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Median platform-gig pay: $5.12/hour.
Meanwhile, tech platforms boast record profits and promise “flexibility.”
This isn’t flexibility—it’s exploitation disguised as innovation.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
Meanwhile, tech platforms boast record profits and promise “flexibility.”
This isn’t flexibility—it’s exploitation disguised as innovation.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
The Platform Economy Runs on Inequality – and Sidesteps Labor Rights
By classifying workers as contractors, platform companies avoid paying core employment obligations while retaining tight control over how the work is done.
www.hrw.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Median platform-gig pay: $5.12/hour.
Meanwhile, tech platforms boast record profits and promise “flexibility.”
This isn’t flexibility—it’s exploitation disguised as innovation.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
Meanwhile, tech platforms boast record profits and promise “flexibility.”
This isn’t flexibility—it’s exploitation disguised as innovation.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
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Let’s be clear: Every year the retirement age is raised is a 7% benefit cut.
Instead of cutting our benefits, we can afford to INCREASE Social Security if millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share!
Instead of cutting our benefits, we can afford to INCREASE Social Security if millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share!
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Let’s be clear: Every year the retirement age is raised is a 7% benefit cut.
Instead of cutting our benefits, we can afford to INCREASE Social Security if millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share!
Instead of cutting our benefits, we can afford to INCREASE Social Security if millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share!
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TUNE IN NOW!
The action is heating up as Starbucks workers escalate their ULP strike at the York distribution center! #NoContractNoCoffee
LIVESTREAM: www.instagram.com/sbworkersuni...
LIVESTREAM: www.instagram.com/sbworkersuni...
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
TUNE IN NOW!
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Elections & policy matter to the balance of power in labor-management bargaining.
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Elections & policy matter to the balance of power in labor-management bargaining.
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I would like for national political reporters to place a moratorium on “But what will voters in the rest of America think about New York City’s socialist mayor?” We don’t care! Red states are notably full of psycho politicians yet rarely do you see pundits asking Brooklyn people about them.
November 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I would like for national political reporters to place a moratorium on “But what will voters in the rest of America think about New York City’s socialist mayor?” We don’t care! Red states are notably full of psycho politicians yet rarely do you see pundits asking Brooklyn people about them.
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The Mogami, from the Victory at Sea starter set by Warlord Games.
Almost in the eBay pile, I've ended up working on these after five years.
Still have the name plate to tidy up and hopefully find some 3d printed planes for her (and her companions.)
#miniwargaming #nerdlings #ww2 #minipainting
Almost in the eBay pile, I've ended up working on these after five years.
Still have the name plate to tidy up and hopefully find some 3d printed planes for her (and her companions.)
#miniwargaming #nerdlings #ww2 #minipainting
October 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Mogami, from the Victory at Sea starter set by Warlord Games.
Almost in the eBay pile, I've ended up working on these after five years.
Still have the name plate to tidy up and hopefully find some 3d printed planes for her (and her companions.)
#miniwargaming #nerdlings #ww2 #minipainting
Almost in the eBay pile, I've ended up working on these after five years.
Still have the name plate to tidy up and hopefully find some 3d printed planes for her (and her companions.)
#miniwargaming #nerdlings #ww2 #minipainting
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I can't exaggerate how important it is that every ICE officer is met with contempt & mockery in public, everywhere they go, for the rest of their lives.
October 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I can't exaggerate how important it is that every ICE officer is met with contempt & mockery in public, everywhere they go, for the rest of their lives.
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1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
September 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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Our new research shows that state budget cuts and the rise of voucher programs are robbing children of an adequate education.
Learn more from @hilwething.bsky.social:
www.epi.org/publication/...
Learn more from @hilwething.bsky.social:
www.epi.org/publication/...
August 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Our new research shows that state budget cuts and the rise of voucher programs are robbing children of an adequate education.
Learn more from @hilwething.bsky.social:
www.epi.org/publication/...
Learn more from @hilwething.bsky.social:
www.epi.org/publication/...
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"You do not need the strongest powers of observation to see that crime is a pretext — and not the main reason — for the military occupation of Washington by federal agents and soldiers from the National Guard."
Opinion | What Trump Is Really Up to in Washington
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"You do not need the strongest powers of observation to see that crime is a pretext — and not the main reason — for the military occupation of Washington by federal agents and soldiers from the National Guard."
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"We were literally a sleep-deprived band of 20-year-olds crashing on each other’s couches and going to drag bars to sign up our coworkers and then going to open our stores at five in the morning the next morning."
