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Meatpacking plant workers in Colorado are set to strike on Monday in what would be the first and largest labor action to hit the industry in decades
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Nearly 4,000 US meatpacking workers to strike at plant run by top Trump donor
Workers at JBS USA to strike Monday in what will be the first labor strike in the meatpacking industry in decades
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/11/jbs-usa-meatpacking-strike-trump
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âIt's an extinction-level event for science,â says Casey Dreier, chief of space policy at the Planetary Society, a non-profit organization in Pasadena, California, that advocates for space exploration.
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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7
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Donald Trump just posted a video of Somali people enjoying the Mall of America to the soundtrack of âMad Worldâ because he is a bigoted POS
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New: I wrote about how the SPLC let union breaking and fear of MAGA drive it away from its own civil rights principles. After I spoke up about Gaza, the SPLC disciplined me and terminated my employmentâleading to a discrimination settlement:
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What Happened to the SPLCâand Me
Union breaking, Gaza, and fear of MAGA turned the SPLC into an organization that abandoned its own civil rights principles.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-193009867
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Aaron Cynic
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It really blows my mind that for my entire life, folks struggling to get by have to eat gruel and wear burlap sacks in order to "deserve" any kind of assistance, but we've got more billionaires than ever before and are gonna have trillionaires soon enough.
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A.R. Moxon
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If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."
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A federal judge ruled that DHS unlawfully stripped legal status from nearly 900,000 immigrants who lawfully entered the United States through the CBP One program. The case highlights the continuing trend of lawlessness and chaos at DHS and the Trump administration.
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Kevin Elliott
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The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.
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Workers at JFK8 won their union election 4 years ago. Amazon is still denying the results even after losing their appeals to the election
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âThe model is listeningâ: unionâs win at Amazon hatched in a small apartment
A suburban two-bedroom apartment was the HQ from which Amazonâs multimillion-dollar anti-union effort was defeated
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/09/amazon-union-organization-staten-island
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Amazon Teamsters Become First Union to Win Bargaining Order Against E-Commerce Giant
(WASHINGTON) â In a historic decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that Amazon illegally refused to recognize the Staten Island-based
https://teamster.org/2026/04/amazon-teamsters-become-first-union-to-win-bargaining-order-against-e-commerce-giant/
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Amazon lost their appeal to the union election at JFK8 in Staten Island after dragging it out for over nearly 4 years. A bargaining order was issued yesterday
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Amazon lost their appeal to the union election at JFK8 in Staten Island after dragging it out for over nearly 4 years. A bargaining order was issued yesterday
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Gabe OrtĂz
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âMaxwellâs transfer to a cushy lower-security prison seems like a reward for continuing the Donald Trump cover-up,â Rep.
@robertgarcia.bsky.social
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Trey Ferguson
7 days ago
If you can see Jesus in Donald Trump for being âbetrayed, arrested, and falsely accusedâ but not the many peoples whoâve ACTUALLY been falsely accused, imprisoned, and killed at the hands of the state, it is because the Jesus you serve is a mascot for the comforts you enjoy.
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Arin Dube
8 days ago
A striking fact I learnt researching my book: For those in the bottom half, much of the real wage growth between 1979 and 2019 happened over just 7 "tight" years. For top wages, full employment wasn't a big deal. For bottom wages, it was the nearly the whole game.
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Susan Rinkunas
7 days ago
The wealthiest New Yorkers includes Speaker Julie Menin, who reportedly bought a $7.8 million apartment on the UES in 2017
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Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO
7 days ago
WATCH: TTD President Greg Regan calls on industry and policymakers to include workersâ voices in the implementation of new technologies, including AI. We can't afford to compromise transportation safety when tech advancements are deployed.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
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People can stay mad at me for saying this but if I drive in a circle around a place, I did not actually go to that place. I drove around it. And itâs an odd bit to say people are going to the moon. And itâs definitely propaganda! Donât participate! We donât need to lie about it! Itâs a flyby! đ
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Parker Molloy
7 days ago
I feel like the nutcase who makes long, rambling videos calling Ms. Rachel evil probably shouldn't be invited on cable news, tbh
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Maximillian Alvarez
8 days ago
It should be exceedingly clear by now that the entire promise of GOP politics is: "We only serve the rich, we will not make life any better for you, but we'll at least make it worse for the people we've trained you to hate. You're welcome."
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Bobby Kogan
8 days ago
And here's the table with all the data
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Ben Zipperer
9 days ago
"there is no evidence of a reduction in job postings for industries or firms which have higher levels of AI adoption. The overall slowdown in national job postings...does not appear to be driven (even modestly) by AI." AI Adoption & Firms' Job-Posting Behavior by Liu and
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AI Adoption and Firms' Job-Posting Behavior
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/ai-adoption-and-firms-job-posting-behavior-20260327.html#fn5
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Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald and had an 18 percent approval rating as mayor of Chicago. He is persona non grata, not a political heavy weight. This is complete manufactured BS
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Joe Adalian
11 days ago
The NYT says todayâs
#NoKings
protests had âno shortage of skeptics,â and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesnât ID him as such. Heâs just a Concerned Youth.
