#RIP to Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead, who has left us for music heaven today.⚡️
In the mid-late 60's, I was in New York and went to a club in Greenwich village and saw The Dead play. They were new-ish and they were a jam band. When they'd go into a song, it wasn't the standard
Deeply saddened by the passing of Michael Cassidy. He spent his life fighting for fairness, justice, and working people. A principled leader who never wavered. My heart goes out to his family, friends, and everyone mourning this loss.
Canadian banks closed 561 branches & 900 ATMs in 4 years, while population grew 7%.
Those same banks made $70 billion profit last year alone.
We need postal banking & credit unions freed to provide all banking services.
Public options for banking now!
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February 3rd 1959 - Was for many, "the day the music died", when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Jiles Perry Richardson Jr. aka The Big Bopper, were all killed. Their plane took off a little after 1 AM from Clear Lake, Iowa, when a cold North-East wind gave way to a blinding snow
AOC on Cuba: This is what we’ve seen with Gaza—a new era of depravity. There used to be stated protections for innocent civilians, and now it’s almost acceptable for the Western world to look the other way as people are starved or deprived—simply because political actors or
Enforce the Canada Health Act! Canadian tax dollars are being deliberately misappropriated through underfunding of public healthcare and redirecting money to create a second-tier private for-profit health care system. The thieves are hiding in plain sight.