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dr who’s on first, doctor strange is on second and doctor house is on third. theres no way theyre getting through a single inning

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so who’s on first?

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That’s right 👍🏻

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that’s strange

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No, he’s on second.

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Well how’s he on second if he’s on first?

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No no no, House is on third. Second base is Strange.

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Well this whole darn thing is strange but what I’m asking is who’s on first?

Naturally.

Who?

Naturally.

So Naturally is the first baseman?

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No. The first baseman is Who.

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Well I don’t know that so how’s about you tell me?

tornadointhetundra

House is on Third.

supreme-leader-stoat

I’m not asking you about third base I’m asking you about first base.

tornadointhetundra

Who’s on first!

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This is horrible

tornadointhetundra

Dr Horrible is the pitcher, not first base

supreme-leader-stoat

That’s not what I’m asking about! No!

wrenchinator-central

Dr No is in the outfield, but let’s not worry about them right now.

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arianaderalte

For those not in the know, Henry Ford was a rampant antisemite and Nazi sympathizer. He published a book entitled 'The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem' in 1920 based on the conspiracy theory known as the protocols of Zion.

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Henry Ford is also largely responsible for pioneering the conveyor belt system and setting off the domino chain of industrialization that lead to previously valuable workers being classified as unskilled and replaceable.

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He also tried to create some freakish American town in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest literally called Fordlândia in an effort to have his own supply of rubber. His refusal to even attempt to understand local culture and climate caused it to be an unmitigated disaster.

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I knew Ford was antisemite because a couple years ago I visited garden of lawyer who sued Ford, but I didn’t realize Ford and Hitler were bffs

ceekbee

"Trump has dementia."

"Elon has autism."

"Kanye is bi-polar."

Stop blaming their Nazi shit on mental conditions. Stop making excuses for them. They're just really shitty people.

andhumanslovedstories

The healthcare strike in Portland, Oregon is in its third week with no clear end in sight. Front-line caregivers with the Providence Healthcare System negotiating union contracts at multiple hospitals that would improve employee working conditions and protect legally-mandated nurse:patient ratios so nurses don't get assigned an unmanageable and unsafe number of patients per shift. There's been some progress with negotiations, and the governor of the state is putting pressure on both sides to end the strike soon, but Providence continues to hold out on key issues.

As a float pool nurse, every shift I go to whatever floor is understaffed. In nearly every unit I've been to, there have been patients who still be in the ICU, getting one to one care. But because we don't have enough critical care staff, we transfer This is not safe for patients or staff. And it's not just medical safety. It takes time to talk out a problem instead of calling security, or to help someone with severe mobility issues go to the bathroom, or to sit with someone crying. The kind of care that makes you feel like a person, not just a patient, takes time. The more patients I have per shift, the less time I have for each of them.

A strike is our strongest negotiating tactic. And as long as we're on strike, we're not getting paid. The longer you don't get paid, the harder it is to not cross the picket line. We're already out two paychecks so far. A lot of people cannot afford to lose that much income. As the primary income earner for our household: GOD I would love to make money again. That is what Providence is banking on. They're losing a TON of money during this strike, but they've got deeper pockets than their workers. They are betting that they can survive the strike longer than the union can.

You can support the strike by donating to the Oregon Nurses Association's hardship fund which provides money to caregivers so they don't have to scab. (I'll put a link in a reblog I'll make right after posting this.) There's also a public petition you can sign that I'll also link. And if you're in the Portland area, we've got picket lines at like nine different places at any given point. Even just awareness is helpful. Providence wants people to be angry at the striking healthcare workers, not them.

andhumanslovedstories

Here’s the link to ONA’s strike fund and petition. Help me buy her the good kibble.

vaspider

Those of you who cheered me on when I got my yeeterus done last year? It was a Providence nurse holding my hand when I had a panic attack after surgery, and Providence nurses who believed me about my pain meds tolerance and took my surgical PTSD seriously. When I got Bell's Palsy 3 weeks later and thought I might be having a stroke, it was a Providence nurse who took one look at my lopsided face and walked me right back into the ER and laughed, "You're about to be the center of everybody's attention, but it's okay. We've got you." When I had a kidney stone 2 years ago and they were finally able to put good pain meds in me and I just... sagged, it was a Providence nurse saying, "Oh, you had your brave face on, hunh?"

You don't get to do that if you're understaffed and overworked. You can't pay enough attention to see that someone is barely hanging on to sanity by their fingernails through 7+ pain if you've got dozens of people you have to look after.

If you've got an extra buck and I've made a positive difference in your life on here, put that dollar in the ONA strike fund. I need Providence nurses. They've kept me alive. Let's take care of them. :)

jenroses

Back in 1991 when I nearly died from a saddle pulmonary embolism that went undiagnosed for 3 weeks elsewhere, Providence nurses were the ones who took me seriously and stayed with me through one of the most terrifying medical events of my life.

amusedreams

The deal came after 26 days on picket lines at various Providence facilities stretching from Medford to Portland, and Seaside to Hood River.

