Seamus Petrie
@seamuspetrie.bsky.social
Working father.
I make good trouble and bad puns.
he/him
I make good trouble and bad puns.
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On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights
Illinois becomes one of the few states to regulate employer use of AI. House Bill 3773 amends the Illinois Human Rights Act to make it a civil rights violation for employers to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on race, gender, age, or disability.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights
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What is Gov. Bob Ferguson's Plan A to backfill the state's budget gap? Sink the budget knife into everyone but the ultra-rich. 🔪💵
The 1st-term Democrat's given the cold shoulder to tax hikes ahead of Decision '26, a wealth tax included. 🗳️
washingtonobserver.substack.com/p/ferguson-s...
The 1st-term Democrat's given the cold shoulder to tax hikes ahead of Decision '26, a wealth tax included. 🗳️
washingtonobserver.substack.com/p/ferguson-s...
Ferguson (sort of) picks a fight on the budget
Plus public records delays, more on our Re-Wire Conference, and some recommended reading
washingtonobserver.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
What is Gov. Bob Ferguson's Plan A to backfill the state's budget gap? Sink the budget knife into everyone but the ultra-rich. 🔪💵
The 1st-term Democrat's given the cold shoulder to tax hikes ahead of Decision '26, a wealth tax included. 🗳️
washingtonobserver.substack.com/p/ferguson-s...
The 1st-term Democrat's given the cold shoulder to tax hikes ahead of Decision '26, a wealth tax included. 🗳️
washingtonobserver.substack.com/p/ferguson-s...
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🗣️ ain't no power like the power of a union, cuz the power of a union won't stop!
We're EIGHTEEN DAYS into our national ULP strike and only getting louder. Let's hear it for baristas in Gardner, MA for holding the line! #nocontractnocoffee
We're EIGHTEEN DAYS into our national ULP strike and only getting louder. Let's hear it for baristas in Gardner, MA for holding the line! #nocontractnocoffee
November 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🗣️ ain't no power like the power of a union, cuz the power of a union won't stop!
We're EIGHTEEN DAYS into our national ULP strike and only getting louder. Let's hear it for baristas in Gardner, MA for holding the line! #nocontractnocoffee
We're EIGHTEEN DAYS into our national ULP strike and only getting louder. Let's hear it for baristas in Gardner, MA for holding the line! #nocontractnocoffee
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Keith Olbermann, symbolic bamboo, mediocre magazine writers, the Appalachian Trail…
a man says " this place has everything " while holding something in his hand
ALT: a man says " this place has everything " while holding something in his hand
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November 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Keith Olbermann, symbolic bamboo, mediocre magazine writers, the Appalachian Trail…
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Katie’s path to the Mayor’s office depends upon your ballot — and probably your friends’ and coworkers’, too! Track your ballot and fix any issues at the following links! Next, send these links to 10 friends and family to make sure Katie wins. #thisisyourcity
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Katie’s path to the Mayor’s office depends upon your ballot — and probably your friends’ and coworkers’, too! Track your ballot and fix any issues at the following links! Next, send these links to 10 friends and family to make sure Katie wins. #thisisyourcity
I’ve long believed, often with too little evidence, in practicing the politics of joy, fun, radical inclusivity, and love.
Even if I didn’t like Mamdani’s platform, it’s very gratifying to see his kind of genuinely positive politics win the day, decisively.
Even if I didn’t like Mamdani’s platform, it’s very gratifying to see his kind of genuinely positive politics win the day, decisively.
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I’ve long believed, often with too little evidence, in practicing the politics of joy, fun, radical inclusivity, and love.
Even if I didn’t like Mamdani’s platform, it’s very gratifying to see his kind of genuinely positive politics win the day, decisively.
Even if I didn’t like Mamdani’s platform, it’s very gratifying to see his kind of genuinely positive politics win the day, decisively.
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The U.S. Forest Service has for decades ignored recommendations from its own scientists to monitor how much toxic smoke firefighters breathe. To find out how harmful the air gets, our reporters followed crews to the frontlines of a wildfire.
Inside the Poisonous Smoke Killing Wildfire Fighters at Young Ages
Across the country, wildfire fighters work for weeks at a time in poisonous smoke. The government says they are protected. We tested the air at one fire to find out why they are still dying.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The U.S. Forest Service has for decades ignored recommendations from its own scientists to monitor how much toxic smoke firefighters breathe. To find out how harmful the air gets, our reporters followed crews to the frontlines of a wildfire.
One of the secret best things about the labor movement is that we do not value Coolness.
We connect, we compliment, we enthuse, we join, we are sincere, we sing in groups together.
Because we believe that we are stronger, and safer, and happier when we’re connected to each other.
We connect, we compliment, we enthuse, we join, we are sincere, we sing in groups together.
Because we believe that we are stronger, and safer, and happier when we’re connected to each other.
