We have a massive housing crises, lack of healthcare and education affordability and our city is spending billions on a Cop City and jails. Neoliberal police state dystopia.
Still not over how after all the noise about how "defund the police" is the worst idea ever NYC is defunding schools. These stats are for JUST ONE SCHOOL
On Earth Day Wynn Bruce self immolated.
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Self-burning...is somehow difficult for the Western Christian conscience to understand. The Press spoke...of suicide, but in the essence, it is not. It is not even a protest...
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Oil & Avg Gas $ June 2008:
•Oil: $181.58/barrel
•Gas: $4.10/gallon
Oil & Avg Gas $ Mar 2022:
•Oil: $99.76/barrel
•Gas: $4.32/gallon
If you're blaming anyone but greedy oil companies for their price gouging—you've bought into propaganda that hurts you more than anyone else.
Corporate greed is Chipotle increasing its profits by 181% last year to $764 million, giving its CEO a 137% pay raise to $38 million in 2020 and blaming the rising cost of a burrito on a minimum wage worker who got a 50 cent pay raise. That's not inflation. That's price gouging.
a propos of republicans trying to ban all talk of the holocaust, slavery, and queerness from schools and libraries, i want to take a moment and reflect on something that struck me hard about hitler's rise to power
namely, how long it took
--how many people grew up under nazism
Billionaire wealth - all time high, up 70% since the pandemic
Corporate profits - all time high
Global inequality - highest in over 100 years
Keep the big picture in mind whenever people say that giving workers a raise causes problems with inflation
Weird how costs of things like the infrastructure bill and social security are reported in huge, decades-long increments, whereas military spending is reported in small, annual figures.
Probably nothing