Danielle

Apple is closing down the first of its US stores to unionize. Apple says that because of the collective bargaining agreement with these workers, they "couldn’t offer to transfer them to nearby locations.” The union is outraged, and exploring options to hold Apple accountable.

The March data has gasoline inflation at 21.2% — the biggest jump on record since 1967.

Frito-Lay is dropping the prices of their salty snacks by 15% after not meeting sales targets for 2 years in a row. Customers just said fuck Doritos. We need to do that with Netflix, plane tickets & every other consumer good that’s needlessly overpriced.

If Democrats are able to get reelected it will take an extremely ambitious, aggressive, New Deal style administration just to get things back to where they were in 2023.

Every February, 70% of the commercial honey bees in the United States, roughly two million colonies, are loaded onto lorries and driven to California. They are going to pollinate the almonds. 80% of the world's almonds come from one valley in California. Over 1.3 million acres of nothing but almond trees, blooming for three weeks in monoculture, requiring more pollinators than the state can produce on its own. So the bees are trucked in from every corner of the country. Florida. New York. Montana. The bees are fed sugar water for the journey because their own honey has been removed to lighten the load. They arrive in the Central Valley to a landscape that is, for three weeks, pink and white blossom, and for the other forty-nine weeks of the year, dead. Nothing to eat. No forage. No diversity. Just almond trees and bare dirt, sprayed regularly with fungicides and insecticides that were deemed bee-safe in adult bees but turn out to be lethal to larvae when combined. In February 2025, commercial beekeepers reported the worst die-off on record. Around 60% of commercial honey bee colonies in the United States dead in a single pollination season. Financial losses estimated well over $139 million. Some beekeepers lost 90 to 100% of their colonies. The almonds are marketed as plant-based. Clean. Ethical. The preferred alternative. The preferred alternative requires the single largest managed pollination event in human history and it is quietly killing the pollinators faster than they can be replaced. Every glass of almond milk is, statistically, a small contribution to the largest pollinator die-off on record. This is not in the advertising.

Net favorability among independents: Bernie Sanders +21 Democrats in Congress -36 Net favorability among moderates: Bernie Sanders +24 Democrats in Congress -31 Centrists on this website will do anything to avoid looking in the mirror.

Paradox: If you see a baby located 90 light-years from Earth, right now it would be a 90-year-old, but you see it in your present, as a baby. While the light takes time to reach you, the baby grows and ages. When you look at the universe, you are always looking at the past.

I’ll refer you to the Selma protests, and George Wallace, also known as Bloody Sunday. The world saw nonviolent protestors violently attacked on a bridge by their own government for wanting to vote. It was so horrific that a few days later Lyndon B Johnson presented the Voting Rights Act to Congress. Obviously, these protestors shouldn’t lose their lives, but it isn’t futile to attack Trump and Vance. Trump is reactionary and easily embarrassed. He would absolutely hate it if protestors showed up at his rallies and disrupted them in the same fashion they did Kamala Harris on her book tour. That would generate a lot of media coverage and create the disruption they’re looking for. But many of them won’t do it because it was more important to make the Democrats pay than to actually hold power accountable consistently.