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ADVISORY: Statement, media avail. from unjustly detained U.S. veteran George Retes
Ventura County, CA—
Wed 7/16 at 3 pm PT, George Retes, U.S. citizen and Army veteran unjustly detained by federal agents during last week’s raid will hold a virtual press availability. 1/
Ventura County, CA—
Wed 7/16 at 3 pm PT, George Retes, U.S. citizen and Army veteran unjustly detained by federal agents during last week’s raid will hold a virtual press availability. 1/
July 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
ADVISORY: Statement, media avail. from unjustly detained U.S. veteran George Retes
Ventura County, CA—
Wed 7/16 at 3 pm PT, George Retes, U.S. citizen and Army veteran unjustly detained by federal agents during last week’s raid will hold a virtual press availability. 1/
Ventura County, CA—
Wed 7/16 at 3 pm PT, George Retes, U.S. citizen and Army veteran unjustly detained by federal agents during last week’s raid will hold a virtual press availability. 1/
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Bluesky is hiring 👉 bsky.social/about/join
Roles include:
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+ others (click the link!)
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- feed algo eng
- data engineer
+ others (click the link!)
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Boldly growing where no spore has grown before.
July 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Boldly growing where no spore has grown before.
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A message from the striking municipal workers of Philadelphia:
July 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A message from the striking municipal workers of Philadelphia:
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This forum and AMA is open!
Please share your experiences with medicaid and how this program helped you or a loved one. We need improvements to medicaid not gutting it and kicking people off.
Please share your experiences with medicaid and how this program helped you or a loved one. We need improvements to medicaid not gutting it and kicking people off.
Tomorrow, Monday June 30 AltGov and AltFam will be hosting a special AMA Forum with a special guest, @deathinalibrary.bsky.social.
Join us for a discussion about how Medicaid has impacted you and to ask questions.
Together on this thread, we can collaborate on why we need to save Medicaid.
Join us for a discussion about how Medicaid has impacted you and to ask questions.
Together on this thread, we can collaborate on why we need to save Medicaid.
June 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This forum and AMA is open!
Please share your experiences with medicaid and how this program helped you or a loved one. We need improvements to medicaid not gutting it and kicking people off.
Please share your experiences with medicaid and how this program helped you or a loved one. We need improvements to medicaid not gutting it and kicking people off.
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Anyone can unionize. The first step is always the same: talk to your coworkers, find out what issues you have in common, and discuss the fact that when you come together as a group you can solve problems impossible to deal with when you’re alone.
www.teenvogue.com/story/starbu...
www.teenvogue.com/story/starbu...
I Went Undercover at Starbucks and Helped Launch a Union Movement
Jaz Brisack shares how they got Starbucks Workers United off the ground.
www.teenvogue.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Anyone can unionize. The first step is always the same: talk to your coworkers, find out what issues you have in common, and discuss the fact that when you come together as a group you can solve problems impossible to deal with when you’re alone.
www.teenvogue.com/story/starbu...
www.teenvogue.com/story/starbu...
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New story for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social: Body-worn camera footage released today shows Bilal "BJ" Abdullah pointing a gun at police officers and the violent exchange of gunfire that followed. baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-po...
Baltimore Police release bodycam footage of Bilal “BJ” Abdullah shooting
Baltimore police fired 38 shots in an exchange of gunfire with Bilal “BJ” Abdullah, a well-known arabber who can be seen in newly-released body-worn camera footage pointing a firearm and appearing to ...
baltimorebeat.com
June 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
New story for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social: Body-worn camera footage released today shows Bilal "BJ" Abdullah pointing a gun at police officers and the violent exchange of gunfire that followed. baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-po...
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“There is a proud history of anarchists and other radicals meeting up in prison, and a history of them mentoring and teaching others…The state uses prisons to limit and contain rebellious individuals, revolutionary projects, and organizing on the outside.“
suggest reading entirety of piece
suggest reading entirety of piece
2025 Call – June 11th
june11.noblogs.org
June 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“There is a proud history of anarchists and other radicals meeting up in prison, and a history of them mentoring and teaching others…The state uses prisons to limit and contain rebellious individuals, revolutionary projects, and organizing on the outside.“
suggest reading entirety of piece
suggest reading entirety of piece
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Protest outside the Western Governors Association conference in Santa Fe going on right now.
Protestors are chanting "Not for sale"
This is in opposition to Mike Lee's attempt to sell off up to 3 million acres of national public lands.
