I'm absolutely losing my mind that credit scores weren't established in the US until 1989. We really are the guinea pig generations for all the bad boomer ideas
My mom broke down today. There were over 80 patients in the ER last night, understaffed, and today she had to hear family tell her COVID isn’t real and that feeling burnout makes you a terrible nurse. She just kept crying and said there’s no help to be seen
Its funny that businesses are begging for workers instead of just getting those robots we're told will so easily replace us if we raise the minimum wage
NYC sending a text to residents to turn down the AC while leaving Times Square lit up is a great example of how the “individual responsibility to stop climate change” has been pushed to redirect our focus away from the corporations & failed government policy causing the most harm
Today a student had a seizure in class. Once we got them stable they told us they had to work an overnight shift, didnt get to sleep or eat & went right to class at 8am. Their body reached its limit.What the hell are we doing. the kids arent ok. we arent ok. this shit isnt normal
In rural Sackets Harbor, N.Y., where COVID-19 affected the local volunteer ambulance service, local high school students took the required training and picked up the slack.
A pack of KN95s that I got for $15 a month ago is now $50 on Amazon. Right before children are being forced back to school. During the covid peak. While hospitals are overflowing. What’s happening right now is a deeply immoral, profit driven humanitarian crisis.
So many zoomers are anti-capitalist because we were born into a state of capitalist decay. We dont remember the "good old days" where an average job could pay for rent and school - most of us have only known debt, foreclosures, and multiple "once in a lifetime" economic crashes
Just saw a TikTok from a young girl who developed parosmia from COVID - now every single thing she eats or drinks tastes like sewage or gasoline. I don’t know why the dangers of COVID are only framed as life and death, because that sounds like hell to have to live with forever.
I see a lot of people asking why Steven Crowder would only have one car for him and his wife when he has millions to buy another.
It’s very much intentional. It’s abuse. Isolating and making your partner completely dependent on you is a VERY common abuse tactic.
There’s some capitalist evil in thinking you need to struggle to have your basic human needs met. It’s okay to want your exploitative loans erased, it’s okay to want to work less and spend more time with your family and doing the things you love. “The grind” is just brainwash.
I think most Americans underestimate just how much better their life would be if they could get around easily without their car. It improves your physical and mental health, your sense of community, your finances, the time you have in the day. Life changing tbh.
Kids being forced to bring blankets into class to keep from freezing because all of the windows are open to try and reduce the rampant covid transmission doesn’t really seem like “the safest place for our children to be” !!
The richest man just went to space for fun in the same month a billion animals cooked to death and hundreds of people died in record breaking heat waves, flooding and fires that are still raging around the world. Our survival isn’t compatible with their evil and greed.
Bailouts for hedge fund managers who lost money to the "free market" but not for families facing eviction due to widespread pandemic unemployment. Funny how that works.
CNBC's David Faber said he is hearing a number of hedge funds are in similar trouble that Melvin Capital saw in its GameStop $GME and may need to be bailed out.
Sometimes it's hard to put into perspective how so much of what we fight about is irrelevant if we cant confront the climate crisis that's right around the corner.
Hope you haven’t stopped caring about kids in cages, because the other day in Chicago an Afghan refugee child broke and jumped through a 4th floor window to try and escape the horrific conditions in the detainment facility. Children there are attempting suicide and refusing food.
Onlyfans catered their platform almost exclusively to sex workers, built their wealth and popularity off the backs of sex workers, and within only a year ditched the creators who made their empire so they can cater to banks. Even if you don’t use the site you should be pissed.
I really dont care if a business goes under because they can't pay their employees a living wage. Properly paying your employees is something you should have factored in before starting a business.
Last night I pulled over for a wreck to help the people that were injured. My heart dropped when I realized police were coming before EMTs and I was right in feeling that
An hour ago there was a mass shooting at a 4th of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois. 9 people shot. The parade was filled with cops and yet the shooter STILL hasn’t been caught.
Why are we giving PDs 50% of our budgets when they can’t do ANYTHING to keep us safe?
Pro tip: Drive to the rich neighborhoods on their trash night and take whatever catches your eye. The amount of brand new shit these people throw out on the curb is astounding
Derek Chauvin was just sentenced to 22 years for murdering a man in broad daylight. There are people serving life sentences right now for non-violent drug offenses.
There’s never been justice in our justice system.
In 2019, 5 correctional officers held John Neville down, hog tied, and suffocated him. Only after he stopped breathing was the nurse on staff allowed into the room to preform CPR. Yesterday a jury declined to indict the officers in John’s death, and decided to indict the nurse.
