New York has released 170,000 pages showing the city knew the air around Ground Zero was dangerous and told people otherwise. More have now died of 9/11 caused illnesses than died on the day.
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@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialNew York has released 170,000 pages showing the city knew the air around Ground Zero was dangerous and told people otherwise. More have now died of 9/11 caused illnesses than died on the day.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialBarbara Ehrenreich posted this in 2018, seventeen years after Nickel and Dimed. Nobody gives you a job. You give them your labour, and they pay the legal minimum they can get away with.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialSwitzerland is spending $11 million to move 3,000 federal workstations off Microsoft 365. Not a boycott, they are unsubscribing.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialRoosevelt said this at Madison Square Garden on 31 October 1936, two days before winning 46 of 48 states. Ninety years later, organised money is still the basis of our government.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialI'd feel a lot calmer with Trump and his cabinet in these.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialLaw Enforcement Theatre.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialA $10,000 dividend, a pony, and free ice cream for everyone. Still a more plausible economic plan than four decades of tax cuts that were going to pay for themselves.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialA country that can fund endless war can feed its people.
It chooses not to.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.social“Vote for us or we face consequences”
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialAmerica spent decades screaming about communism while the right quietly built the thing they claimed to fear, an authoritarian state run for capital, churches, and the corrupt.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialSuspected of carrying drugs: killed at sea.
Convicted of running a $214 million drug marketplace: pardoned, then given a speaking slot at the party convention.
Your money or your life.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.social"Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote their wealth away."
Lucy Parsons, the Haymarket Square widow who internationalized the struggle for the eight-hour day and whose work led to the May Day rallies held around the world.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.social"Rove has been critical of Trump at times, ...warning that the president’s “narcissism” could cost the party in the November elections. "
Not that he's corrupt and bad for America, but because he'll lose the mid-terms.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialThey can't even define communist. It's just a slur from the 50s.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialAbout 82 million Americans who were eligible to vote sat out the 2024 presidential election, that's roughly one in three eligible voters.
![Profile portrait of a man in a suit beside large white text reading, "If 99% of us [Democrats] voted, it wouldn't matter how much the 1% spends on our elections," with a bottom caption, "Republicans win when Democrats don't vote."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:w56jaqjlic5odzdvfubmhqyq/bafkreid7lebqd4cyccuaejbug7okeqotfyskoii726u7hm6f2xkbphq4qu@png)
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialTrump has a pattern.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialHow many of these men will hide in bunkers from the horrors they've created?
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialGrowth is a necessary part of life.
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialMonkey See, Monkey Do
@zer0billionaires.bsky.socialGood grief!
