this gives me a good idea: i'll try to keep a running thread of things that are union-busting that you might not know are union-busting. ERGs are one to start. another one: employee satisfaction surveys! corporations use them to see where agitation is that could potentially lead to a union

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

there is a direct correlation between seattle's zoning codes and building codes and the lack of family sized homes in this city single stair can solve this - but in most of city where apartments are legal, FAR is so high that single stair doesn't pencil www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...

Are you able to have serious strategic and tactical disagreements with people you consider comrades? Try it some time. It's fabulous and ok.

Somehow, I doubt Breshears will demand that Ken Martin release the DNC autopsy. www.commondreams.org/news/democra...

Why are presidential wannabes still out here talking about the groups when the DNC is covering up this autopsy of 2024? www.commondreams.org/news/democra...

Some folks really disagree that Israel is the JUNIOR partner in this relationship with the US. I'm sometimes surprised at who disagrees when it's so obvious to me.

today i learned there is an official smallest penguin, and they're called fairy penguins, and they're so cuuuuuuute

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Wait, you can tag up on a foul ball?

Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines "As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust."

Big news about PROTEC17 stepping up for its CARE team workers and filing an unfair labor practice. Particularly brave to take on SPOG in this way.

Just a reminder that disliking Platner does not require liking Mills.

Paradise [SPOILER] The realest thing about Paradise Season 2 is when Presley barely survives a nuclear meltdown, is then reunited with her mom after 3 years apart where she was presumed dead, and just runs off to make out with her boyfriend.

MAGACARE

Also, hoping the lady who says Obama is guilty of treason, the guy who thinks Trump is Jesus, the lady sleeping with her security detail and who drinks on the job, and the guy who harvests raccoon penises will vote the president mentally unfit for office doesn't seem like the soundest strategy.

the war is not operating under "just war" doctrine. it's operating under the other venerable Christian war theory, which is "Christians are allowed to murder anyone they want."

This administration is like a mashup of Birth of a Nation, Dr. Strangeglove, Veep, and Scandal.

Trump called the play: “Get David Ellison in charge right away” That’s the executive branch handing a media empire to a billionaire ally As @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov tells @jenrubin.bsky.social @contrariannews.org: this is oligarchy — & AGs are the last line of defense

Flock cameras have useful, modular electronic components in them, including: - Rechargeable lithium iion battery with solar panel - 5G LTE modem - 5MP 16mm camera with IR filter Plus various other components with precious metals that can be harvested for scrap.

Help build a city where everyone can live and thrive. We need density near transit, Passive Homes, and green space in every neighborhood. Sign up to volunteer for tabling and help talk with neighbors about what is at stake and how we win. Keep reading below for opportunities to get involved! 🧵(1/3)

Rep. Bonamici: How can you spend HHS's limited resources and taxpayer money on a video of yourself drinking milk in a hot tub with Kid Rock? RFK: "I would have no idea… So many people have come up to me who saw that video and say that inspired me to work out."

"You're spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock. Somehow you think that's a better public health message than informing the public about the benefits of vaccines. Really? -- Rep. Linda Sanchez to RFK Jr

First, it sure seems like the deployed U.S. personnel are running out of food and things (2/3). www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Yesterday was Tax Day. Working people paid up. Billionaires cashed in. This system isn’t broken— it’s working exactly how they designed it. 👀 Yeah… it’s time to rewrite these rules. https://seiu.co/4tLEIr8

Hey Western Washington peeps! If you're a PCC member, vote for Errol Schweizer in the Board of Trustees election. ufcw3000.org/news/2026/4/...

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Tax the rich www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Dude is just such a fucking asshole. Also, I'm guessing that at least Joe Kent (fuck him, btw!) did not bury his wife on a golf course.

The point of warning the Left against the antisemitic current within America First anti-Zionism (for me anyway) isn’t to appeal to Jewish sensitivities. In our current climate, unfortunately, those appeals are hyper-politicized, almost always to benefit Zionism. The point is

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

This Day in Labor History: April 16, 1836. Massachusetts passed the nation’s first law limiting child labor. It required that children under the age of 15 working in factories be given three months off per year to attend school!

It's ballroom, alright, if you just change the allroom to unker.

Adorable Waterspout Tornado Tries to Scare Seattleites Filing Taxes Under Fascism: tinyurl.com/2sz2b63v

What now?! "Annie Altman accused her brother of sexually abusing and raping her between 1997 and 2006 at the family home in suburban Clayton, Missouri, starting when she was three and he ​was 12. She said the 'last acts of sexual abuse and rape' occurred ​when Sam Altman was an adult."

Daaaaaaaaannnnnnn, come on!

For a minute there I forgot I was watching a Mariners game.

Cutting a raccoon’s penis off to study it, burying your ex-wife on your golf course, raping women in a department store, believing you’ve been teleported to a Waffle House: these are all common folkways of everyday Americans that arrogant coastal elitists will never understand. — Emma Green

Last month in The Onion:

This is why we don't anoint a dude with NO actual accomplishments and NO track record as a progressive organizer, coalition builder, or policy maker as the progressive standard bearer.

Not even gonna read this.

NEW: Chicago Progressive Partnership super PAC, which launched ads attacking Kat Abughazaleh and then eventually in favor of Bushra Amiwala as an apparent attempt to split the vote, has filed its FEC report, which reveals it was another shell group for AIPAC and its allies

JD Vance telling Tom Brady how to throw a tight spiral

DOL House, the newest reality show

Destroy them!

She is transmitting

Facial recognition technology is so good that police can use it to *checks notes* arrest a woman who had never visited the state where the crimes were committed. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

"This property was given to us in 1950 by the Commonwealth of Virginia, as they deemed our organization worthy of being caretakers of Virginia history." Hmmm. What else was the government of Virginia up to in the 1950s? old.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/bro...

How shall we do for money for these wars?

A study I would not like to read is "what is in my coffee after being in my car for 4 hours"