About 70% of adults who receive Medicaid benefits are working
They simply don't earn enough money to afford other healthcare
And-of course-Republicans don't want to increase the minimum wage
So maybe it's the 3 million military children on Medicaid that Rep Fallon is calling fat and lazy instead
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
Gracias AOC!!!!
Lfg
At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.
Harvard is worth over $50 billion but is telling poor students from Zimbabwe to borrow money for winter housing.
What the actual fuck
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
Big Pharma is the only reason anyone still dies from HIV: “We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.”
Starter pack of scholars whose work looks critically at schooling & efforts to interrupt the social reproduction of inequality through education in transformative ways (U.S. & global) - updated w/ requests (sorry if I missed your request - inundated with notifications today) go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ
Yesterday, I filed two federal lawsuits against a man in New Jersey. He writes patently false things about me and other librarians. These falsehoods are very dangerous. They make me feel unsafe. They make a lot of librarians feel unsafe.
For the librarians. #Invictus
Doc and update in comments.
Book cover RACE TO THE TRUTH: COLONIZATION AND THE WAMPANOAG STORY shows a Wampanoag woman with long braids paddling a canoe
Book cover HISTORY SMASHERS THE MAYFLOWER shows a pile of Pilgrims dressed in black and white crowded on a ship with a speech bubble that says "It totally didn't happen this way."
Please don't tell kids that old "First Thanksgiving" myth and pass it off as actual history. Share books like these this week instead.
The richness of supposedly being against cancel culture! Florida, oh Florida.
That "intellectual diversity" and "free speech" were trojan horses for right-wing power-grabs has been obvious from the start and I remain disappointed how many supposedly rational folks took bad-faith actors at their word.
the system preceding race and gender integrated education and DEI was not even facially "meritocratic" - elite higher ed served as finishing schools for rich failsons, half of admissions criteria were invented to keep out Jews. the naked cronyism is the America they wanted to return to "greatness"
Barnes & Noble is making a comeback: The world’s largest retail bookseller is expanding at a breakneck pace and is on track to reach its goal of more than 60 planned openings this year.
our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
Release the Gaetz report.
Pass it on.
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“Except Florida, they said, Harris beat Trump in all states in precincts with a high concentration of Hispanics, between 60-70%, including the battleground states … That includes Puerto Ricans, the group that supported Harris the most at 65% …”
“ … Harris won the Latino male vote w/56% compared to 43% for Trump. ‘It’s categorically incorrect to say that the majority of Latino men voted for Trump,’ Matt Barreto, founder of BSP Strategies — one of the firms leading this electoral analysis — indicated …” americasvoice.org/press_releas...
Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid: “Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s. Over half of those deported were US citizens.”
Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.
Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
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@erinlewis.bsky.social to a great new beginning!!
I’ve been avoiding election post-mortems because I’m tired of hearing the same bromides about the dangers of “wokeness” or reaching out to the “white working class” but this one from
@gabrielwinant.bsky.social avoids those traps and provides a real analysis. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
