"It’s not that we need to throttle technology, but the balance is out of whack." Isn't it time for a #SlowTech movement? Read Dustin Guastella @teamsters.bsky.social Local 623 in @theguardian.com

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b... I guess it really is time to unsubscribe from the Post. There are still a number of fine journalists there, but the number is shrinking and they can’t say what they think. Sad

To make sure AI serves workers we need bold action: corporate regulation, worker voice + sectoral bargaining. More on AI and power from the @rooseveltinstitute.org @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social in this post for the @eop.aspeninstitute.org: www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/w... #FutureOfWork

"The paradox is that bad news for workers has become good news for markets." Well, actually this isn't really new... companies have been hell bent on strategies to have fewer people work harder for less for a long time qz.com/stock-market...

Men may be doing worse than they used to, but women are still doing worse than men by many measures. Instead of creating special programs for men, maybe ask why we have an economy in which most people can't succeed...? Read @emilypeck.bsky.social in @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/09/09/d...

📅 Thursday, September 4, 2025 🕑 2:00 – 3:15pm ET | 💻 Online 🔗 Register: as.pn/equalopportunity Let’s talk about what it takes to deliver on the promise of opportunity for all. #TalkOpportunity

Good jobs that offer stability, fair pay and dignity are not just important for workers — they are essential for children’s success and for building a future where all kids can thrive. Great piece from @matthelmer.bsky.social in @thehill.com #LaborDay thehill.com/opinion/fina...

The GOP isn't just the party of low taxes for billionaires, they're the party of low wages for workers.

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

Townsend d. Jelena Ostapenko 7-5 6-1 Taylor was on a mission today. She’s into the 3rd round of the U.S. Open for the first time since 2023. World #1 in doubles… but let’s not forget she’s a pretty special singles player too. ✅4th Grand Slam R3 Tay Tay came to play. 🇺🇸❤️

My cousin’s son has leukemia—which is not only life threatening and emotionally devastating but in the US it’s also expensive. It’s a disgrace that the US economic/healthcare system drives people to crowd funding to pay for care, but that’s where we are. If you can help… gofund.me/0e1022f2

"They treat you like cannon fodder." U.S. wildfire fighters suffer high rates of cancer and other diseases, but use no respirators, unlike other countries. The US Forest Service hides the problem and opposes regulations to require respirator use. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

Trump has made no comment. The White House has found the time to post a video of the arrest of that guy who threw a sandwich at a cop, but nothing about a cop killed defending the government's own employees. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose district includes parts of Atlanta, has also said nothing.

Attacking federal employees and making data disappear are two themes of this administration. So this is a twofer: the annual survey of federal employees has been cancelled. Obvious reason is to hide big declines in worker morale, engagement and satisfaction. federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

A sad day for the “land of the free.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

Alas, billionaires would rather donate a farm to a university than recognize the fundamental human rights of farm workers. Read @melissagomez.bsky.social in @latimes.com Appreciate @ufw.bsky.social work for fair wages and working conditions www.latimes.com/california/s...

Another Trump official officially renounces any claim to professional integrity. Kevin Hassett’s behavior is appalling www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

After a visit to TrustCon, I wrote about the near-total failure of trust and safety leaders to defend human rights after conservatives successfully bullied platforms into submission www.platformer.news/trustcon-tru... www.platformer.news/trustcon-tru...

A nice little ditty on the value of @pbs.org for kids youtu.be/i_rUalZNLfY

These are next to each other. So sad to see all the small, relatively affordable houses transformed in this way.

“[Epstein] was allowed to abuse girls and women for two decades. How did that happen and why did it happen, to me, is the question.” Read/listen to @jkbjournalist.bsky.social Important reminder of the horrific & under-investigated crimes at issue here @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...

Gotta love a bookstore that combines business and true crime 🤣🤣 Sherman’s Bar Harbor

Unbelievable. The greed of the rich and their anti-tax shills is staggering. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded fed law enforcement agency in history, w/ more $$ per year at its disposal over the next four years than the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined Read @vermontgmg.bsky.social www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...

Working women depend on the EEOC to address unequal pay, discrimination & obstacles to opportunity.  Attempts from the Trump administration to turn the EEOC against the very people it was meant to serve endanger the dignity, rights, and economic well-being of millions of workers.

