It's so disappointing that this kind of racism is still routine in the United States. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
I watched ‘Six’ with my sister. I didn’t expect a side serving of racism. | Opinion
Who gets to decide who is expected to occupy certain spaces? What kind of audacity propels someone to assume we couldn’t possibly belong?
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In the 1960's, when the USA led the world w/ blue-chip companies in every field, the average CEO-to-worker pay ratio for major corps was 20-to-1. Now, CEO's are paid about 300 times as much as the typical worker. Those CEO's don't work any harder nor are they more deserving.
I got off of Facebook entirely and as Instagram gets more and more frenetic and full of sales pitches, and there are hardly any of the still photos I used to like, I've cut way back there. Spending more time here because most of the posts I see are things I can read. www.pcmag.com/news/death-o...
The Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
If scrolling feels more exhausting than entertaining, you're not alone. I feel the same way, and a recent study backs up the sentiment: Social media is losing its fun factor.
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Whew! Just finished responding to all the comments submitted by beta readers on my Christmas novel, which I've been working on since 2023. Now all I have to do is figure out how best to launch and promote it along with the first book set in this world. #booksky #historicalromance #Christmasnovel
If socialism has no place in America then why do big corporations get so much of it?
I just donated to World Central Kitchen's emergency response, sending food to people affected by the earthquakes in Venezuela. Care to join me? donate.wck.org/campaign/815...
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*Whispers* Amazon doesn't need your money, but your local independent bookstore does.
Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.
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The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. -Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925
"Danse macabre" (2023), acrylic painting created by the Iranian artist Bahman Pezeshkzad.
Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.
Women hold up at least half of the sky. These women were real heroes
Edward Elderman@elderman.bsky.social · 2mo ago
60 Minutes' Sharyn Alfonsi pens a goodbye note slamming Bari Weiss' actions against her "as a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting." Read the rest:
Who can support a decent life on just $7.25 an hour??
Congressman Don Beyer@beyer.house.gov · 2mo agoOn this day in 2007, the Fair Minimum Wage Act was signed into law, raising the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour. A child born that year is now old enough to drive in 2026. The minimum wage is *still* $7.25. It's long past time to increase it.
Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones is one of my personal heroes. I recently had the chance to speak to him about the racist redistricting plot being enacted in his state and others in the South. Republicans are trying to bring us back to the Jim Crow era that so many fought (and died) to end.
Who says self publishing isn't acceptable? If what you want is creative control, it's a much better way to go than traditional. Of course it has limitations, too. Bookstore access is much harder.
Jessica Smith@thedaybooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoI wish this self publishing were more acceptable or that it was more common for people to have design control over their books through a press, because I always know exactly what I want my books to look like and I am capable of making them look like that. Like, just let me do it.
73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)
This is so true. Women and other groups who have had to fight for their rights (and are still fighting) shouldn't let their struggles be minimized by the words used to describe them.
Dr. Mar@boldnewme.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.
Today's gas price in Richmond, California. Donald Trump did this. And while we're all paying these out-of-control gas prices, he wants to spend $1 BILLION of our tax dollars on his ugly ballroom. #gasprices #trumpcorruption #trumpepsteinballroom
The Supreme Court blatantly exceeds its constitutional authority and undermines its legitimacy when it acts like a super legislature rewriting laws it doesn’t like.
100%. Until the Supreme Court is reformed and the corrupt members removed, nothing else matters because the Supreme Court and its corrupt members will just stand in the way of everything else. Any Democrat who can't get behind that simple fact should leave politics now.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 3mo agoI'll restate my oft-stated position that democratic self-government in the United States is not possible unless this Court and its manifest corruption are thoroughly reformed. civic democracy or this corrupt court. can only have one.
Voter ID? How about Donor ID? Nobody can spend a dime influencing our politics, be it elections or governing unless they are human beings & American citizens.
Here it is, my annual reminder: don't spray spring dandelions with roundup. One flower can be visited by 100+ bees in a day, and your chemicals will kill all of them. 🌻
On this day in 1908, Jane Bolin was born. Bolin, America’s first black woman judge, said this about women’s rights in 1958: “Those gains we have made were never graciously and generously granted. We have to fight every inch of the way — in the face of sometimes insufferable humiliations.” #WeTheMen
