EM Belitskus
embpgh.bsky.social
EM Belitskus
@embpgh.bsky.social
Resource mobilization, relationship builder, Allegheny County & Brentwood Democrats. I love libraries.
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Four-day week with no loss of pay? Great discussion hosted by #LSE. We are far wealthier as a society than when we normalised a five-day work week decades ago. For me the question isn't 'Should we?', but 'How can we make this work for all?' www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i...
The case for a four-day week
In the UK, we work some of the longest hours in Europe while having one of the least productive economies. We invented the weekend a century ago and are long overdue an update to working hours. Risin...
www.lse.ac.uk
May 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Fetterman bitching about performative politics is something else. Maybe he can get a tattoo on his arm of everyone in Braddock who's about to lose their social security?
March 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Corey O'Connor NARROWLY bests Ed Gainey in Allegheny County Democratic Committee endorsement -- 274 to 270.
March 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I had to bring this here because it’s so good
March 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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On Tuesday, we will adopt an ambitious legal proposal on Returns.

This is a key element of the Pact on Migration and Asylum ↓
March 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken
Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken
TACOMA, WA—Operating on pure natural instinct while leaping into action to protect his beloved owners, heroic dog Snickers saved a local family of five from the threat of an herb-roasted chicken, sour...
theonion.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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‘Talk of “empty land” and “handfuls of wandering Indians” was used to justify the expulsion of my people.’

Historian A.S. Dillingham - a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma - on the similarities between Indigenous and Palestinian histories of loss.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
A.S. Dillingham | Trails of Tears
The proposal to remove Native Americans from lands east of the Mississippi came after decades of war and illegal...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Today in Paris we reaffirmed that Ukraine deserves peace through strength.

Peace respectful of its independance, sovereignty, territorial integrity, with strong security guarantees.
February 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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This is why you fight these cowards.

The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.

Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.

He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
emailing with my british cousins
January 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The 12 Sen. Dems who voted for the Dreamer Deportation Act aka #LakenRileyAct. Keep them in mind when they spam your inboxes/phones for $s.

Masto-NV
Fetterman-PA
Gallego-AZ
Hassan-NH
Kelly-AZ
Ossoff-GA
Peters-MI
Rosen-NV
Shaheen-NH
Slotkin-MI
Warner-VA
Warnock-GA

(notes via @indivisible.org)
January 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If yinz are looking for someone a bit different to follow, they don't come more different than my friend Jim. I've know this guy since I was in college and worked with him for a few years as well. Enjoy!
Something to consider in the next several months.
January 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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My take on Trump and Greenland, written in 2019. My views haven't changed:
January 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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November 26, 2024 at 7:35 AM
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UN Women's report on femicide showed that, globally, the most dangerous place for a woman to be was in her home, where the majority of women die at the hands of men. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta
Bluesky has 'em shook
November 21, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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Bulgaria and Romania belong fully to the Schengen area. 

Removing internal controls at land borders is the last hurdle. 
 
I welcome the positive outcome of informal discussions in Budapest today.
 
The Council’s formal decision is next.
 
Let 2025 see Schengen become stronger.
November 22, 2024 at 11:04 AM