The workers who feed America go to work in fear. We’ve seen these unconstitutional and unamerican tactics before, with Border Patrol targeting random farm workers and anyone with brown skin in Kern County during their large sweep in January. We sued then and we are suing now. 1/

The one huge horrible bill is anti fiscal responsibility, anti family, and anti freedom. Republicans would say that’s not true, but their actions say otherwise www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/f...

Our State Cannot Survive This Bill www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o... Appreciate Bryce Edgmon and Cathy Giessel sharing the human costs of the huge, horrible bill Or is that cruel, catastrophic bill? Maybe bad, budget-busting bill? Whatever it is, it sure ain’t pretty…

Emphasizing care and courage, Andrew Kassoy pursued a vision of an economy that advanced human and ecological wellbeing. Rest in peace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFPS...

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

Conservative protests are always treated as an organic cry of anger that manifests the distress of the unjustly ignored American heartland; protests from the center-left are always written off as noise from inside the bubble.

"Thousands of Americans". Based on reports I have seen from different cities, it is clear that the actual estimate should be "millions of Americans". Why have you made no serious attempt to estimate the size of the protests today? Isn't this newsworthy?

It's hard to express what this review by @libbycwatson.com means to me — not just for its praise ("an incredible feat… the 21st-century equivalent of The Jungle") but for how precisely it captures the heart of my book: a system that cruelly exploits people's labor while denying them everything else.

Americans need SNAP because their jobs often don’t pay enough to cover basic living expenses. That is a problem of wages, not dependency. Read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social #JobQualityCrisis www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

There’s a sizable protest of what appears to be entirely faith leaders and clearly outside the Capitol right now, with the demonstrators speaking out against the GOP-led budget. It’s a Pentecost gathering “for a moral budget.” Lawmakers are also expected to appear.

OMG—what a match!!

If “abundance” means cutting wages, gutting safety rules, and shutting workers out of the process, don’t call it abundance. Call it exploitation.

The reason the Democratic Party is so profoundly unpopular today is that people do not know what it stands for. There is simply no way to change this by saying, “We will ask you all what you liked yesterday, and do that tomorrow.” Read @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/howthing...

In this @nytimes.com article @aliciaparlap.bsky.social & Andre Duehren label an illustrative $40,500 an Uber or Lyft driver receives as wages. Wrong. It's gross revenue. After biz deductions (gas, insurance, etc), the net is $10,515. Call that wages #povertywage work www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Dept official about the damage done by Trump and Musk abandoning America's humanitarian aid commitments.

I'm really pleased with how our Golden Age of Scams series turned out, you can read all of the stories here. Learn about the growth industries in separating people from their money, which could be the beginnings of the next financial crisis. prospect.org/topics/golde...

Appreciate @janicefinewjl.bsky.social reminder that immigrants are not the cause of the #jobquality crisis. What might be a cause is that we keep requiring people to work but we don’t require their employers to pay them. To help workers Congress should repeal work reqs and enforce wage &hour laws.

“The added cost [of Rx drugs] due to patent monopolies and other protections is roughly 2.0 percent of GDP or 20 percent of all after-tax corporate profits.” A lot of $$$ Indeed we already have abundance. We just don’t share it. Fixing zoning rules is unlikely to solve that problem.

“Once you’ve had DoorDash (DASH) delivered by someone whose job you helped eliminate… feels bad, man.” Of course, these tech folks should have felt bad about how bad DoorDash jobs are before they knew the people doing them. qz.com/ai-layoffs-j...

I have often been appalled by OSHA’s meager fines for violations resulting in death/grievous injury. But the amount was typically described as “set by statute.” So let’s be clear—this injustice is the result of a longstanding, bipartisan failure in Congress to pass laws, fund OSHA & protect workers.

I think some, not all, of horrible attitudes and policies towards the homeless is that too many people don’t know the answer to “what percentage of American homeless have jobs”

"All jobs should be good jobs. And, more importantly, all jobs CAN be good jobs." 🧭 🆕 🧭 Here, @eop.aspeninstitute.org's @maureenc.bsky.social introduces the #GoodJobs Compass, a new tool that supports #workers and guides us all toward a better economy.

200 people detained by ICE because they made a wrong turn on the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. 200.