Laurie Wirth Palmer

Laurie Wirth Palmer

@wirthit.bsky.social

PC(USA) Rev and Stated Clerk. Opinions I post are mine alone and don’t represent any council. San Antonio, TX

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Kroger just announced the largest layoffs in its history, with plans to cut 3,000 employees as it ramps up use of AI. Reminder that Kroger has spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 and paid its CEO $14M last year — 417x its median worker's pay. AI is turbo-charging corporate greed.

newsweek.comKroger plans largest layoffs in its nearly 150-year historyThe company's CEO said it was committed to "simplifying" operations and "deploying more resources where they matter most

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Rachel Maddow
@maddow.bsky.social

It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...

ms.nowPennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.

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Sharon Parrott
@sharonparrott.bsky.social

The Trump Administration’s threat to illegally fire more workers if the President doesn’t get his way is blatant extortion: using working people and their families as pawns in a power play with no concern for who gets hurt.

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Michael J. Stern
@michaeljstern.bsky.social

Charlie Kirk offered to pay me, and fly me 1st class, to be on his show. I did a google search & what I found was a mountain of hate & discrimination that came from him, so I declined. It was wrong to shoot Kirk. That said, please stop morphing a man who hurt a lot of people into a false saint.

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