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A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

submitted 2 days ago • 473 comments

Walmart's CEO announced this week it will pass the cost of Trump's tariffs onto consumers by raising prices. As I've been saying, tariffs aren't paid by other countries. They're eventually paid by us at the checkout line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfVGUiet39E

submitted 2 days ago • 89 comments

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

submitted 3 days ago • 1932 comments

It is lit…do NOT mess with Swifties and Springsteen fans. You attack them, you attack all of us. #Springsteen #TaylorSwift #AFM

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Statement from the #MusiciansUnion of the United States 🇺🇸 and #Canada 🇨🇦 to the fat bastard #BruceSpringsteen #TaylorSwift

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

When Trump... -Holds a private dinner for his crypto coin buyers -Promotes Teslas on the White House driveway on behalf of a multibillionaire who spent $277M backing him -Uses state visits to advance his hotel business It's corruption, plain and simple.

submitted 2 days ago • 125 comments

BREAKING: A massive explosion from a bomb has destroyed American Reproductive Centers, an IVF and fertility center in Palm Springs, CA. At least one person is dead. Authorities are investigating whether terrorism played a role.

submitted 2 days ago • 1243 comments

Yes, we noticed. You're still here.

submitted 3 days ago • 1582 comments

“This is also a reason why people who care the most about this country continue to abandon these media outlets. It is why CNN’s ratings are in the tank — especially Tapper’s, and why they hunger for truth tellers who aren’t trying to sell books...”

submitted 4 days ago • 155 comments

Meriwether Lewis on the Big Belt Range, Montana: "From the singular appearance of this place I called it the gates of the Rocky Mountains.”

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Hey guys, exciting news! please read

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

Positively LOVE this main man; he even responded to a comment I left him 2 thanksgivings ago & told me to eat my asparagus ;-) 🎭

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

submitted 4 days ago • 295 comments

Keep banging that drum folks! ✊

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

The double standards are craaaazy.

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

This tax break for pass-through income primarily benefits the r Tells you whose side they're really on.

submitted 3 days ago • 88 comments

Your choices, your actions, that’s what makes you who you are. #Superman - Only In Theaters and IMAX July 11. youtu.be/Ox8ZLF6cGM0?...

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Oh absolutely! @alyankovic.bsky.social is brilliant musically and lyrically, and the fact that he’s hilarious sometimes makes people forget his level of pure creative talent. Long overdue! comhttps://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/john-mulaney-weird-al-yankovic-deserves-rock-hall-1235969863/

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

The largest retailer in America just announced they're raising prices this month due to Trump's nonsensical tariff war. Great work, Trump.

submitted 5 days ago • 110 comments

A special shout out to this man with the red tie! His eye movement and facial expressions were spot on. 🥇 (I excluded RFK Jr's face from the video because I refuse to give this fraudster any airtime.)

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Andry Romero, a young gay man, was given an asylum appointment by the U.S. Government. When he showed up to the appointment we kidnapped him and sent him to a foreign prison. I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.

submitted 5 days ago • 697 comments

Secretary Noem appears to not want to say if the picture of Abrego Garcia’s hand is doctored Swalwell: I have a 7 year old, a 6 year old, and 3 year old. I have a bullshit detector. I’m just asking you a question

submitted 6 days ago • 1574 comments

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

submitted 4 days ago • 589 comments

Alsobrooks to RFK Jr: "You are the wrong person for this job. And you had in this hearing today the unmitigated gall to say at the beginning of your testimony that China is ahead of the United States in healthcare because China does not have DEI."

submitted 5 days ago • 732 comments

🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”

submitted 5 days ago • 2479 comments

🚨 WALMART RAISING PRICES DUE TO TARIFFS “We will do our best to keep our prices as low as possible but given the magnitude of the tariffs, even at the reduced levels announced this week, we aren’t able to absorb all the pressure given the reality of narrow retail margins,” Walmart CEO says.

submitted 5 days ago • 1412 comments

Hey hometown - this one's for you. Look up, STL! #Superman

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

They're trying to make people fearful of speaking out.

submitted 4 days ago • 82 comments

I wouldn't be out there if I didn't believe that America can come through this moment, if each of us is prepared to play our role in demanding and delivering a better future.

submitted 5 days ago • 784 comments

Here they go.

submitted 5 days ago • 2691 comments

When they accidentally tell the truth... 💯

submitted 4 days ago • 429 comments

I agree with @aoc.bsky.social. The math isn't adding up in the Republicans' "big, beautiful bill."

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...

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submitted 5 days ago • 309 comments

Who could've guessed joining a make-believe Resistance against an Evil Empire would ever happen in real life?

submitted 5 days ago • 1165 comments

I want to share a few words about Alexis Herman, who passed away recently. Her funeral is today. Herman succeeded me as secretary of labor, and I knew her as a gifted administrator and dedicated public servant. My condolences to her family. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/alexis-herman-1947-2025

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"If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history." www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

submitted 5 days ago • 94 comments

We should be helping ordinary Americans on Main Street, not super wealthy Americans who don’t need another tax cut.

submitted 6 days ago • 320 comments

Priorities.

submitted 6 days ago • 986 comments

Fair question 🤣

submitted 5 days ago • 77 comments

Israel's blockade of food and humanitarian aid entering Gaza has caused catastrophic mass starvation and death. By continuing to supply Israel with military aid, the U.S. is complicit in this bloodbath. There's no moral clarity in wreaking vengeance on innocent people.

submitted 5 days ago • 130 comments

Voters want leaders to focus on important matters. Dems, take heart!

submitted 5 days ago • 82 comments

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon:

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“Why does your opinion […] have more authority than the Supreme Court?” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the House of Representatives on Wednesday in a contentious hearing on immigration policy.

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RFKJ: Americans prefer private insurance. This is BS. Americans prefer to have insurance over not having insurance. They want cheaper, better care. Many right wing pollsters have asked biased questions to make it sound that people prefer private insurance.

submitted 5 days ago • 123 comments

I’ll be carrying #Andor with me for a long time. Truly a masterpiece in storytelling, acting, writing, directing, and composing. It’s heartbreaking and hopeful. Each episode had me on the edge of my seat and wide awake at night digesting everything I could. I already miss it! 😭

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