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Sesame Street really tells the story of America:
- Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children
- Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country
- Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts
- Unionization leads to mass layoffs
What a country!
- Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children
- Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country
- Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts
- Unionization leads to mass layoffs
What a country!
The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.
Sesame Workshop will 'downsize significantly' with layoffs, CEO says
The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.
www.npr.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Sesame Street really tells the story of America:
- Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children
- Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country
- Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts
- Unionization leads to mass layoffs
What a country!
- Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children
- Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country
- Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts
- Unionization leads to mass layoffs
What a country!
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Just one day after unionizing, Sesame Workshop’s CEO announced layoffs, per a note to staff shared with me
March 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just one day after unionizing, Sesame Workshop’s CEO announced layoffs, per a note to staff shared with me
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Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.
March 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.
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so i don’t know if susan collins knows this but she belongs to a body that has the constitutionally designated power to tell HHS to stop making these cuts because they do not have the authority to unilaterally refuse to spend congressional appropriations.
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins slams the Trump admin’s NIH cuts as “poorly conceived” and says she has called RFK to “to express my strong opposition to these arbitrary cuts in funding for vital research.” She says he promised to “re-examine this initiative” if confirmed as HHS secretary.
February 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
so i don’t know if susan collins knows this but she belongs to a body that has the constitutionally designated power to tell HHS to stop making these cuts because they do not have the authority to unilaterally refuse to spend congressional appropriations.
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i've seen a lot of people blaming the electorate for the disaster we are now facing but it is underrated how much the past four years have been elites talking themselves into doing this on purpose.
February 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
i've seen a lot of people blaming the electorate for the disaster we are now facing but it is underrated how much the past four years have been elites talking themselves into doing this on purpose.
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just spoke to a @mcclellan.house.gov staffer in her dc office who told me she hasn't even cooked up an official statement on elon musk's illegal weekend takeover of usaid et al. it's monday morning at 10am, can't even hazard a "that's bad, we're gonna do something about it." pretty cool?
February 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
just spoke to a @mcclellan.house.gov staffer in her dc office who told me she hasn't even cooked up an official statement on elon musk's illegal weekend takeover of usaid et al. it's monday morning at 10am, can't even hazard a "that's bad, we're gonna do something about it." pretty cool?
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i think we need to reexamine the economic system that allowed one person to accumulate enough wealth to literally purchase the us government
February 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
i think we need to reexamine the economic system that allowed one person to accumulate enough wealth to literally purchase the us government
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There will not be “free and fair” US elections in 2026 or 2028, but the Assholes are not omnipotent or popular - they only won with 30% of the population, which is their support ceiling across the decade.
February 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
There will not be “free and fair” US elections in 2026 or 2028, but the Assholes are not omnipotent or popular - they only won with 30% of the population, which is their support ceiling across the decade.
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Must've talked to hundreds of federal officials this week. One motivating factor in them reaching out, I'm told, is feeling like Congress is useless
January 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Must've talked to hundreds of federal officials this week. One motivating factor in them reaching out, I'm told, is feeling like Congress is useless
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this is on the home page of the ny times right now.
January 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
this is on the home page of the ny times right now.
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Hind Rajab was murdered by an IDF tank one year ago today along with several members of her family.
While she was dying, the paramedics who came to rescue her were murdered in their ambulance by an IDF tank as well.
While she was dying, the paramedics who came to rescue her were murdered in their ambulance by an IDF tank as well.
January 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Hind Rajab was murdered by an IDF tank one year ago today along with several members of her family.
While she was dying, the paramedics who came to rescue her were murdered in their ambulance by an IDF tank as well.
While she was dying, the paramedics who came to rescue her were murdered in their ambulance by an IDF tank as well.
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The Palestinian flag is now raised in the middle of Gaza City. ❤️🇵🇸
January 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The Palestinian flag is now raised in the middle of Gaza City. ❤️🇵🇸
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Biden and Harris had a year to decide whether or not they wanted victory over Trump or victory over every innocent baby and child in Gaza and they made their choice.
It bears repeating and repeating ad nauseum: If you withheld support from Biden/Harris as a means of advocating for Palestinian nationhood and the aspirations of the Palestinian people and you did not see this moment coming: You are a performative, sloganeering and politically incompetent rube.
here's audio of Trump saying he wants to "clear out" Gaza and move Palestinians elsewhere
January 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Biden and Harris had a year to decide whether or not they wanted victory over Trump or victory over every innocent baby and child in Gaza and they made their choice.
