Mastodawn

🚨AN ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE STAT: The amount that's already been spent on just two weeks of the Iran War is more than the government estimate of the cost of a paid family/medical leave program covering every single private-sector worker in America.

https://www.levernews.com/the-aid-cuts-before-the-iran-missile-strikes/

The Aid Cuts Before The Iran Missile Strikes

The Pentagon has blown through $24 billion bombing Iran so far. Here’s what that money could have been spent on instead.

The Lever

John Vosmek 5d ago

Koen Hufkens, PhD 6d ago

Man threatening to leave NATO, and invade member states, demands NATO reciprocity in a war he started. 🤡

The Onion couldn't have done a better job.

John Vosmek Mar 14

UFW Mar 13

"Alicia" shared this pic from Kern County. "The lemon orchard is in bad shape, with no lemons on the trees. They still only pay us $35 per 900 lb box for juice lemons. It takes us 3-4 hours to pick that box. It's wrong. We should at least be guaranteed minimum wage." #WeFeedYou

John Vosmek Mar 13

Cass M 🇨🇦

Mar 13

I don't think I've read as brutal an indictment against a culture as this one by @pluralistic

John Vosmek Feb 24

David Sirota Feb 24

The Roberts Court listens to corporations & Trump - in that order.

When the two conflict, the Roberts Court defers to corporations & limits Trump's power.

The Roberts Court does not listen to anyone other than corporations when considering arguments about limiting Trump's power.

https://sirota.substack.com/p/who-the-supreme-court-really-listens

Who The Supreme Court Really Listens To

The Roberts Court seems only to respond to demands that it limit executive power when the demands are supported by large corporations.

Sirota

John Vosmek Feb 24

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Cory Doctorow Feb 24

Maintenance is always cheaper than repair. A main differences between a business and a government is that a business's shareholders can starve maintenance budgets, cash out, and leave the collapsing firm behind them, while governments must think about the long term consequences of short-term thinking (the fact that so many Democratic governments have failed to do this is a consequence of Democrats adopting Republicans' framing that a good government is "run like a business").

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John Vosmek Feb 24

BlueCrew community Feb 24

Former ICE Employee: "I swore an oath to protect the nation when I signed up. I followed it when I resigned a little over a week ago. I am duty bound to report the legally required training program at the ICE academy is deficient, defective, and broken. I received secretive orders to teach cadets to violate the Constitution"

Read that again.

Ordered. To violate. The Constitution.
This isn’t partisan spin. This is about the rule of law.

Repost please!! 🙏

#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #ICE #AbolishICE