Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.

Holiday sales make up 20% of corporate profits. From now through Cyber Monday, we’re taking a 5% bite back by boycotting Target, Home Depot, and Amazon for unsafe working conditions, cutting DEI, and letting ICE target our neighbors. Join us in saying #WeAintBuyingIt!

Health care costs are up and Michiganders are losing their coverage because of Trump’s cuts to Medicaid. What’s Mike Duggan’s response? “These Medicaid cuts aren’t as bad as they look.” www.metrotimes.com/news/duggan-...

Watching MS Now, hearing a report on Whooping Cough and hearing that a 3rd Kentucky infant has died due to Whooping Cough. Sorry kid, you didn't ask for this. Also, RFK II can go to hell

I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face

MS Now is airing a documentary on Andrew Young right now

I have a lot to be thankful for, among other things that both parents are still alive, as well as my 101 yo grandfather and a le to enjoy the day with me. Also thankful that no close relatives are Trumpers, meaning I've been spared that pain and family strife

As far as i can tell, people are recording/yelling while wearing their pajamas and sandals, and the feds respond by pointing their weapons at the crowd and then gassing a residential block.

David Huerta is back in court TOMORROW because this administration thinks attacking one labor leader will silence millions. They’re wrong. We don’t bend, we don’t bow, and we stand with David today and always. Justice for David. ✊🏿

Tom says "this person didn't read the article" when someone disagrees, but I did read the article, and Carville takes things that random activists said ("defund the police") and applies it to the party as a whole (why send Baro Weiss to CBS, we do the Repubs work for them) To Post 2-

Another variation on why I am, what I am, from someone I deeply admire: founding Newspaper Guild President (now NewGuild) President Heywood Broun. Lesson learned: when we fall to despair and think we can't do anything? That's when the real evil occurs.

I'm increasingly impressed with the broad number of endorsements that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has gotten so far in his MI US Senate campaign. I was Team Whitmer in 2018, but I'm impressednwith the campaign he's running this time

We need to have a swrious discussion on the fact that even if Trump's talk of puttjng Congress People to death *for telling the military to obey their oaths* doesn't get acted upon, the fact that it was said and we're having the discussion caused huge damage to our republic

Big Tech is trying to sneak language into a giant bill to ban states from enacting AI safety laws. Workers should have protections from AI-related risks in their states. The labor movement is urging Congress to oppose this provision in the National Defense Authorization Act.

The deal for the CR is looking better. Out of the three options Republicans had to end those: House Doesn't Vote, Senate Votes Down, Trump Vetoes...option 1 is looking like it could be off the table...

Wake up to hear Morning Joe say that the CDC is apparently changing it's website to endorse the vaccine-autism conspiracy...fuck RFK II

With Pelosi, Schakowsky, and Nadler retiring (along with some prominent folks looking to go statewide) the House Caucus js going to look very different shortly.

Woo-hoo, replacement CPAP parts came in today, I'll be able to sleep well for the first time in 10 days. For anyone I was grumpy with or not quite getting it the last 10 days, I apologize (the former is my fault...the latter mightve happened even w/ the CPAP )

Weird question as I see the Bishops video and know about statements from the ELCA Lutheran, Presbyterian and I believe United Methodist churches against ICE and current immigration policy: has *any* major religions or leadership endorsed ICE's actions?

The woman in this story asked for an abortion to protect her health during the first trimester. If not for Dobbs, that choice would have been hers. Instead, she got increasingly sick for another 2 months, and then died.

Current* conditions near Highland Park, IL:

When/if the Ai bubble pops it's gonna get *ugly* for folks retirements...

