Marilyn Kindl

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

Trump’s health department launches ‘vile’ anti-trans website featuring right-wing influencer (exclusive) Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “are starting their tenure at HHS by attacking trans people, harming their access to health, and promoting unscientific rhetoric about sex as a so-called immutable char...

And there are people who thought this creep was the answer!

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Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers wants his state to become the first state to audit insurance companies over denying coverage.

More of this, Democrats.

Linking to a discussion to preserve Social Security and Medicare is now spam in the Fuckerberg universe.

You can't "Both-sides" anger. The anger of a man who sacralizes his power and coerces women and children who won't submit to him is fundamentally different than the anger of the women and children toward the man for exerting coercive power over them.

Nationally, a dozen large Grade A eggs cost $3.65 on average.

The federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour.

Who in their right mind can say that one hour of a human being’s time and labor is equivalent to the cost of 24 eggs?

It’s not. The federal minimum wage is inhumane.

Republicans spent years talking about the cost of eggs.

Democrats spent years denying it was tough to afford eggs.

Does the GOP have a plan to bring down the cost of food? Where?

Because my community is still having trouble affording things while yall are playing politics.

None Of These War Criminals Will Face Justice While The US Empire Exists Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

None Of These War Criminals Will Face Justice While The US Empire Exists

Two journalists were ejected from a State Department press conference on Thursday for asking inconvenient questions about Gaza.

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Electoral politics alone won’t save us, but the duopoly for sure will kill us.

California, look around you. Inhale deep and try not to choke. The Dems have let this state burn.

For decades, one party has stood for environmental sanity.

If you wanna live, you’d best get comfortable voting Green

If They Don't Believe They're Enemies, Why Should You? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

If They Don't Believe They're Enemies, Why Should You?

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Calling women 'household objects' now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines

Facebook is truly a cesspool.

Trump And Israel Can't Wait To Start Bombing Iran Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Trump And Israel Can’t Wait To Start Bombing Iran

"Both Israel and the incoming Trump administration are reportedly eager to start bombing Iran ASAP now that Assad’s out of the way."
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Not terrorism: Murdering one innocent person every seven minutes in the name of profit.

Luigi Mangione: I was going to use a bomb to kill the CEO but I didn’t want to harm anyone else

US gov: This is terrorism!

Israel: We are using unguided 2000 pound bombs in a densely populated civilian area to level entire apartment blocks

US gov: This is self-defence!

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"Terrorist Organization" Means Whatever The US Wants It To Mean Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

The US government is simultaneously (A) justifying Israel’s land grab in Syria by saying the nation has been taken over by terrorists, and (B) talking about removing those same forces from its list of designated terrorist organizations.
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"In fact, not only does the market assessment of the value of different forms of work not correspond to popular conceptions of what they actually contribute to society, but there actually seems to be an inverse relation: with few exceptions, the principle seems to be, the more one’s work is seen as socially useful, the more it is recognized as helping others, the less one is likely to be paid for it. I should emphasize that this is not simply an effect of supply and demand, even though the initial instinct of economists, or those who believe our society really is governed by a market logic, would be to say that it must be. . For instance, at the moment the United States has for some years been experiencing an acute shortage of trained nurses, and a glut of law school graduates. Yet the relative salaries of nurses and corporate lawyers remains unchanged. Clearly the real reasons for the price of labor, as with the price of most things actually, have little to do with market forces, and much to do with various forms of institutional power." . - David Graeber

The sad truth of Neo-Liberalism Capitalism is that if you are in a job that provides huge value to peoples' lives (like being a nurse) you are often going to be very badly paid.

How Harris Left Medicare For All Behind Kamala Harris once championed a true universal health care plan, only to walk it back. Now, nobody knows where she stands.

The widespread rage against health insurance companies that we're seeing this week is a reminder that it coulda been harnessed by Dems in the 2024 campaign, but they deliberately avoided the issue, which appeased their donors & lost them the election.

Engels on 'Social Murder' When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ... Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)

The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore

Mighty convenient how Russia being tied up in Ukraine and Hezbollah being decapitated by Israel leaves Syria once again exposed to the longstanding regime change agendas of the same western empire who's been backing both of those proxy conflicts.

The issue with Walmart isn’t DEI, it’s the fact that in nine states alone, Walmart had 14,500 employees on SNAP and 10,350 on Medicaid.

Instead of attacking corporations for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, people should be calling out the low wages.

They are shameless.
The billionaire class clown is even saying the quiet part out loud. Extinction.

Everyone paying attention said Starmer was an authoritarian piece of shit who was an enemy to the working class long before he was elected. Liberals ignored the obvious, yet again, and put us here. This will not end well when fascism rises further in response.

In The Fight Against Tyranny, Don't Let Your Happiness Depend On Big Wins Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

If you stand for truth, peace and justice in this world then it’s important not to make your happiness dependent on large-scale wins.
Because the deck is stacked so heavily against truth, peace and justice, your side will experience far more losses than wins.
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Exactly

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command...”

— George Orwell, 1984