It is impossible to have a mass movement without cringe, because the masses are cringe. You have to not think you’re better than everyone else to be a part of a mass movement. Cool is inherently exclusionary, you can’t win mass politics with cool.
After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.
October 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
One of the secret best things about the labor movement is that we do not value Coolness.
We connect, we compliment, we enthuse, we join, we are sincere, we sing in groups together.
Because we believe that we are stronger, and safer, and happier when we’re connected to each other.
We connect, we compliment, we enthuse, we join, we are sincere, we sing in groups together.
Because we believe that we are stronger, and safer, and happier when we’re connected to each other.
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me: fandom is so weird you get super invested in the doings of these other people who don't even care about your opinion most of the time and your entire day is based on whether they did good or feel bad and then you have to feel the same way
mom: This is just parenthood
mom: This is just parenthood
October 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
me: fandom is so weird you get super invested in the doings of these other people who don't even care about your opinion most of the time and your entire day is based on whether they did good or feel bad and then you have to feel the same way
mom: This is just parenthood
mom: This is just parenthood
This is probably the greatest live recording ever made.
King’s song is impeccable of course (“Winter, spring, summer, or fall / all you have to do is call” is a perfect pop couplet).
Hathaway’s performance is all easy, intimate charisma. Like you’re actually his BFF.
King’s song is impeccable of course (“Winter, spring, summer, or fall / all you have to do is call” is a perfect pop couplet).
Hathaway’s performance is all easy, intimate charisma. Like you’re actually his BFF.
Donny Hathaway - You've Got a Friend
YouTube video by successfulfellow
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October 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
This is probably the greatest live recording ever made.
King’s song is impeccable of course (“Winter, spring, summer, or fall / all you have to do is call” is a perfect pop couplet).
Hathaway’s performance is all easy, intimate charisma. Like you’re actually his BFF.
King’s song is impeccable of course (“Winter, spring, summer, or fall / all you have to do is call” is a perfect pop couplet).
Hathaway’s performance is all easy, intimate charisma. Like you’re actually his BFF.
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If you care about labor, you need to oppose Trump's ICE terror campaign.
"An attorney for a building trades union told me that a witness in a wage theft case in another state was recently targeted and deported by ICE. The union believes the employer encouraged ICE to target the worker, in a bid to undercut the wage theft case. "
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How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor
While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
If you care about labor, you need to oppose Trump's ICE terror campaign.
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If you're cis, trans people are your coalmine canary for a collection of civil liberties.
BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state?
PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history?
EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?
BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state?
PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history?
EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?
September 29, 2025 at 6:38 AM
If you're cis, trans people are your coalmine canary for a collection of civil liberties.
BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state?
PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history?
EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?
BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state?
PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history?
EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?
Dreamt that Alan Moore was a YouTube influencer pitching some kind of “one weird trick” self-help book/system.
Just growling through his beard, asking us to like and subscribe.
Just growling through his beard, asking us to like and subscribe.
September 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Dreamt that Alan Moore was a YouTube influencer pitching some kind of “one weird trick” self-help book/system.
Just growling through his beard, asking us to like and subscribe.
Just growling through his beard, asking us to like and subscribe.
Remember WENN
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.
What's yours?
What's yours?
September 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Remember WENN
Remember folks, this is the issue with “God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule.”
24 Years Ago Today: The September 11th Issue
Issue 37•34: The September 11th Issue
theonion.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Remember folks, this is the issue with “God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule.”
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Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
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Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
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Everett NewsGuild held a picket against story quotas at the Daily Herald, drawing strong community and labor support. Members say quotas threaten fair pay and quality journalism as they push for a first contract after layoffs under new ownership.
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‘The people of Snohomish County support us’
Everett NewsGuild members were met with strong labor and community support as they continue their fight against story quotas that threaten the quality of local journalism EVERETT, WA (September 5, 202...
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September 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Everett NewsGuild held a picket against story quotas at the Daily Herald, drawing strong community and labor support. Members say quotas threaten fair pay and quality journalism as they push for a first contract after layoffs under new ownership.
www.thestand.org/2025/09/the-...
www.thestand.org/2025/09/the-...
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He's simply extending the work of Ronald Reagan and the modern NRA who, when Black folks legally armed themselves in self-defense, had their guns taken and banned.
Folks...
...it is only and has only ever been about white supremacy.
Folks...
...it is only and has only ever been about white supremacy.
Trump DOJ is reportedly looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics
Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.
www.cnn.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
He's simply extending the work of Ronald Reagan and the modern NRA who, when Black folks legally armed themselves in self-defense, had their guns taken and banned.
Folks...
...it is only and has only ever been about white supremacy.
Folks...
...it is only and has only ever been about white supremacy.
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Y’all are never gonna believe this, but 14 years ago I married this woman.
August 31, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Y’all are never gonna believe this, but 14 years ago I married this woman.