Lys C

@thislys.bsky.social

Political nitwit

The Generals are gone. The AG is gone. We started a war. Gas is up. Healthcare is up. Prescriptions are up. The rich are richer. The poor are poorer. Protesters have been killed. Service members have been killed. The law is a suggestion. The constitution is a memory. We. Are. Not. Okay.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

wsj.com

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

If you see a bunch of people celebrating a man’s death today and wonder “why are people so happy about someone dying”, just know many of us wish this would’ve happened 50 years ago so he couldnt have taught our parents how to uniquely traumatize us and keep us closeted and subservient

Tori Williams Douglass@toriglass.bsky.social · last yr.

just gonna say this again because it needs to be pointed out Dobson’s favorite (only?) form of parental discipline is functionally sexual assault. It is always wrong to strip a child naked and touch or hit them, even “lovingly”. He was not sorry and neither am I.

if you are worried people in your community don't have info about what the big bill will do, consider printing out PIECES OF PAPER about the issue and PINNING THEM PLACES in your town it is not a fancy system but it works!!!!!! provide a link or a QR code to an article if you wanna get fancy