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I’m surprised this is getting more coverage here but perhaps I’ve missed it. About a week ago the CEO of Kellogg’s made one of the most out-of-touch comments in years. In response to Americans struggling to make ends meet he suggested they eat cereal...
by ontheleftcoast
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on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 09:29 AM PST
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Fox propaganda hype alert! Truckers for Trump will boycott driving to New York City after $355M fraud ruling 'Chicago Ray' is rallying other truck drivers to refuse shipments to New York City following fraud ruling No offense to truckers, but we have...
by Merlin196360
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on Sun Feb 18, 2024 at 07:57 PM PST
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Yeah, I just went out today and had lunch, and did some other errands. Did some reading, I have several books piled up, two for two seperate book groups, that need to be finished by the end of the month. Finally, I went to Burger King and got a coke,...
by jwgarman
51 comments
on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 05:29 PM PDT
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The Nobel Foundation on Saturday withdrew its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the decision announced a day earlier “provoked strong reactions.” Several Swedish...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Sep 03, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Due to the boycott from the homophobic/transphobic MAGA GOP crowd, Bud Light has lost its place as the number one selling beer, a place that has now been taken over by (drum roll please) Mexican beer Modelo I guess the racist maga cult didn’t see that...
by The Boss Gomez
38 comments
on Wed Jun 14, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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It’s Pride month! Corporations around the country, realizing that LGBTQ+ people also buy stuff and are a part of families that buy stuff, have been showing their support. The “anti-woke” crowds, always crying about “cancel culture,” have been spending...
by Walter Einenkel
272 comments
on Sat Jun 10, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Chick-fil-A—yes, that Chick-fil-A—is under attack from conservatives after somebody realized the company has an executive position overseeing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in the company. Even worse, the executive in that position isn’t...
by Walter Einenkel
377 comments
on Fri Jun 02, 2023 at 03:10 PM PDT
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Many of our allies have joined us in a boycott that many of us gay folks follow, of chick fillet. Sadly though the one company is not alone. Attached is a list of 243 other companies that preach ...
by CameronProf
135 comments
on Sun May 28, 2023 at 04:20 AM PDT
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Florida “governor” Ron DeSantis is doing a bang up job in covering all the spaces on his running-for-president-of-MAGAland card. Anti-vax. LGBTQ demonization. Persecution of students, teachers and just about anyone interested in learning. This past...
by Crashing Vor
277 comments
on Sat May 13, 2023 at 04:06 PM PDT
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The CNN town hall wasn’t anything new. What the network maybe fails to realize is that the rest of us went through this cycle with them in 2015-16 and haven’t much forgotten how they panted after Trump with a camera. Thus, it doesn’t take long for us...
by MuskiesAvatar
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on Sat May 13, 2023 at 05:38 AM PDT
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Expelling two African-American legislators is so over the top I'm beyond speechless! It's just plain stupid & cruel! We need to hit the Republican bastards in Tennessee in their pocketbooks. Money is the only thing they understand! Refrain from...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
135 comments
on Thu Apr 06, 2023 at 05:55 PM PDT
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Bending to pressure from Republicans and a lawsuit filed in November 2022 by anti-abortion zealots, Walgreens announced Friday the stores would no longer distribute abortion medication in 20 states. The suit targets the U.S. Food and Drug...
by Rebekah Sager
131 comments
on Mon Mar 06, 2023 at 04:00 PM PST
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Just in case you were looking for someone new to boycott ... I won’t be buying any planes (Boeing, Lockheed Martin) anytime soon, so I guess it’s gonna be Home Depot and UPS. Wish I could boycott Blue Cross Blue Shield, but our country’s very strange...
by winfong
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on Thu Nov 10, 2022 at 02:05 PM PST
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The Third Act Sacramento Banking Campaign will hold a street protest to pay homage to species endangered by climate change accelerated by JP Morgan Chase bank. The activists will meet on Monday, October 31, from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1300 21st Street...
by Dan Bacher
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on Fri Oct 28, 2022 at 10:11 AM PDT
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Az Governor DUCEY Abandons the Alpine Wild Horses to Cruelty and Death. Illegally. Uses “Indian Washing” & Green Washing to hide. (click on link) https://whoanm.org/wordpress/?p=1107
by easternwestern
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on Tue Oct 04, 2022 at 06:14 PM PDT
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CNN was taken over by Warner Brothers Discovery merger. That cannot be good for liberal interests and it has proven not to be. When wealthy power brokers don’t like what they hear, they buy the media and transform it. That is what happened to National...
by disoffshore
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on Sat Aug 20, 2022 at 08:30 PM PDT
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Lies will not change reality. Global warming threatens our health, lifestyles and survival. There will be no survival of the healthiest, or the richest or the strongest. Each of us will be affected. ...
by Rise above the swamp
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on Mon Aug 01, 2022 at 06:00 AM PDT
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So here’s what we know: Thanks to the ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court reversing Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of Americans are no longer allowed to have abortions in nearly a dozen states, and people who don’t want to get pregnant may have to...
by Rebekah Sager
275 comments
on Tue Jul 19, 2022 at 10:17 AM PDT
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How did we get here? In one week, the Supreme Court has dealt unbelievable blows to gun safety, abortion rights, Native sovereignty, Miranda rights, the separation of church and state, and more. One piece of the puzzle is corporations, who have spent...
by PJforchoice
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on Sat Jul 02, 2022 at 12:16 PM PDT
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By now we have learned that Koch Industries is a major player in a number of evil enterprises and that they are staying in Russia (see Hunter’s Ukraine Update which contains the following paragraph): And Koch Industries, bankrollers of the party's...
by old 60s radical
193 comments
on Sun Mar 20, 2022 at 09:29 AM PDT
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