Crystal Pepsi Fan

In 1909 Eugene Debs visited the striking workers at McKees Rocks. In his speech, Debs told the gathered workers:
"There are fifteen nationalities here this morning, but you are one class. You are working men united in a single cause…” (1/2)

Table with Worker’s Deserve More programs, Hot Food Distro fliers, water bottles and other information

DSA Flag

Crowd at the protest in Allegheny Commons

We are here at No Kings Pittsburgh supporting the fight for Democracy! Come say hi and learn more about DSA!

Orange flyer with various events for protesting Trump and the AI Summit on Tues July 15 9-2 Flagstaff Hill, Sunrise BLOCK Party 830-1230 Schenley Plaza, No Kings No Summit with coffee and breakfast 1130-1230 Fifth/Wilkins, Act Up March to Schenley 1230 Schenley Plaza, Indivisible Rally and March 3-5 Schenley Plaza, SEIU Stop the Cuts Rally

Trump is in town today for an AI Summit hosted by Sen McCormick and CMU. Absolutely vile stuff from billionaires hoping to gut public services to instead fund climate-destroying, brain-rotting technology.

We hope you can get out to an action today.

NLRB employees line the sidewalk to welcome back Board Member Gwynne Wilcox at HQ this morning after a federal judge ordered her reinstatement.

Trump fired Wilcox Jan 27 in what the judge ruled was an illegal removal.

I don’t understand how this happened twice

illegal, unconstitutional, impeachable offense

the comments section aftermath of lions commanders is reaching critical levels of "i wish they could both win" back patting bullshit

Ok but none of this is possible if Biden doesnt sign a bill Apr 2024 banning TikTok unless it sold by 1/19/25. Between this & “Netanyahu and Trump secretly plotted a ceasefire for 6 mo’s while Biden unconditionally armed Netanyahu” does anyone wonder why Biden keeps assisting Trump’s sinister plots?

Being a "conservative intellectual" means you're the one guy in your friend group who has read a book

I'm glad they banned TikTok so I can share my data exclusively with American tech perverts

Trump “Loyalist” Pete Hegseth Faces Senate Confirmation The confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, former Fox News host and military veteran Pete Hegseth, begins today amid backlash over his history of sexual as...

Grateful for the opportunity to chat about Pete Hegseth and white nationalism on Democracy Now this morning: www.democracynow.org/2025/1/14/pe...

Biden Administration Quietly Carves TikTok Ban Loophole for Itself, Leaked Document Shows TikTok ban for thee but not for me

The Biden administration has carved out a loophole for itself so the TikTok ban won't apply to certain government staff, according to a document signed by Secretary of State Blinken and leaked to me:

Opinion | I’m a Federal Employee. This Is What We Need Most in the Trump Era. Practical support matters more than encouragement.

Federal employees are about to experience an unprecedented full-frontal attack, after facing decades of low-level hostility from both parties. It is in our collective interest to ensure they are not broken by the process. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...

how in the

Trump's incoming national security advisor says they're going to ask Ukraine to drop its draft age from 26 year olds to 18 year olds, adding: "They could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers."

"If the Ukrainians have asked the entire world to be all in for democracy"

People in Pennsylvania don’t know about buying grocery store generic alcohol at Trader Joe’s, Costco and Aldi.

T. K. Quinn, formerly a Vice President of General Electric, wrote: "I know of no original product invention, not even electric shavers or heating pads, made by any of the giant laboratories or corporations, with the possible exception of the household garbage grinder. ... The record of the giants is one of moving in, buying out and absorbing the smaller creators. Though no general information on this subject seems to be available, there is reason to believe that Mr. Quinn's statement holds true of many other industries. Footnote 30: T. K. Quinn, Giant Business: Threat to Democracy, New York, After this chapter was published in the July-August 1962 issue of 1 hut this chap ter was a litter from Mr. Morison Sharp of Racine, Wisconsin, which reads in part as follows: "Mr. Quinn might consult either his own legal department, or the Racine Chamber of Commerce, or even the In-Sink-Erator Company of Racine, which invented and perfected the household garbage grinder. Common gossip has it that the giant GE makes its own brand-name machine under rights from the In-Sink-Erator Company after the settlement of a long and successtul lawsuit." Alas for illusions!

Wisconsin mentioned

Monopoly Capital-Baran and Sweezy

"Do you regret cutting the fire department's budget by millions of dollars?"

Karen Bass: [silence]

Sometimes when I’m over eager to cross the street, I’ll stand too close to the edge of the curb and a car will come whizzing by real close and force me back, like a batter getting backed down for crowding the plate.

AI art may just now be coming around, but I’ve been watching AI sports for years. I love booting up my Xbox, loading Madden, and watching two teams on Play Now in spectator mode. Glad the rest of my life is finally catching up.

Washington Post Cartoonist Quits After Jeff Bezos Cartoon Is Killed The cartoon, by Ann Telnaes, depicted the owner of The Post, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald Trump.

The resignation matters, but the real power of a system that does not tolerate dissent is that whoever takes the job now knows what they are not allowed to say if they want to keep the job.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/b...

Bird Flu Has Spread Out of Control after Mistakes by U.S. Government and Industry As the bird flu virus moved into cows and people, sluggish federal action, deference to industry and neglect for worker safety put the country at risk

Very upsetting. Industrialized agriculture is a disaster, but it is incredible that three years after Biden won an election pretty much entirely on the basis of the incumbent mishandling a pandemic, that he would let another virus spiral out of control.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird...

Pathetic.

Broken clock etc, although her motivation here is that her MAGA rival Marjorie Taylor Green is chairing the DOGE subcommittee

Play roulette

Minnie Mouse won the Christmas dunk contest because of woke.

"did something similar" doing a lot of work here

hey dad was born in the Panama Canal Zone fyi

My dad -- who was born in the Panama Canal Zone by the way

Senator thinks that Elon Musk reposting incorrect information from anonymous Twitter account is a better source of information than, for example, his staff or colleagues.