Elon Musk didn't rig the 2024 elections. This isn't the 1994 movie Hackers

I am endless fascinated w/ the group of MI people, activists, local politicians, academics, Christians opposed to Christian Nationalism, artists, local political clubs, & friends I've gatherd here. While I can be disagreeable (and, in turn, many disagree w/ me) it would take a lot to get me to leave

🚨 WHY THIS STARBUCKS STRIKE IS DIFFERENT - @kimkelly.bsky.social Reporting on the ground from the Red Cup Rally in Philly, Kim Kelly breaks down why this strike is so important & how it's different from other collective actions @sbworkersunited.org have taken against Starbucks. @therealnews.com

My hope is that all sides of the Democratic party look and learn from the mess the UK Labour party is in: The centrjsts that you can't just shame&yell at voters wantjng change. The left that you can't keep putting forward the most unelectable or terrible candidates and expect respect

When you see a quote, realize it describes you perfectly in fighting whar you believe is wrong...and suddenly understand why people across the center to the left all range from loving you to hating you

Anyone talking about how bad Universal Healthcare is due to waiting- I'm in the middle of waiting a minimum 10 days for new CPAP equipment (the design I use has an Achilles heel in that one of the connects is comparatively small plastic and pronw to breaking) as insurance won't pay for it sooner

Looking at Epsteins connections to the Old Media Elite (and those elites desperate attempts to downplay, or in one case romanticize, that era) could this be the thing that finishes off the elitist media institutions credibility once and for all?

Rudy Giuliani was disbarred Jenna Ellis lost her license and is now a felon John Eastman’s license was suspended Michael Cohen went to jail Like them, Pam Bondi is perverting justice at Trump’s command But it’s infinitely worse-because she’s Attorney General Plus she’s covering for pedophiles

3. There's always a way, whether it's perfect or not, whether we like it or not,there's a way. 4. Remember the starfish parable: It makes a difference to this one. 5. You will lose battles- *that* is why you taken every fight. It'll teach you the lessons for when you don't lose

Things are dark, but I want to remind you of what I got into this thinking, post Nov 2016, because it's *important *: 1. 1 person can change things, whether for a world, a country, a state, a county 2. What we *do* matters, win or loss, *we* and our families remember what we do. *NEXT*

Does anyone remember when Trump said that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago? Well, that's one of the excuses MAGA has thrown around since the emails from Epstein was released yesterday to absolve him of wrongdoing. If Trump knew what Epstein was doing, why didn't he report it?

At the Michigan 6th District Dem party's candidate event, listening to Karen Macdonald (AG candidate, Oakland Co Prosecutor) after listening to fellow AG candidate El I Savit (Washtenaw Co Prosecutor)

I've tried to keep up with this story, but how am I only hearing about Chomsky's connection to it just now? Is this brand new news to everybody., or just me?

It's kinda weird, people I knew well from the other place don't seem to post much here, made their Threads accounts dead since early 2024, and never seemed to get on Mastodon...did people juat stop social mediaing or didnfolks just accept the home of Mechahitler?

Why have I moved on from the vote? Because I can't control that. What can I control? The fundraiser that benefits the small PAC I'm treasurer for that's coming up in December

Why I still hold out hope: looking at Politics1, I see at least 50 Repub held congressional seats be challenged by significant live candidates (significant people, electeds. appointeds. Folks running active campaigns). Win or lose, I know what it costs them, & damned if I'll letnyou dismiss them

This list is a combo platter of the usual Bernie endorsed/er who you'd expect and surprisingly normie Dems. It's still too to necessarily move much, but let's check back in a week

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Were senators King and Shaheen always so damned stupid?

Okay, when things are down, it can help to talk anout somethjng that'll cheer you up. Let's talk personal political and ideological heroes: Union leader and civil rights activist A. Phillip Randolph Former Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams Judge Thurgood Marshall UAW Leader Walter Reuther

Gotta admit, I've never felt more hopeless, and the utterly idiotic statements by rhe US Senate 8 in their press conference made it worse. Can't help but feel this was the ball game it

Local politics > congressional politics.

This is a bad deal for Americans. Voters turned out in record numbers last wk to elect Democrats believing they would fight for working families. We urge Senate Dems to vote NO on the reported GOP budget package, which fails to address the devastating health care crisis.

The US Senate 8 just gave Republicans a huge win just before election year.

This guy gets it

How bad is the news out of the Senate? It's got me reposting Oliver Willis...someone needs to sit in a corner and think aboht what they've done