My year in review: got engaged in Patterson Park, lost feeling in my legs, found out I had a spinal tumor, had emergency surgery, relearned how to walk, got radiated, new job, went back to the park, married my best friend, danced at my wedding, and watched a lot of jeopardy. 😅
@Pronounthis@shannonrwatts If they still qualify for benefits even after the salary increase, the salary is still unconscionably low. Employers could try actually offering a living wage. Until then the employee is right to keep taking benefits over a paltry “raise” that won’t be enough to feed their family
Woke up to news of three horrible terrorist attacks:
1) An assailant killed 2 at a Synagogue in Manchester
2) The Israeli government murdered 45 in Gaza.
3) The Israeli government murdered 2 in Lebanon.
The 1st terrorist was killed. The remaining terrorists are still at large.
Honest question for people who say stuff like this: do you also think you should have no rights when YOU visit other countries? If you take a vacation to Mexico would it be okay for the Mexican government to put you in jail for no reason, never give you a hearing, etc?
@mattyglesias@JHWeissmann@yeselson Ah if only protesters hadn’t screwed things up, your plan to support Israel unquestionably and offer zero resistance would have averted the crisis
@danidin2254@btselem Ok, I condemn all that too. And since you agree that killing innocent civilians and denying them food is bad, you will condemn Israel for doing exactly that at a much greater scale, right?
@MatthewJen28982 @DNjtrenton Yeah compared to last year, which had already seen the biggest drop in recent history. It’s down dramatically compared to 2-3 years ago, when these policies started being implemented.
@jeremyknauff@Nick_Pettigrew Jonas Salk was a member of the American Labor Party and was investigated by J Edgar Hoover for his suspected communist leanings https://t.co/1x4QswzBLW
@VirtualMirth @EdHHanna @avaricum777 Ah yes bc Texas was freed from the institution of slavery when the whites took over. LOL
Also what happened to those other tribes after they helped defeat the Comanches 🤔
@Yoitsaburner@joebradford@ryangrim No it didn’t. Israel has been occupying Gaza and killing civilians for many years. Israel killed over 30 children in 2023 *prior* to October 3rd.
You can look at pretty much any year in modern history and see Israel killed more Palestinians than vice versa that year.
Co-opting refugee organizations to import white racists at the expense of real refugees in need may be bait but it also hurts real people and is bad for the country and democracy. And calling it a nonissue is emblematic of a fundamentally self-centered worldview
WOW. @SecNoem said yesterday that the Venezuelans the Trump admin is paying El Salvador to hold should be detained there "for the rest of their lives."
I can't think of anything more unamerican than life in prison with no trial. 75% of them have no criminal record at all!