I know I should probably be writing about something a little more in my wheelhouse this evening, like Stephen Miller’s spray-on hair, or the fact that Ivanka Trump could very well end up being indicted for the misallocation of donor funds collected for her father’s inauguration, but I feel obligated to at least note the […]
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Snyder signs SB 1171 and SB 1175 into law, fucking Michigan workers, and once again illustrating why we need to vote the anti-democratic Republican Party out of existence
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged anti-democratic, approve and remove, Arlan Meekhof, Ivanka Trump, Jim Ananich, lame duck, Michael Dykehouse, Michigan Chamber of Commerce, Michigan Minimum Wage Increase Initiative, minimum wage, paid sick leave, redistricting, Rick Snyder, Sam Singh, SB 1171, SB 1175, spray-on hair, Stephen Miller, undo and screw 20 Comments
The Porking of Michigan: We were promised high-tech jobs. Instead, we were given a pork processing plant.
A few years ago, I interviewed an author here by the name of Ted McClelland, a former Michigander who, as you might recall, had stirred up a little bit of a shit storm after referring to our home state as “Michissippi” in an article on Salon.com about our passage of so-called right-to-work legislation. “Michigan,” said […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Clemens Food Group, Coldwater, Community Development Block Grant, Doug Clemens, food processing, gut snatcher, hogs, lame duck, meat packing, meat production, MEDC, Michigan Strategic Fund, Michissippi, Pennsylvania, pigs, pork, pork processing, Pure Michigan, right-to-work, slaughter, Ted McClelland 23 Comments
Merry Christmas from the people behind the scenes
From the garment workers of Bangladesh who died to give you those ‘everyday low prices’ you love so much at Walmart to the religious prisoners of China who made those holiday decorations you bought on Black Friday at Kmart, the slave laborers of the world wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, […]
Posted in Observations, Rants Also tagged Bangladesh, Black Friday, child labor, China, Christmas, consumption, factories, Falun Gong, for-profit prisons, garment workers, Kmart, lingerie, prison labor, religion of consumption, slavery, Victoria's Secret, Walmart 16 Comments