Ireland has only ten public holidays a year. We need a few more.
It’s something that all workers can get behind, particularly low paid workers because if it’s a public holiday (even if you are part time) they gotta give it to you and your pay.
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Alright now! I might just have to become a Dodgers fan.
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Remember, the team was originally from Brooklyn; they carried that spirit all the way across the country with them. And their origination in that borough makes the gesture against trump and his admin. all the more sweeter.
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TBF, with the way ICE has been going, they might have been targeting Shohei Ohtani for rendition to Libya. I hear Stephen Miller is an Angels fan.
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I can’t imagin…oh, hell - yes I can imagine trump starting shit with Japan.
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And yet, it also describes North Korea perfectly too.
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Really, the answer there should be pay them a living wage for the hard work they do… but of course service work, which is overwhelmingly feminized, is marginal by design. It ensures that women in bad relationships, marriages, families, etc, are dependent on the men in their lives.
MOAR Holidays for ALL of us! I once stated in class that here in the US, we should celebrate all the major religious holidays and give everyone time off for them. We should take off all the Eids, Hanukah, Solstices, Dewali, etc, etc… Halloween should be a national, federal holiday that we all take off…
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Anytime that asshole says two weeks, I assume it means “I have no fucking idea, I won’t admit to being confused, don’t know what I’m even talking about but people cheer when I say ‘two weeks’ so TWO WEEKS!!!”
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And anyone who has ever worked in caring for others, human services, healthcare knows that you have to show up 24/7 365 days a year. Christmas/New Years/Thanksgiving still needs coverage. I’ve worked overnight shift or day shift for all of those.
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Cath labs and ERs don’t have holidays.
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I got that for my dad; they were his team before they moved. It came back to me.
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Yep…
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Groups homes and hotlines for me.
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I’ve been pushing forever to convince kids to get sick on a 9-5 M-F schedule. It would make life so much easier!
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start-a-rumor via a gormless observation: All the truly heart-breaking scenes of ICE kidnappings start out with the ICE goons demanding ‘proof of citizenship’/ID from their victim while simultaneously refusing to provide any of their own IDs, their agency, or warrants. So feckless rumor time: “ICE agents are all illegal immigrants who have been granted a temporary devils deal!” (i swear if i still had a twitter account (long gone now) i’d post that conspiracy theory there)
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This could almost be posted in the good news thread. ICE and DHS have almost blown through their whole budget for the year. at the rate they are going, they will run out of appropriated funds in a few weeks.
The only reason to hold off on calling it good news is that the budget reconciliation bill earmarks funds to cover that shortfall. So it’s really important to keep pressure on your senators to block that part of the bill.
They are cutting Medicaid and Medicare for millions of people but want to bail out an agency that has irresponsibly and incompetently overspent their allocation.
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