Kate Bauer

graphic designer, runner, food maker, optimist

[MDJ | Danielle Jones, MD, FACOG @MamaDoctorJones]

Every Congress person gets 12 weeks paid parental leave as a term of their employment. We, the taxpayers, pay for their family leave, but they won’t vote to let us pay for ours.

[Sha’Carri Richardson @itsshacarri]

All these perfect people that know how to live life , I’m glad I’m not one of them!

[Alyssa Limperis @alyssalimp]

Corona beer is reaching out to Delta airlines right now like “heyyyyyyyy. hang in there babe. it gets better thinkin of u 😘😘😘”

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This took guts. Thank you for not staying silent, Paxton.

https://t.co/DlwEgmMRGN

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

This is like a Jenny Holzer installation or something right

[Twisted Tea @TwistedTea]

how bout a 40 pack?

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

We only rate dogs. We don’t know why this person submitted pics of their rug, several years apart. Looks like a pretty good rug, though... 13/10

[The New York Times @nytimes]

While millions of people faced layoffs and struggled to make ends meet, many of the companies hit hardest during the pandemic showered their executives with riches. Here are the highest-paid chief executives of 2020: https://t.co/rzREmTdie0

[Tomer Hanuka @tropical_toxic]

I’ve asked my 3rd year illustration students at @sva to come up with a post-pandemic New Yorker magazine cover. Here is what they sent in:

[Forky @forkyleft]

I don't think some people understand how much a billion is. If you made a million dollars a year you would have to work for one thousand years to get 1 billion. There's literally people with 100 billion. No one needs that much money.

[Natalie Montelongo @natimontelongo]

You can’t honor our frontline workers, while also fill a stadium with 25,000 people.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Oh look, another billionaire is mad that he might have to pay more taxes while children in America go hungry and veterans sleep on the street. Cry me a river. Yes. We will make Wall Street billionaires pay their fair share of taxes and create an economy that works for all of us.

[Alyssa Leader @alittleleader]

When your position is both “People who can’t afford to go to college shouldn’t take out loans to do it” and “People who do jobs that don’t require a college degree shouldn’t be paid a living wage” it kind of starts to seem like you just want to keep poor people poor.

[luvr grl @itslesliegloria]

“soooo many businesses would go under if the minimum wage is raised”

so you agree? that companies rely on the exploitation of their employees to sustain themselves?

[Yuh-Line Niou @yuhline]

I’m dead.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

To some of my colleagues who clearly need the reminder: the Confederacy were traitors to our democracy and white supremacists will never win. 🌞

If any of you has trouble with that, maybe you should resign because you’re not ready to run an ant farm, let alone serve in Congress.