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#librarians
of the world, unite!
the best way to fight for justice in the workplace?
the best way to ensure libraries have the staff needed to serve our communities well?
a union!!
if you want a union but don't know how to start, reply to this so we can DM!
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@SixthTone
Few Americans would blink an eye if he instead went into a profitable but socially useless (or even parasitic) jobs like private equity trader, "AI" developer, etc
I wish him and the township the best of luck
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@AManInTheSun
@queeralamode
had to look this up - “Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
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@SzMarsupial
I know some people haven't seen the egg tweet yet, so I dug it up
this was completely unironic too lmao
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@GMA
Disney has donated to every single sponsor & co-sponsor of the Don't Say Gay bill
Disney execs will be complicit in the deaths of LGBT youths as a result of this bill. But hey, record profits, right?
Here's Disney workers on strike in 1941 - the best way they can fight back
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@feeder_series
Oh no it'd be a shame if people submit fake applications until you change this position to include a liveable wage (at least $20/hour)
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@steeltoedheelys
everyone's commenting on his facial expression but the locations are also cracking me up
disney world (?)
an island cruise
gringotts bank...
these are the least sexy places of all time. this man is a child
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@Abdullxhi
Depending on your community:
- take a bus/train
- ride a (e)bike
- walk
Anywhere:
- work with your community to demand improvements to public transit & bike infrastructure
- stay home and read a book lmao
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@timesunion
@BobaCyclist
the way corporate media - especially Fox News & the NY Post - have terrified their viewers into shooting any little thing that moves... truly a damn shame
rest in peace Kaylin
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@jewstein3000
many asthmatics, disabled folks, etc already take public transit & paratransit. these services badly need $$
no serious transit activist says "everyone needs to use public transit all of the time"
reducing car usage among the able-bodied helps people who need personal transport
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@21metgala
"This is not my beautiful house, but this IS my beautiful bike... That's how I got here"
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@ChrisWBlackwell
some day, I hope we have a people's tribunal to address the crimes against humanity committed by these prison administrators
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@joeywreck
the cops' behavior is heinous of course, but the hospital kicking her out and calling the cops also facilitated her death, and it should be investigated
it sounds like they kicked her out because of insurance issues. that's yet another reason why we need Medicare For All
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@bobby
public libraries are great because they are a brief glimpse of communism in our everyday lives
it feels so good when a patron asks how much something costs and I get to tell them it's free
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@The_Law_Boy
the Economist put out this chart in 2019... meanwhile Vietnam is still at 35 COVID deaths total. ever.
never underestimate the power of ideology to completely cloud the judgment of think tank dummies lmfao
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@GlassMyra1
for anyone who hasn't heard yet - Cuba has come a long way on LGBT issues. today, all Cubans can receive gender affirming surgery free of charge, like any other medically necessary surgery.
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@Krissys_Couch
"your child will be your employee, & you'll be their boss"
capitalism has always harmed children - from child laborers in the mills in the 1800s, to Nestle's child slaves in W Africa today. this kid too
having your parent be your boss sounds awful. I hope they get free soon
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@edburmila
hold the Olympics in Athens every time instead of building all that bullshit across the globe
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@KaylinGabrielle
@AlysonMetzger
this isn't actually a strike - they're still working, just not under the conditions management demands
it IS collective action and telling the boss to fuck off. which is deeply needed in this time. much love and solidarity to them ✊
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@Vanessa_ABee
"full civil rights were attained"
anyway, Angola Penitentiary in Louisiana sends incarcerated people to do 'unpaid labor' at nearby cotton plantations, just as it has since it was founded in 1835
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@DeItaone
Bolsonaro is trying to become an honorary US citizen by braving our most patriotic rite of passage: going bankrupt due to medical debt
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@Willetton
everyone in the Epstein files walks free, all the rapist priests, killer cops, the people who caused the 2008 crash, the oil execs who funded climate change disinformation campaigns, Big Pharma execs that caused the opioid epidemic, the war criminals (Obama, Bush, Kissinger, etc)
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@MattCrossin
@ryankekeris
I hadn't realized how dependent Israelis were on Palestinian labor - honestly kind of reminds me of how many US companies depend heavily on undocumented immigrants (esp. from Central/South America) while the US govt treats them like shit & literally puts them in camps
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@priyakrishna
@420b00bs
related: Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle" about dangerous conditions for slaughterhouse workers, but the public responded much more to the unsanitary food practices in the book, leading to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act
never easy to figure out how people will respond!
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@bnowalk
@Srirachachau
meanwhile a different Bene Gesserit is trying to breed Kramer for his incredible genes
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@chattychris
@brooke_AF
@AlexDanvers2017
Communist here, please consider that your ideas about communism are shaped by decades of cold war propaganda
No, this bill is fascist and needs to be quashed
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@KarlreMarks
what if, instead of a massive continent-spanning war for the fate of the church and the soul, we just had a game of footy
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@henrykleeKTVU
@FairfieldPolice
cops when kids are having fun in public: 🚨🚨
cops when kids are being shot in school : 🥺🥺 what if I get hurt
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@GMA
the Disney animators were striking in 1941 for recognition for their new union. and they won!
