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Absolutely agree. W/R/T to the first one--passive resistance, i.e. making the cops drag you away, is a tactic. It takes training and preparation, and if you haven't had it, don't do it.
Don't sit or kneel in front of riot cops. Sitting puts your head at rubber bullet height. Sitting makes it hard to run away from vehicle attacks.
Don't point protesters out to the cops. Don't hand protesters over to the cops.
Mind your business. What did you see? You didn't see shit.
Don't point protesters out to the cops. Don't hand protesters over to the cops.
Mind your business. What did you see? You didn't see shit.
October 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Absolutely agree. W/R/T to the first one--passive resistance, i.e. making the cops drag you away, is a tactic. It takes training and preparation, and if you haven't had it, don't do it.
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This isn't even finished yet and it's already super-helpful--a primer on just cause and workers should have it but often don't (and often mistakenly think we do ).
Thanks, @dskamper.bsky.social.
Thanks, @dskamper.bsky.social.
All right, let's do this.
I have no inside info on @karenattiah.bsky.social's case. But I know Post employees are part of @postguild.bsky.social, and their contract allows the union to challenge "disciplinary action on the basis that is was taken without just cause."
So what's just cause?
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I have no inside info on @karenattiah.bsky.social's case. But I know Post employees are part of @postguild.bsky.social, and their contract allows the union to challenge "disciplinary action on the basis that is was taken without just cause."
So what's just cause?
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Any interest in an educational thread on "just cause" protections in union contracts?
September 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This isn't even finished yet and it's already super-helpful--a primer on just cause and workers should have it but often don't (and often mistakenly think we do ).
Thanks, @dskamper.bsky.social.
Thanks, @dskamper.bsky.social.
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(AP) — An explosion Monday at a U.S. Steel coking plant near Pittsburgh has left people trapped under the rubble, with emergency workers on site trying to rescue them, an official said.
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Explosion at US Steel plant in Pennsylvania leaves people trapped under rubble
An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh has left people trapped under the rubble, with emergency workers on site trying to rescue them.
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August 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
(AP) — An explosion Monday at a U.S. Steel coking plant near Pittsburgh has left people trapped under the rubble, with emergency workers on site trying to rescue them, an official said.
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NEW: Donald Trump's bid to commandeer D.C. law enforcement implicates a long list of laws and precedents governing federal law enforcement and use of the military for domestic purposes.
An overview:
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
An overview:
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
NEW: Donald Trump's bid to commandeer D.C. law enforcement implicates a long list of laws and precedents governing federal law enforcement and use of the military for domestic purposes.
An overview:
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
An overview:
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York.
ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.
ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.
August 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York.
ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.
ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.
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Odds that Trump calls this another “rigged” number — at his DC press conference on Monday.
@nbcwashington.com @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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August 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Odds that Trump calls this another “rigged” number — at his DC press conference on Monday.
@nbcwashington.com @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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@nbcwashington.com @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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WastewaterSCAN research demonstrates that #WestNileVirus (WNV) RNA can be detected in #wastewater samples during viral circulation within a community, after measuring WNV RNA concentrations in over 600 samples collected from 5 wastewater treatment plants. 🛟🧪
Check it out: peerj.com/articles/197...
Check it out: peerj.com/articles/197...
West Nile Virus (Orthoflavivirus nilense) RNA concentrations in wastewater solids at five wastewater treatment plants in the United States
Background Orthoflavivirus nilense, formerly known as West Nile Virus (WNV), has become endemic to the United States since its introduction in 1999. Current surveillance methods rely primarily on mosq...
peerj.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
WastewaterSCAN research demonstrates that #WestNileVirus (WNV) RNA can be detected in #wastewater samples during viral circulation within a community, after measuring WNV RNA concentrations in over 600 samples collected from 5 wastewater treatment plants. 🛟🧪
Check it out: peerj.com/articles/197...
Check it out: peerj.com/articles/197...
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📊 WWSCAN Weekly Data:
Respiratory weekly update: SARS-CoV-2 is in the ‘High’ category. All other respiratory viruses we monitor (RSV, Influenza A, Influenza B, HMPV and EV-D68) are in the ‘Low’ category nationwide.🛟😷🧪
Respiratory weekly update: SARS-CoV-2 is in the ‘High’ category. All other respiratory viruses we monitor (RSV, Influenza A, Influenza B, HMPV and EV-D68) are in the ‘Low’ category nationwide.🛟😷🧪
July 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
📊 WWSCAN Weekly Data:
Respiratory weekly update: SARS-CoV-2 is in the ‘High’ category. All other respiratory viruses we monitor (RSV, Influenza A, Influenza B, HMPV and EV-D68) are in the ‘Low’ category nationwide.🛟😷🧪
Respiratory weekly update: SARS-CoV-2 is in the ‘High’ category. All other respiratory viruses we monitor (RSV, Influenza A, Influenza B, HMPV and EV-D68) are in the ‘Low’ category nationwide.🛟😷🧪
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Iowa PBS's statewide network of towers help ensure severe weather alerts reach your phone. This is especially important in rural areas where cell service is less reliable. Federal cuts could see these services eliminated.
