Speaker. Advocate. Father. I build things and fight for what matters. Gun violence prevention is personal. Sneakerhead. 🧇 Round Earther.
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29 Oct 2022
This is how a man with dignity, honor and integrity speaks.
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Post the wage in the ad and watch how fast the no one wants to work problem disappears. They are not short on workers. They are short on offers a human can survive on. Raise it and read the applications.
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In other countries workers sit on the board and help steer the company they build. Here they find out about the layoff from a press release. Give labor a seat. The people doing the work should have a say in the plan.
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Dear working people: they need you to believe you are alone and powerless. You are neither. Nothing they own moves without your hands. The day you remember that together is the day the math changes.
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Sunset for June 13, 2026 at 08:33PM in Milwaukee, WI! In case you missed it — here’s a reminder that there is beauty, still, in this world, among all of the ugliness. “I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.” @AnneFrankCenter
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A single mom on food stamps is a moocher, but a corporation paying poverty wages while pocketing tax breaks is a job creator. The taxpayer covers the gap either way. Only one of them gets called lazy.
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The tipped minimum wage in much of the country is barely two dollars an hour, frozen for decades. We built a whole industry where the customer pays the wage and the owner keeps the savings. End the subminimum.
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Union approval is at its highest in generations because workers can read a pay stub. The bosses spent decades calling unions outdated. Turns out people just wanted a fair shake and finally remembered who delivers it.
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They make sandwich makers and warehouse workers sign non-competes, then act shocked that wages do not rise. You cannot shop your labor if the contract makes leaving illegal. Ban them and watch pay climb.
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When a person works two jobs and still cannot afford one apartment, the lazy worker story falls apart. The problem was never their effort. It was a wage that quit keeping its end of the deal.
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Dear anyone holding on by a thread tonight: the thread is enough. You do not have to solve your whole life right now. You just have to get to morning. Call or text 988 and let someone hold the other end with you.
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Khary Penebaker retweeted
Jun 12
Exactly
ALT Image of an elephant wearing a piece of fabric labeled "Abbott Governor" peeing on the floor.
Jun 12
A large elephant promoting Gov. Greg Abbott urinates heavily at the Texas GOP Convention
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During the pandemic they called you essential and paid you like you were expendable. Hazard pay vanished the moment the applause stopped. Essential should have shown up in the check, not just the speech.
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Khary Penebaker retweeted
Jun 12
Life does not determine our character,,, it reveals it 🙏🏾
As someone who battled addiction and is in recovery and fights every day,,, I applaud everyone who speaks up and makes people feel like they ain’t alone. Be kind,,, you never know what battle someone else is going thru ✊🏾
Jun 12
To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
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I grew up with a hole where a mother should have been because a moment of pain met a loaded gun. Safe storage would not erase my loss, but it could keep another twenty month old from inheriting the same one.
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Jun 13
The right to organize is the right that wins all the others. Higher pay, safer sites, real benefits, they all trace back to workers acting together. Pass the protections that make organizing possible without fear of firing.
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Jun 13
Oops
🚨 Right-wing “tradwife” influencer Sarah Stock has officially quit politics after cheating on her husband.
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Jun 13
Sunset for June 12, 2026 at 08:32PM in Milwaukee, WI! In case you missed it — here’s a reminder that there is beauty, still, in this world, among all of the ugliness. “I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.” @AnneFrankCenter
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Jun 12
Every other wealthy country guarantees paid family leave. We tell a new mother to choose between her newborn and her paycheck. We are not too poor to fix this. We just decided her time was not worth protecting.
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Jun 12
A strike is not workers being greedy. It is workers remembering that nothing moves without them. The only power labor ever had is the willingness to stop.
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