reposted by Michelle Walker (she/her)
Hmm. Where have I seen that in the New York Times before...
June 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Hmm. Where have I seen that in the New York Times before...
Reposted by Michelle Walker (she/her)
One thing I am seeing misreported in the media today about the Skrmetti ruling is a claim that the supreme court ruled this is "about age, not transgender status."
SCOTUS also ruled this is about "diagnosis, not transgender status"
Bans targeting adults are likely legal under this ruling.
SCOTUS also ruled this is about "diagnosis, not transgender status"
Bans targeting adults are likely legal under this ruling.
June 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
One thing I am seeing misreported in the media today about the Skrmetti ruling is a claim that the supreme court ruled this is "about age, not transgender status."
SCOTUS also ruled this is about "diagnosis, not transgender status"
Bans targeting adults are likely legal under this ruling.
SCOTUS also ruled this is about "diagnosis, not transgender status"
Bans targeting adults are likely legal under this ruling.
The sweeps of the encampments and his podcast sucking up to the right JUST HAPPENED. Telling Trump to not piss on his authority is self serving, while coincidentally being the right thing to do.
Spraying myself with a spray bottle like a misbehaving cat every time I say something nice about Gavin Newsom
June 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The sweeps of the encampments and his podcast sucking up to the right JUST HAPPENED. Telling Trump to not piss on his authority is self serving, while coincidentally being the right thing to do.
Reposted by Michelle Walker (she/her)
DOGE was a smash and grab robbery of our personal data.
June 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
DOGE was a smash and grab robbery of our personal data.
Out of touch doesn't even begin to describe these people.
Absolutely bonkers — Joni Ernst doubles down on her “we are all gonna die” defense of Medicaid cuts while walking through a cemetery
June 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Out of touch doesn't even begin to describe these people.
Reposted by Michelle Walker (she/her)
Holy shit - Gavin Newsom has clarified that this goes even further.
The transgender runner will compete "in her own category."
California is basically instituting a sports ban.
www.kcra.com/article/cali...
The transgender runner will compete "in her own category."
California is basically instituting a sports ban.
www.kcra.com/article/cali...
May 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Holy shit - Gavin Newsom has clarified that this goes even further.
The transgender runner will compete "in her own category."
California is basically instituting a sports ban.
www.kcra.com/article/cali...
The transgender runner will compete "in her own category."
California is basically instituting a sports ban.
www.kcra.com/article/cali...
Reposted by Michelle Walker (she/her)
A reminder that if this same headline and subhed was published somewhere else with Qatar changed to Israel, the same Free Press that published this piece would scream that it was antisemitic.
May 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
A reminder that if this same headline and subhed was published somewhere else with Qatar changed to Israel, the same Free Press that published this piece would scream that it was antisemitic.
Big corporations, and the oligarchs, got that way *partly* because we kept giving them our money. Stop what you can. Diversify your spending where you can.
What are you changing?
What are you changing?
May 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Big corporations, and the oligarchs, got that way *partly* because we kept giving them our money. Stop what you can. Diversify your spending where you can.
What are you changing?
What are you changing?
2. I changed my phone service: I had chosen Verizon years ago for fear that secondary service providers would get so deprioritized, that the coverage wouldn't be good enough; that has not proven out. I now pay about $16/ month, in advance, versus $73/ month. 😳
May 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
2. I changed my phone service: I had chosen Verizon years ago for fear that secondary service providers would get so deprioritized, that the coverage wouldn't be good enough; that has not proven out. I now pay about $16/ month, in advance, versus $73/ month. 😳
1. Reduced my streaming services: The amount of video streaming accounts I had active crept up to 4. I am down to 2, and considering going down to 1.
May 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
1. Reduced my streaming services: The amount of video streaming accounts I had active crept up to 4. I am down to 2, and considering going down to 1.
Action Item: funnel less money to the corporate overlords
I've never been a big spender, not in my budget, but there were a couple of things that I was recently able to change.
I've never been a big spender, not in my budget, but there were a couple of things that I was recently able to change.
May 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Action Item: funnel less money to the corporate overlords
I've never been a big spender, not in my budget, but there were a couple of things that I was recently able to change.
