Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@social.cleverlibre.org

If US restaurants and patrons already expect to tip 20% then the restaurants should add that to the cost of every item, increase wages, and abolish tipping as a thing.

Restaurants that can't afford that don't have a viable business.

Patrons that can't afford that shouldn't be dining out.

We have until March 5, 2024 to organize against this #SanFrancisco ballot measure. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/its-time-oppose-new-san-francisco-policing-ballot-measure

“Is this the conservative thing to do to create another entitlement program, in effect to create a third education system?”

Rural #Republicans teamed up with House Dems to reject #vouchers from the massive school spending bill, HB 1. It's the latest embarrassing blow to the governor's agenda, reports Reporting Fellow @josephinelee: https://www.texasobserver.org/hb-1-vouchers-omnibus-special-session?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=audience

#TXlege #politics #USpol #education #schools #news #PublicSchools #GregAbbott

Statement from Media Matter CEO Angelo Carusone regarding Elon Musk’s lawsuit threat.

Also, seriously? Whenever one of y'all next tries to tell me that radical consent models of data collection and use aren't possible in "big data" and "AI," I'm gonna say "Thanks for the input Sam Altman, but I really don't know if your views on consent are the ones we'll be needing to hear today."

Rural Republicans team up with Dems to reject vouchers in intra party showdown on House floor. In another embarrassing blow to Abbott, his repeated threats has not changed the opposition to vouchers. https://www.texasobserver.org/hb-1-vouchers-omnibus-special-session/

Tesla getting owned by Swedish workers isn’t the story.

The story is that 90% of the Swedish workers belong to a union

And only around 11% of American workers belong to a union

The story is the message

What the Swedes have done by blocking delivery of Teslas will reverberate worldwide with workers showing the power of collective action.

Moms for Liberty pushes to remove Scholastic book fairs from Oklahoma schools. The organization said, in part, that "Scholastic is focused on indoctrinating youth with radical viewpoints and sexual ideologies"

https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-moms-for-liberty-scholastic-book-fairs-request-removed-schools/45846584

#ScholasticBookFairs #MomsForLiberty #Indoctrination #RadicalViewpoints #SexualIdeologies #OklahomaSchools #Politics #News

People of good heart and good character can actually want the same thing—peace on Earth, democracy for all, an end to terror—and still have very different ideas about how to achieve it. The sooner we realize that, the sooner we can understand each other and begin to move forward.

You don't need to be an expert to know that there will never be peace in Israel/Palestine until there is recognition of the common humanity of both Israelis and Palestinians. Which is unlikely to happen as long as either Hamas or Netanyahu remain in power.

Anybody remember how hopeful everything looked with Rabin and Arafat and the Oslo Accords? What a high point that was. Will we ever see anything like that again? I hope so.

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #FreePalestine #WestBank #Hamas

The World Food programme has suspended delivery of food aid to Gaza bc power and communications are down and there's no fuel for distribution. They say Gaza has received 10% of necessary food supplies and warn of imminent starvation and dehydration.

Siege warfare against civilians is a war crime, as is collective punishment.

#gaza #israel #warcrimes

2/ The Massachusetts governor signed a new reform into law that'll make prison phone calls, *and* other communications for incarcerated people, free.

A big milestone that took *a lot* of organizing. https://boltsmag.org/massachusetts-prison-jail-phone-calls/

Great water news. I argue in my new book, The Three Ages of Water, that we can move to a positive sustainable future for water that includes restoring rivers & aquatic systems.

Here is a new agreement to remove to two old, damaging dams on the Eel River, making the Eel California’s longest free-flowing river, reconnecting salmon and steelhead with almost 300 miles of cold-water habitat.

https://caltrout.org/news/pge-confirms-plan-to-begin-full-removal-of-eel-river-dams

Excited to share some bonkers maps I made for this @ProPublica story about Wisconsin's gerrymandered legislative districts: https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-legislative-maps-bizarre-are-they-illegal

Measles rises globally amid vaccination crash; WHO and CDC sound the alarm https://arstechnica.com/?p=1984844

'So please – for the sake of Palestine and Israel, for the sake of the living and in the name of the dead, for the sake of the hostages being held by Hamas and the Palestinians in Israel’s prisons – for the sake of all of humanity – cease fire now.' - Arundhati Roy, speaking at the Munich Literature Festival

https://scroll.in/article/1059225/

#Ceasefire #Gaza

Contrary to what Republicans claim, the number of undocumented immigrants in the US was at its peak in 2007. Under Bush II.

Since then, it's fallen 14%, from 12.2 million down to only 10.5 million in 2021.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-undocumented-immigrants-report-rcna125447

#USpol #immigration #propaganda #FactCheck

#NorthDakota’s 2021 legislative redistricting plan violates the rights of two Native American tribes because it dilutes their voting strength, a federal judge ruled Friday. #legal #VotingRights
https://apnews.com/article/0faa6dc38763267d42af1b6c2ab301c0

Arundhati Roy: The siege of Gaza is a crime against humanity. The world must intervene

The text of the writer’s remarks at the Munich Literature Festival on November 16

"Are we going to once again watch a whole people being dehumanised to the point where their annihilation does not matter?"

#FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #ceasefirenow

https://scroll.in/article/1059225/arundhati-roy-the-siege-of-gaza-is-a-crime-against-humanity-the-world-must-intervene