A picture from the Rochester solidarity rally I attended today: I saw a lot of signs like this at the rally. Class fucking warfare.
Fuck The Middle-Class
The queen is dead, long live the queen
Everything old is new again: “We have people pull up at the pharmacy window in a BMW and say they can’t afford their co-payment.” –Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, Feb. 27, 2011 Haley Barbour’s colorful remark, made to The Washington Post while attending a National Governors Association meeting in Washington this week, recalls Ronald Reagan’s description …
Not surprising
An (admittedly small sample) Public Policy Polling survey finds that if Wisconsin voters could re-do their votes from last November, they’d vote against Scott Walker by seven points. The shift is mostly caused by independent and Republican members of unions turning against Walker. This is pretty much exactly what I thought would happen here. The …
Rally pictures
The national media ignored the huge rally in Madison this weekend as well as the solidarity rallies that took place all over the country, but I suspect they got a lot of local coverage. Here’s a picture a reader sent in from Madison. And here’s one from St. Paul. There’s a solidarity rally in Rochester …
You may have missed this…
Chris Christie is the latest Galtian “it” boy. He got there by being loud, rude and factually challenged–but with a Jersey swagger. And like the other rising stars of wingnutopia, he is racing to make his bones by selling the idea that working people–especially teachers–are greedy little bastards who need to give back most of …
Solidarity rallies
Use this thread to talk about solidarity rallies. Also send me any pictures (or link to pictures in the thread) and I will post some if I get them before 1 today (I am going off the grid at around 1 pm today til about 10 pm tomorrow).
Reality Has A Well-Known Liberal Bias, Wisconsin Edition
I know that probably everything below is obvious to this audience and/or already presented better by someone else here, but anyway: following up John’s post on the deliberate deception behind the “contribute more” demand of public service workers in Wisconsin, here’s some inconvenient data. The shorter: public service workers are not overpaid. Not even a …
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