Had a great suggestion on how to make the flag better and I have updated it!

She's already perfect : )

I’ve been mulling over this (likely unoriginal) idea for a few days and I want to put it out there to the group to get a read on everyone’s thoughts here.

They have us so pacified in so many ways, and by design. What would happen if we all collectively just turned away from screens as a form of entertainment- for a day, a week, a month? What sort of collective awakening would we have as a society if we quit watching television and movies as entertainment, put away our video games, and just… did something else with our time instead? What if we decided to only use these screens in our hands as a tool to navigate life and organize, instead of doom scrolling?

I did the math recently on approximately the amount of time I have wasted, my entire 36 years, of just zoning out mindlessly to entertainment that did not enrich, educate, or fulfill me in any way- and it was a bit of a gut punch. I have spent literal years parked in front of a television. Years spent button mashing to video games that have actually done nothing at all for me except provide a mindless distraction while the world around me moved along. My 800+ hours spent on Red Dead Redemption alone- it shouldn’t be a flex, it’s fucking shameful. That’s more than a month of my life in total.

What would happen if we all just stopped allowing ourselves to be entertained by these screens? I’m not even proposing that one ought to spend all this time engaging in protest, but just to…. step outside, engage with the community, breathe the air and refocus our priorities? What if we collectively trained our brains to reject this instant gratification we have been to hardwired to crave?

MAGA, he promised you protection and prosperity, and typically he lied about that, too.

Now, no matter the demands your boss puts upon you, you have but two choices; submit or be fired!

Previously the National Labor Relations Board would be there to protect you from unreasonable demands being put upon you; but no longer. You see, Trump has fired the acting chair, and in doing so shuts down the entire Bureau.

Increase your working hours, reduce your salary, diminish your benefits, not a damn thing you can do about it!

This is the result the oligarchs paid him for, this is Musk's desire laid out on a silver plate, this is the beheading Bezos dreamt of.

Even if you have a union, there is no other entity to which they can appeal.

You laughed when you thought he would stick it to the liberals; look in the mirror, liberal!

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In his ongoing rampage against the laws of the land, Trump this week fired National Labor Relations Board acting chair Gwynne Wilcox — despite her congressional appointment not being up. Wilcox’s firing closes down the NLRB, because it’s left with just two members, and the Supreme Court has ruled that the board needs at least three to issue any rulings. Trump also fired NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, leaving board attorneys who investigate employee and employer complaints without any guidance.

Presto — American workers are no longer protected from illegal firings or unfair labor practices by their employers. The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 is effectively gone. Employers can now wreak havoc on their workers. Of course, most employers are already doing this, but at least the threat of unionization kept some from blatant bullying.

The backstory here is about power. Score another one for the oligarchs.

Across America, big corporations are treating their hourly workers like shite. Unions are about the only countervailing economic force and one of the last remaining political forces pushing for worker health and safety. But the latest data (out Tuesday) shows that unionized workers continue to lose ground — now down to under 10 percent of the workforce.

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and a key Trump adviser — who over the years has compiled a truckload of violations from the NLRB, including firing workers who tried to form a union, and who kept his Tesla plant open during the pandemic in violation of state law — says he’s “opposed to the idea of unions.”

Billionaire oligarch Jeff Bezos, the second-richest person in America, who also stood prominently before Trump when he was sworn in January 20, has been waging an unrelenting war on Amazon’s warehouse workers. (When workers in a Quebec warehouse recently voted to unionize, Bezos responded by having the company order the closure of every Amazon warehouse in the province.)

Amazon owns Whole Foods. On Monday, workers in a Philadelphia Whole Foods market voted to unionize. Bezos is already taking aim.

An overwhelming majority of working-class people — especially men without college degrees, who form the bulk of hourly workers in Musk’s Tesla and Bezos’s Amazon — voted for Trump on November 5.

There are really two questions here:(1) How much more proof does the American working class need that Trump is not on their side but on the side of the oligarchs, who are siphoning more and more of the nation’s wealth to themselves from everyone else?

(2) When will Democratic leaders and lawmakers have the backbone to tell this to working-class Americans, and come down firmly against the oligarchy?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/does-anyone-need-more-proof-that-trump-doesn-t-give-a-crap-about-workers-opinion/ar-AA1y6HwN?

I read a lot and see a lot, but only AOC seems to be out there actually doing shit. He's been impeached before and that didn't do a thing. So, how do we fix this now? The country knows he's nuts. The next shoe to drop is going to be the economy. How does this get resolved. Waiting 4 years is not an option.

They wouldn't, why should we?

If kicking and screaming is what it takes for us not to be silent then that's how we'll be. Americans have given more for less, never forget their sacrifices on the beaches, in the ration queues, at the picket line, and in the prisons.

The news has been nonstop terrible. A lot of you are wondering where to start, where to go, what to do. Well I've got the thing for you.

50501: 50 STATES, 50 PROTESTS, 1 DAY - 2/5/25 - YOUR STATE CAPITOL

This is going to happen in EVERY state. It'll occur in the early to late afternoon. This protest is around defending democracy, our rights, and our freedom as free-thinking, law-abiding Americans and human beings.

I already know people in my personal life who are going, and I hope you'll be there.

Do not give into apathy and despair. Spread the news of this protest, connect with others, show that you won't be silent.

Silence is complicity. Silence buys nothing except the right for them to walk all over you and do whatever they want.

This is YOUR country, and it was made for YOU AND ME. Let's remind them of that! I've got lots of heart, I'm energized, and you should be too!

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