1. In yesterday's primary elections, anti-transgender Democrats found out the hard way why you don't throw transgender people under the bus.
Two anti-trans dems lost their primaries, including one that cast the deciding veto override vote, in blowouts.
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Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”
hold on i gotta take this
incredible how white men are given the benefit of the doubt when anything coming from marginalized groups are treated with utmost suspicion and distorted beyond recognition
When I first saw Applebee's advertisement for the O-M-Cheeseburger, I was terrified. I trembled. I cowered. Then I opened my heart to it. Here is what it revealed to me. johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/god-cheese...
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
![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.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
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.
Time to find out if Burlington Coat Factory is really more than just coats
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
404 Media continues to punch waaaay above its weight: www.404media.co/flight-manif...
Every single progressive candidate should make campaign videos where they ride bikes around town I think that's the key to everything
Holy shit.
Andrew Cuomo just couldn’t touch Mamdani. Perhaps because Mamdani isn’t the breast of a frightened female subordinate, who’s to say?
happy zohran day to all who celebrate
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We're also seeing cops using the exact same violent tactics against the anti-ICE protests that they used in 2020, and I distinctly remember reading something about how cops were supposed to stop techniques like kettling 🤪
Washington Post screenshot Trump officials reverse guidance exempting farms, hotels from immigration raids ICE agents have been told to continue conducting enforcement operations at agricultural businesses despite concerns about negative effects on the food industry.
A “shift” never happened. A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you.
Who’s actually in charge?
Gal Gadot has personally criticized people who have called for a ceasefire. She used her military service to promote an image of herself as a badass when really she's just been a mouthpiece for the IDF.
Her being an aerobics instructor makes her pride even weirder imo
as someone who’s worked in the service industry, every job ive had at a small business has been more exploitative and abusive than the ones at corporate joints. trumps biggest base of support is from petty tyrant small business owners. if you want to consume ethically, support worker cooperatives
Yes, everyone is correct. They're not advocating for a "strict meritocracy." Affirmative action is over. They're now suing over the very presence of Black people and Latinos in elite education and white collar careers.
They're advocating for resegregation. Call it out every time.
Trump To Victims’ Families: ‘I’m Doing Everything Possible To Resegregate Flight Schools’
Trump To Victims’ Families: ‘I’m Doing Everything Possible To Resegregate Flight Schools’
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Re: point 4
I once met this dude who started a women in security conference and I knew he was the dude who started the conference because he told me, unprompted, immediately, and rly wanted to let me know how much of an ally he was.
We’ve always been at war with East Asia.
Capitalism never dies
I think we as a society aren't meant for this type of luxury tbh
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street
A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire
A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background
The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
Also Rose being introduced as a woman on a TV show and people regularly referring to her as she on said TV show, and also her bluesky bio listing she/her makes it even easier to remember and literally reference what pronouns to use for her there's literally no excuse lol
