The Department of Transportation (DOT) issued final rules requiring airlines pay passengers back if they cancel their flights or make significant changes.
This is unprecedented and pretty messed up. How they can just bully a tech company and manipulate the market like that, and yet do nothing with the Googles, Metas and Microsofts in their own country is beyond me.
Universities, nationwide, are stopping students from peacefully protesting. Texas is not welcoming to citizens exercising #1A rights, given their far-right oppressive st. govt.
"TX State Troopers were seen marching through campus calling for protesters to disperse.
Austin's Palestine Solidarity CMTE wrote on IG that "students were welcomed by a draconian police presence, refusing to allow them to use their campus space for political speech."
@Nazani I believe it brings about awareness, but only the peaceful ones are effective, & agitators incite violence, so... I've read that most of the problems occur outside the universities' boundaries.
I find the belief that #leftists are mad at the #rich and powerful because of envy is frankly insulting. We don't think anyone should have that much money or power because it turns them into a twisted horrible human being and at some point they had to exploit others or the environment to get that money. If no one has that much money, all of us have a little more. If no one has that much power, ALL of us are a little more power to make our world better.
it's so weird to me. i simply do not understand why i would want to be rich and powerful. there's no allure to it. it sounds really unfulfilling. i just want my needs met so i can enjoy life with my little gay friends
Interestingly this isn’t necessarily what the rich think. But this is is what the rich want the majority of the voting poor to think. And so far they succeeded on a large scale.
I used to help with the bags of food from the food bank. We had so many kids that didn’t have any food at home unless we provided it. We even had organizations help us distribute food during the summer.
A school lunch program would help to feed so many families, because as a struggling family your #1 concern is to put some sort of food into your child's lunch, as without that they would go without in the presence of their peers. It's easier to get away without food for supper when they get home.
Take away the struggle of a school lunch, and you open up more resource for other meals at home..
When I used to go to my local food bank, they were open for 2 hours starting at 10am, & then another 2 starting at 6pm. The evening session was always very crowded with parents coming after work and school, with kids in tow (babysitters can be an unavailable luxury). The most heartbreaking thing was how well-behaved the kids tended to be- even the very little kids knew the score.
@SaltyGirl This would make the news as a feel good story and not the nightmare it is that people are having to go without food while 40% of our food goes to waste.
15 years ago a woman and her mom asked a school teacher they knew what they could do to help out in her school. She told them there were some kids who were struggling with school work because they were hungry. That conversation was the genesis of a program I volunteer with. They started in their kitchen with 5 bags of groceries that were given to 5 families. So far this year, since September, we’ve sent over 9000 bags of groceries home with kids.
My father was a professor at Kent State; I grew up hearing about the National Guard shooting. With kid logic, I thought one part of the campus was "unsafe", before later realizing it happened before I was born. (Ancient history!) I later realized it was a mere six years prior, so far closer in their memory than, say, 9/11/01 is in mine now.
For years, I could locate where I was to non-Ohioians by saying "Kent State". That faded a few years ago, but I feel like I'm hearing it come up more now.
100-year-old British D-Day veteran dies before he can honor fallen comrades one more time
British army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that tore through his ankle a few days later, wanted to return to France for the 80th anniversary of the invasion so he could honor the men who didn’t come home #press
No Major American University has Deplored the Destruction of Gaza Universities
And harmless student demonstrations have been met with harsh police response & criminalization unmatched since Kent State called in the National Guard in 1970, which killed four students.
Current charges that these peaceful rallies are antisemitic are bad faith propaganda & ridiculous.
Tired: We simply can't trust critical software infrastructure to unpaid volunteers Inspired: We simply can't trust critical software infrastructure to people who make money
Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s detention confirms what the BDS movement has long argued: Israeli universities are first and foremost instruments of the state and agents of Zionism’s project of dispossession and apartheid rule.
"Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist. and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist." —Winona Laduke, #Ojibwe economist & environmentalist
took your meme to add it #AltText (am i doing this right?!?!)
I wouldn't break up the text like that. The specifics of the layout aren't critical to understanding this; I'd do it like:
Photo of a young Winona LaDuke, dressed...(all that was awesome!)...sunglasses he is wearing. The photo is arranged with a Winona LaDuke quote: "SOMEONE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN... TERRORIST". The image has a small logo for the Free Thought Project website.
Israel penned them in an open air prison, chased them around the Gaza strip, herded them into a corner and now is going to invade the safe zone and kill as many people as possible. While mass graves are already being unearthed, Biden sends them $17 billion to finish the job. Disavow yourselves that America has any moral high ground to ever speak to any country again how to treat people or conduct a war. It behaves with cruel impunity, always has, but this parade of the grotesque is a new low.
Ethnic Karen guerrillas in Myanmar leave a town that army lost 2 weeks ago as rival group holds sway
Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government have withdrawn from the eastern border town of Myawaddy two weeks after forcing the army to give up its defense #press
If you buy something—a refrigerator, a car, a tractor, a wheelchair, or a phone—but you can't have the information or parts to fix or modify it, is it really yours? The right to repair movement is based on the belief that you should have the right to…
Pro-Palestinian student protests target colleges' financial ties with Israel
Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel’s war in Gaza #press
My high school principal's name was Richard Little. He did, in fact, go by “Dick”. That said, the obvious jokes weren't common as far as I recall either because the slang wasn't in the same place it is today or because they wouldn't have landed well -- he was a big man in every sense of the word (and a really good guy).
@Keith Fieldhouse @Laffy @Wiley Miller "They call me little John. But don't let my name fool you. In real life, I'm very big" "I'll take your word for it."
Look, you can't expect him to pay attention and sit in a chair without jangling keys, or something that requires a little less brain activity, such as fox news, for almost 4 days a week, for like 6 hours each.
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