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Hello my darlings and dears, it's your Motha Ava here!!! (30+,She/Her) The Peacocking Diva of the AP space🦚💎 Invite me in your games if you want a supportive mom 💚 https://beacons.ai/madamava

Today, the Heritage Foundation, the org behind Project2025, took credit for driving Lonnie Bunch out the Smithsonian Institution. Bunch was the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian. But sure, tell me again how it’s not about racism.

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I know all AI isn't Gen-AI, but if you're someone random who likes a piece of art I post and I see in your profile that you work with AI, I'm going to assume you specifically work with Gen-AI, and I'm going to block you.

🚨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.

Good morning Megaplex! @aetherwears.com and I are happy to have you at E17! This year boasts the most hats and highest variety of crops so make sure to swing by before you miss out on a possible one-of-a-kind!

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TOMORROW NIGHT The FINALE of Cast Away: The Woods!! Who will take home the million dollars? What lies in wait in the woods? WHAT HAS THE JURY DECIDED?? Tune in LIVE tomorrow for the final episode as we raise funds for National Immigration Law Center!

The cast of Cast Away: The Woods. The final 3 are in color on the top row, eliminated images have been grayed out. Text reads:

Shadowy Productions Presents
Cast Away: The Woods

Finale August 19 7pm PT

Who has what it takes to 
OUTSMART. OUTPERFORM. OUTLIVE.
Everyone else

A 6 part miniseries
For National Immigration Law Center