EXACT NATURE

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Fun fact!

In 2011 Florida passed a drug test requirement bill for public benefits.

It was struck down by higher courts but here's two things we learned while it was in effect.

Very few people on benefits were on drugs. Turned out drugs are expensive and the idea that everyone in poverty is on drugs is just classism bull shit.

They spent FARRR more on testing than they saved on kicking people off the benefits. So it is about making the poor miserable and not about saving money. Don't ever let them bull shit you into thinking otherwise.

Lastly, the company contracted to do the testing was owned by the governor who signed the bill. So he made millions. But don't worry! He gave the company to his wife a month earlier to clear the extremely low standards of his republican base. Wouldn't want them thinking he's corrupt and sold them on this bull shit to enrich himself. This was back when some of them might have actually cared.

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Listen/purchase: Christmas is No Good Without You by The Bellyachers

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The Night Gardener, Mary Mattingly

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Not Given by China Tamblyn — Sandra Austin Mello

Not Given by China Tamblyn…excerpts from a memoir in the making.

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The defining political issue of our day isn't the government’s size. It's who our government is for. Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires — or for everyone else?

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This is a reminder that we have the power to fix the system. Don't agonize. Organize.

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Harold's Gas Station, Spring Hill, Florida, 1965

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Aww I love this

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Gilles Rimbault, Feb 1970 cover of Galaxie magazine

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