Professor Kyle @blackcatprose

We could do so much with the revenue from higher taxes on the wealthy...but it's also a good unto itself. Taxing the rich is the best tool we have to reduce income inequality.

02:24 AM - Mar 15, 2024

DC in the DMV @Dissavowel

"...every time we talk about hourly wages without talking about hours, we’re giving employers a pass for the subtler and more insidious way they’re mistreating their employees." - Adelle Waldman
READ THIS PIECE ON CORPORATE GREED: https://www.nytimes.com/20...

Opinion | It’s Not Just Wages. Retailers Are Mistreating Workers in a More Insidious Way. - The New York Times

Part-time work has become a trap.

10:53 AM - Feb 20, 2024

Muriel Vieux @MurielVieux

They told you that the elderly would die, along with the immune compromised, the obese and the diabetics, and you chose to let them die, you would not wear a mask or vaccinate.

They told you, the children would die if gun laws were not made and enforced, you said let them die.

11:11 PM - Feb 19, 2024

Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss

“The offering of ‘thoughts & prayers’ after each murderous mass shooting has become a nauseating refrain…The speakers utter this blood-stained phrase like robots. As if they didn’t grasp how empty are their platitudes, how absurdly absent of insight.”
https://america.substack.c...

The Sickening Cynicism of Thoughts and Prayers

Another mass shooting in Texas and all Gregg Abbott and Ted Cruz have to offer are empty platitudes

12:45 PM - May 09, 2023

Matthew Willemsen @mattotcha

https://www.sciencealert.c...
https://www.sciencealert.c... #roman #concrete #pozzolanic #SlakedLime #quicklime #HotMixing

We Finally Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years : ScienceAlert

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.

07:29 AM - Feb 03, 2024

R H @AtreyuBastian

11:03 AM - Jan 30, 2024

Annie Bee Good @SomeAnnieB

I really want to change the question from, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" to "What do you want to do when you grow up?"
Work as one's identity is unhealthy. Work as a state of being, a trait, or inherent to one's value is unhealthy. Work is just one of the things we do in our lives.

09:36 AM - Jan 30, 2024

Scarab Rose @ScarabRose

This is what being white and feeling entitled looks like. You believe that THE god speaks to you, and that the individual decisions you make supercede the collective decisions and processes of an organized society.

Gifted article.

Republicans now say it might be okay to ignore the Supreme Court - The Washington Post

Another threshold has been crossed in the GOP’s move away from the rule of law.

10:05 AM - Jan 30, 2024

Andrew Brodie @Andrew333

I did my laundry yesterday, that is already too much adulting for me for 2024.

09:50 AM - Jan 04, 2024

RobPalmerIRL (he/him/his) @RobPalmerIRL

Let's make sure to include people who can't celebrate or won't celebrate Christmas. Think of them as well.

01:20 PM - Dec 24, 2023

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TriXteR Phillips @TriXteRPhillips

Even small one-time donations of 5, 10, or even 20 dollars will help us reach our goal of relocating to Colorado.

Echoes and quote spouts help as well.

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04:32 PM - Aug 27, 2023