This is the greatest thing ever.

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

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Carnists ignore animal abuse because it's painful to watch. But never think how painful it is for the actual animals. 🎨 VeganSideKick

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.

The good: this community fought back and prevented a data center from being constructed in their community

TRUMP: “What would you like Santa to bring?” LITTLE GIRL: “Not coal.” TRUMP: “You mean clean, beautiful coal.” *laughs because he knows he’s lying to a child on Christmas Eve on behalf of his fossil fuel billionaire donors*🫤 🎄

More than one way to screw a little girl

Trump to child from Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania is great, we won Pennsylvania, actually three times. We won it a landslide.

He never has a thought for anyone but himself. Never. He can’t even wish a child merry Christmas

I hope you have a miserable Christmas you loser. I hate you with every breath I have and cant wait until you... Well nevermind.

Another satisfied Tom the Dancing Bug reader

Separation of Church and Hate A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...

Evil. I don’t use that word lightly.

A judge ruled that members of Congress can show up at ICE detention centers without warning. The goal is to see real conditions, not a cleaned-up version. www.kjzz.org/fronteras-de...

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This is Trump’s America. This must not be our America.

A whistleblower says the meat industry paid people to pose as vegans, invent health scares, and poison online debate. This wasn’t disagreement or “free speech”. It was paid disinformation, designed to protect profit and power.

Remember when Presidents did national speeches for emergencies or times where a nation needs to hear from their leader? This angry old man is literally screaming and clearly panicking

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"After 11 months of tumult and downsizing, NASA will have a permanent leader. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur who traveled to orbit twice on private space missions..." This won't be about science. It will be about profit. #Pinks

Mike Johnson and his family have 75% of all their healthcare expenses subsidized by US taxpayers even though he makes a base of $225K per year

The Trump Admin wants to turn the clock back to 2008 and let Wall Street run wild. We all know how that ended – with taxpayers bailing out Wall Street while millions lost their homes and got fired from their jobs. Donald Trump could be setting the stage for the next crash.

"This one smells a lot like they realize that the DOGE brand is dead and they are trying to get as far away as they can. But I hope they have thought about where their power will come from."

JUST IN: Judge Cobb blocks ICE's policy that limited Congress' ability to visit immigration detention facilities, saying it imposed illegal restrictions by requiring 7-day advanced notice and excluding ICE field offices. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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BREAKING: In Georgia's #SD35 runoff election, 44-year-old dentist Jaha Howard, who ran on affordability issues and a data center moratorium, beat 72-year-old fmr. state rep Roger Bruce, an establishment favorite. Bruce was backed by @jasonesteves.bsky.social, who vacated the seat to run for #GAGOV.

This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it. Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds. Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Don Davis (NC-01) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Jared Golden (ME-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Adam Gray (CA-13) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)

God knows you need some good news.

Mr. Van Dyke is a DELIGHTFUL man. A few years ago his wonderful wife Arlene contacted me on social media. I asked Arlene if Mr. Van Dyke might enjoy a caricature. She said he would and gave me an address. I signed one for him and he signed this for me:

Seems legit...

"Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already." -Donald Trump, 4/2/25

Editor in Chief of Christianity Today Magazine 👇🏽

Removed from anniversary coins for being too "woke": -the end of slavery -giving women the right to vote -the civil rights movement Added: -Trump Nothing subtle about what's happening here. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

The costs of AI will be paid by the taxpayers (us). That includes the infrastructure of the AI data center and the electrical transmission. The benefits of AI will mostly be felt by the billionaires and by 2030 may reduce the number of jobs by 40%. Where will you work? How will you eat and live?

"Jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff," it says. They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization. They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.

Fact-check: true

I've been remiss about posting videos to YouTube. Will try to do better. Here's my conversation with Adam Tooze, which I found really enlightening. Properly edited transcript at my Substack, www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYAC...

It's not a question of politics or party. Congress has a constitutional obligation to impeach and to remove a president who commits high crimes and misdemeanors and forsakes his solemn oath. And there has never been a president who has committed as many impeachable offenses than this one.

The US and multiple countries have what’s called A DEMOCRACY. America came into existence to escape a king. Why would we want another and one as completely ignorant to the people’s needs as this incompetent idiot? He’s in it for the grift and destruction. To hand us over to his rich oligarchs.

This is demonstrably false. A blatant lie. Not even a hint of truth. Can we not sue them for this shit?!? This frustrates me so much.

Yeah, this happened.

I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

while the USA IS IMPLODING UPON ITSELF UNDER THE LUNATIC TRUMP who ACTS as IF WE ARE INVISIBLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHINA HAS A 1 TRILLION DOLLAR TRADE SURPLUS !!!!

$9.23 billion over 3 years/2% of the economy lost to car crashes And NACT want us to go faster, on more roads, with less safety www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Powell: "Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs."

You're in a car accident. So you call all the ERs from the ambulance and see who's offering a special. Hell, maybe you can ask hospital B to beat hospital A's price. It'll be like car dealerships. "How much can you spend a month, Randi?" "What will it take to get you into this ER today?"