@karen543.bsky.social
This IS a plan to punish working parents
this sounds less like a plan to help stay-at-home parents and more like a one to punish working ones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
www.nytimes.com
September 6, 2026 at 1:58 PM
This IS a plan to punish working parents
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Federal minimum wage in:
2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25
2023: $7.25
2024: $7.25
2025: $7.25
2026: $7.25
Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25
2023: $7.25
2024: $7.25
2025: $7.25
2026: $7.25
Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
September 6, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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An icon recognizes the loss of another icon. A huge loss. She touched so many. Those books are a treasure.
Dolly Parton was an icon. She was a brilliant songwriter and performer. She was an incredible activist and advocate, helping to donate over 200 million free books to children.
She was one of my personal heroes.
This is a terrible loss. She will be greatly missed.
She was one of my personal heroes.
This is a terrible loss. She will be greatly missed.
August 25, 2026 at 9:13 PM
An icon recognizes the loss of another icon. A huge loss. She touched so many. Those books are a treasure.
Very much worth reading, for many reasons...
Wrongful incarceration has two sets of victims, Barbara Bradley Hagerty argues: “Ben Spencer and Jay Young, two men on opposite sides of a murder, had both been betrayed by the system that was supposed to protect them.”
The Other Victims of a Wrongful Conviction
For years, I reported on one man’s wrongful incarceration—and ignored the stories of a grieving family who thought they had gotten justice.
bit.ly
July 24, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Very much worth reading, for many reasons...
This song is going to be in my head for a while...🎶
Repost @mickydolenz:
This month in 1967, @themonkees released “Pleasant Valley Sunday.”
Written by the extraordinary Gerry Goffin and Carole King, the song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 in the U.K. And somehow, it still feels just as much fun to sing all these years later.
This month in 1967, @themonkees released “Pleasant Valley Sunday.”
Written by the extraordinary Gerry Goffin and Carole King, the song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 in the U.K. And somehow, it still feels just as much fun to sing all these years later.
July 23, 2026 at 1:30 PM
This song is going to be in my head for a while...🎶
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When the other checkout line starts moving.
July 23, 2026 at 1:20 PM
When the other checkout line starts moving.
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Piss-Drunk Pete Kegstand is what would happen if arrogance and an elevated blood-alcohol level became a real boy. he came begging for billions yesterday, and all the Democratic senators ripped him several new ones. thank you for your attention to my post about it. link is here: bit.ly/4wWzvhV
July 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Piss-Drunk Pete Kegstand is what would happen if arrogance and an elevated blood-alcohol level became a real boy. he came begging for billions yesterday, and all the Democratic senators ripped him several new ones. thank you for your attention to my post about it. link is here: bit.ly/4wWzvhV
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How can you Make American Healthy Again when people are afraid to eat their vegetables?
July 22, 2026 at 5:01 PM
How can you Make American Healthy Again when people are afraid to eat their vegetables?
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“For years to come, there are many people on the right, in the media, and voters at large who are going to have to explain and justify how they fell into the trap of supporting Donald Trump.” — Marco Rubio, 2016
July 10, 2026 at 7:17 PM
“For years to come, there are many people on the right, in the media, and voters at large who are going to have to explain and justify how they fell into the trap of supporting Donald Trump.” — Marco Rubio, 2016
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"Today, Davey Hearn pled not guilty — because he is not guilty," Norm Eisen, one of his attorneys, said outside DC Superior Court. "If Mr. Hearn can be charged with a felony for touching the reflecting pool, every American is at risk — and every American should be alarmed about this prosecution."
July 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
"Today, Davey Hearn pled not guilty — because he is not guilty," Norm Eisen, one of his attorneys, said outside DC Superior Court. "If Mr. Hearn can be charged with a felony for touching the reflecting pool, every American is at risk — and every American should be alarmed about this prosecution."
Would the Founding Fathers Support Trump?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
youtube.com
July 9, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
May 31, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
My favorite Senator 🩵
Elizbeth Warren goes for the jugular! RFK is putting babies health at risk, seniors health at risk and you should resign.
September 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
My favorite Senator 🩵
August 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Can’t you make up an excuse?!
August 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Can’t you make up an excuse?!
Greatest commercial of all time
Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🩵 this. Bernie gets around.
(Here is a personal favorite. Make sure you look closely!)
June 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
🩵 this. Bernie gets around.
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‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish
Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.
Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.
May 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish
Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.
Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.
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All 100% real, just like other newspaper summer book lists.
May 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
All 100% real, just like other newspaper summer book lists.
This is why you don't put unqualified cosplayers in important government positions.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This is why you don't put unqualified cosplayers in important government positions.
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The Trump Admin is considering doing a game show where immigrants compete for citizenship—because in their America, basic human rights are entertainment. This isn’t a game. It’s people’s lives. It’s cruelty as spectacle. It’s vile. The Apprentice: Fascism Edition.
May 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The Trump Admin is considering doing a game show where immigrants compete for citizenship—because in their America, basic human rights are entertainment. This isn’t a game. It’s people’s lives. It’s cruelty as spectacle. It’s vile. The Apprentice: Fascism Edition.
Good question
Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?
May 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Good question
Listening to Run DMC "Walk this way" on internet radio as I watch this. Try it, it's perfect. 🎧🎶
May 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Listening to Run DMC "Walk this way" on internet radio as I watch this. Try it, it's perfect. 🎧🎶