@muirneag.bsky.social
Anthropologist, trade unionist, Scottish independence supporter. ❤️ art, nature, science, justice
I used to be a Social Security trustee. How can we fix Social Security without cutting benefits or raising the retirement age? Scrap the cap. This is a plan that even some Republicans are starting to get on board with. Let me explain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfZuB7XSFys
How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security | Robert Reich
Social Security taxes are rigged for the rich — and the program is in danger because of it.A CEO earning $20M/yr pays So
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Beautiful and thought-provoking poem by Prue Paimon
Prue Paimon@pruepaimon.bsky.social · 20h agoAttention is currency. Not the kind you keep folded in a wallet, not the kind that accumulates interest while you sleep. It is stranger than money. It is the minutes you will never get back. We are all rich in something we cannot save. #poet #poem #poetry
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and 56 million Americans would join a union tomrorow if they could. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
Unions are extremely popular: 56 million workers would join a union if they could
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...
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Christopher Murray Grieve aka Hugh MacDiarmid died 9th September. In Memoriam: Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) by Alastair Mackie
Happy birthday to my old friend, Bernie Sanders. It's an honor to have been in the fight with him for all of these years. Bernie has more guts than any politician I know. Hell, he has more guts than just about anyone I know.
My photos from the official unveiling of the Knife Angel in Leith's Kirkgate, alongside members of the Interfaith Association.
@whiskyweek fans will want to give The Palmerston a miss! It's dinner reservations only, no dram sampling allowed (even the bar stools are for dinner reservations only).
Children deserve to learn without bombs. Our partners at the @ukrainesol.bsky.social Scottish branch are raising money to buy a minivan, to donate to a children's residential camp being built by the TUESWU, the Ukrainian teachers' union. Please give below www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/dyjrVLv...
Ukraine International Convoy Kid's Minibus Appeal
Uniting people to deliver essential winter supplies, medical aid, and transport directly to the Ukrainian communities hit hardest by the war
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Maja Berezowska was a prolific Polish artist and illustrator of children's books. #womensart #childrensliterature
Fill a child's world with wonder. Buy them a book, and give them space to read it. (illustration by Lee White)
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
What's sadder, an insane megalomaniac destroying a country, or the fact that the people who voted for him knew he would, but thought the bad stuff would just happen to others?
They were spot on. This was The New York Times Sunday Opinion section on October 27, 2024.
