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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3h

Genesis, a then-20-year-old, pregnant Amazon employee, says her manager wrote her up for sitting down and taking breaks.

Shortly thereafter, she says, her higher-ups gave her an ultimatum: Do your job the way we want you to do it, without the chair or without the breaks, or go on unpaid leave.

A pregnant Amazon employee asked for a chair to sit on—and wound up homeless

"You're just a number to them."

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Mt Pleasant 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @jekllnnhide.bsky.social · 2h

they need other ppl to do it, to justify their own choices

I can't imagine why anyone would be so cruel and irresponsible as to bring a child into this world, the way it is, but that's me

Mt Pleasant 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @jekllnnhide.bsky.social · 2h

my Mom used to sing it to us, if one of my sibs was feeling overly pouty...

Nobody loves me
Everybody hates me
Goin' to the garden to eat worms, yum yum
Big fat juicy ones
Little bitty tiny ones
Itsy bitsy fuzzy wuzzy worms, yum yum
It was embarrassing and the pouting usually stopped

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Veeham60 @veeham60.bsky.social · 3h

Steve Schmidt~it's just the simple truth we're the most defiant society on earth and Steven Miller proclamations and pronouncements don't change that fact and the harder MAGA presses, the more defiance there will be and therein lies the terrible danger that's being created, not by the people...

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 2h

Says it all.

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Mt Pleasant 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @jekllnnhide.bsky.social · 3h

and me too on the 'so many ppl...' thing.

the weird-ass sense of obligation to 'the template' gets 'em

gotta be 'normal' don't you know

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Mt Pleasant 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @jekllnnhide.bsky.social · 3h

so many folks let 'the template' overcome what they actually want. I've seen it dozens of times at this point.

I've been working my nie-phews for decades that they 'don't have to have children' and should think hard on that before doing so... 1 just gave in at 30 and had a kid. Arrgghh

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Mt Pleasant 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @jekllnnhide.bsky.social · 3h

that part

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GA @gulliaz.bsky.social · 3h

HYPOCRISY TO THE HIGHEST. 🙄

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CLASSYTEE @classytee.bsky.social · 3h

HMM…JEFFERY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A WORD…

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Mt Pleasant 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @jekllnnhide.bsky.social · 4h

she's determined to have Albertans support her agenda of not being part of a team, or loyal to our nation.

Yes, Albertans. You are unique and wonderful. And you are CANADIANS. Stop with this nonsense that you're smarter and smell better than other CANADIANS. You do not. She pushes that crap

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 5h

She claims not to be a separatist, but every time this dumbass premier does something, it's clearly designed to give the separatists oxygen.

#abpoli #ableg #FireTheUCP

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Bell: Danielle Smith set to roll out a new Strong and Free Alberta licence plate

Alberta gets a new licence plate with the Strong and Free brand, Premier Danielle Smith will roll out eight designs and Albertans will vote

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Mt Pleasant 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @jekllnnhide.bsky.social · 5h

what's that word the masses on the right like so much?

Cuck?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Instead of working to get the government open and pay our troops and air traffic controllers and helping his constituents keep their health plans, Mike Johnson has been tasked with helping Trump get the Nobel next year.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Just now— @SpeakerJohnson announces he will lead a global pressure campaign to get the narcissist-in-chief a Nobel Prize next year

(Also revealing he doesn’t understand what “objective facts” are)

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Correct Response: "What an incredibly inappropriate thing to say, you creepy, crazy old man."

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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 9h

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 6h

There's a lot to unpack in "we call it the Hate America Rally", but the biggest one is that they are panicking

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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brownsheila565.bsky.social @brownsheila565.bsky.social · 6h

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This is what a dictatorship looks like. Moreover Canadians would be in the same boat if Cons were to get elected. They would not care about safeguarding our sovereignty.

New York Times, AP, Reuters and Newsmax among news organizations fighting new press rules | CBC News

News organizations including the New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they will not sign a Defence Department document about its new press r...

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 7h

Key!👇

Winning with #misinformation: people endorse easily disproven claims to prioritize symbolic strength theconversation.com/winning-with...

"...some people consider it a 'win' to lean in to known falsehoods."

"...mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes."

Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength

Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.

theconversation.com

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Sam🏳️‍🌈🌊🏳️‍⚧️ @separker.bsky.social · 11h

It's murder, plain and simple.
#USDemocracy

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 1d

This is the FIFTH time Trump has carried out an illegal bombing in the Caribbean.

Using the military to execute alleged criminals with no due process or input from Congress is brazenly unconstitutional and damaging to our democracy.

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US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 8h

Oh. My. God. 🤬

Mr. McCan’t know shit.
Get him away from our kids.
And check on his wife.

kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 9h

The teacher speaking is Mr. McCant at Lovejoy High School in Clayton County, Georgia.

Is this what is being taught to students? It's no wonder people are feeling stressed, but it's the left indoctrinating people. 🙄

Would this be considered grooming?

#ProudBlue
Video credit: queenbigdawgg/Tiktok

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iTunes Brian 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇷🇸 🇺🇦 @itunesbrian.bsky.social · 6h

The Ontario & Canadian governments loaned Stellantis money in the past. Some of that debt was written off.

That debt should be reinstated & a lien placed on Stellantis’ assets in Canada. Seizure of assets for non-payment of debt!

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Stellantis backtracks on plans to build Jeep model in Ontario, shifts to U.S. — CBC News

Stellantis announced Tuesday it will invest $13 billion US over the next four years to expand its manufacturing capacity in the U.S. — a move that will take production of one model out of Ontario and ...

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Robertscribbler @robertscribbler.bsky.social · 6h

Mike is lying fascist scum and I’m not sorry for telling it like it is:

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 6h

Oh the Hypocrisy...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

This is what "grooming" looks like:

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

We teamed up with more than a dozen international newsrooms on an 18-month odyssey to expose a shadowy surveillance firm whose phone-tracking tech has been used by repressive regimes, corporate spooks, and Vatican leak hunters.

It's worth the read: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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