July 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Iowa PBS's statewide network of towers help ensure severe weather alerts reach your phone. This is especially important in rural areas where cell service is less reliable. Federal cuts could see these services eliminated.
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“Columbia’s decision to settle is understandable, but it’s also evidence of how badly the Trump era has numbed the conscience of the American elite. To protect its funding, Columbia sacrificed its freedom”
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Columbia Protected Its Funding and Sacrificed Its Freedom
The university’s agreement with the Trump administration bodes ill for American higher education.
www.theatlantic.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“Columbia’s decision to settle is understandable, but it’s also evidence of how badly the Trump era has numbed the conscience of the American elite. To protect its funding, Columbia sacrificed its freedom”
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If you like being alive and don't believe you're superhuman or blessed by the Skyman, this should infuriate you because it's so bleeping stupidly recklessly stupid (yes, I know I repeated myself).
Courtesy of @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social.
Courtesy of @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social.
A Proposed Four Percent Funding Rate at the National Cancer Institute
On Wednesday, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at NIH released its funding policy for fiscal year 2025. In it, NCI claims they will be able to fund four percent of applications. That’s not…
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July 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If you like being alive and don't believe you're superhuman or blessed by the Skyman, this should infuriate you because it's so bleeping stupidly recklessly stupid (yes, I know I repeated myself).
Courtesy of @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social.
Courtesy of @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social.
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Too busy planning photo ops to sign the documents *she insisted on signing* so that FEMA could do what it's always done.
Also, doing to FEMA exactly what Bigot McFascist accused Biden's FEMA of doing--stealing money from disaster victims.
Also, doing to FEMA exactly what Bigot McFascist accused Biden's FEMA of doing--stealing money from disaster victims.
Brownie 2025: FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Too busy planning photo ops to sign the documents *she insisted on signing* so that FEMA could do what it's always done.
Also, doing to FEMA exactly what Bigot McFascist accused Biden's FEMA of doing--stealing money from disaster victims.
Also, doing to FEMA exactly what Bigot McFascist accused Biden's FEMA of doing--stealing money from disaster victims.
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Answer: Motivated reasoning. They want to believe what you want them to believe, so they believe whatever you say that lets them feel better about themselves.
The dishonesty is, in fact, off the charts, JD. You're the guy who fessed up to lying about Haitian immigrants because you wanted people to feel scared of Black and brown people. Why would anyone believe anything you say ever again?
What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
July 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Answer: Motivated reasoning. They want to believe what you want them to believe, so they believe whatever you say that lets them feel better about themselves.
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I hear a lot of democratic members of congress say “republicans privately tell me they hate this.”
Start naming names.
Start naming names.
July 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I hear a lot of democratic members of congress say “republicans privately tell me they hate this.”
Start naming names.
Start naming names.
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CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn
www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
June 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn
www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
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Thanks, @thefarce.org, for putting it so plainly. Also, notice the parallel with RFKJr's urge to put chronically ill people in "work camps." Ethnic cleansing isn't the only kind of cleansing on the to do list here.
Trump wants a concentration camp nation
The MAGA Murder Budget includes $155 billion to turn the US into a police state. We must explain why that would be a nightmare for nearly all Americans.
www.thefarce.org
June 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Thanks, @thefarce.org, for putting it so plainly. Also, notice the parallel with RFKJr's urge to put chronically ill people in "work camps." Ethnic cleansing isn't the only kind of cleansing on the to do list here.
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She read the first half of @scalzi.com's _When the Moon Hits Your Eye_ or Ben Winters' _The Last Policeman_ and decided to legislate as if it weren't fiction.
May 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
She read the first half of @scalzi.com's _When the Moon Hits Your Eye_ or Ben Winters' _The Last Policeman_ and decided to legislate as if it weren't fiction.
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I mean, yes, it's a mess, but the CDC isn't the one making it. Hats off to their leadership for doing the not-eugenicist thing.
What a total mess. CDC Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots
C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I mean, yes, it's a mess, but the CDC isn't the one making it. Hats off to their leadership for doing the not-eugenicist thing.
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Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...
May 31, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...
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Targeting a private educational institute because it won’t conform its governance and curriculum to what the state wants is…communist.
May 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Targeting a private educational institute because it won’t conform its governance and curriculum to what the state wants is…communist.
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.
May 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.
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So excited to see this work finally published!
💥New: American University is redefining what counts in #academia—valuing public & interdisciplinary work over outdated metrics. Colleagues Karen Baehler, Rachel Borchardt, Priya Doshi & Amanda Taylor share how faculty-led #reforms can align rewards with real-world #impact 🚀
Faculty promotion guidelines should account for a wider range of valuable academic work - Impact of Social Sciences
American University recently revised its faculty evaluation guidelines to better recognise public and interdisciplinary scholarship and move away from outdated metrics. Through inclusive,…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
So excited to see this work finally published!