(2D animators in the US are union; most CGI animators are not [yet!], which is a big reason why there's so much CGI in modern films)
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@DarrenKaplan
@nhannahjones
all of my Jewish friends are horrified and ashamed at the genocide of Palestine committed in their name, with our public funds. most of them are actively involved in planning and organizing actions in support of Palestine
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@bradlander
this is because they didn't start the Y-axis (on the left) at zero, which is a common way to manipulate data and exaggerate differences
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@TrentonHassles
this is goofy af but mostly harmless
Lightfoot's refusal to defund CPD/fund mental health clinics, and refusal pressure Pritzker to remove the ban on rent control (so we can cancel evictions in Chicago) is going to kill people
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@UniversalPics
here is what a fight scene should look like
sucks that two huge talents like Yeoh and Li had their work here edited like dogshit
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@jerubot
@leisureadvocate
just looking at this photo, it's so so obvious who is the colonizer and who is the colonized
free Palestine
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@QuickestTempa
@Dthehairstylist
they better go find her then cause we got UFOs coming out the woodwork
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@OddRue
man... the US govt does not serve us. it's just three corporations under a trench coat
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@The_Law_Boy
whatever your thoughts about Lenin, I think we can all agree he nailed this one 100%
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@fromkdwithluv
@Johnny__Wadd
A word of warning: Target or Wal-Mart track shoplifters w facial recognition
They wait to file charges until you have stolen enough stuff to qualify as felony theft
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@hingo
Lmao at "As positive as the Shamrock Shake's impact has been"
Like they pulled up a chart of anti-Irish hate crimes in the US and boom, you can see plain as day when McD's first introduced a green shake
Anyway tiocfaidh ár lá
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@RottenInDenmark
@peakcapitolism
imo the drop in HS sweetheart marriages is probably bc way fewer people are getting married right after HS today vs in the 50s
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@WalkerBragman
@KyleKulinski
I'm skeptical that the squeeze will actually change things for the working class but I LOVE seeing people talk about class and collective action - that's how we will truly change things in this world
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@ZacEfraan
@RellieRelz
ugh the Buzzfeed caption implying this was all her choice and not the adult photographers around her, her shitty parents, etc.... v gross
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@NPR
let this radicalize you, rather than lead you to despair
if the courts won't bring us justice - and they won't - then the people will have to do it themselves
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@DavidThomasMN
@incogles
@MorePerfectUS
you deserved far better - as do these DQ workers
how much money did the owner take home from the hard work that you and your coworkers did?
did the owners ever lose a finger to the drill bits?
is that factory still around, or did they send it overseas for more money?
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@profit_is_theft
@linaposting
Literally just the same "Great Replacement" rhetoric you'd hear from US fascists
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@woodra
@IndigenousAI
similar - Chicago PD has been doing secret surveillance of anyone that speaks at a Police Board meeting since at least 2013...
the police state apparatus has been slowly assembled around us
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@emm_257
@igorbobic
let's see how this strategy of "promising good things and letting corporate lobbyists cancel them all" will go for Dems in 2022/2024
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@DOGDICK420CUM
This persons comment is a little silly here but there IS a connection between eating animals and misogyny. The easiest way to see it imo is the stereotype that vegetarians are "pussies" , gay, etc
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@jamieson
@JonahFurman
sure - but a lawsuit after the fact won't bring anyone back
AFAICT, there haven't been any serious consequences for Amazon after workers were ordered to keep working through tornado sirens, leading to six workers dying in the collapse
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@UnionDrip
@noraflanagan
"let's set some record profits this quarter"
will there be record wages this quarter?
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@roblucas
-> "DC people are real and everyone else is just numbers"
need Nuremberg Trials for Biden, Netanyahu, and many, many other people who have abetted these crimes against humanity
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@BBCWiltshire
expanding highways makes traffic significantly WORSE in the long run
this happens every single time govts build "one more lane" - it is called "induced demand"
it is a waste of money & is very damaging to wildlife, human health, etc
to move people efficiently, we need TRAINS
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@SodeepArt
@GWANJEZ
no one should join the US military. they use you to oppress people of color around the world - not for freedom. and so many civilians have been killed
when you're done, they throw you away. so many veterans are homeless and/or self-medicate with drugs
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@crulge
I feel like this is also related to the govt (non)response to COVID, normalizing the idea that we don't owe each other *anything* - even to the point of not enforcing a mask mandate while a 9/11 worth of people died every day or week from COVID
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@FairfieldPolice
@henrykleeKTVU
so you could have formed a cordon behind them to protect the cyclists from bad drivers
instead you arrested a bunch of kids
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@mjs_DC
@neal_katyal
I won't believe corporations are legally people until the State of Texas executes one
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@Larkos_TBBH
@sadbokkie
you're right, the cops need years of training to know that they should not *checks notes* taunt, threaten, and strip naked a young man having a mental health crisis
and they also need training on how to pick up a phone to ask for advice
🥴🥴
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@Seamus_Malek
seems increasingly clear he's trying to get on the Gervais/Chappelle grift
who needs to write jokes when you can just whine that people don't like you anymore?
