Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
20.11.2025 00:07
π 9707
π 3534
π¬ 149
π 179
β.. please, if youβve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even ..β
@variety.com
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
06.10.2025 22:43
π 703
π 162
π¬ 18
π 16
BREAKING: U.S. Senate rejects Democratic government funding bill.
06.10.2025 22:50
π 218
π 75
π¬ 16
π 9
Matthew Dowd Breaks Silence After MSNBC Firing | Katie Couric Interview
YouTube video by Katie Couric
@meiselasb.bsky.social @bmeiselas.bsky.social @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social @aaronparnas.bsky.social @adammockler.com @donlemonofficial.bsky.social
Please consider interviewing @matthewjdowd.bsky.social. The context of what he said matters!
youtu.be/srpyHv062sk?...
#FreeSpeech #FreedomOfThePress
23.09.2025 00:32
π 1
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DV1
Trumpβs War on Blue Cities:
It is not normal. πAnswer the call from Gov. Plitzker:
βSo Iβm asking you, my fellow Americans across the nation: instead of being bystanders, be upstanders for our democracyβ
β‘οΈ contrarian.substack.com/p/be-loud-fo...
21.09.2025 22:23
π 251
π 114
π¬ 8
π 0
I wonder if all of the people who were like who cares about about Tiktok stealing all of my data what's the CCP going to do with it are now realizing how bad of an idea that was now that it's all being handed over to the US government
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
21.09.2025 21:44
π 369
π 49
π¬ 4
π 2
When the President calls for the DOJ to target his political opponentsβAND publiclyβthatβs a sign weβre heading for increasing authoritarian behavior.
Weβre going to have to fight like hell to protect our democracy.
21.09.2025 21:35
π 2782
π 870
π¬ 144
π 25
Brad Pitt's Opening Speech | Inglourious Basterds | Screen Bites
YouTube video by Screen Bites
"I sure didn't do all that to teach the Nazi's a lesson in humanity. They ain't got no humanity."
youtube.com/watch?v=ScA4...
21.09.2025 22:33
π 11
π 7
π¬ 1
π 0
21.09.2025 22:34
π 35
π 12
π¬ 5
π 1
21.09.2025 22:35
π 19
π 5
π¬ 0
π 0
It's like they made a clone of Goebbels but somehow the volume got stuck on "screeching banshee"
21.09.2025 22:20
π 5075
π 963
π¬ 487
π 71
Monica's Place Sunday Funday Starter Pack! π₯³
Who wants in on a SP tonight? #StrongerTogether ππͺπ
If you are a Democracy Defender/Resister account who follows me & would like to be added to a SP tonight, drop a comment here.
Vet π§ & Follow π£ others who have commented here, too!
#ResistersUnite
π
21.09.2025 18:05
π 128
π 57
π¬ 65
π 6
No thanks, bot-land was not worth my time!
21.09.2025 22:35
π 0
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
New Countdown Podcast drops at midnight: PLOT TWIST - Kimmel may return to ABC, maybe before the end of the month. Seven signs that a deal may be near. And the left won this saga, handily as Rand Paul and others savage the FCC. Plus Trump impeached himself by posting his memo to Bondi.
21.09.2025 22:08
π 397
π 99
π¬ 33
π 6
If we canβt come together on both sides of the aisle to bring our states and our country together and to speak out in a unified voice against anyone who would seek to settle differences with violence instead of in conversation or at the ballot box, then our nation will stay divided.
21.09.2025 22:27
π 28
π 2
π¬ 1
π 0
Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, weβve seen too many use his murder as an excuse to divide, to blame the so-called βradical left,β from the President of the United States to colleagues in my own legislature.
21.09.2025 22:27
π 617
π 140
π¬ 22
π 4
Iβm not, any contracts they sign are their choice. Look, I donβt care if they get paid and were asked to sign a contract.
See there are two sides to every story. Both sides look guilty of not telling the truth!
But TL is the worst IMO, I have paid close attention to her BS. She a shit stirrer.
20.09.2025 20:36
π 0
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
@aaronparnas.bsky.social Hi Aaron, if you havenβt yet, plz consider opening a Flashes account? Itβs the platform developed by the same people at BlueSky. Itβs really similar to IG.
If we truly want to boycott the tech monopoly, we need to move off or reduce engagement from those platforms.
20.09.2025 20:27
π 2
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
I did not watch any of the responses from the creatorβs she accused except one. And you know what, I donβt care. Even if itβs true. Why? Because TL is a hypocrite. She probably is worse. The article in Wired screams of MAGA behavior.
16.09.2025 05:03
π 0
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
Sorry, just now saw your response.
Exactly itβs not. I am not defending the creators she accusing. I am however very suspicious of her, and I am doing it from my own experience with her previous reporting with the WSJ. She is a gossip! And she does not do her due diligence. (1)
16.09.2025 04:49
π 0
π 0
π¬ 1
π 0
I was super disappointed about this after they let @lindseysmithaz.bsky.social go a year ago, the only reason I was still watching was for @geraldbourguet.bsky.social. I hope he starts a sports substack and YouTube channel of his own. I would start following him in a heartbeat!
12.09.2025 17:28
π 1
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
This. Is. Who. He. Is. In. His. Demented. Soul.
12.09.2025 15:51
π 328
π 206
π¬ 13
π 10
New version:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
12.09.2025 17:17
π 617
π 177
π¬ 58
π 15
we don't need to photoshop this shit - he literally wore a trump costume for halloween and posed with lots of guns most of his life
stop doing bullshit
12.09.2025 17:08
π 28
π 8
π¬ 2
π 0
Any FBI Director worth their salt would have intercepted the fatherβs call, hid the real shooter, and created a narrative which best served the ruling class. Instead, the public now knows the shooter was radicalized by rightwing ideology.
Kash Patel is too cracked out to turn the government levers.
12.09.2025 17:02
π 39
π 6
π¬ 0
π 0
How about that.
12.09.2025 16:41
π 32447
π 8599
π¬ 1465
π 573
We have a serious media problem in this country. The only thing thatβs gonna change that is good independent media continuing to grow.
12.09.2025 17:06
π 445
π 68
π¬ 30
π 4