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The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over
January 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over
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There’s a particularly evil strain of liberal/progressivism that is rooting for things to get worse in Gaza simply so they can do an “I told you so.” At any point in time Biden could’ve actually flexed US muscle and said knock it the fuck off but he just kept adding fuel to the fire. Own it.
January 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There’s a particularly evil strain of liberal/progressivism that is rooting for things to get worse in Gaza simply so they can do an “I told you so.” At any point in time Biden could’ve actually flexed US muscle and said knock it the fuck off but he just kept adding fuel to the fire. Own it.
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we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
January 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
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Wow, it's almost like Trump is enacting a radical, incredibly unpopular agenda that he never mentioned or explicitly denied during the campaign, and the Democrats and press are so mentally committed to servile accommodationism that they're pretending he has a sweeping mandate for that agenda!
I didn't anticipate the public health freezes. Did anyone? Was anyone in Trump world boasting about this ahead of time, like they did everything else? Stopping government from doing things in our system is much easier than making it do things you want, even things like banning a vaccine.
January 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Wow, it's almost like Trump is enacting a radical, incredibly unpopular agenda that he never mentioned or explicitly denied during the campaign, and the Democrats and press are so mentally committed to servile accommodationism that they're pretending he has a sweeping mandate for that agenda!
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Every day it breaks my heart to know that this level of misery is being inflicted on people, and that it's being done with American tax dollars that could be providing care for sick instead of slaughtering them.
Israel has burned northern Gaza’s last remaining hospital. And kicked out its patients, including neonatal and ICU patients. I picked a western news source since y’all seem more likely to believe those. I don’t know how else to get people to care.
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...
Israel burns northern Gaza’s last functioning hospital; patients and staff forcibly removed
Isreali military vehicles surrounded the hospital, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, and communications had been cut off.
www.nbcnews.com
December 28, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Every day it breaks my heart to know that this level of misery is being inflicted on people, and that it's being done with American tax dollars that could be providing care for sick instead of slaughtering them.
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Me: *tip toeing mischievously toward MRI machine*
Health insurance company (hands on hips): Stop right there mister! Is that medically necessary?
Me (kicking dirt): No
Health insurance company (hands on hips): Stop right there mister! Is that medically necessary?
Me (kicking dirt): No
December 24, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Me: *tip toeing mischievously toward MRI machine*
Health insurance company (hands on hips): Stop right there mister! Is that medically necessary?
Me (kicking dirt): No
Health insurance company (hands on hips): Stop right there mister! Is that medically necessary?
Me (kicking dirt): No
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Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
December 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
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"Since October 2023, NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, and CNN’s State of the Union have not featured a single Palestinian guest."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
How Sunday Morning News Shows Promote an Anti-Palestinian Agenda for Washington
Since October 2023, NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, and CNN’s State of the Union have not featured a single Palestinian guest.
www.thenation.com
December 23, 2024 at 5:07 PM
"Since October 2023, NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, and CNN’s State of the Union have not featured a single Palestinian guest."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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is there a non congress job where you can not show up for 6 months and still get paid
December 22, 2024 at 7:33 PM
is there a non congress job where you can not show up for 6 months and still get paid
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he's a 78 year old incoming president via historically narrow margins promising fascism while ineligible for another term with a single vote to spare in the house, any democrat who looks at that situation and with a straight face says "we have to work with them" deserves to be ejected from the party
December 22, 2024 at 5:26 AM
he's a 78 year old incoming president via historically narrow margins promising fascism while ineligible for another term with a single vote to spare in the house, any democrat who looks at that situation and with a straight face says "we have to work with them" deserves to be ejected from the party
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Why I am fine with Eat the Rich:
Jeff Bezos announcing that he's marrying his next wife, Lauren Sanchez, in a lavish $600m ceremony. They live in Florida. $600m would cover 2 years of FL k-12 free lunch programs. Last year the state discontinued the office that helped schools file for free lunches.
Jeff Bezos announcing that he's marrying his next wife, Lauren Sanchez, in a lavish $600m ceremony. They live in Florida. $600m would cover 2 years of FL k-12 free lunch programs. Last year the state discontinued the office that helped schools file for free lunches.
December 22, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Why I am fine with Eat the Rich:
Jeff Bezos announcing that he's marrying his next wife, Lauren Sanchez, in a lavish $600m ceremony. They live in Florida. $600m would cover 2 years of FL k-12 free lunch programs. Last year the state discontinued the office that helped schools file for free lunches.
Jeff Bezos announcing that he's marrying his next wife, Lauren Sanchez, in a lavish $600m ceremony. They live in Florida. $600m would cover 2 years of FL k-12 free lunch programs. Last year the state discontinued the office that helped schools file for free lunches.