SCOTUS stands up against POTUS on issues where capital opposes POTUS (Fed independence, arbitrary tariffs...). Anywhere else?

“One protesting strategy has been shown time and again to be most effective in the US: nonviolence.” @owasow.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Call US Senators and tell them to vote against the SAVE Act. It has already passed the US House. In its current form, it means that 100 years after women earned the right to vote, we are facing down the implementation of a 21st century poll tax for women.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Walmart just became a trillion-dollar company, joining the ranks of corporate giants at the very top. Meanwhile, some Walmart workers start as low as $14/hour, and thousands still rely on SNAP & Medicaid to get by. That gap isn’t accidental. It’s a choice about who this economy is built to reward.

GERMANY: Verdi announces more public sector strikes www.yahoo.com/news/article...

New: UAW reaches landmark tentative contract deal with Volkswagen in Chattanooga Tennessee, including 20% across-the-board pay hikes www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "This contract is proof that if you stand up and stick together, you can win a better life”

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

A vision for the future: a 13-member Supreme Court and 4 new nominees who understand the take care clause limits the presidential pardon power, as no founding father would have countenanced a lawless dictator.

Trump is as easy as they come. Nursing home firms donated $4.8M to Trump's super PAC in Aug. Their executives got a lunch in Aug. at Trump's golf club where they asked him to revoke a rule to increase staffing to prevent patient neglect. His administration revoked the rule. https://seiu.co/3Mgepcx

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

The latest from NY Magazine shares what NYSNA nurses have known all along – travel nurses can't replace the care that NYC staff nurses provide. Hospitals must settle fair contracts with their dedicated nurses! https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nurses-strike-nyc-hospital-safe-union.html

This is how we should honor #AlexPretti … by sharing this video of him with a veteran who had died at the VA Hospital where he worked… @katiecouric.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @rbreich.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/tCa-r...

Good news: reports say HHS is restoring funding to NIOSH, the agency that researches workplace safety. The labor movement led the fight to restore this critical funding. We made it clear: worker safety isn’t optional. Restore NIOSH workers!

The corollary of this is that many far-right groups have gotten less militant: they know ICE is doing the dirty work of terrorizing minority communities, so they don't have to. Alongside their own propaganda, Patriot Front members put up posters encouraging readers to call the ICE tip line.

No warrant presented. Breached the door. Children present. Guns pointed. Tasers threatened. Hands on the resident. Masks covering faces. Dressed in camo fatigues. Terrorized family. Donald Trump’s America. Anyone’s home could be next.

Rene Good was not engaged in hateful rhetoric. Her last words were “dude, I’m not mad at you.” Even when you talk like that, you might get shot in the face by ICE. So - no - it’s not the rhetoric.

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

Since Plato is in the news: What was Plato's status at the Nazified university? This 1934 diagram from the journal "Völkische Kultur" shows one response. It puts Plato in a cosmopolitan lineage of degradation leading to Kant which was, in a common antisemitic trope, portrayed as suspiciously Jewish.

This is insane. I’m not even a Platonist, and this is insane. It’s Soviet-level absurdity.

AGMA Statement on Washington National Opera and The Kennedy Center: We stand with WNO Artists and the Company. Link: www.musicalartists.org/agma-stateme...

So about this…

NEW: Post-Gazette to shut down 240-year-old paper after SCOTUS slaps down company’s bid to evade court order “Instead of simply following the law, the owners chose to punish local journalists and the city of Pittsburgh,” said Goldstein, president of @pghguild.com newsguild.org/pittsburgh-p...

Yes exactly. If protesters stand in front of cars, it’s fine to kill them, if someone is *inside* a car, then it’s fine for law enforcement standing in front of them to shoot them in the face.

A paramilitary force stalking our cities answerable not to any local authorities but only to Trump - made possible by the One Big Beautiful Bill. This great chart from @epi.org paints the startling picture. We’re now spending 80x more on ICE-related activities than on protecting American workers.

“Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” was not one of the books removed from the Naval Academy library, and as heinous as that book is, it should be accessible to scholars and students of history. However, this makes the removal of Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” inexplicable.”

sequel opportunity

The rate for tipped workers is $2.13, where it’s been since 1991 — and has lost more than half its purchasing power since then. buff.ly/vt3RNXG

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 1989!

Great piece on the state of the economy. Or more precisely, the ECONOMIES: one for the top 10% or so and big biz, and one for small biz and everyone else.

Editorial cartoonist @dennisgoris.bsky.social is exceptional. Please follow and share (&credit his work).

A feast of the seven fishes: tuna, calamari, shrimp, crab, anchovies, scallops, swordfish. Buon Natale, compagni!

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼

Tonight, DHS is targeting 47,000 TSA officers and AFGE members, a second attempt to union-bust in retaliation for workers standing up for their rights. Congress must act to protect TSA officers and aviation safety. aflcio.org/press/releas...

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

IFPTE Celebrates a Working Majority of the House of Representatives Rejecting Trump’s Federal Sector Union-Busting www.ifpte.org/news/f7uhapu...

@golden.house.gov has called for a vote on the Protect America’s Workforce Act, the bipartisan bill to reverse President Trump’s union-busting executive order and restore union rights for 1 MILLION federal workers. Let’s get it done for America’s workers!

The House has voted to bring up the bill to reverse Trump’s unionbusting executive order, 222-200. A working bipartisan majority is moving to support fed workers’ bargaining rights. More votes tomorrow to get it finally passed in the House!

This is a vote to restore union rights to a million federal workers after Trump committed the single biggest act of unionbusting in US history. Call your member of Congress and tell them: Pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act.

Thank you, @golden.house.gov and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, for standing with working people and leading the bipartisan Protect America’s Workforce Act to a vote. Now it’s time for a clean, standalone vote to restore federal workers’ collective bargaining rights. ✊

This is a huge win for working people! The Protect America’s Workforce Act, our bill to restore the union rights for 1 million federal workers, is getting a vote in Congress this week! Thank you, @golden.house.gov and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, for standing with America’s workers.

Affordability is dominating the discourse. What I don't like about the conversation is that it focuses almost entirely on prices—as if the only way to make life affordable is to make things cheaper. But affordability is determined by prices *and pay.* 1/

They’re pulling out.

BREAKING: A new wave of union baristas are joining the longest ULP strike in Starbucks history! 2,500 union baristas across 120+ stores in 85 cities are now on an open-ended ULP strike. We're SIXTEEN DAYS in and only getting stronger ✊

The pretend University of Austin teaches "Forbidden Courses" with zero pushback even as the real universities are forbidding courses due to political pressure