union carpenter 🛠 | mom | socialist
New Jersey
Joined January 2020
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If you know me irl and I don't follow you back, please shoot me a message! Still new here and figuring it out. Also interested in following back: fellow building trades activists, labor movement activists & organizers, and DSA members. Let me know.
My 4 year old daughter who just goes to a parttime pre-k just told me "If something happens, go to the bathroom and call mommies & daddies." Both glad she has a plan & absolutely punched in the gut.
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Imagine having such a myopic view of unions that they only exist as an endorsement machine and have no other value in the fight for socialism.
Most requested book for the past several months around here. I read it minimum 3+ times a day.
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"Data center work is de-skilling work" - a carpenter last night on a call describing how apprentices can spend 4 years at a data center & barely touch a tool, & graduate out full journeyman but lacking the skills.
All the news reports saying the 5 year was "unharmed." Tf he was unharmed, he watched his dad get shot, he got shot at, he will remember this for the rest of his life.
I've also heard versions of "it's systemic so I don't have any responsibility to do anything about it."
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Honestly, I know things like this go on constantly & the Cornell 7 isn't even a one-off thing but it has me extra gutted about raising both a girl & a boy in this rotten culture & trying to protect both from different varieties of serious harm, spiritual & physical.
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Just gonna keep putting it out into the ether but I think DSA should select and run its own candidate for president. My group chat came up with the ideal candidate (who I can't divulge...unless 👀)
I was not cut out for this, so I went into construction 😂 (among several reasons). There's also a song & dance in construction but if you're good enough they'll deal with your idiosyncrasies. I knit during lunch break, dress like myself & get the occasional fancy coffee.
People mad that Nikole Hannah-Jones didn't send her daughter to the top school she could afford. Seems an awful lot like the same people mad Stacy Davis Gates *did* send her kid to private school. A lot of people way too eager to pick apart the individual choices of black women
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Sign on to the NYC Strike Ready proposal. We need an NYC-DSA that's ready to bring the full force of membership to support labor fights ✊🏼
convention.socialists.nyc/lo…
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Never before heard of an Aaron Rowe but I've got his music playing in the background all day today 🍺
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Talking into the void on this one but I do not understand why the trend now is to never wear a V-neck without a high t-shirt underneath?? Either that or only wear (imo) awkwardly high v-necks? This is what I've gathered from knitting insta - some of the trends are perplexing.
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Yes exactly. There is a surprising amount of pressure to simply "not age," & it has filtered to so many parts of American culture, it's not just effecting the elites. I've had people suggest I need to "really work out" after working out for a year & dropping 50 lbs of pregnancy
The new beef developments and general poisoning of our food supply has really got me apoplectic today. Prices for anything still half way ok are about to skyrocket.
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Every weekend my husband tries to quietly whisk the kids away and downstairs when they wake up, telling them to "give mom a chance!" [to sleep in] This morning my daughter woke up & immediately was telling everyone "give mom a chance!" and rushing them downstairs.
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