If you’re not working in frontline healthcare, or you don’t have anyone in your life who is, you aren’t seeing the trauma they’re going through right now. It’s bad. It’s so bad.
@AchmatX
There’s no such thing as a “low skilled” worker. It’s a myth created to try and justify overworking and underpaying some of the most essential workers in the country.
Elon Musk, out of personal hatred for public transit, destroyed the California high speed rail project (the thing that would fix traffic) for a failed hyperloop that he bulldozed into a parking lot. He is the reason you’re sitting in traffic.
LA traffic is the worst. I can’t imagine how much of life is wasted in a car in LA. Can’t wait for
@boringcompany
@elonmusk
to get rid of this problem.
I’m just so bitter and angry, at a government that’s enabling this and at all of the people willing to harm someone else’s life before inconveniencing their own. I’m mad at everyone believing in batshit conspiracy theories that are tearing families apart and destroying lives
Breaking: Oakland Police Chief Armstrong said at a press conference today that his claims that protesters were preparing Molotov cocktails at last year’s 6/1 George Floyd protest were wrong. Police weren’t justified in using tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters.
Democrats now have the presidency, the senate and the house. Any time they tell you that their hands are tied and they cant give you what you need will be a lie, remember that.
A bunch of investment apps have completely prevented regular folks from buying meme stock so the richest of the rich can "prepare" behind closed doors. Some people are learning in real time how the free market has never been free.
A comrade just told me about her best friend who said he will "blow out a protestors brains" if they ever came to his city
She asked "what about me? You would shoot me?" He said, to his best friend, "if you were destroying property, yes"
Fascist brainwash is out of control
Every other month for decades we’ve had a white supremacist carry out a mass shooting terrorist attack, and the media, for decades, have framed it solely as a “mental health” issue. We have a fascist issue, and we need to start facing that.
1 BILLION sea creatures were cooked to death and HUNDREDS of people died due to the heat wave last week, with another record-breaking wave coming this week. Anything short of immediate radical action and systematic overhaul means mass extinction.
The Astroworld tragedy wasn’t a fucking ritual. The only thing truly “demonic” about what happened was the way profit and ego were put over human lives.
This passed. The Democrats passed a bill to defend the people dismantling our rights before anything to protect Roe. Is it clear now that we have one right wing party?
Remember that Republican state rep who said he wanted to be my "capitalist foot stool?"
Well he tried to "quit me," crawled back 5 days later, and is already opening his wallet for the Louisville bail fund lmfao
I found out that she also blew out her back working that night. I thought she was hunched over because of how hard she was crying. She’s not even 40 yet. What we’re doing to our healthcare workers is mental and physical torture. You have no idea
The minimum wage in Denmark is $20/hour and their Big Macs are still 61 cents less than here I dont wanna hear another conservative talk about the price of their damn burgers going up if we give people a living wage ever again
Imagine rn if this coup was backed up by another powerful country, given additional money, resources & plenty of press saying Trump is our rightful president & we need his leadership. This is what the US has been doing to other countries, often socialist countries, for decades.
i feel like it should be mainstream news that a cop shot another cop, used that to murder an indigenous forest defender who was dedicated to non-violence, then lied to the press to paint them as a violent aggresor. their name was Tortuguita. cops shot them 13 times.
#StopCopCity
Moments after police opened fire on Tortugita, killing them, and Atlanta Police officer can be heard saying, "Man...you fucked your own officer up?" in reference to the trooper that was also shot.
I remember in March my mom, an ER nurse, telling me she had to reuse her N95 daily bc they didnt have funding for PPE. Only a couple weeks later I saw police brutalizing people with expensive, on-demand military-grade gear.
I dont give a shit about the "optics." DEFUND THEM.
Police shot two people over unpaid food this week. Portland PD was called on a man who didnt pay at a grocery store & laid down. They shot him. Police were called on Ryan LeRoux who didnt pay at McDonalds & stayed parked. They shot him 24x. Both were having mental health crises
NYPD has a $10+ billion budget with robot dogs and video game trucks while our infrastructure crumbles under the weight of the climate crisis. We aren’t prepared for this, or for what’s to come, and it isn’t by accident.
Jill Biden painting hearts to put outside the White House is a perfect example of how Democrats will do little to nothing to materially help those struggling but wrap it up with platitudes and meaningless gestures. We dont need pretty paintings, we need relief.