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The @GOP support these laws which undermine workers' right to organize and it's history is grotesque. Right to Work means right to work for less. #1u dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

Spain is showing spine to the world. 🇪🇸🔥 🇺🇸Trump today: "The U.S. will cut all trade with Spain due to the airspace closures during the Iran war." 🇪🇸Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: "We don't care. Go to hell. We will find other partners, but we will not support the U.S. and Israel's illegal war against Iran." Spine: 100% Courage: 100%

Senator Lindsey Graham was one of the most loathsome warmongering anti-worker bigots in the halls of the U.S. Congress. Graham was as vicious a proponent of imperialist war as they come. For decades, he was a hardened supporter of Israel’s ethnic cleansing and its apartheid state. He effectively called for Israel to use nuclear weapons on the Palestinian people, likened Palestinians to Nazi Germany, and urged that Israel “flatten” Gaza and the West Bank. He called for “regime change” in Iran and was an undying advocate of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. He described American funding for the bloody inter-imperialist proxy war in Ukraine as “the best money we’ve ever spent.” Graham was virulently opposed to social democracy and socialism anywhere, and especially hated the planned economy in Cuba and social democratic reforms in Venezuela. He celebrated a possible return to capitalism in Cuba by saying “their days are numbered.” He called Venezuela, Cuba, and Colombia “the drug caliphate.” As working and poor people lost the ground from under their feet in the Covid pandemic, Graham used his position to speak out repeatedly against the bare minimum stimulus. Graham claimed that the relief package would encourage working people to be “lazy” and unemployed. It apparently gnawed at his insides that the Covid relief bill would pay the equivalent of over $24/hour in South Carolina versus the state minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, as the world's richest people doubled their fortunes and the incomes of billions of working people plummeted and over 160 million more people were forced into poverty. Graham strenuously opposed abortion rights, introduced numerous anti-abortion bills, and voted for every bill he could to cut social assistance for working-class and poor families. He was a staunch opponent of trans and queer rights. He voted for the horrendous Defense of Marriage Act (scandalously voted for by a majority of Democrats and signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton), and called himself a “proud defender of traditional marriage.” He voted against repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and co-sponsored the bill against trans women in sports. So in summary, good fucking riddance to Lindsey Graham. Never forget the misery he helped create for hundreds of millions of people. Shame on Democratic Party politicians, including Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Joe Biden, who are eulogizing Lindsey Graham. We need to build militant mass movements of the working class and build our own party to defeat the right wing, the billionaires, and both their parties.

@RandyEischer Funny how that works Randy ! ✊🏻

@ATLCWorker Weird how every right wing complaint about communism always ends up describing capitalism.

You take taxes from the working class and give to rich capitalists who don't do any work besides collecting profits created from the value workers produce and give taxpayer money to Israel who's killed 73,000 Palestinians so far since October 7.

@MissedtheFence @MustachioedBull Speaking of McDonald’s, I worked there when I was 19 and they’d work me right at 39 hours to keep from having to offer any benefits. Worked with a girl back then and she’s still there.

@MustachioedBull @ATLCWorker Fall asleep in history class? Or did you just ditch all the time? Because if you were awake, you’d know that everything you just said is wrong.

@karenaboylan @mortalenema I can believe it. We can thank the Rethuglican super majority legislature.

@mortalenema @ATLCWorker Tennessee was just rated the worst state to live in the U.S.

If explosive diarrhea were a person.

$350 billion for a non-existent problem and $0 for fixing actual problems of US citizens.

@RevAaronEColyer 🫂💚💯

@ATLCWorker 🫂

I’ve never understood how the most labor intensive jobs pay the least.

@RevAaronEColyer @Le0sGh0st To each his own Aaron, it’s all good.

@ATLCWorker @Le0sGh0st I never joined a union, never liked the idea of paying to work.

