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once I had a gf who was working as a nanny for a very wealthy, hip coffee shop magnate & his girlfriend. they paid her just above minimum wage, and nickel-n-dimed her on stuff like overnight shifts (“we shouldn’t have to pay you as much when the kids are asleep”).
I remember at one point, during some kind of conversation that had veered into unsolicited advice where he was encouraging her to take some kind of business class or something, he told her:
“I want to empower you to make an adult wage.”
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b“The core Two-Minute Hate of this carnival was Rep. Elise Stefanik’s demand for yes-or-no answers to questions about whether policies at Harvard, Penn, and MIT would prohibit calling for the genocide of Jews. You might think Elise Stefanik is an unlikely standard-bearer for a crusade against antisemitism, given that she’s a repeat promoter of Great Replacement Theory, the antisemitic trope that Jews are bringing foreigners into America to undermine it. But if you bought Stefanik’s bullshit, you probably didn’t think that far.”
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Taylor Lorenz
taylorlorenz@mastodon.socialToday I’m walking off the job with hundreds of my Washington Post colleagues for 24 hours to demand a fair contract. It's the postguild's first strike in 48 years.
To support us, avoid all Washington Post journalism today, Dec. 7.
You can read more here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/workers-at-the-washington-post-deserve-a-living-wage
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bRE: https://press.coop/users/NPR/statuses/111528908141294906
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bAlaska Pilot Who Tried to Crash Jetliner After Eating Shrooms Draws Lesser Charges
“Yesterday, a Multnomah County grand jury decided that Captain Joseph Emerson did not attempt to injure anyone, and therefore declined to charge him with the 83 counts of attempted murder originally sought by the state,” Emerson’s lawyers at Levi Merrithew Horst PC said in a statement. “The attempted murder charges were never appropriate in this case because Captain Emerson never intended to hurt another person or put anyone at risk—he just wanted to return home to his wife and children. Simply put: Captain Emerson thought he was in a dream; his actions were taken in a single-minded effort to wake up from that dream and return home to his family.”
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Oasus Plainsview 
itsOasus@pawb.fun
Firefox is officially and directly fucking with Google and I am here for it!
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b#ReneGonzalez is gonna run for #PDX mayor, so I hope nobody in #Portland forgets that he’s tight with #PatriotPrayer and #ProudBoys types - the central #PNW hubs for #Nazi organizing during the #MAGA era. @WillametteWeek
RE: https://mstdn.social/users/WillametteWeek/statuses/111524686857254649
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bit’s cold (and a bit funny) how all these media orgs are running their #ChristianZiegler headlines with photos of him next to other prominent #MAGA figures.
the imputation is also accurate as hell. he’s an exemplar of their movement.
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b“Twitter raised concerns that prosecutors were seeking data that could be covered by executive privilege — a contention that drew incredulous responses from both prosecutors and the judge, who said Trump was unlikely to be doing government business with senior aides via Twitter DM.”
this is so stupid. OF COURSE trump was likely to be doing government business via twitter DM! the proper rebuttal should be that communications moronically conducted via non-approved, insecure channels should not be subject to the same executive privileges.
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bthis week has seen the return of the #VariedThrush to our yard. seems to be mostly a late fall-until-early-spring guy around here.
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bone thing that is funny (/irritating) is #liberals (of the sort who consistently misapprehend themselves as radicals / leftists) who mistake like basic non-profit (etc) administrative functions for some kind of “liberatory” “activism” kind of thing
similar phenomenon to like “inspirational” “financial literacy” hucksters. if i’m gonna take money advice i’d prefer to hear it from someone who’s down to be frank about the grim realpolitik of resource access under late capitalism. ie. “it does suck, but here’s some options”
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bCities Like Portland Are Spending Staggering Amounts on Police PR Budgets
Police departments are spending big on media manipulation and pro-policing propaganda across the country.
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eloquence@social.coopX has taken its stance. Nazis on the platform are allowed. Pro-Hitler posts are allowed. Holocaust denial is allowed.
If you stay on a platform like that, you can't escape this creeping normalization. Even if you think you can.
"Oh, there goes another Holocaust denier. Just part of being online, I guess."
"Oh, another transphobe calling people dehumanizing slurs. Well that's the Internet for you."
Creeping normalization is like advertising. Even if you think it won't influence you, it will.
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