Retired teacher seeking fairly funded Public-Education-for-All, universal healthcare, alleviation of climate crisis.
Corruption as government is killing us.
Demonstrating once again that cops don't prevent gun violence. If shooting breaks out, your security plan has failed. Stop the flow of thousands of guns each year into the communities.
“Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.'”
― C.S. Lewis
I grow tired of saying it. So, this will be the last time. The U.S. moved heaven and earth to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice. Not because he flew an airplane into the World Trade Center — but, because he INCITED his followers to.
Thousands have taken part in a protest in Athens to express opposition to government plans to allow private universities in Greece. The government believes the step could prevent young people from leaving the country; the protesters think this will weaken the education system.
The original 49ers hunted, murdered, and enslaved Natives, writes @SimonMoyaSmith. They raided tribal outposts and scalped the men, women, and children. https://t.co/gVIAUkLd8C
Fungus, lichen and algae all have their places in the interwoven complexities of life forms. We human beings also happen to be life forms on Earth. Hopefully, this keeps our human egos in check.
In the press conference where he was trying to convince people that his mental faculties are ok, Biden mixed up Mexico and Egypt. This is getting embarrassing. Democrats who claim they can't see the problem are beginning to look fucking ridiculous. Somebody throw in the towel!
“Sometimes indeed the memory goes back towards a forest glade, or a spot on a river bank or an orchard in blossom, glimpsed only once on a happy day, but preserved in our heart.”
― Guy de Maupassant
maybe corporate media is losing audience share because it is mass producing this kind of garbage that just openly, aggressively, and proudly gives the big middle finger to basically everyone
A CEO making $20 million annually contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.
Meanwhile, the rest of the working class contributes to Social Security with 100% of our income.
It’s time to scrap the cap.
@SSWorks Letting politicians take away Social Security will be the death knell for so many Americans.
"Social Security was envisioned as one leg of a three-legged stool of retirement, along with employer pensions and private savings." Most have no savings and pensions? What a joke.
“Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged him into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind him to each leaf and twig and feather and flutter.”
― Italo Calvino