2026-10-28 17:30 UTC
Well, the first thing was DOGE, and that could have been cause to turn off every glowstick right off the bat. They stole all our Social Security numbers, FFS. But I kept my glowstick on in consideration for the civil servants who lost their jobs. I eventually turned mine off when it got to the cuts in healthcare, because my ACA plan got more expensive. I'm lucky I'm still covered, though I had to switch providers.
Then the union leader told us as we stood there in the dark...
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social 2026-10-28 17:32
...that all of us who are fighting back at the light. They may want to extinguish it, but they can't. There are too many of us, and we are too determined. We all turned our light sticks back on, the band started playing, and we marched to a local hospital to deliver our demands to HCA, the ghastly corporation that owns it. (For non-USians, we haven't enforced monopoly law in 40+ years, which is playing a big role in all this. In every sector, a few corporations own everything....