Fun fact: Every government shutdown in the last 30 years occurred when Republicans had control of the House of Representatives.
Last time it happened, it drove people to food pantries and forced an $8b hit to the economy. They treat people missing paychecks like it’s no big deal
Walmart's CEO made $25.3 million last year.
That was 933x the median compensation of a Walmart employee.
The company also announced a $20 billion stock buyback program.
Yet Walmart just said it is cutting hourly pay for new hires.
Hello?
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
If Jeff Bezos can afford a $500 million mega-yacht and nine homes, he can afford a wealth tax.
It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.
BREAKING NEWS: In a HUGE loss for Trump-appointed U.S. Postmaster Louis DeJoy, the Senate approves Biden’s Postal Board nominees — meaning that the majority of the board members are now Biden appointees. RT IF YOU THINK THAT THE BOARD MUST FIRE DEJOY IMMEDIATELY!
Xbox Play Anywhere is easily one of the best gaming features we’ve had the past decade
my progress going from console to PC to cloud to console and back to PC is such a great QoL perk
The fact that Nazis are marching through Florida chanting their support for the state’s governor and he stays silent, meanwhile LGBT Floridians are targeted and encouraged to flee the state by that same governor should tell you everything you need to know.
One of the most horrifying realities of these masked Nazi terrorists is tomorrow they'll remove their mask, hide their swastika, & go to work alongside Black & brown & Jewish people & pretend like they're not out to commit genocide...& we have no way of knowing who they are.
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
We don't suffer a lack of resources—but an excess of greed