I've never been a big spender, not in my budget, but there were a couple of things that I was recently able to change.
"...before expanding their research into additional chronic health conditions."
They are making a database, with personally identifiable information, including from that surveillance device you wear to track your steps.
Autistic people are the "pilot project" before they come for the test of you.
They are making a database, with personally identifiable information, including from that surveillance device you wear to track your steps.
Autistic people are the "pilot project" before they come for the test of you.
The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.
RFK Jr. says autism database will use Medicare and Medicaid info
The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.
www.npr.org
May 9, 2025 at 5:37 AM
"...before expanding their research into additional chronic health conditions."
They are making a database, with personally identifiable information, including from that surveillance device you wear to track your steps.
Autistic people are the "pilot project" before they come for the test of you.
They are making a database, with personally identifiable information, including from that surveillance device you wear to track your steps.
Autistic people are the "pilot project" before they come for the test of you.
And, this bar is on the floor, OPPOSE GENOCIDE.
May 8, 2025 at 5:46 AM
And, this bar is on the floor, OPPOSE GENOCIDE.
Reposted by Michelle Walker (she/her)
my reaction to this is not "oh Trump's losing it" it's "the entire point of fascism is that the leader declares reality and everyone else has to follow it".
Absolutely, furiously certain that the floating letters pasted in around the knuckles were physically there
Well that sure clears up the question of whether he was just sharing the meme from the neo-Nazis that purported to translate the tattoos or whether he's so senile he confused the added translation in the meme for part of the tattoos!
April 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
my reaction to this is not "oh Trump's losing it" it's "the entire point of fascism is that the leader declares reality and everyone else has to follow it".
That may be to someone I know that needs a little help, or to a stranger posting on the Lane County Mutual Aid Network, or to someone I've been learning from online. This money is already out of my regular accounts, so, to my brain, it is already gone... and waiting to do some good.
April 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
That may be to someone I know that needs a little help, or to a stranger posting on the Lane County Mutual Aid Network, or to someone I've been learning from online. This money is already out of my regular accounts, so, to my brain, it is already gone... and waiting to do some good.
Having money show up in my life, without detailing the struggles, justifying my choices, and expecting to be surveiled, is such a blessing.
I'm now making a habit of keeping some money (as available in my shifting circumstances) in my Venmo and PayPal accounts to give.
I'm now making a habit of keeping some money (as available in my shifting circumstances) in my Venmo and PayPal accounts to give.
April 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Having money show up in my life, without detailing the struggles, justifying my choices, and expecting to be surveiled, is such a blessing.
I'm now making a habit of keeping some money (as available in my shifting circumstances) in my Venmo and PayPal accounts to give.
I'm now making a habit of keeping some money (as available in my shifting circumstances) in my Venmo and PayPal accounts to give.
Action Item: Engage with mutual aid/ direct giving.
I've experienced first hand the hurdles and road blocks in trying to get help, whether it is healthcare, social security, disability assistance, or the financial freedom to buy what your kid will actually eat.
I've experienced first hand the hurdles and road blocks in trying to get help, whether it is healthcare, social security, disability assistance, or the financial freedom to buy what your kid will actually eat.
April 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Action Item: Engage with mutual aid/ direct giving.
I've experienced first hand the hurdles and road blocks in trying to get help, whether it is healthcare, social security, disability assistance, or the financial freedom to buy what your kid will actually eat.
I've experienced first hand the hurdles and road blocks in trying to get help, whether it is healthcare, social security, disability assistance, or the financial freedom to buy what your kid will actually eat.
Prime has some decent shows...but so do several other platforms, without pressing so hard for you to rent/ purchase even more programming and merch.
Diversifying is important; big corporations got that way by our use, and they should not have the power they currently have.
Diversifying is important; big corporations got that way by our use, and they should not have the power they currently have.
April 29, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Prime has some decent shows...but so do several other platforms, without pressing so hard for you to rent/ purchase even more programming and merch.
Diversifying is important; big corporations got that way by our use, and they should not have the power they currently have.
Diversifying is important; big corporations got that way by our use, and they should not have the power they currently have.