bourgeau.bsky.social
@bourgeau.bsky.social
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My wife and I discussed this—we’re not boycotting. We’re changing our lifestyle. We’ll spend our money where we’re welcome. Target has made it clear—you are welcome there, we are not.
January 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Since Monday, Trump has: Halted civil rights investigations, suspended public health advisories, frozen infrastructure spending, rescinded an executive order prohibiting discrimination by federal contractors and another one aimed at lowering drug prices.

How does this help working people?
January 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
drive.google.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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So far here’s a list of companies reinforcing their commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:
Apple
Costco
Bank of America
Delta
JP Morgan
Marriott
Microsoft
Procter & Gamble
Goldman Sachs
American Airlines
Southwest Airlines
United Airlines
Catholic Health
January 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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The FDA this week banned the use of Red Dye No. 3 in food, citing concerns that the common dye could cause cancer in rats.

What does the science say about its health effects? What foods will be affected? Here are common questions about the newly banned additive.
Which Foods Have Red Dye No. 3? What to Know About the FDA’s New Ban
What does the science say about its health effects? What foods will be affected? And other common questions about the newly banned additive.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on Mike Johnson considering conditioning disaster aid: "Never in California did we question whether or not we, as taxpayers in the largest state in the Union, should support the people of Louisiana at a time of emergency and need. We’d never condition it."
January 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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January 16 is Temperance & Good Citizenship Day, where future voters across the state are taught the significance of civic education and peaceful citizen engagement.
Learn more: https://buff.ly/4jdND06
January 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Trump wants to cut the corporate tax rate to 15%. This would give...

-The 5 largest banks a $4.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest drug makers a $3.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest US oil companies a $2.5B tax cut
-The 5 largest grocery stores a $1.7B tax cut

Some populist, huh?
Trump’s $50 Billion Tax Giveaway to the 100 Largest Corporations
Trump’s plan to slash the corporate tax rate would give the largest corporations a tax cut exceeding federal K-12 education spending.
www.americanprogressaction.org
January 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This is FUBAR level wild. And will let people get sick, hospitalized and die.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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This is literally fucking Skynet.
December 23, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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Just sick reading this. (This morning a family member of an Indigenous woman that froze to dead after being dropped off by EPS in front of Hope Mission. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/e...
Days before Christmas, Edmonton uses emergency powers to evacuate apartment where security guard killed
Edmonton is using emergency powers to force out renters day living in the building where Harshandeep Singh was killed days before Christmas.
edmontonjournal.com
December 23, 2024 at 4:50 AM