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paint huffer | nail biter | teeth grinder... oh! & dance! definitely need to dance more! we all need to dance more - (he/him) Black Lives Matter! | pro-LGBTQ+ | pro-feminism | anti-fascist | vegan for the animals

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Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · last mo.

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting. What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it. Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. No Contract? No Coffee.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war? RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!

EsotericMortification&otherthings@discordantlyurs.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Geezuz! They’re kidnapping ppl N the US, trying 2 extort blue states, openly excepting bribes, kidnapping a leader of another country N their own country, ignoring Epstein, AND threatening Greenland/Denmark &more! I expected this frm Schumer &Jeffries but is this what most Dem reps are going with?

Amy Klobuchar@amyklobuchar.com · 9mo ago

The White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland. Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?

Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Great Gatsby's themes of moral decay and the American Dream are deeply intertwined; the pursuit of a corrupted American Dream leads to the moral decay of the 1920s elite.

Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom • Nov 1 Donald Trump hosted a Great Gatsby party while SNAP benefits were about to disappear for 42 million Americans. He does not give a damn about you. Scene from an opulent dinner party with people in flapper outfits dining at large round top tables being served by formal waiters and waitresses with silver trays with champagne and plates of expensive food. THE AUTHOR'S EDITION INTRODUCTION BY JESMYN WARD The GREAT GATSBY 100TH ANNIVERSARY F SCOTT FITZGERALD Jacket cover of a literary classic book by F Scott Fitzgerald. It shows a blue backdrop with a woman’s large blue eyes and red pursed lips above a nighttime scene of an explosion at a roadside gas station.