Is “Salting” the Future of Organized Labor?
Founding member of Starbucks Workers United, Jaz Brisack, shares the hard-won lessons they learned taking on a multinational corporation.
inthesetimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"We were literally a sleep-deprived band of 20-year-olds crashing on each other’s couches and going to drag bars to sign up our coworkers and then going to open our stores at five in the morning the next morning."
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Our Social Security system is fully affordable, as long as we make the wealthy pay in at the same rate as the rest of us.
August 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Our Social Security system is fully affordable, as long as we make the wealthy pay in at the same rate as the rest of us.
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"UC Berkeley’s Labor Center launches a new data tool, an inventory of union contracts, to empower labor in negotiating AI and emerging technologies. It provides crucial insights for unions to secure worker protections and shape the future of work." lngfrm.net/uc-berkeley-...
UC Berkeley Unveils AI Labor Bargaining Tool - LNGFRM
UC Berkeley's Labor Center launches a new data tool, an inventory of union contracts, to empower labor in negotiating AI and emerging technologies. It provides crucial insights for unions to secure wo...
lngfrm.net
August 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"UC Berkeley’s Labor Center launches a new data tool, an inventory of union contracts, to empower labor in negotiating AI and emerging technologies. It provides crucial insights for unions to secure worker protections and shape the future of work." lngfrm.net/uc-berkeley-...
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The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory
The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.
bit.ly
August 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.
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I can’t stress this enough
These rates are the result of magic “math”
And they’re being done on the whim of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
These rates are the result of magic “math”
And they’re being done on the whim of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
New tariff executive order just released, and the official start date for tariffs was pushed to next week from instead of tomorrow, but we're raising tariffs for roughly 68 countries plus the EU, with some tariffs now as high as 41%. Literally Liberation Day 2 Electric Boogaloo.
July 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I can’t stress this enough
These rates are the result of magic “math”
And they’re being done on the whim of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
These rates are the result of magic “math”
And they’re being done on the whim of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
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UN Secretary‑General António Guterres:
"Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies – they are sabotaging them. Driving up costs. Undermining competitiveness. Locking-in stranded assets. And missing the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century."
"Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies – they are sabotaging them. Driving up costs. Undermining competitiveness. Locking-in stranded assets. And missing the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century."
Secretary-General's remarks on Climate Action "A Moment of Opportunity: Supercharging the Clean Energy Age" [as delivered; scroll down for All-French] | United Nations Secretary-General
Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Friends joining us from around the world, The headlines are dominated by a world in trouble. By conflict and climate chaos. By rising human suffering. By growing...
www.un.org
July 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
UN Secretary‑General António Guterres:
"Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies – they are sabotaging them. Driving up costs. Undermining competitiveness. Locking-in stranded assets. And missing the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century."
"Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies – they are sabotaging them. Driving up costs. Undermining competitiveness. Locking-in stranded assets. And missing the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century."
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Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all. It comes at a time of near-record inequalities of income and wealth.
This budget bill is a nightmare.
This budget bill is a nightmare.
The Worst Bill in History
Trump’s giant budget-busting, Medicaid-shattering, shafting-the-poor-and-working-class, making-the-rich-even richer bill
robertreich.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all. It comes at a time of near-record inequalities of income and wealth.
This budget bill is a nightmare.
This budget bill is a nightmare.
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Merkley had a pretty effective day.
Or will have, if you make this go viral.
Or will have, if you make this go viral.
MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs?
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
June 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Merkley had a pretty effective day.
Or will have, if you make this go viral.
Or will have, if you make this go viral.
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NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:
Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:
'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
www.wired.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:
Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:
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Amid a historic nationwide assault on workers rights, the mayor of Philadelphia has signed a law to protect the rights of nearly 750,000 city workers. From Brock Hrehor:
How Philadelphia Secured Basic Rights for 750,000 Workers
As Trump kneecaps workers’ rights across the country, the city’s political and labor leaders have forged an alternative that furnishes new safeguards for Philadelphians.
trib.al
June 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Amid a historic nationwide assault on workers rights, the mayor of Philadelphia has signed a law to protect the rights of nearly 750,000 city workers. From Brock Hrehor:
A few hundred in Dunkirk MD
June 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A few hundred in Dunkirk MD
Bebop-a-rebop rhubarb pie. Strawberry rhubarb to be precise.
May 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Bebop-a-rebop rhubarb pie. Strawberry rhubarb to be precise.
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Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.
May 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.