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Min Wage: $7.25/hr / $15,080/yr Poverty Line Family of 2: $17,240/yr Taxpayer Subsidies to Min Wage Workers: $107B/yr Last Increase: 2009 Living Wage: $13.49/hr Low wages are another form of corporate welfare. Our taxes are paying what Amazon, McDonalds & Walmart 'can't afford.'

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States.  🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland. •This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters. •The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks.  •This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up. •Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. on.nrdc.org/4csRkwi

You can't tell it's there. It looks like a normal window. But it's generating power day in and out. MIT calculated that if a skyscraper's windows used clear solar window technology at just 5% efficiency, they'd cover more than a quarter of the building's entire electricity needs. A new Danish breakthrough hit 12.3% efficiency, on par with commercial solar panels. As a window! There are approximately 5.6 million commercial buildings in the United States. Most of them are covered in glass. That glass currently does one thing: let light in. It could be doing two. We spend decades arguing about where to put solar panels. What if the answer was the buildings we've already built?

They want to turn every human interaction, from a private email to where and how you drive your car, into a transaction they can track, predict, and sell. We're not even living anymore, we're just livestock in their digital farm.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Parking lots over a certain size have three to five years to cover at least half their surface area with solar canopies or face fines. The projected output: up to 11 gigawatts of capacity, the equivalent of 10 nuclear reactors. The panels shade the cars. They can charge EVs directly underneath them. They generate electricity for the grid. The parking lot goes from dead infrastructure to power plant without using a single additional acre of land. France plans to increase solar tenfold and double wind capacity by 2033. The US has approximately 800 million parking spaces. Eight hundred million. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

Allbirds, the shoe brand, now says it's an AI compute company.

They’re letting the criminals from Jan 6 go free while they attempt to prosecute Cassidy Hutchinson for testifying in front of the January 6th committee. Disgusting stuff.

The USA is the richest country on the planet it could have everything, the best healthcare, the best schools, the longest life expectancy, the best wages, the best pensions. Instead it has 1000 billionaires with $10tn.

The man who spent years whining that the government illegally spied on his campaign is now demanding Congress let him spy on every American—without a warrant. FISA 702 is the real threat to Americans’ privacy: warrantless surveillance of U.S. persons under the guise of targeting foreigners. Far bigger than the Title I abuse Trump complains about. Stop electing hypocrites who trash the Constitution. Tell Congress: Vote NO on FISA 702.

Not only did Disney pay nothing in income taxes this year, it received a $1.428 billion tax refund after making $12 billion in profits. "Corporations will create jobs if you give them more tax breaks" is a total scam.

Trump needs to be removed from office; he has clearly lost what little control of himself he had. He is a disgrace. The only good thing is that his derangement is becoming clearer even to his strongest supporters, so maybe the country can salvage its reputation after he's gone.

If we’re taking sides… I’m on the side of the Pope. And I’m an atheist.

My conviction remains: God did not ordain Donald Trump to rescue the American church, or revive the American church, or redeem the American church. God ordained Donald Trump to test the American church. And the American church has failed.

Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam on Israel: "I swear to god there's some people out there just ready to kill and go across borders and take over land that doesn't belong to them, and they should get the fuck out. We don't want to give them our taxes to drop bombs on children. No more!"

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

A blockade to block the blockade that's blocking the Strait that wasn't blocked before being blocked due to war of choice launched by Trump. Strategery!

Love David Byrne….hope the kids at Coachella were paying attention and appreciated the genius they were witnessing last night "Love and Kindness are a form of resistance" x.com/Baron3121/stat…

This TV ad, which was broadcast back in 1971 during the Vietnam War, is weirdly relevant today. Fight for your slice

it does seem as if a foreign adversary has taken over the US & in plain view is dismantling its programs, institutions, missions & ideals. the most acute observers among younger generations must be looking upon this with dismay, despair, outrage--their US will be tragically diminished compared to the US most of us grew up in. it's hard to believe that much of US science research is being terminated -- the country used to be so proud of its great scientists. not to mention medical research.

We are living in a horror movie. In 2021, we began hearing pancreatic cancer was the most likely cancer to occur following Covid. It’s everywhere now. No one will see this post anyway, but please monitor your health carefully. It’s bad out there.

The US can hardly become really democratic until the Citizens United verdict has been undone. It allows billionaires to buy US elections & they are exploiting this opportunity ever more.