Giant corporations are making record profits by increasing prices, and CEOs are saying the quiet part out loud: they’re happy to help drive inflation. American families pay higher prices and corporate executives get fatter bonuses. See for yourself what executives are saying:

Schrodinger’s left: not powerful enough to control of the presidency, legislative strategy, or party institutions, yet somehow powerful enough to cause all Democratic party failures

Here's a fact you won't hear on Fox News today. Exxon, Chevron, and Conoco made $46 billion in profit in 2021. Now they're using 40% of those profits for stock buybacks. Big Oil is raking it in, raising prices, and taking advantage of the war in Ukraine to push for more drilling.

BREAKING: A HUGE, HISTORIC UNION WIN NLRB's final count is 2,654 to unionize, 2,131 against Many experts said it would be nearly impossible to unionize an Amazon warehouse because Amazon is so fiercely anti-union Big congratulations to Christian Smalls & the Amazon Labor Union

“We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going to space because while he was up there we were organizing a union”

Congratulations Amazon Labor Union IBT !!! Thank you to the tireless and brave organizers who have fought so long for this day 🎉🎉🎉

$10,400,000,000 NYPD budget and they couldn’t get their radios to work in a crisis, the surveillance cameras “malfunctioned” and no officers prevented anything or apprehended anyone. But politicians plan to just throw more money at it, no questions asked.

I don’t doubt that Elon Musk will use this website to crush labor organizing efforts across this country.

the right will defend rittenhouse and 1/6 and pass laws that you can use your car to run over protesters and democrats will condemn their own voters for chanting loudly outside someones house

Thinking of this as I see Jim Jordan tweeting about gas prices

I keep thinking about how, with two months notice that this ruling was coming, the democratic-controlled congress not only *didn't* codify abortion rights, but overwhelmingly passed a security bill protecting these SCOTUS justices

Probably the fastest rightward shift in my life and it’s happening while democrats control the house, senate, and presidency

This is something that b-boy bouiebaisse and Rebecca Traister have both been writing about. The gap between the Democratic leadership, and younger progressives on the question of “How Bad Is It?” is just *enormous*.

The obsession of the capitalist class with "innovation" sits awkwardly alongside their insistence that "there is no alternative". We are allowed to imagine new gadgets but not a just economy.

Scientists expect dire global warming of 1.4/1.5°C by 2026 heralding the final collapse of major ecosystems, extreme crop-wrecking weather, rapid mass extinction, and yet more warming with vicious feedbacks, and yet media ignore their calls to abolish perpetual economic growth.🧵

This video is a comfort to me.

It’s my favorite time of year - Barred Owl Cam time

After returning from an incubation break, the female Barred Owl gets a late-night snack (a rodent) delivered by her mate. During incubation, the male provides the female food while she cares for the eggs. Barred Owls are mostly nocturnal hunters. youtu.be/E9j4ZEuHDJQ

an important reminder in light of today’s bead news:

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