@FullanChris Yes sir ! ✊🏻👍💯

@ATLCWorker The original purpose of a minimum wage was to provide a decent standard of living.

Nestlé es de las multinacionales más criminales de todo el planeta, aún más cuando estaba bajo la dirección del sociópata de Peter Brabeck. Niños de 5 años son esclavizados en los campos de cacao de Ghana, donde multinacionales como Nestlé consiguen la materia prima a precio de saldo para conseguir máximos beneficios con su chocolate. Nestlé no sólo esclaviza a niños en plantaciones de cacao y café, también arrasa con los manantiales de agua y bosques enteros para plantaciones ilegales, promueve fórmulas dañinas para bebés, contamina masivamente con plásticos... Este es el interior crudo del capitalismo, un sistema donde la avaricia es tal, que con su infinito gasto de recursos acabará devorando la naturaleza y exterminando a la humanidad, destruirá sus 2 fuentes de riqueza.

@MustachioedBull Funny how the fast food restaurants are open during the day when kids are in school.

@ATLCWorker Minimum wage jobs are for children. That’s why less than 1% of the work force make the federal minimum wage. Its kids. Learning the soft skills to exist in the workforce hold not value to you? Because you must work at McDonald’s? Not being a loser would help here.

@RevAaronEColyer @Le0sGh0st I believe South Carolina has the lowest Union density in the U. S. I learned my class solidarity by growing up in Pittsburgh where the Unions were strong.

@ATLCWorker @Le0sGh0st I'm somewhat familiar with RTW. south carolina is also rtw, they recently got a new boing factory because they don't have to pay union wages

@grannysidney Absolutely Kathy. Had a Social Science teacher in middle school who served in WWII. His stories still haunt me.

@ATLCWorker Nazi scared me as a child not communism because of the pictures of the horror committed by Nazi I remember this president a real General not AI

@RevAaronEColyer @Le0sGh0st Another positive was that the mandatory overtime went away. Used to be that if you couldn’t work the OT, they’d threaten to lay you off or move you up the layoff list, or demand a Dr’s note. Missed out on time with my family that I’ll never get back. I’ll be Union forever.

@ATLCWorker @Le0sGh0st fair enough, i just know Tennessee is anti union. I used to work for an industrial hvac type company, we built the giant wood collection/dust collection hopper systems 4 wood factories, 1 place we were building relocated to Tennessee to bust up their employees union. Shitty stuff

@RevAaronEColyer @Le0sGh0st Oh definitely 💯 We voted the Union in back in 2020, the company decided that they wouldn’t give us our 5th week of PTO. It went to the NLRB and they sided with the company on a technicality. That’s part of what radicalized me. The pizza parties went away too for some reason

@RevAaronEColyer @Le0sGh0st I don’t disagree with your statement that we’re wage slaves. If we work for a wage, we’re all in the same boat. Some give a right wing fanatic named Vance Muse with coining the term RTW. Feel free to google him and I promise you’ll be disgusted.

@Le0sGh0st @ATLCWorker 1st there are no unions in Tennessee, Tennessee is a slave state, you seem to be slow or just low iq and can't read, I said I wouldn't do that kind of work for less than $20hr, I dont care how much of a raise he gave me, I'm not a slave.

@RevAaronEColyer @Le0sGh0st Right to Work was added to the state constitution recently, ensuring that it won’t be easy to organize your workplace and bargain for better wages, benefits, and safer working conditions.

@RevAaronEColyer @Le0sGh0st There are Unions in Tennessee, I’m UFCW. Tn and other Southern states went right to work (for less) in 1947 when the Taft- Hartley Act was passed with bipartisan support. We couldn’t trust the Democrats back then either.

@flrainh Hi Carl ! I hope you’re okay little buddy ! 👋😻❤️💯

Carl the bunny is here. I’m watching his back foot. He’s kind of holding it up. I don’t know what’s going on. He seems to be hopping OK 🤷‍♀️ i’m keeping an eye on him.