Update… I’m going to watch and keep the fund in mind. My logic is that it’s a tentative deal and the fund could use support even during non-strike times.

andhumanslovedstories

Update on update! These tentative agreements advanced to member vote because Providence was refusing to concede anything on the issues like PTO and staffing. They basically said flat out “we are not going to offer anymore than this.” It was a new contract almost identical to the contract offered before the strike.

A really big thing is that Providence wants to stop union contracts from syncing up like this again so we can’t do another large strike like this. Providence REALLY does not want that to happen.

(Makes you think about the strength of a general strike for labor rights and the economy as a whole.)

With 92 % of members voting, the agreements were overwhelming rejected. 83% of voting members have authorized continuing the strike. I’m honestly surprised, very pleasantly so. A lot of us are feeling the financial crunch. But also almost everyone is also pissed at Providence over something. For example, nurses who have had contracts expired for over a year were told that they would not get retro pay. So like, if a contract agrees that nurses now make X more dollars an hour, people covered by that contract should get reimbursed the money that they would have been earning if the contract had been renewed on time. Denying retro pay feels like Providence penalizing the nurses for negotiating for so long.

So the strike continues! Strike fund need remains! Thank you guys for donating and reblogging. Every bit helps build a better and safer healthcare system.

saywhat-politics

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The American Medical Association elevates the voice of physicians, medical students and health care workers while highlighting developments

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Leonard Woolf had listened to Hilter's "savage and insane ramblings" on the radio with his wife, Virginia, and one day, when he was out in his orchard, she called out to him that the lunatic was back on the radio. "I shan't come!", he shouted back at her. "I'm planting iris and they will be flowering long after he is dead!"

I don't know what my equivalent of planting iris is, but I intend to find it, and so should you. ~Austin Kleon @austinkleon

liberalsarecool

Billionaires are beyond evil. Their greed and labor theft is a blight on the world.

They give absolutely nothing back.

No scholarships. No libraries. No hospitals. No public spaces. No investments. No medical research.

Nothing.

hippie-syd

Reading is political and it always has been. Here are some of the classic books on the banned list that you should definitely check out.

remembertheplunge

2/9/2025

In banning books, Trump 2.0 and Project 25 Christian Nationalists and MAGA are trying to Force Forgetting which KPFA Radio said last week is a form of violence.

One of the banned books above is the Diary of Anne Frank. A play was written based on Anne's diaries. I played her father Otto in that play in 1985 put on by Modesto Junior College in Modesto California. We had a Jewish woman talk to the cast in preparation for the play about the life of the Jew's in Hitler's Germany and in the German concentration camps.

It's not lost to me that we now are beginning to live's Anne's story. I heard on KPFA last week that somewhere there is an "Anne Frank" hiding from ICE to avoid deportation just as Anne and her family hid from the German Gestapo Secret police in the early 1940s.

A guest on KPFA Radio this morning said that we have not had this big of a paradigm shift since the Civil war of the 18560's. Trump and Musk are staging a Coup.

In the following blog, I included a photo of the poster promoting the 1985 production ofThe Diary of Anne Frank that I was in.

prokopetz

"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.

squirrelly-13

"They won't kill everyone" but they'll kill anyone.

whatareyoureallyafraidof

Today, I’m going to throw a bowling ball into the air. If it falls to the ground, it will mean my god has proclaimed there will be six more weeks of winter. If it floats, my all-powerful deity will blot out the sun until humans grovel before Him/Her/It begging His/Her/Its favor.

corporationsarepeople

SO WHAT HAPPENED

khvylovy

dear usamerican high schoolers looking for a way to resist fascism: sit through the pledge of allegiance.

no getting up. no looking at the flag.

everyone will be looking at you. you'll be sweating like a fucking hippopotamus. your teacher will sternly tell you to get up. you'll feel stupid and that maybe its not worth it because you're just a kid in a classroom. but I'm here to remind you that there are no real life consequences to detention. there are however real life consequences to resisting a thoughtless performance of nationalism.

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not to talk tough but i have sat through every pledge of allegiance in my life, and that includes the bush administration's hyper-patriotic war on terror.

you can NOT be compelled to say the pledge, and that also means you can't be given the 'choice' of doing it or taking a punishment. being sent into the hall is a grey area.

if you are punishing for refusing, parents or a more sympathetic teacher (like say a history or english teacher) can step in to intercede with the principal. do not be afraid to escalate.

it is critical now of all times that you PRACTICE civil disobedience, starting small, sticking to it, and working up, this will help you learn how very much disobedience you can actually get away with in this life, which is actually a hell of a lot.

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ETA a new option:

(From a source I will not link.)

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Shoutout to the U.S. embassies in Austria, Chile, India, and South Korea who have directly ignored orders from the Trump administration in flying the pride flag