Pieka Albrecht

@pieka.bsky.social

Educator, College Counselor, Nature Lover, Justice Seeker, Music Maker (vicariously)

This is an edit made by a #wnba fan (@loslynx on the clock app). I’m sharing this because the league could have done this but they chose to lean into antagonism as a motif when the camaraderie and sisterhood is what makes the W so unique.

Frito Lay, owned by PepsiCo, has hired consultants to examine why people are buying less of their snacks. I can help them with this for nothing. It's because a bag of potato chips isn't supposed to cost $6.00!

BREAKING: Illinois has earned its 11th credit rating upgrade. Moody's rating returns our state to its highest rating in nearly 15 years. Under my administration, we've doubled down on strengthening finances, saving taxpayers money, and securing a better financial future.

Graphic text reading "News: Illinois receives 11th credit upgrade. Moody's Investors Service raises Illinois to its highest rating in nearly 15 years. A2 >> A1."

Fourteen years ago, HBO's 'The Newsroom' laid out the truth about voter ID in this segment. It’s striking how little the arguments — or the tactics — have changed. Still a solution in search of a problem. History doesn’t repeat itself — it gets rerun.

Elon Musk is planning to spend up to $200 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.024% of his total net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

Walmart getting a 2.9 billion dollar tariff refund, that consumers actually paid, should piss everyone off. Especially since they have been increasing prices incrementally on staples like canned vegetables.

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.

The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system. In 1952,

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