#publicland #publiclands #conservation
Protestors are chanting "Not for sale"
This is in opposition to Mike Lee's attempt to sell off up to 3 million acres of national public lands.
#publicland #publiclands #conservation
June 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Protest outside the Western Governors Association conference in Santa Fe going on right now.
Protestors are chanting "Not for sale"
This is in opposition to Mike Lee's attempt to sell off up to 3 million acres of national public lands.
#publicland #publiclands #conservation
Protestors are chanting "Not for sale"
This is in opposition to Mike Lee's attempt to sell off up to 3 million acres of national public lands.
#publicland #publiclands #conservation
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Today in #LaborHistory 5/26/1937: Little Steel #strike began in #Ohio. >600 picketed Republic’s mill in #Cleveland. #NationalGuard crushed the strike in #Youngstown, Canton, #Cleveland. #Police killed 10 strikers at Republic Steel in #Chicago, in the #MemorialDay #Massacre.
May 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Today in #LaborHistory 5/26/1937: Little Steel #strike began in #Ohio. >600 picketed Republic’s mill in #Cleveland. #NationalGuard crushed the strike in #Youngstown, Canton, #Cleveland. #Police killed 10 strikers at Republic Steel in #Chicago, in the #MemorialDay #Massacre.
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The math isn't mathing:
☑️ 560 days since we unionized.
☑️ 398 days since bargaining began.
❌ no fair contract
Appropriately compensating your workers doesn’t require calculus, @society4science.bsky.social. The solution is simple: a fair contract.
#union #workers
☑️ 560 days since we unionized.
☑️ 398 days since bargaining began.
❌ no fair contract
Appropriately compensating your workers doesn’t require calculus, @society4science.bsky.social. The solution is simple: a fair contract.
#union #workers
May 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The math isn't mathing:
☑️ 560 days since we unionized.
☑️ 398 days since bargaining began.
❌ no fair contract
Appropriately compensating your workers doesn’t require calculus, @society4science.bsky.social. The solution is simple: a fair contract.
#union #workers
☑️ 560 days since we unionized.
☑️ 398 days since bargaining began.
❌ no fair contract
Appropriately compensating your workers doesn’t require calculus, @society4science.bsky.social. The solution is simple: a fair contract.
#union #workers
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📣 New Podcast! "28 May 1936: Popular Front strike wave" on @Spreaker #france #history #workers
28 May 1936: Popular Front strike wave
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May 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
📣 New Podcast! "28 May 1936: Popular Front strike wave" on @Spreaker #france #history #workers
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#ElonMusk hired himself into government, erased investigations across #Tesla, #Neuralink, and #SpaceX, and cashed in—while #workers, #taxpayers, and even foreign civilians paid the price. #Billionaires don’t just bend the rules, they torch them.
Corruption in plain sight: How Elon Musk has benefited from the first 100 days of the Trump administration
During the first 100 days of his administration, President Trump has consistently put the interests of billionaires and corporations over working people. This is most evident by the Trump administrati...
www.epi.org
May 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
#ElonMusk hired himself into government, erased investigations across #Tesla, #Neuralink, and #SpaceX, and cashed in—while #workers, #taxpayers, and even foreign civilians paid the price. #Billionaires don’t just bend the rules, they torch them.
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BREAKING: We’re suing Arizona to strike down abortion restrictions that violate the state’s new constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2024.
May 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
BREAKING: We’re suing Arizona to strike down abortion restrictions that violate the state’s new constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2024.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court’s conservatives allow Trump’s firing of members of multi-member boards to remain in effect during litigation, effectively overruling a 90-year-old precedent.
The liberal justices, in an opinion by Kagan, dissents.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
The liberal justices, in an opinion by Kagan, dissents.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24A966
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. U. GWYNNE A. WILCOX, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[May 22, 2025]
The Government has applied for a stay of orders from the District Court for the District of Columbia enjoining the President's removal of a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), respectively. The President is prohibited by statute from removing these officers except for cause, and no qualifying cause was given.
See 29
U.S. C. §153(a); 5 U. S. C. §1202(d).
