My son was a SB barista for three years. He would have led a walkout! Be nice to those people making your coffee! They put up with A LOT of abuse. Over coffee. With a smile. ☕️

Sigh. If only we had learned from the start of COVID that work from home has many benefits, instead of being inexplicably forced back to the office by out-of-touch CEOs.

Mr. Rogers, and a fiercely independent public media, is what this country desperately needs right now. Hope you enjoy this great listen from @revealnews.org.

Steve Scherer once documented human displacement and desperation. Now, due to a crumbling media ecosystem, he is living it. Scherer writes about going from foreign correspondent to Uber driver. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

An Underground Railroad museum in New York, is suing the Trump administration over a federal grant that it says was canceled on the basis of race.

The new largest data center in Illinois has been approved by the Joliet City Council. It will be the size of Central Park. And use more than half as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago.

The end of local radio is a big part of the demise of local news. Radio news was always the worst paid, least respected part of the industry, but it played a crucial role. A functioning local music station could have a news department of just one or two people that was an essential public good.

Antisemitism is on the rise and that’s absolutely awful. No movement is free of bigotry, but blaming this rise on the pro Palestine movement is absurd when you have pro Israel & Zionist groups insisting that genocide is Jewish & white nationalists jumping on that bandwagon to suppress speech.

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

When I present my academic work on the political economy of Silicon Valley, I can't tell you how many times I've heard the response "they wouldn't do that - it would lose them money." But @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has it in a nutshell here - "control, power, impunity" are the real goals.

NEW: This week, the average daily population at Dilley dropped to 100 people, compared with over 900 in January. The shift follows weeks of mounting public pressure generated in part by the widespread publication of letters written by detained children.

ICYMI: Here's a video from just after @propublicaguild.org's practice picket. Last night the unit took a strike authorization vote and 92% voted yes.

Yet another community struggling with data centers but this one mentions an interest of mine: Destroying trailer parks for development. Parks are often the last bastion of affordable housing and eviction can be devastating, especially since a lot of homes despite being 'movable' atually aren't.

it's a real mindfuck to see the leadership of a publication creating some of the most important journalism of a generation trying to screw the people doing the work

I just had that conversation earlier this week. The college dean is deciding if they will (dis)continue the bioinformatics training program for grad students. An argument for discontinuation is that students will use GenAI to help them code, so they don’t need to learn bioinformatics.

Reminder that CBS spends thousands of dollars a day on an unnecessary security detail for Bari pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e...

Eid Mubarak from The Times Tech Guild to you!

Breaking news: CBS News will end its nearly century-old radio service, CBS News Radio, and cut more jobs amid a rocky turnaround effort under its new top editor, Bari Weiss.

Wild story: DOGE meets nuclear reactor safety

Because not everyone has been to Central Park, quantifying this matters. I've already seen a "size of a football stadium" comparison and unless they're wildly overbuilt that's not even close. Central Park is allegedly 843 acres. The size of one regulation NFL field is just over an acre.

This really sucks

Google started rewriting headlines for videos in search results years ago; perhaps not a surprise it would do so now for news organizations, but still wonder what it means for a platform to re-author content in this way.

For the first time in 60 years, Palestinians are being barred from praying at Al Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam. This morning, Palestinians tried to pray Eid right outside and were brutally attacked by the Israeli Occupation Forces.

New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap

its not just clear, its what israeli officials are themselves saying is their aim in Lebanon.

Donate to ProPublica Guild's strike fund. Help them put guardrails on AI in news www.propublicaguild.org/

NEW: 250 autoworkers in Michigan are unionizing with @uaw.org

BTW now that it's been leaked, the White House is asking for a supplemental package of $200,000,000,000 from Congress for war with Iran

I would like to personally award Afroman the Bluesky Medal of Valor for Exemplary Service in Bringing Back Shame

So much love and solidarity to Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and every other survivor. Chavez was just a man; women like them, then and now, are the true heroes of the farmworkers’ movement.

Requiring data centers to use their own power supplies without regulating those per plants is leading to an absolute explosion of wildly polluting jet-engine gas turbine powered data centers

"From the beginning, we knew a traditional strike wouldn’t work," said Alfonso Martínez Valero, an Amazon worker in Murcia, Spain. "The strike wasn’t directed from above. This approach allowed us to adapt to every move the company made." labornotes.org/amazon-worke...

lmfao get wrecked

movements aren't separate from society. they are part of society. every social problem in society will be found in movements.

People shouldn't feel bad about previously admiring someone when they didn't know about the terrible harms that person committed, but we should challenge ourselves to consider how pedestalizing and prioritizing the legacies of charismatic leaders can create harmful dynamics. That can be addressed.

I feel shattered for generations of farmworker women whose contributions were not only largely unrecognized, but they had to witness the cult of personality develop around him. I feel heart broken for all survivors in movements who routinely metabolize violence to keep communities & movements alive

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

I think this story is helping me understand why the generation Dolores Huerta inspired was so strongly tied to the idea that activism should be intersectional before anything else. It's not a buzzword, it's about keeping abusers out of your movement

Folks who are struggling with the news about Cesar Chavez, be gentle with yourselves. You are not obligated to consume all of the awful details. You can simply offer your belief and support to those who were harmed.

I'm heartbroken. This is why I stay away from all the news about Epstein, because as a survivor it's too painful to watch how as a society we continue to allow predators to evade accountability. I'm in so much pain thinking about what our beloved icon Dolores Huerta endured. 💔

Oh you're SAD about elections? I got one for you!

AIPAC will likely claim IL-09 as a limited victory but I think it's important to note that he was endorsed by Elizabeth Warren, Greg Casar, Pramila Jayapal, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and he vowed to block offensive arms to Israel if elected.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

the usual suspects are "analyzing" local election results from 10,000 miles away and predictably sounding ridiculous.

I know none of yall gaf but Venezuela beat the US at the World Baseball Classic and all the US players looked like their every last dream was crushed and all the Venezuelan players are so joyful and it’s awesome

Counting traffic deaths per mile driven is like counting deaths per cigarette smoked

A report that found nearly 600 oil wells in Oklahoma that were operating illegally: injecting wastewater above their permitted pressures or volumes, and a further 1,400 other older injection wells that were allowed to operate for decades without any limits whatsoever, was buried by state regulators.

Members of Apache tribe take sacred land case to Supreme Court. "For the Apaches, Oak Flat holds a direct connection to their creator, making it a foundational part of their religious beliefs. Oak Flat is also the [location] of a large copper deposit." www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

[watching a progressive lose a House primary by 4 points] let me tell you what this very clearly says about national politics