🧵 Life is Better In A Union. How much better? Well, @epi.org’s new study shows if current union membership tripled, the median worker would make $7,700 more annually. 💵

The new call for ME/CFS research proposals aims to fund 7 projects, each with a budget of €120,000 - 180,000. Researchers from all over the world can apply, the deadline for the first stage is 25 August 2026.

If the argument here is "Brad Lander is too safe as a Jew in diaspora to tell Israeli Jews how to keep safe," that sits uncomfortably with the argument that a Jewish state is necessary to keep Jews safe.

Forty-two California cities and counties now have minimum wages that exceed the state standard, with some nearing or surpassing $20 an hour. (1/2) @capitalandmain.bsky.social: irvine.ly/4bmXDBR

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Is there any sports federation more corrupt than FIFA?

Re-upping this thread on Thomas Paine since he seems to have entered the Bluesky chat on this July 4.

What a game!!!

Transfer value of the Argentinian national team: $1 billion GDP of Cabo Verde: $3.45 billion

Zohran Mamdani rebukes Trumpism with pro-immigrant speech for US’s 250th birthday

Masterclass. Never accept their premise, never have their argument - force your own. Give people a clear origin story for their pain and concrete reason to believe you are the one to address it.

The US Presbyterian Church has just voted to divest from Palantir & GE Aerospace; recognize the genocide in Gaza; and call for an arms embargo and boycott of genocide-complicit Israeli companies. Cites Palantir & GE's tech being used by human rights violators like ICE, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

Looks like Sinatra was right.

When meditating, may your mind be as empty as the Great American State Fair.

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

Spot on analysis from @michellegoldberg.bsky.social. The idea that a corporate friendly pro-Israel candidate is more electable in MI is delusional. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

The IDF has killed 235 Palestinian children in the West Bank – plus another five killed by settlers themselves – since 7 October 2023 with what activists call a ‘licence to kill’. Devastating but vital reporting: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

Excellent article with lots of important history and context about #LongCovid and #ME/CFS in the media. A must read!

"And the people that don’t agree with their philosophies wring their hands at cocktail parties" Not going to disagree there. 😂 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

"The Supreme Court Blesses Ethnic Cleansing" is a pretty good six-word summary of yesterday's decisions prospect.org/2026/06/26/r...

Organizers of the billionaire wealth tax ballot measure in California announces they will not be withdrawing it from the ballot. "We're confident we will win"

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 California Labor announces agreement to remove two initiatives from November ballot.

These are the actions of an authoritarian regime, where their agents come to intimidate you if you share public information about how they have killed American citizens

This Court is murderous, extremist and antidemocratic. Any candidate for federal office NOT calling for court expansion, iron ethics rules & term limits that will be enforced & removal of corrupt judges who take bribes is not worthy of voting for. Dealing with these freaks must be priority #1.

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

My conversation with @pkrugman.bsky.social substack.com/@paulkrugman...

In this well-reported piece on the billionaire cabal to stop the California ballot measure to implement wealth tax on billionaires, I especially appreciated this detail: sfstandard.com/2026/06/13/b...

I wish we had this in California. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/w...

"'One UCLA,' a phrase you keep repeating, clearly does not include Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians, and anyone who engages in a criticism of the Israeli state, or others whose political views you disapprove of." lareviewofbooks.org/article/sare...

In bookstores across the US on August 25. If ever there was a time to act, it is now.

Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

For decades, Dan Patrick has sold out the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable to enrich his donors. Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power.

wtaf? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/n...

Good to see. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

What Gabe Zucman says

Historic cuts to Medicaid and low-cost California health insurance could leave 4.6 million residents with no coverage. A new report from the UC Berkeley Labor Center says the working poor, older workers and undocumented workers could bear the brunt. news.berkeley.edu/2026/06/10/t...

Worth noting that in 1921, the American Yiddish-language press described the anti-Black Tulsa massacre as a “pogrom,” because they knew that was the word that would best make their immigrant Ashkenazi Jewish readers understand what happened. ingeveb.org/blog/the-mos...

Statement from Mayor of London Sadiq Khan calling for Musk and his platform to be held to account:

Trump's war has wiped out an entire year and a half of wage growth

Randy Villegas overcame Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains, a physician and moderate Democrat backed by state and national party leaders, in what amounts to a stunning rebuke of establishment politics... cal.news/4fANkNF 📸 Larry Valenzuela

BREAKING: A 43-year-old has died in ICE custody, marking the 19th death in immigration detention this year and at a pace on track to exceed last year’s deaths in detention.

we are not growing. there are fewer union members now than a decade ago, and far more workers. we cannot pretend this is what winning looks like unless we want to keep patting ourselves on the back for a job well done as the iceberg gets closer.

That's what her friends say

The UAW is proud to endorse Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate UAW members in Michigan want a fighter in Washington, D.C. who isn’t afraid to push forward a strong working-class agenda with moral clarity and Abdul is ready, eager, and well-equipped to move our core issues in the U.S. Senate.

The MA House just UNANIMOUSLY passed a strong, enforceable data privacy bill! Highlights include a complete ban on the sale of precise geolocation data, with NO exceptions, and a private right of action against large data holders. #mapoli

Oh BY THE WAY: United Faculty-UAW, the union of us non-tenure-track faculty at USC, WON our election last night in a landslide. More details to come, but USC admin is crying to Trump asking his labor board to overturn democracy. It's a scandal. You should be pissed, especially if you're a teacher.

ALL OF THIS from @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...