karmen

life is what you make it

[TheJoyConnection + @Strategiceye127]

"Breaking News: Local dog makes a full recovery after receiving one snack. 😂🐶"

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Palestinian goalkeeper Salim Al-Ashqar has been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

He leaves behind his wife of 5 months who is expecting their first child.

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

How do you even read things like this and not want them GONE?

[Praise @tufpraise]

now are y'all seeing this?!? like REALLY SEEING THIS???

[karmen @OnlyKarmen]

What is wrong with them literally wtf

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine.

A village that has stood for thousands of years.

A place where Jesus once walked.

Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world.

And not a peep from Western mainstream media.

[karmen @OnlyKarmen]

The way I cried hearing yes, and? This morning like a crazy head, I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE MY GIRL ARIANAAAAAA

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Nothing to see here.

[K. @IbaraEleven]

Congress wants you to believe that they can’t survive on $83/hr but that you can survive on $7.25/hr. These people have nothing but contempt for you.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

My hot take is US Senators should be paid whatever their states minimum wage is. That’s how you represent your constituents, you live like them.

[misa! @misak1nz]

you find it fun because you are fun. you find people kind because you’re kind. you find love everywhere because you’ve been carrying it

[ɴ.♡ @luvblessingz]

If they cut Social Security, I want every single penny they have taken from my paychecks since the very first day I ever started working.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers.

If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems.

The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale.

We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability.

Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.

[‏ً @itsnwts]

At times male anger at ‘women getting special treatment’ reminds me of a gorilla experiment. One gorilla gets a banana every hour. The females next to him get one every four hours. Then someone decides to be fairer and gives the females a banana every two hours instead. The original gorilla? He flips out. He's still getting his banana every hour, but it feels like a loss because his advantage shrank. That's how a lot of men react to basic fairness for women: not as justice, but as theft.

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

In my area, In-N-Out and Chipotle are hiring around $20/hour for new workers.

Let’s say you even land full-time at 40 hours/week: $20/hour = $800/week

That’s $3,467/month before taxes.

After just 12% in federal taxes, you’re left with about $3,051/month take-home.

Now here’s the reality: Average one-bedroom apartment is around $2,000/month.

So even working full-time in fast food, 65% of your income disappears to rent alone.

That leaves you with about $1,050/month for:
• food
• transportation
• insurance
• phone
• savings
• emergencies

This isn’t a “budgeting problem.”

This is a cost of living crisis.

Working full time should never mean barely surviving.

[死 @humanxmaybe]

i hope this email kills us both instantly

[barney @barneyxbt]

let me make sure i’m understanding this correctly

the supreme court is refunding all tariff money back to corporations.

the same corporations that didn’t pay a single cent of those tariffs to begin with.

they passed every dollar directly to you through higher prices on everything you buy

you went to the store and paid more for groceries. you paid more for clothes. for car parts. for literally everything.

that money came out of YOUR pocket not theirs

and now the refund goes to THEM?

the corporations who used the tariffs as an excuse to raise prices even higher than the tariff itself and pocket the difference

the american people funded the tariffs.

the corporations profited off the tariffs.

and now the corporations get a refund on money they never spent in the first place
and nobody in washington thinks the people who actually paid should get the money back.

not a single person has even suggested it

guess we are never getting our DOGE checks either

this country does not work for you.

it works for them. it’s a joke

and they’re not even pretending anymore

[Papii🥤 @ammalusty]

When I was a tiny baby a witch put a curse on me to eat chips.

[goma @soigomaa]

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.