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Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers

This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
March 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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This is how Israeli settlers and soldiers – supported by the entire Republican party & much of the Democratic party – is responding to a movie about peace:
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
March 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Love watching the Halftime show with ASL performers
February 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Thanks for your work, also hoping to boost this story: water wasted as wildfires burn—water that will be missed by farmers—recklessly released in a manner that almost breached levees… a crisp portrait of administrative incompetence—but also not really being covered.
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The carefully managed water systems in California's Central Valley saw a sudden deluge after the Army Corps of Engineers unexpectedly released reservoir water.

“In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this. I was given no explanation at all.”
Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after sending locals into a mad scramble – SJV Water
Water managers were relieved Thursday evening after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off of a sudden decision earlier in the day to dump massive
sjvwater.org
February 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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the democratic party will never learn
February 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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sons of bibliography
January 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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We’ve been watching the Watch Duty team do absolutely *unbelievable* technical work all week (they’re members of our Fast Forward open source program), handling a surge of millions of people trying to see where the fires are in real time. There are still people who do such good on the internet.
fastly.com Fastly @fastly.com · Jan 10
Sending love to everyone in LA 💙 +Kudos to Watch Duty on their incredible work supporting those affected by the devastating LA fires.
Watch Duty App Creator Says He'll Never Pull an OpenAI
Gizmodo spoke with the creator of the app that provides vital alerts about evacuations.
gizmodo.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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in order to best position ourselves for positionality we strive to activate audiences through organic interactive experiences and authentic brand moments that tap into core tentpoles and build runways for brand activations through leveraged influencers and talent to deliver for distribution partners
The $82.5 million sale of "Hot Ones" studio First We Feast is part of a broader strategy at BuzzFeed to shift away from human editors, writers and content producers in favor of artificial intelligence, which result in "high-margin, tech-enabled revenue lines."
BuzzFeed sells "Hot Ones" studio for $82.5 million as it pursues more AI-driven content
The company said the sale will allow it to depend less on human-created content in favor of "high-margin, tech-enabled revenue lines."
thedesk.net
December 13, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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The Vow, my friends' extremely queer comic about rival monster hunters having to work together is out today!! I drew the main characters to celebrate :3

@sproutella.bsky.social and @feralroyal.bsky.social did really incredible work, it's such a terrific story. go buy it here ➡ arden.itch.io/the-vow
December 6, 2024 at 5:22 PM
another one
July 6, 2023 at 3:52 AM