I adore Jeri Ryan but had to turn her boosts off. Can only take so much negative political news in my timeline. Trying my darndest not to turn this place into the awful hellscape that the bird place was. 😶 #USPolitics
Research sheds light on which states might be worth paying more attention to in the run-up to presidential election – including the swing state that is most representative of the whole country demographically (If you guessed Illinois as #1, ding ding ding 👏)
• 272K jobs added in May
• Total of 15.6 million jobs added under Biden
• Women's employment rate hits another high in May
• 30 straight months of unemployment rate at or below 4%
• Prime-working-age labor force participation at 22-year high
• Wages up 4.1% over past year, significantly faster than 3.4% inflation
I get real sick of some of the purity-testing lefty bullshit on here and then I run into a buzzsaw of "you support GENOCIDE OF JEWS" comments elsewhere for supporting Biden's restraint of Netanyahu's government and it's like "oh yeah. It's all fucking terrible, now I remember. All the time. All of it."
I wasn't going to link to this here, but now I am, because what the commenter replied to isn't even primarily about Gaza, it's mostly about how you reward - or punish - politicians with the granting and removal of power.
Even so, just supporting Biden's restraint as an illustration was enough to get me accused of supporting genocide of Jews.
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Live Updates: June 6 #Israeli Strike Kills Dozens at School Complex Where Civilians Sought Shelter
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The [#NAACP calls on Biden to halt arms deliveries to #Israel.
Prayers and pleas for help echo through central #Gaza ’s last hospital.
Video analysis shows Israel’s strike used a bomb that appeared to be #USA-made.]
The UK is gearing up for an election on July 4 and to Americans, the top issues will sound familiar: the economy, immigration, health care, Ukraine and Gaza.