In my view, if Disney can afford to compensate its CEO to the tune of $27 million, it should not be paying the workers who run their theme parks so little that they are sleeping in their cars, relying on food banks, and unable to afford to get the health care they need.
This is why I tell journalism students that open-ended questions are better than questions that sound tough. When conservatives first hijacked “woke,” every journalist should have asked them to define it. Cause these meltdowns would have happened a lot.
Watching a Kenyan mp saying that queer people deserve capital punishment for existing. Watching this man say that queer people do not deserve to be alive. Dyu realize African queer people internalize this shit? I wrote a whole novella about it! This world is so insidious. Wtf.
The way they’ve spent days & hours emphasizing the violence of Tyre Nichols’ murder like it’s a countdown to a movie release tells you everything about the depravity of the system we live under.
Elvis getting a nom for best picture and not Women King is going to be my last reason y’all. And don’t even get me started on the blue man group getting a nom and not Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. This is literally why I can’t take the Oscars seriously.
46 men were arrested in Frisco, TX because they were all part of a sex trafficking ring.
A volunteer firefighter, a HS teacher, a youth pastor, a semi-pro hockey player, & a hospital director of operations are some of those arrested.
But ZERO were drag queens.
In the 1950s, CEOs were paid 20x more than the average worker.
In the 1980s, CEOs were paid 59x more.
In 2009, CEOs were paid 180x more.
Today, CEOs are paid 399x more than the average worker.
We must put an end to this rampant greed and inequality.
@Shingaibelike We’ve begun to see the tremors. I think we’re getting faster at adapting to change, we know we can transform so maybe we aren’t too far away from radical solutions. So maybe 🤷🏾♀️
Two weeks ago, I had four precious 12-year-old girls, including my daughter, with me at the county fair. They were getting blue Icees and corndogs for the walk to the car and ride home. (1/21)