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Barnes and Noble workers have won a historic first union contract at the company. Workers organized with @rwdsu.bsky.social just ratified their first union contract at three NYC locations. The contract brings the minimum wage up to between $23.00-$25.00, improves healthcare, and more.

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We need to enshrine local best practice into state law and strengthen the protections for our immigrant communities against the threats from the Trump administration. Write to your state legislators today! actionnetwork.org/letters/ma-s...

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A nonprofit movie rental store is trying to open in Northampton

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Ask yourself if you are expecting the bourgeoisie to act against their own self interest instead of in a way that benefits their material conditions and then hit yourself in the head until you stop thinking shit like that

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DOGE slashes funding for Western Mass. group fighting housing discrimination

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BRO: There's so many unhoused people now, this city is out of control ME: Actually this city is just out of housing

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Planning to CUT mental health services? MA has been in a mental health service crisis for a DECADE. Trying to get an inpatient bed, anywhere, even if you show up after a suicide attempt, is nearly impossible, and has been for the last several years. People are DYING from the lack of services.

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“In the right-wing version of America, every societal interaction is an organ harvest, something vital snatched from the civic body, sold for one kind of profit or another.” -Omar El Akkad, author of “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” p. 114

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We need rent stabilization in Mass. This is happening all over - new owners jacking up rents. Displacement is hard for tenants and hard for communities. Mass. residents: tell your state legislators you support the rent stabilization bill: H.2501/S.1084. www.gazettenet.com/search?bodys...

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Hired the wrong plumber, now everything in my house is perfectly upright

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If I could have any superpower it'd probably be to redistribute wealth at will. I'd make Bosnia and Herzegovina super fucking rich for no reason, just for the craic, and otherwise I'd be chill and do a global utopia I swear.

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in retrospect we shouldn’t have been surprised that the “you’re fired” dude be firing people

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Also I want to take a moment to remind everyone (who isn’t an elected official) to take time to recharge your batteries. You don’t have to attend every city council meeting or protest. Find what centers you, then get back in the fight. This is a marathon, not a sprint.

submitted 8 days ago • 58 comments

it’s hard to know where anything in this country is going politically but i am 100% positive that dan bongino will accidentally shoot the gun at himself at least once

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YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown you can SEE HIM he is playing in town you should go and have a good time

submitted 11 days ago • 71 comments

Kwame Ture put it far better than I ever could.

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quickly! kill it before it tries to evolve!

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I bet theres a split second just after the chestburster pops out that feels really good right before you die.

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A defiant Mayor Eric Adams, standing in front of a dozen elderly members of the clergy, gives a speech to the assembled media in which it gradually becomes clear that he believes all of the events that happen in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats "really happened, right here in New York."

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You're in Upton Sinclair's Jungle, baby. You're gonna die!

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“As of Feb. 1, [Philadelphia] landlords had filed for roughly 13,200 evictions in the last year — down 37% compared to an average year before the pandemic.” www.inquirer.com/real-estate/... #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

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One of the changes to political messaging I learned over the years is that it isn't effective to say this will affect us. It isn't even effective to say this will affect us in this community. What is effective is saying this is going to affect YOU. It's important to make the big, personal.

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bruce stringcheese

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Dying in a hideous plane crash because the world’s most racist and unlovable nerds couldn’t handle a 45 minute HR training.

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i'm starting a new series, called "unusual jump sound effects used in videogames". i will post new discoveries in this thread to start, we have "Techno Cop" on the Amiga [ youtu.be/KPCZqXBgRj8?... ]

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

(pointing to punisher logo on policeman's shirt while being arrested stealing baby shoes from Ross) thats fucking awesome . I love dead pool

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It is a profound shame that the most boring people on the planet have drained the revolutionary vitality out of liberal thought to use it as a cudgel to wield against college students that annoy them.

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Clearing out old photos and unfortunately this one stays relevant

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while Fred Flintstone pours video essay liquid into my giant beak and throat pouch in order to use me as some kind of quasi-stone age video essay mixer Me: It's a living.

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NPCs in MMORPGs are crazy cuz they’ll meet somebody for the first time and be like “Hey what’s up man. Can you go kill a bunch of animals for me and bring me their hides?”

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The legal left needs to get organized. I wrote for @brandeisianb.bsky.social about what that should look like.

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History is a weapon

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The frozen Connecticut River #drone #dronephotography #dronephoto #connecticutriver #westernmass #dronecompany #westernmassdrones

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