Venezuela's just the first of many, and they're hoping other places will just fold instead of getting into a protracted air and ground war after this one.

And I know what you're thinking: Didn't the creation of Dubai require slaves? Yes! Good point! Noodle on that for a minute.

They will take everything from us

☹️ breaks my heart

Always has been

I really feel like the amount of bloodshed that was involved in the initial labor movement gets memory holed by people. People died at the hands of the state and capital to try to keep workers from having rights.

Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is just survive.

The US is barreling toward a recession for no good reason, and dragging the world—and a few thousand penguins on remote Antarctic islands—down with it.