The application for stay presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him referred to the Court is granted. Because the Constitution vests the executive power in the President, see Art. I1, §1, cl. 1, he may remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf, subject to narrow exceptions recognized by our precedents, see Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U.S. 197, 215-218 (2020). The stay reflects our judgment that the Government is likely to show that both the NLRB and MSPB exercise considerable executive power. But we do not ultimately decide in this posture whether the NLRB or MSPB falls within such a recognized exception; that question is better left for resolution after full briefing and argu-ment. The stay also reflects our judgment that the Government faces greater risk of harm from an order allowing a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power than a wrongfully removed officer faces from being unable to perform her statutory duty. See Trump v. International](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreihpfprz3gcbibsuvscdqwzmycut2tseklgiqiug2vq7zg3b6suh7e@jpeg)
May 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court’s conservatives allow Trump’s firing of members of multi-member boards to remain in effect during litigation, effectively overruling a 90-year-old precedent.
The liberal justices, in an opinion by Kagan, dissents.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
The liberal justices, in an opinion by Kagan, dissents.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
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Trump’s Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is holding a press conference at the Department of Labor tomorrow morning to make an “announcement.” It’s probably not gonna be good news.
DOL workers are asking folks to come show support as they continue fighting Trump’s anti-worker agenda:
DOL workers are asking folks to come show support as they continue fighting Trump’s anti-worker agenda:
May 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Trump’s Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is holding a press conference at the Department of Labor tomorrow morning to make an “announcement.” It’s probably not gonna be good news.
DOL workers are asking folks to come show support as they continue fighting Trump’s anti-worker agenda:
DOL workers are asking folks to come show support as they continue fighting Trump’s anti-worker agenda:
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If you're in the area, please support DOL workers by showing up, if possible!
@alt-dol.altgov.info and others would greatly appreciate it!
Together #AltCitizens can unite for this cause!
@alt-dol.altgov.info and others would greatly appreciate it!
Together #AltCitizens can unite for this cause!
May 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you're in the area, please support DOL workers by showing up, if possible!
@alt-dol.altgov.info and others would greatly appreciate it!
Together #AltCitizens can unite for this cause!
@alt-dol.altgov.info and others would greatly appreciate it!
Together #AltCitizens can unite for this cause!
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New, from me:
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
What DOGE gets wrong about tech and government
Lessons learned by civic tech, forgotten by DOGE
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New, from me:
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
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Wrote this piece after one DOGEr gave an interview where he admitted his preconceptions about government were wrong. Public servants really care about public service! There is not that much waste in government! There are too many meetings and decisionmaking is too slow! Indeed, sir! All true!
![Lavignia left his start-up, Gumroad, to join Veteran’s Affairs. Here is the key passage:
Now that he’s there, he says he finds himself surrounded by people who “love their jobs,” who came to the government with a sense of mission driving their work. “In a sense, that makes the DOGE agenda a little bit more complicated, because if half the government took [a buyout offer], then we wouldn’t have to do much more,” he says, implying software can replace departing employees. “We’d just basically use software to plug holes. But that’s not what’s happening.”…when it comes down to it, what he’s found is a machine that largely functions, though it doesn’t make decisions as fast as a startup might. “I would say the culture shock is mostly a lot of meetings, not a lot of decisions,” he says. “But honestly, it’s kind of fine—because the government works. It’s not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest. I was hoping for more easy wins.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2rrp7amblhg3xoly5n5huiqv/bafkreigo3reb2ytom3paout5jbwqtevvvtrlmifzgr27op2anuxskjax44@jpeg)
May 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Wrote this piece after one DOGEr gave an interview where he admitted his preconceptions about government were wrong. Public servants really care about public service! There is not that much waste in government! There are too many meetings and decisionmaking is too slow! Indeed, sir! All true!
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Now, most DOGEr's are not admitting they were wrong about government, but some of their bad assumptions about tech in govt are not new, and were held by civic tech folks (who had very different motivations). One of these assumptions is an emphasis on transparency as a cure-all.
May 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Now, most DOGEr's are not admitting they were wrong about government, but some of their bad assumptions about tech in govt are not new, and were held by civic tech folks (who had very different motivations). One of these assumptions is an emphasis on transparency as a cure-all.
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The idea that transparency, via open source and code, would solve tech problems misunderstands how tech in govt works. People working in civic tech learned this lesson a decade ago. DOGE is not interested in learning it.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
May 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The idea that transparency, via open source and code, would solve tech problems misunderstands how tech in govt works. People working in civic tech learned this lesson a decade ago. DOGE is not interested in learning it.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
May 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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My first #AltCitizen should be easily recognizable. The 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is most well known for two things: The New Deal that guided the country out of the Great Depression, and the creation of what would become the Social Security Administration. 1/?
May 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM