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darthvadersmother

@darthvadersmother.bsky.social

Retired academic and academic labor advocate.

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How the US sets its poverty rate is shocking It's so horrible, it should actually piss you off

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The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited

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Disgusting.

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It’s getting harder and harder to avoid concluding that the people who keep voting for shitty people are shitty people themselves.

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Good news.

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Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.

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A fun and safe Halloween evening to everyone, especially the kids.

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Happy Halloween from the scariest creatures ever.

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β€œThey think that they’re tough. They have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore. We are so much more hardcore than they are.”

--Stephen Miller speaking to Memphis police earlier this month.

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Never forget that he’s a deranged criminal psychopath

28.10.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1082    πŸ” 396    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 12

β€œkitchen table issues” is so damn patronizing. like, first of all, many of us can’t afford a kitchen that will even fit a table, let alone the time to sit
around it together. why is the democratic party still operating on the assumption that the average american family lives in a 1950s sitcom?

28.10.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 Just a reminder that 48% of SNAP recipients work full time. 39% of SNAP recipients are kids. 20% of SNAP recipients are seniors.

If you think it's funny that those people will go hungry, then it’s YOU that is a terrible person, not them.

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Former U.S. Rep. Mickey Leland (D-TX), his Chief of Staff Patrice Johnson, legislative aide Joyce Williams and counsel Hugh Johnson + nine other USAID + Ethiopian pilots in 1989 perished in a plane crash feeding people who were starving to death.

Today the US can't fund the SNAP program.

Shameful.

28.10.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You may lose SNAP benefits and health insurance, but don’t worry because Trump is building a $350 million ballroom just for you because he loves you.

As Rev. Kenneth Copeland once said about his latest private jet: Jesus wanted him to have it.

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Nothing radicalizes me more as a right-to-repair activist than realizing it cost me HALF as much to have a bunch of fixes on my 2011 Honda that include the transmission and the steering system, as it was for my wife to get one new sideview mirror and a fan belt on her 2019 Honda.

28.10.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

The UAE deserves more backlash

This piece of shit is named Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan also known as MBZ. He’s funding the RSF terrorists in Sudan and Donald Trump.

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Voting rights for Black men, Black women, Asian/Pacific Islanders and Indigenous Americans was not fully realized until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

That's my TED talk.

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Why does no one take God seriously? I said β€œthou shalt not kill” and I meant it.

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Republicans are willing to starve poor children to protect rich men who raped children.

It's just another form of child abuse.

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From the committee of the resistance: all the wounded and injured inside the Saudi hospital, members of the first class, the university and the interior have been collectively filtered by the Genguid militias in horrible ways, they have been killed in between life and death at a time when humanity has no place. And the wounded had no chance to survive. Those who are waiting for a hand to reach out to them, many disappeared before the medicine reached them, and the hospitals fell into a horrifying silence in which all you can hear is grown, and suddenly it stopped. Mercy and forgiveness to the martyrs, sincere condolences to …

From the committee of the resistance: all the wounded and injured inside the Saudi hospital, members of the first class, the university and the interior have been collectively filtered by the Genguid militias in horrible ways, they have been killed in between life and death at a time when humanity has no place. And the wounded had no chance to survive. Those who are waiting for a hand to reach out to them, many disappeared before the medicine reached them, and the hospitals fell into a horrifying silence in which all you can hear is grown, and suddenly it stopped. Mercy and forgiveness to the martyrs, sincere condolences to …

El Fasher Resistance Committees report all the patients in Al Saudi hospital in the west of the city have either been killed by the RSF genocidaires or left for death.

#BDStheUAE now. #Sudan

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Make education the number one priority again Bold curriculum and assessment reform is essential if we want to thrive in a fast-changing world

This is great from @peterhyman.bsky.social . The government mantra should be β€œeducation education education” not β€œimmigration immigration immigration”. Change is urgently needed and it’s what genuinely animates Starmer peterhyman21.substack.com/p/make-educa...

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When you accidentally hit β€œfree roam mode” on your Roomba.

When you accidentally hit β€œfree roam mode” on your Roomba.

When you accidentally hit β€œfree roam mode” on your Roomba.

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Trump’s Pick for Ambassador to Kuwait on Path to Failure

"When pressed on why he had indicated that he liked a social media post that compared Jews to 'monkeys'..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

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@jessicatarlov.bsky.social's middle name is πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

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'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

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Exclusive | How U.A.E. Arms Bolstered a Sudanese Militia Accused of Genocide Reports by U.S. intelligence agencies show an increase in the flow of materiel from the U.A.E. to the rebel Rapid Support Forces since the spring, according to U.S. officials.

US intelligence agencies confirm that UAE has redoubled its weapons supply to the RSF this year. "The war would be over if not for the UAE. The only thing keeping RSF in this war is the overwhelming military support they’re getting from the UAE." #Sudan #BDStheUAE

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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

28.10.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 20970    πŸ” 7944    πŸ’¬ 815    πŸ“Œ 397
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Maybe they should watch Russell Crowe’s new Nuremberg movie when it comes out next week. Just some helpful advice.

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How Workers Can Reclaim Power From Bezos & Billionaires | Robert Reich
Robert Reich How Workers Can Reclaim Power From Bezos & Billionaires | Robert Reich

America’s vicious cycle: Corporations crush workers to protect their bottom lines, then use their profits to lobby for policies that allow them to keep crushing workers.

Labor Day is the perfect time to remind ourselves it doesn’t have to be this way. https://youtu.be/JSralhrpK44?feature=shared

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