bethkucharski.bsky.social
@bethkucharski.bsky.social
Blue dot in a red state, retired nurse, grandma, book lover cat lover, LGBTQ+ally
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%

Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%

Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.

As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
msmagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Just marauding around the suburbs today
BREAKING: Federal agents were involved in a crash Saturday morning while conducting enforcement in Elgin.

Read the latest: https://tinyurl.com/y96yp4pe 
December 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Feds gassed and tackled people in Elgin today, the same day Kristi Noem was in Chicago for a Christmas photo op, after a few weeks of relative quiet.

I'm remembering that old story about groundskeepers at Versailles who would only turn the palace fountains on when the king came by.
PHOTOS: Feds deploy tear gas in Elgin as hourslong standoff ends in man's arrest

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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The LA Taco daily memo is legit the best approach to covering these widespread, disparate raids, bar none. A simple, three minute roundup that gives you the sense of the scale of the terror attacks every day. Why every news org in a town getting hit *still* hasn't copied this is beyond me.
DAILY MEMO: Over 20 Kidnapped by ICE and CBP, Including Another U.S. Citizen, Amid Escalating Southern California Raids
December 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Love and compassion are forms of resistance- David Byrne

Pic of the day

#photography
December 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”
December 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Can you tell the difference between these two videos? Because I can’t. 🙃
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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BREAKING: Pope Leo announces that the Catholic Church supports Palestinian statehood. He went on to call out Netanyahu for refusing to recognize Palestinian statehood.

I launched this global petition calling on the USA to recognize Palestinian statehood. Please do sign & share: c.org/zqgdSZKDVn
Sign the Petition
Demand the United States Recognize Palestinian Statehood
c.org
November 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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DHS spent millions filming themselves terrorizing Chicago and bragging about arresting 4,000 “worst of the worst criminals.” In reality, only around 120 had any criminal history at all. When you have to lie that hard, it’s because you know the truth won’t defend you.
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
www.thegodpodcast.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Millions of workers are toiling away from their families this holiday weekend.

So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail.

Pay all workers a living wage.
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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We now have an unprecedented level of income & wealth inequality.

It isn’t acceptable that the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%, while a majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

We must stand together & create an economy that works for all, not just the few.
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.

Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business.

The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.

It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.

Textbook corporate greed.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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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
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Home Depot could implement a policy requiring ICE to present a judicial warrant before operating on its property. Businesses are fully within their rights to decide who is allowed on their premises.
November 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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"Court video showed ICE agents, who allegedly had a 12-pack of Modelo in their car...

"“This is great,” an officer said as they started following Martinez. “This is fun,” another replied.

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Gaetz rapes 17 year old child
Kelly whitewashes rape of 15 year old child
OK judge frees man who raped two teen girls

These are all symptoms of the cancer of child marriage in America—with 300K+ such cases since 2000.😳

Has your state banned child marriage yet?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/epstein-fi...
Epstein Files Reminder: USA has a child marriage epidemic—it's even worse than you think
Despite more than 300,000 documented child marriages since 2000, Republicans are fighting to keep it that way
www.qasimrashid.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Question: Why is Ghislaine Maxwell in a minimum security camp in Texas with special treatment?

Who ordered her to be transferred from Florida where she was serving her 20 year sentence?
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM