The full quote from RFK, Jr. is truly disgusting and this is 100% him calling for institutionalization of autistic people. This is horrifying.

The second we begin debating guilt and innocence we have ceded to their terms. The systemic evil fades into the background, continues humming along nicely.

You know what you need for a general strike?

Rent funds. Bail funds. Healthcare funds. Childcare funds. Viable tenant and homeowner unions.

You know what you DON'T need?

Sign up sheets.

"When you sit behind a screen all day, it makes you a woman... And if you're out working, like building robots like Harold, you are around other guys. You're not around HR ladies and lawyers that gives you estrogen."

this from a man, wearing makeup, sitting behind a screen all day

“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!”

-ashamed
-fragile
-unreliable

“A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.”

-powerful
-commanding
-honest

NEWS: After 15 months, WE HAVE A CONTRACT!

Wisconsin Watch Union members last week voted unanimously to approve our first contract. It includes meaningful gains in wages, job security and workplace protections.

Full details:

Proud of journalists & outlets still standing up to power in the face of threats while Big Law, corporations, and other institutions capitulate:

Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, Techdirt, Marisa Kabas, the Unpoulist, ProPublica, MSNBC.

(Feel free to add others in replies)

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

Coalition building is not the same as pandering to people's worst bigotries in the hopes they'll like you.

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮

We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

We've continued to update our Guild starter pack as more and more of our members have joined us on Bluesky!

Make sure you are up-to-date and following all of the amazing unions in The NewsGuild here:

go.bsky.app/CqTWZpU

BREAKING: U.S. and Canada video game worker are launching an industry-wide union with the Communications Workers of America.

The @cwaunion.bsky.social, the American Federation of Musicians, and workers everywhere are creating this major new organization to build power across the industry.

donald trump is a fascist who is going to take over our government and ruin the entire country forever and end democracy and not let us vote ever again which is why we have to give him everything he wants

Any Senate Democrat who votes for cloture should have to spend time at schools across D.C. answering questions about why they care so little about the lives of D.C. residents.

@juddlegum.bsky.social's MuskWatch rolls out the DOGE tracker, showing that $96B of DOGE's claimed savings are bullshit.

doge.muskwatch.com

"To the contrary, voters are on average more likely to defect to the radical right when mainstream parties adopt anti-immigration positions, a pattern that has been particularly pronounced for established RRPs."

now it seems the gop has a CR they can pass on a party line vote in the house and there are signs senate dems are gonna cave and get them to cloture. once again the savvy take looks less savvy and more just credulously accepting dems non-resistance as secretly being the smartest resistance