Michael Legel
@mjlegel.bsky.social
Unionite, Retired Toolmaker, Master Machinist, Active Curmudgeon Born when TV (and the world) was B&W www.mjlegel.com
I keep getting spam texts asking me what I think about Israel. It's simple: I think genocide is bad. I think if your country's figureheads ramble on and on about how it was bad when their people were victims of genocide but then are actively promoting genocide of others, they are bad people.
Political commentary after primary elections this year cracks me up. Pundits still reading the old scripts when voters seem to be writing new ones, regardless of who wins. As I've been saying, people are pissed off and the old rules no longer apply. #Politics
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Public officials implement community protection programs — lockdowns with massive police presence. Unleashing hundreds Of armored and armed people with no accountability is NOT going to make any neighborhood safe. A police state is NOT safe.
Don't just teach your children to read ... Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. ~ George Carlin
The animosity against Bernie supporters is a self-own by BlueMAGA. They can't imagine liking policy over person because they are a party cult.
Someone just tried to tell me anti zionism is being hateful towards Jews. Tried to say it is the same as being antisemitic Well no it isn't. Zionism and Zionist Jews believes in a home land a state, a state of Israel, at the cost of others. Non zionist Jews don't. They just want to live peacefully.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed legislation allowing rideshare drivers to bargain collectively. Rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft will be charged 4-cents-per-ride to cover the implementation of the union. The law impacts more than 100,000 rideshare drivers across the state.
Rideshare unionization, drug-pricing oversight, plastic pellet and light pollution bills become law
The governor has signed more than 350 bills that passed in the spring session.
capitolnewsillinois.com
The biggest conn capitalism ever pulled was convincing us that working 40 hours a week and still worrying about the electricity bill is normal. We have the technology, productivity and wealth. Being exhausted and broke isn't a technological problem. It's a distribution problem.
With everyone obsessing over a handful of DSA candidates, the broader trend that might be getting missed across the country is that lots of Dem primary voters seem to have decided it is time for a new generation of younger nominees in lots of places.
If establishment dems weren’t purchased by the same billionaires who purchased the entire Republican Party, maybe I’d be more willing to support them. Simple as that!
I’ve heard a lot about airlines colluding with ICE and TSA to inform on migrants. Sickening betrayal. If anyone wonders how Germany got to where it did, it’s because of these kinds of collaborators.
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2d ago🧊✈️ 👉COLLABORATOR👈‼️🤨 “It was supposed to be a routine work trip to Las Vegas, but a 👉DELTA👈 agent told him the airline was working to upgrade his seat. “He just needed to board last.” REMEMBER WHO COLLABORATES
Capitalists in the DNC & RNC bring us "work til we die" wage slavery. Meanwhile Socialist Democracies in Europe guarantee retirement and life-work balance for their people. USA is NOT the land of the free. It never was.
Trump insisted on taking his Qatar grift jet to Europe. On the way home we received threats from Iran & they decided to use old AF 1. But did Trump ride on it? No, they whisked him off of it on a catering truck while reporters & WH aids were used as decoys. What a gutless pussy.
Lake Mead lowest ever. Siberia hits 90. Vienna 105. Northwest on fire. Ocean heat record. Nothing to see here folks.
Lake Mead, the nation’s biggest reservoir, hits lowest level on record
The milestone is yet another sign of the escalating water crisis on the Colorado River, which scientists say is worsened by climate change.
washingtonpost.com
“Via Nick Valencia You need to see this video. Watch as a reported off-duty federal agent draws his firearm on a crowd of civilians. The troubling scene unfolded Saturday night near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. “
The common trope moderate Dems on Bsky seem to take when socialists like myself offer full-throated endorsement of the idea of abolishing law enforcement and the military seems to be settling at: "Well, you obviously don't believe in justice for the Epstein victims" (or some such variation) Nice.
A new study shows that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and over $1 trillion every year. The new research out of Yale shows that reductions in administrative overhead, lower pharmaceutical prices, less fraudulent billing, and fewer emergency care trips would lead to huge savings. /1
Yale Study: Medicare for All Would Save Over 114,000 Lives and $1 Trillion a Year | Common Dreams
"Do not tell me we cannot afford Medicare for All," the senator said. "What we cannot afford is a broken healthcare system based on greed."
commondreams.org
