Today on Nakba Day, we mark 77 years of the zionist occupation’s dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and oppression of the Palestinian people.

The Nakba is past and present, but it doesn’t need to be the future if the world continues to stand in solidarity with Palestine. May the catastrophe end soon.

Solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org workers across the US who are striking as Starbucks focuses on creating a new dress code instead of negotiating to actually improve working conditions.

THIS is why we need #UnionsForAll!

Seeing video’s of families & elders who lost their homes in historic Altadena is heartbreaking. Here is a compiled list of gofundme’s for the displaced Black families of Altadena.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

New from me: These programs help Black students graduate at Northern Illinois University. A conservative legal group filed a civil rights complaint against them.

In Nevada, Amazon has more workers and their dependents on Medicaid than any other company.

They have twice as many workers on Medicaid as Walmart does in the state.

Nationwide, half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle to pay for food and housing.

nevadacurrent.com/2025/01/06/a...

Pharma companies have raised U.S. listing prices on 250+ drugs heading into 2025, with a median increase of 4.5%.

Pfizer has raised prices on 60 drugs alone.

The Department of Transportation is fining JetBlue $2 million for "chronically delayed" flights on the East Coast.

It's the first time the DOT has fined an airline for delays on specific routes due to "unrealistic" scheduling.

Half of the fine will go to affected passengers.

BREAKING: Collective bargaining powers for public workers in Wisconsin have been restored by a judge's ruling.

Judge Jacob Frost ruled that certain sections of Scott Walker's notorious Act 10 are no longer enforceable.

spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee...

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s work, check out the following contemporary romance retellings 🖤

⭐️ Edgar Allan Poe inspired
⭐️ Original Storytelling
⭐️ Friends to Lovers / Enemies to Lovers
⭐️ Contemporary Romance
⭐️ Twists and Turns

Write that book. Send that story. Query that agent. Ask for that blurb. Maybe it doesn’t work out, but there’s a chance it will, and that chance—however small you think it is—is all you need.

I went to the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new Go-Go Museum and Cafe in DC, which honors go-go’s place in the long lineage of Black liberation music

BREAKING: CVS Health, UnitedHealth Group and Cigna are suing the Federal Trade Commission, claiming that the agency going after drug middlemen over high insulin prices is unconstitutional.

BREAKING: 4,000 workers at the University of California San Francisco are on strike.

@uptecwa.bsky.social‬ healthcare, research, and technical professionals have walked out over unfair labor practices.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

I’m trying to re-home a small poodle that barks a LOT. If interested let me know and I'II hop over my neighbor's fence and get it for you.

The richest 10% of households hold 62% of the wealth in the US.

The bottom 50% hold 5.7%.

THIS WEEK — FLOOD CONGRESS FOR PALESTINE 💗

This week in Congress, the CODEPINK DC team is focusing on:
📄 Blocking $20B in weapons to Israel
📄 Stopping the "non-profit killer" bill
📄 Resisting the conflation of anti-zionism and antisemitism

Join us at 10am every day!
https://buff.ly/3SwzZd2

Teachers in the U.S. will spend an estimated $3.35 billion of their own money on classroom supplies in the 2024-25 school year.

The average teacher will spend $883.60.

Latest book haul. In my house, we don’t call it CRT. We call it history, and we learn about the things that define us as people.