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Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald and had an 18 percent approval rating as mayor of Chicago. He is persona non grata, not a political heavy weight. This is complete manufactured BS
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Coach Finstock
10 days ago
This is some disgusting ass shit from a dude already prone to disgusting shit.
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August J. Pollak
11 days ago
Itâs very weird how the media has culturally normalized meme racism, establishing the idea that this is somehow acceptable in ways just calling Omar a slur isnât. Thereâs no other period in my lifetime where saying this wouldnât end a presidential campaign before it started.
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Parker Molloy
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"Marshall McLuhan Was Right About Claude, Too" If he were still alive, here's where McLuhan would appear right behind Ezra Klein and say, "You know nothing of my work... how you ever got to become a newspaper columnist is totally amazing".
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Evan Urquhart
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I feel genuinely flabbergasted by the defiantly anti-journalistic approach of NYT Comms here. They're saying the NYT's reporting on the stance of the American Medical Association is correct, despite the American Medical Association saying their stance is different from what NYT reported.
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Josh Chafetz
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1/2 This memo identifies absolutely no source of legal authority for paying TSA. It does not point to an appropriation that is available for this purpose, nor does it point to any legal authority to transfer some other appropriation to TSA.
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Paying Our Great Transportation Security Administration Officers and Employees
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET SUBJECT:Â Â Â Â Â Â Paying
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/memorandum-for-the-secretary-of-homeland-security-and-the-director-of-the-office-of-management-and-budget/
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Parker Molloy
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Good thread. Yeah, Maria Hadden's answer to that question was completely innocuous. Right-wing media is trying to spin it, and it's putting her in danger.
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California Fast Food Workers Union
12 days ago
We won't back down.
#UnionsForAll
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Adam Weinstein
12 days ago
Bondi's argument here is also the main thrust of the chapter 'Subjects and Citizens' in Hitler's Mein Kampf (a chapter which, incidentally, lauds racist U.S. immigration policies)
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Alejandra Caraballo
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Rowling was still tweeting yesterday falsely accusing Lin Yu-Ting of being male. She continues to do so with Imane Khelif. So much for protecting women.
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The push for a $30 minimum wage by 2030 in parts of California and New York City has begun
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$30 an hour by 2030: new pushes to increase minimum wage in New York and California
Oakland and New York campaigns for $30 minimum wage gain steam as workers battle high costs and pushback
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/27/minimum-wage-increase-california-new-york
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The push for a $30 minimum wage by 2030 in parts of California and New York City has begun
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$30 an hour by 2030: new pushes to increase minimum wage in New York and California
Oakland and New York campaigns for $30 minimum wage gain steam as workers battle high costs and pushback
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/27/minimum-wage-increase-california-new-york
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We are asking all our
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Don Moynihan
13 days ago
Not a single prominent Republican will respond to the most basic gutter racism coming from the leader of their party.
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Cops in Laredo were tired of Priscilla Villarreal reporting stories they did not like. In 2017, they arrested her for texting two questions to a source in the police department. She sued, but a lower court gave the cops qualified immunity. The Supreme Court rejected her appeal this week.
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Texas Police Arrested This Journalist For Asking Questions. No Problem, Says the Supreme Court
The justicesâ decision sends a chilling message to journalists who report stories that powerful people do not like.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/lagordiloca-supreme-court-cert-denial-first-amendment/
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Brad Lander
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According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year â not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors â about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)
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Stand with
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Tell ProPublica youâll honor a digital picket line
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Administrationâs Proposed Changes to Reduction in Force Rules Will Trigger Another Mass Layoff of Federal Workers, AFGE Says
Changes would enable administration to fire federal workers under guise of tainted performance-based reviews, union warns.
https://www.afge.org/publication/administrations-proposed-changes-to-reduction-in-force-rules-will-trigger-another-mass-layoff-of-federal-workers-afge-says/
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This proposed rule is how the Trump admin plans on firing more federal workers, by allowing involuntary firings of workers who receive low performance ratings and eliminating their ability to appeal. Tomorrow is the last day for public comments
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Performance Appraisal for General Schedule, Prevailing Rate, and Certain Other Employees
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a proposed rule to increase the efficiency of performance management for non- Senior Executive Service (SES) employees, including General Schedule (...
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/02/24/2026-03619/performance-appraisal-for-general-schedule-prevailing-rate-and-certain-other-employees
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This proposed rule is how the Trump admin plans on firing more federal workers, by allowing involuntary firings of workers who receive low performance ratings and eliminating their ability to appeal. Tomorrow is the last day for public comments
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Performance Appraisal for General Schedule, Prevailing Rate, and Certain Other Employees
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a proposed rule to increase the efficiency of performance management for non- Senior Executive Service (SES) employees, including General Schedule (...
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/02/24/2026-03619/performance-appraisal-for-general-schedule-prevailing-rate-and-certain-other-employees
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Brian Beutler
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Surely a state law-enforcement authority can determine who did this, how they knew etc? Yes? Not everything has to wait until Dems win a House majority or the presidencyâŠ
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Not only are the murderers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti still walking free, but they're still working and getting paid by DHS while the Trump administration covers up their crimes. Renee Good's killer also reportedly illegally received $750k from GoFundMe
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