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@ReuvenBlau
@NYCMayor
@TheRevAl
getting baptized at a prison that killed at least eight people last year is demonic
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@carlquintanilla
"Peabody Award, Emmy, Murrow & duPont winner"
lmfao
these awards for excellence in journalism turn out to just be who can mislead the public the best, huh
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@TGreg72
@MorePerfectUS
@MineWorkers
rocks? AL is an open carry state w Stand Your Ground laws. if they want to defend themselves & their fellow workers, they should open carry guns to deter these attacks
this should not be a haphazard thing (dangerous to the whole picket) but a small group of folks who drill/train
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@4cast4you
railroad workers have been saying for YEARS now that understaffing and cost-cutting by railroad corporations have created serious weaknesses in our national supply lines, & will cause serious incidents
I'd bet that was a factor here too
nationalize RRs
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@willripleyCNN
@sarasidnerCNN
@NewsCentralCNN
what do you expect?
for over a century, the US govt has occupied other countries, overthrown their leaders, used sanctions to starve people and block their medicine... and the US military was particularly brutal in Korea
there is a LOT of anger towards US imperialism
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@RevSouthNolan
@pstprtsndprssn
the Atlanta police tazing this street medic is very similar to the Israeli Occupation Force intentionally targeting Palestinian healthcare workers
that's no coincidence, IMO - the APD trains with the IOF through a longstanding program called GILEE:
This is such a great thread & graphics by
@trapteas
— even 3 years later its a useful intro to the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange program (GILEE) at Georgia State University.
Im gonna “re-up” the 🧵with added ALT text for each image below.
#EndGILEE
#StopCopCity
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@andrew_chung_
it's simple: SCOTUS is deeply corrupt. we need a deep and serious investigation into all nine of them, clerks, etc. everyone who is taking money from the wealthy and corporations with cases before the court must be removed
the rot has to be excised or it will spread
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@noisylemonade
@mattxiv
what's the motive though?
what's more plausible:
1. she knew, wrote up a comment saying she dgaf about someone's SA, for some reason, and now is lying about it?
2. she didn't know and it was an honest mistake
#1
just doesn't make sense
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@tristan_puig
This is a feminist issue too - eliminating at-will firing will reduce sexual harassment in the workplace. The (often tacit) threat of being fired looms over workers who would otherwise fight abuse
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@savthorpe
@thehousered
Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair
Capitalist "democracy" is a sham. We must build socialism - the alternative is watching the federal govt do nothing as the world burns
Now if we could get some major unions to go on strike to force this legislation...
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@ashtrey5
Sadly not unique to Vancouver
@CitationsPod
has documented many local news stations (& esp Fox News) in the US referring to homeless people as an infestation
many cop "sweeps" to destroy their tents & other property
The violence is escalating
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@MorePerfectUS
prison slavery is the modern version of chattel slavery
2nd photo is Angola Penitentiary. Angola started as a plantation; it became became a prison after the abolition of chattel slavery. they arrested Black people & leased them out to nearby plantations
it's racial capitalism
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@BostonJerry
@leftistbeard
cops abuse their domestic partners at much higher rates than the general population, partially because they know other cops will protect them
there should absolutely be a federal investigation into this one
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@_ericblanc
we need a raunchy campus comedy about the jocks siding with grad students/adjuncts/etc against the dean - and we need it now
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@MysteriosoX
@K_Niemietz
A bookstore is under no obligation to make "balanced" book displays. Particularly when our news media are so biased towards Zionism. A truthful corrective is needed
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@BLACKMESSlAH
UNIONS fought for indoor smoking bans
Working 8 hours in a restaurant (or plane or), swimming in cigarette smoke was damaging workers' lungs
It's v similar to masking and COVID today actually. So many ppl just don't think about service workers at all
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@modorchaidhe
the best protection from lay-offs is for workers to own the company and run it together democratically
probably the biggest of these is Motion Twin, the studio that made Dead Cells
here's an article explaining the concept in further detail:
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@slimeslinger
@stabpossum
could a lightning strike destroy their shit or would it just go from the copper tube into the ground?
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@AdamMantine
75% of truck owners use their truck for towing once a year or less (meaning, never)
Nearly 70% of truck owners go off-road once a year or less
a full 35% of truck owners use their truck for hauling (putting something in the bed) once a year or less
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@Jenelle_M_P
@hollyotterbein
ofc those injustices ARE violent themselves, which clarifies exactly how bullshit liberal pablum is
"no amount of anger at the very real racist violence in our society justifies self-defense" 🥴
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