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A Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people.
It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/
(link)
newrepublic.com/article/1886...
It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/
(link)
newrepublic.com/article/1886...
A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned
Remember the right-wing frenzy over “Rich Men North of Richmond”? Well, this ruling exposes Trump-MAGA hypocrisy on the working class—and reveals a big media failure.
newrepublic.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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Shame on the California Academy of Sciences for cutting the youth program because the kids passed out flyers supporting the Museum Workers' Union, who have been without a contract since unionizing last year.
November 22, 2024 at 5:49 AM
Shame on the California Academy of Sciences for cutting the youth program because the kids passed out flyers supporting the Museum Workers' Union, who have been without a contract since unionizing last year.
There should be a lactaid for the Oligosaccharide family (onions). (Taco burps continue until then)
November 19, 2024 at 4:03 AM
There should be a lactaid for the Oligosaccharide family (onions). (Taco burps continue until then)
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Beware the Day One dictator.
November 18, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Beware the Day One dictator.
Our neighbors are not ok.
At 4:03 AM Trump posts that he is prepared to use the military to round up migrants in a mass deportation effort after Mike Johnson, Tony Gonzales & other Republicans spent the weekend saying this was not the case.
November 18, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Our neighbors are not ok.
I’m seeing this info more and more. We need imperfect hard left candidates.
If you want to know what is the primary determinant of people's views on the economy, & whether they think "inflation" is a problem, it's this chart on media use. More than any other factor you can think of. We tried them all. But it's not really about education.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 15, 2024 at 8:38 PM
I’m seeing this info more and more. We need imperfect hard left candidates.
I would like to “wow” things instead of just like them. But here’s this crap.
It hasn’t received a lot of attention, but a federal court this week chucked 40 years of rules governing America’s most controversial environmental law into the wood chipper. Here’s what happens next: heatmap.news/climate/nepa...
A Court Just Broke America’s Most Divisive Environmental Law. Here’s What Happens Next.
In a word: chaos.
heatmap.news
November 15, 2024 at 8:37 PM
I would like to “wow” things instead of just like them. But here’s this crap.
Yes, we do.
the people needed us
November 15, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Yes, we do.
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i suppose we will see if the predictions about banana austerity were correct after all
From a friend: “Someone I know had a meeting with a Trump agriculture transition team member. This person said surely you’re not going to impose tariffs on food imports. He responded why wouldn’t we? And my person said: because about 30% of the food Americans regularly consume cannot be grown here…”
November 15, 2024 at 3:33 PM
i suppose we will see if the predictions about banana austerity were correct after all
Why does so much AI look like it was trained on Lisa Frank?
November 15, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Why does so much AI look like it was trained on Lisa Frank?
Selling shortbread made with anything other than butter should be illegal. Bah
November 15, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Selling shortbread made with anything other than butter should be illegal. Bah
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When I got my Covid booster & flu shot in early fall, I just straight up asked the pharmacist: what other vaccinations can I/should I get?
Don’t remember your last Tdap vaccine? Pertussis (whooping cough) is on the rise in Oklahoma *right now*
DO IT 💪🏼 You (& the people around you!) are worth it
Don’t remember your last Tdap vaccine? Pertussis (whooping cough) is on the rise in Oklahoma *right now*
DO IT 💪🏼 You (& the people around you!) are worth it
November 15, 2024 at 11:01 AM
When I got my Covid booster & flu shot in early fall, I just straight up asked the pharmacist: what other vaccinations can I/should I get?
Don’t remember your last Tdap vaccine? Pertussis (whooping cough) is on the rise in Oklahoma *right now*
DO IT 💪🏼 You (& the people around you!) are worth it
Don’t remember your last Tdap vaccine? Pertussis (whooping cough) is on the rise in Oklahoma *right now*
DO IT 💪🏼 You (& the people around you!) are worth it
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And many of those civilian federal employees are former US military Servicemembers. Sounds like this new little treehouse club cosplaying as a Department wants to fire a bunch of Veterans? Shameful.
The stated focus (for Ramaswamy at least) is savings by cutting employees. But the size of the federal govt in terms of employees is about where it was in 1960, even tho it is doing way more. As a % of the population, it is historically low. Most *civilian* employees are in defense/security sector.
November 15, 2024 at 3:12 AM
And many of those civilian federal employees are former US military Servicemembers. Sounds like this new little treehouse club cosplaying as a Department wants to fire a bunch of Veterans? Shameful.
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Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
November 13, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
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I keep coming back to the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast program that the FBI dismantled, before Congress created the federal means-tested School Breakfast Program.
![Recognizing the program's success, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover famously wrote in a 1969 memo sent to all field offices that "the BCP [Breakfast for Children Program] represents the best and most influential activity going for the BPP [Black Panther Party] and, as such, is potentially the greatest threat to efforts by authorities to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for." The night before the Chicago program was supposed to open, police broke into the church that was hosting it and urinated on all of the food. The government's attacks on the Black Panther Party are evidence of mutual aid's power, as is the government's co-optation of the program: in the early 1970s the US Department of Agriculture expanded its federal free breakfast program-built on a charity, not a liberation, model-that still feeds millions of children today.
Chapter 1, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (And the Next), by Dean Spade](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xly6kqojey6w244ooynjqpgs/bafkreibzojr7zzr3kimz3ueoc262hdinsozktpziiook27bzttjukcfhuq@jpeg)
November 14, 2024 at 2:41 PM
I keep coming back to the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast program that the FBI dismantled, before Congress created the federal means-tested School Breakfast Program.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book - Austin Phelps, educator
November 14, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Wear the old coat and buy the new book - Austin Phelps, educator
Dear adhd: please allow me to keep track of my pens that are friendly to both my fibro and my metal allergies. Blarg
November 13, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Dear adhd: please allow me to keep track of my pens that are friendly to both my fibro and my metal allergies. Blarg
Starter packs are lists of accounts the author suggests following,usually centered on a theme
Sending this out into the void because it’s been helpful to me: here’s a searchable directory of all #starterpacks
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
November 13, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Starter packs are lists of accounts the author suggests following,usually centered on a theme
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OK you're a news outlet right? Might want to note that this department doesn't exist and iirc it takes an act of congress to create a federal office
#BREAKINGNEWS: Donald Trump has selected Elon Musk to lead the Department of Government Efficiency. Yes, that's #DOGE, the internet meme and a cryptocurrency that Musk has promoted over the years.
Trump selects Elon Musk to lead government efficiency department
Musk and ex-presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to head up Department of Government Efficiency (Doge)
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2024 at 1:25 AM
OK you're a news outlet right? Might want to note that this department doesn't exist and iirc it takes an act of congress to create a federal office
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The city of Saint Paul has purchased and abolished $40 million in medical debt from 32,000 residents, aiming to eventually reach $110 million. Amounts canceled this round range from $268 to $105,000
www.kare11.com/article/news...
www.kare11.com/article/news...
Thousands of Saint Paul residents will soon receive notices of medical debt cancellations
The city of Saint Paul is using funds from the American Rescue Plan to cancel roughly $110 million in medical debt for residents.
www.kare11.com
November 13, 2024 at 12:23 PM
The city of Saint Paul has purchased and abolished $40 million in medical debt from 32,000 residents, aiming to eventually reach $110 million. Amounts canceled this round range from $268 to $105,000
www.kare11.com/article/news...
www.kare11.com/article/news...