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"We heard from employees who, because of noncompetes, were stuck in abusive workplaces," she said. "One person noted when an employer merged with an organization whose religious principles conflicted with their own, a noncompete kept the worker locked in place and unable to freely switch to a job that didn't conflict with their religious practices."

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#quotes #Aldous Huxley #dictatorship

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Not voting is not an option!

“The conservative justices had an opportunity to rally to the defense of democracy, to gird the system against further attack, to righteously defend the rule of law, and to protect its own prerogatives and powers against a wannabe tyrant who is counting on them to be his supplicants. They could have drawn a sharp line. They could have summoned indignation and outrage. They could have overlooked their partisan priors in favor of principle – or more cravenly in favor of self-preservation. With the possible and limited exception of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, they did none of that. They failed in the worst possible way at the most crucial time.”

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Rogue SCOTUS Abandons Democracy In Her Hour Of Greatest Need

Say this with me: This SCOTUS majority is not an impartial arbiter of law. This SCOTUS majority has no respect for precedent, the will of the people, or its fundamental role in government.

This SCOTUS majority is doing through force what the other members of their movement could not achieve through elections: change laws to take equality and freedoms away from as many people as possible, to completely remake America into something we don’t recognize.

Donald Trump and his cult are the greatest threat America has ever faced in its history, with this corrupt, venal, activist group of unelected liars (and at least two rapists) enabling him.

Democrats absolutely have to expand the court and begin an impeachment inquiry into Thomas and Kavanaugh the instant they have congressional majorities. 

I don’t think it’s too late, but it’s about five seconds away from being too late. If Congress doesn’t act hard and fast, these seven people will turn America over to corporations and megachurches.

We have to stop this, and the only way we have any chance at all is to turn out in massive numbers this November to overwhelmingly defeat the people who will put Project 2025 into action.

#vote #vote blue to save democracy #scotus

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“Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch used a range of hypotheticals — pointedly including recognizable conduct by liberals — to demonstrate the supposed breadth of the obstruction statute, and to downplay an argument deployed by the government: the insurrection was a singular moment in American history that does not invite easy comparisons. “What happened on January 6 was very, very serious, and I’m not equating this with that,” Alito said, before citing Monday’s pro-Gaza protest on the Golden Gate bridge and stringing together a hypothetical where a similar protest blocks members of Congress from getting to a vote. “Would pulling a fire alarm before a vote qualify for 20 years in federal prison?” Gorsuch asked incredulously, clearly alluding to Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY).”

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Right-Wing Justices Haggle Over Law Used To Nab January 6 Rioters

These corrupt, deeply dishonest, right wing activists cosplaying as Justices sure do love their hypotheticals, don’t they.

#scotus

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#hedy lamarr #wifi #Bluetooth

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#fuck elon musk #corporate greed

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#scotus

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The supreme court should have refused to see this case, the fact that they didn't shows how badly Democrats need to out vote every Republican

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I had a neighbor from England. I asked her what the biggest differences were between there and the US. One of the biggest she said was she felt like she was going back in time when taking public transportation.

Biden has infrastructure projects all over the country and only 19 Republicans voted to fund the Infrastructure bill. The Republicans that voted no have been been trying credit ever since.

#infrastructure

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#elon musk

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This ⬇️⬇️ so much this ⬇️⬇️

#voting rights #voter suppression

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I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind?

— Langston Hughes, from "Tired" in American Marxist journal, New Masses (February 1931) (via @ReginaRosenfeld)

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#credit scores

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