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Trump’s plan to cancel USPS EV trucks contracts shows contempt for taxpayers, letter carriers, and climate action
(www.quittingcarbonmedia.com)
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These workers would finally be getting air conditioning for the first time in US Postal history, just in time for the fucking earth to melt, and this heartless asshole wants to take that away and go back to the stone ages with trucks that get 9MPG. Fuck Trump!
I hope every USPS worker goes on strike!
It’s illegal for USPS employees to go on strike :^)
It was also illegal in 1970 when this strike took place. So, it could still happen.
And people are apparently getting more radical by the day. The more the institutions are turned into a clown show, the less people respect them and the harder they will have to crack down, which, contrary to what authoritarians want to be true, further destroys their legitimacy.