Hi, Fediverse Peeps,

I have my weekend blog post ready.

https://terikanefield.com/trumps-first-criminal-trial-theories-of-the-case/

Because my sanity requires a bit of a break from social media, my thoughts are all going into my weekend blog posts.

The comments are off, but please feel free to let me know here if I made an error. I don't hire a proofreader (duh, right?)

(If you get the error message wait a minute and try again. If you have an idea for how to fix it other than using a cache plug in, which didn't work, let me know.)

Banned Books week starts October 1st. Join LeVar Burton and other organizations that are fighting for your right to read. Follow, sign up, or donate to make a difference. Together, we can protect our freedom to access diverse books and information! 📚 #LetFreedomReadDay #BannedBooksWeek

https://bannedbooksweek.org/

Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children.

Pay all workers a living wage.

Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2023: $248,800,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2023: $160,900,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2023: $105,200,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2023: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

Labor Day reminder: If the min wage increased at the rate of inflation & productivity since 1960 it'd be $26 today—not $7.25. Meaning—billionaires & corps have stolen at least $19/hour from working Americans for 60 years.

That’s generational theft from the working class to keep people in poverty.

We don't suffer a lack of resources—but an excess of greed.

Physicist Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry without her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://whyy.org/articles/lise-meitner-the-forgotten-woman-of-nuclear-physics-who-deserved-a-nobel-prize/ #science #history