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• Post #4434803

  Exxon and Chevron are having a ‘very good crisis’ reaping massive profits during the Iran war https://www.fastcompany.com/91583262/exxon-chevron-having-very-good-crisis-reaping-massive-profits-during-iran-war ExxonMobil on Friday reported doubling its second-quarter profits to 4.53 billion, up 105% from the same time a year ago. The oil giant, based in Spring, Texas, brought in 16.02 billion in revenue, up 42% from the same time last year. #Iran #Profiteering

• Post #4025973

  If union membership were to triple, workers could get a 14.5% raise https://www.fastcompany.com/91574297/workers-could-get-a-14-5-raise-if-union-membership-tripled Broader unionization could also correct some of the disparities that have depressed wages. It would help address the racial wage gap, reducing it by more than a third, and disproportionately raising pay for Black and Hispanic workers. It would also raise pay to match the rise in worker productivity, which has outpaced wage growth for...

• Post #3770572

  On my blog: Free Culture, Creator Obstacles https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/07/12/free-culture-creators-1.html Finally explaining Free Culture from the ground up, this time what prevents creators from getting this right #education #freeCulture

• Post #3615617

  On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Galactic Mutant Animals, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/07/04/gma.html This week sees an older comic scanned from paper as animals get organized. #freeCulture #bookClub

• Post #3615616

  On my blog: On the Basis of Race https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/07/05/basis-race.html Gosh, why would a Supreme Court Justice need to prioritize partisan bias over racial equity...? #history #politics #rant

• Post #1385602

  On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 04/13 to 04/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/04/17/week.html This week, we have surveillance salaries, food prices, war profiteers, AI liability, sexual violence in movements, right to repair, anti-Vatican tactics, creativity from art films, and Arab American Heritage. #linkDump #socialMedia #quotes #week

• Post #1385601

  On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Avalon High, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/04/18/avalon-high-1.html This week sees a comic about a high school. #freeCulture #bookClub

• Post #1385598

  On my blog: La Rana in Mission Unlikely https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/04/19/mission-unlikely.html A post-mortem on John's attempts at creating a comic without actually drawing. #comic #freeCulture

• Post #1096040

  Attacks on Trans People Are Attacks on Everyone https://otherwords.org/attacks-on-trans-people-are-attacks-on-everyone/ The tide of contemporary anti-trans legislation has grown from 2016’s famous (and failed) “bathroom bill” in North Carolina to a wave of speculative legislation funded by conservative billionaires creating division by stoking manufactured mass hysteria. #Transphobia #USPol

• Post #1096039

  Why is it that the screen Chinese is nearly always the villain of the piece, and so cruel a villain--murderous, treacherous, a snake in the grass? Anna May Wong #Quotes #AsianAmericanHeritage

• Post #1096037

  On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 04/06 to 04/10 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/04/10/week.html This week, we have Reuters and ICE, customer service and sleep, wealth tax, postal workers, anti-trans attacks, AI making you worse, bee granola bars, war against humanity, and Asian American Heritage. #linkDump #socialMedia #quotes #week

• Post #1096036

  On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — À l’orée de la ville, pt 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/04/11/oree-ville-3.html This week sees a French cyberpunk novel. #freeCulture #bookClub

• Post #1096033

  On my blog: Fair Share https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/04/12/fair-share.html Not quite eat-the-rich, but maybe make them more palatable for an eventual brunch. #economics #politics #rant

• Post #666471

  On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 03/09 to 03/13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/03/13/week.html This week, we have online depression treatment, CBP tracking via ads, housing inequality, child marriage, loyalty shifts, bad-business fees, Wikipedia contributions, Epstein blackmail, and Women's History. #linkDump #socialMedia #quotes #week

• Post #666470

  On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Memory Heap, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/03/14/memory-heap-2.html This week sees the rest of a series of short Russian poems. #freeCulture #bookClub

• Post #666455

  On my blog: What a Piece of Work https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/03/15/piece-work.html Let's (start to) detoxify the masculinity. #politics #rant #womensHistoryMonth

• Post #634688

  Five solutions that could help solve housing inequality https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/five-solutions-that-could-help-solve-housing-inequality/ For families spending over 50% on housing — considered severely cost burdened — financial stability becomes nearly impossible. More than 70% of households earning under 0,000 annually fall into this trap. #Housing #Inequality

• Post #634687

  The tasks are done, and the tears are shed. / Yesterday’s errors let yesterday cover; / Yesterday’s wounds, which smarted and bled, / Are healed with the healing that night has shed. Sarah Chauncey Woolsey #Quotes #WomensHistory

• Post #634685

  Child marriage comes with a price tag: 75 billion https://19thnews.org/2026/03/child-marriage-report-columbia-sandberg/ The United States has a comparatively low rate of child marriage, but its continued legality has drawn the attention of researchers who want to eliminate the practice altogether. #ChildAbuse #Economy

• Post #634684

  In all ages we have had artists and orators; people who held the sacred fire as their inheritance among men an inheritance more powerful than gold, or wonderful jewels, or landed estates. Helen Potter #Quotes #WomensHistory

• Post #634682

  On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Past Prologue https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/03/12/past-prologue.html For this episode, we need to talk about loyalties and war crimes, but probably mostly Garak. #sciFi #starTrek #closeReading

• Post #634680

  Why loyalty shifts are key to defeating autocrats https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/03/why-loyalty-shifts-are-key-to-defeating-autocrats/ Once “first movers” have taken a stand, others will be inspired or emboldened to follow them, either by changing their beliefs about constitutional abuses or by acting on beliefs that they had held all along. #USPol

• Post #634679

  Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we—because we don’t question these things. Rose Wilder Lane #Quotes #WomensHistory