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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

CDC plans to study autism, vaccines Move comes despite strong evidence finding no link between them. By LENA H. SUN and LAUREN WEBER • The Washington Post

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

A tea cup with some wildflowers on a textured paper background with the text in black: “Good and ill have not changed.”

“‘Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man’s part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.’”

- JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

This. We give elected Dems a lot of guff, but this one is not the Dems' fault. Dems in the House held the line and did all they could.

With another set of news headlines about political elites using “””Roman salutes””” I just want to note that the Nazi salute means “I want to murder your family” and the n-word means “I want to lynch you.” That’s what they mean, they make me righteously angry, and I won’t let anybody minimize them.

This is exactly right - and it is both outrageous and frightening that it needs to be said.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

The lawsuits that come out of this clusterfuck if they do start terminating civil servants for their responses or nonresponses are going to consume DOJ’s personnel for the rest of time

Just sayin'

Sketchbook page drawing of a red fox and pigeon delivering mail with colour pencils

Special delivery sketchbook page.

USAID informed employees via email that it is terminating 2,000 workers and placing thousands of foreign service officers and other direct hires worldwide on paid leave, effective tonight.

photo of a grey and white goat looking up at the camera through a metal gate. His bottom teeth are exposed a bit making it look like he is smiling.

You look like you could use a little smile from Jar Jar. ☺️

i think half of "talent" is just a person happening to have fun doing whatever it is they're supposedly talented at, and not hating it. i was "talented" at art at age 3 but if i'd stopped drawing at age 3 because i found it tedious or unrewarding, i'd probably pretty much draw like a 3-year-old now

This is how many hours per week a person needs to work in order to escape poverty.

The US is dead last.

#Poverty #USA

“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

No amount of executive orders can make us cease to exist.

3. The Trump administration has ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to indefinitely postpone a public meeting of its vaccine advisory panel, a key forum for discussing vaccine safety and effectiveness.

2. Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and bring the independent mail agency under his administration’s control.

Three updates:
1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

This is your reminder to download your kindle books onto a device where you can keep hold of them if Amazon decides to remove them.

They'll be removing that option on the 26th of this month. 5 days. So back up your library!

Please tell people. Please share. Folks don’t know, even those who would care to know.

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken TACOMA, WA—Operating on pure natural instinct while leaping into action to protect his beloved owners, heroic dog Snickers saved a local family of five from the threat of an herb-roasted chicken, sour...

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken

Claude Cahun with hearts on their face and I AM IN TRAINING DON'T KISS ME shirt

There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism.

A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer.

Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore.

They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.

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Tired of the poor representation of women and non-binary people, and their accomplishments in ocean sciences?

Wondering what you can do about it?

Ingenium, in partnership with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, is running a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon this Saturday!
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USFS cuts thousands of jobs; Fired Montana forester speaks out Many Montanans are reeling, including one MTN spoke with, following the recent federal layoffs that cut 3,400 workers from the U.S. Forest Service

Purging federal employees is bad for wildlife, wildlands, and the hardworking folks who manage them.

One fired staffer said: "Our public lands are under attack. That's what it feels like to me. And it feels like if I do not stand up for them, then no one else will."

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