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Lemons
@returnthelemons.bsky.social
Writer, engineer. Advocate of the working class and disabled. https://returnthelemons.com/ Brought to you by the 90's and Mister Rogers.
For my covid-aware friends, Judah Friedlander has an interactive online stand-up show this Saturday...

www.eventbrite.com/e/judah-frie...
June 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
So many people don't know that prisoners are leased out to companies like McDonalds. @moreperfectunion.bsky.social has a great report on this...

This Juneteenth, please spread the word. It's slavery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDzL...
The Untold Story of Alabama’s Incarcerated Workers
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
A very needed perspective and response to the NYT story about MAiD. Fantastic! Thanks to @jewstein3000.bsky.social

fair.org/home/how-nyt...
How NYT Magazine Threw Away Journalistic Ethics on Suicide
The New York Times violated almost all of the published guidelines by personalizing, detailing, dramatizing, justifying and sentimentalizing a suicide.
fair.org
June 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
June 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Newsom and Bass praise the LAPD while they liberally launch tear gas into peaceful protestors. This indiscriminately exposes everyone in the area to the chemical weapon, which can cause serious immediate and long-term health problems and environmental damage. So I wrote this...
June 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Wow, some sanity, thank you.

"Furthermore, despite the repeated and false claims by the ruling class and its bourgeois press, the pandemic is ongoing and both COVID-19 and Long COVID remain significant health risks for the entire world population."

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The deepening toll of Long COVID after 5 years of the pandemic
The capitalist response to the pandemic has exacted a stark toll of mass death and disability, while accelerating social inequality and initiating the destruction of the world’s public health infrastr...
www.wsws.org
June 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If you’re still masking, comment or like for a follow-back. 😷

I need to connect with you guys for my dwindling sanity.
June 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The "No Kings Rally" frames all the other oligarchs and corrupt system out of the line of fire. They desperately want us to be enraged at targets of their choosing to remain completely ineffectual. We have many kings, just without the dazzling pageantry.
June 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If an oppressor could tell you how to protest, this would be it.

Please speak up, mask up, and avoid arrest. Despite what politicians and propaganda are saying, the cops are dangerous no matter how you protest, and silence isn’t power.
June 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In honor of No Kings Day and the brave citizens showing up. Peaceful doesn’t mean passive. Please speak up, mask up, and avoid arrest.
June 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM