Elissa
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.
September 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
September 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
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"fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" = well, that's the internet won for the day; logging off, ttyt
September 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" = well, that's the internet won for the day; logging off, ttyt
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WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
July 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Notes from the ER in an Anti-Science Age canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/07/07/n... by @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
Notes from the ER in an Anti-Science Age
These conversations are increasingly common. And increasingly exhausting.
canadahealthwatch.ca
July 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Notes from the ER in an Anti-Science Age canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/07/07/n... by @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
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Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms.
But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately.
Remember this.
But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately.
Remember this.
July 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms.
But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately.
Remember this.
But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately.
Remember this.
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Clouds, 1897, John Singer Sargent
June 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Clouds, 1897, John Singer Sargent
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If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
June 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
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May 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Important lawsuit for people who care about free speech & the free press. NPR sues Trump admin over a basic constitutional principle: Congress, not POTUS controls the power of the purse & their fed’l funding www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...
NPR Sues Trump Over Order to Cut Funding
www.nytimes.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Important lawsuit for people who care about free speech & the free press. NPR sues Trump admin over a basic constitutional principle: Congress, not POTUS controls the power of the purse & their fed’l funding www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked the Trump administration from further dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services!
May 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked the Trump administration from further dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services!
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The #Epilepsy Community Unites to Oppose Cuts to Crucial Federal Epilepsy Programs: buff.ly/eOJ5UCJ
April 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The #Epilepsy Community Unites to Oppose Cuts to Crucial Federal Epilepsy Programs: buff.ly/eOJ5UCJ
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SAVE SONOMA STATE:
www.ktvu.com/news/ssus-ac...
www.ktvu.com/news/ssus-ac...
SSU's actions to close athletics department, programs deemed 'unlawful', halted by judge
Tuesday's ruling, made by Sonoma County Superior Judge Kenneth English, found that SSU violated the law in its decision-making process for the cuts.
www.ktvu.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
SAVE SONOMA STATE:
www.ktvu.com/news/ssus-ac...
www.ktvu.com/news/ssus-ac...
Health coverage should not be tied to employment. Private insurance should be scrapped. Until there is universal healthcare, CEOs should be required to have the same coverage they typically offer their employees, and no CEO should earn more than 20% of their lowest paid staff.
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
April 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Health coverage should not be tied to employment. Private insurance should be scrapped. Until there is universal healthcare, CEOs should be required to have the same coverage they typically offer their employees, and no CEO should earn more than 20% of their lowest paid staff.
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He tanks the stock market, and he and his rich buddies buy low…
Then he pauses the tariffs, and stocks rise…
He and his rich buddies sell high.
Rinse and Repeat…over, and over again.
It isn’t Rocket Science…
It’s actually criminal.
Then he pauses the tariffs, and stocks rise…
He and his rich buddies sell high.
Rinse and Repeat…over, and over again.
It isn’t Rocket Science…
It’s actually criminal.
April 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
He tanks the stock market, and he and his rich buddies buy low…
Then he pauses the tariffs, and stocks rise…
He and his rich buddies sell high.
Rinse and Repeat…over, and over again.
It isn’t Rocket Science…
It’s actually criminal.
Then he pauses the tariffs, and stocks rise…
He and his rich buddies sell high.
Rinse and Repeat…over, and over again.
It isn’t Rocket Science…
It’s actually criminal.
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"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
(April 8, 2025)
(April 8, 2025)
April 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
(April 8, 2025)
(April 8, 2025)
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The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐
April 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐
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Fear has a way of being contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Fear has a way of being contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
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Yes, businesses absolutely need to show the tariff at the checkout screen. Don't hide it into the cost of the product.
April 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Yes, businesses absolutely need to show the tariff at the checkout screen. Don't hide it into the cost of the product.
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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
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He's wiping out your life savings, destroying the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid upon which you were promised you could depend, ending the medical research that would protect and prolong your life and that of your families & gutting your liberties...and he doesn't care about any of it.
April 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
He's wiping out your life savings, destroying the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid upon which you were promised you could depend, ending the medical research that would protect and prolong your life and that of your families & gutting your liberties...and he doesn't care about any of it.
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Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company
IG 3sixteen
IG 3sixteen
April 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company
IG 3sixteen
IG 3sixteen