every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act

Mandate!

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

Employees often know quality problems before the market does. Using 4.3 million Glassdoor reviews to build a new measure of firm quality that predicts recalls, brand value, and profitability, from Wei Cai, Dennis Campbell, Yaxuan Chen, Yufei Chen, and Andrea Prat www.nber.org/papers/w35348

it was literature pub quiz night and our team name "flowers for algae gone" didn't get a single laugh, this isn't the country i grew up in

The question mark at the end is the correct punctuation.

I thought we had to weaken our public safety and environmental laws because we lacked an abundance of housing. No? You don't say.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Keep Natalie Wood. Swap Dyan Carroll with Miss Piggy. Replace Robert Culp and Elliott Gould with Statler and Waldorf.

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

Never before have I been so riveted by scaffolding going up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm...

The evidence has been growing, but now it is indisputable: phasing out subminimum wages for workers with disabilities doesn't harm employment for those workers. thehill.com/opinion/fina...

There ought to be a law....

Despite all your hard work, Trump does not care how much you’re struggling. In fact, he loves it.

Dr. @katiejwells.bsky.social testified before the House Workforce Protections Subcommittee. As healthcare becomes a major frontier for gig-based work, she highlighted how gig nursing platforms are targeting policymakers with legislation that upends worker protections & exposes patients to risks.

The safety and health of working people should NEVER be put at risk so corporations can make even more money. @actorsequity.bsky.social President @thebrookeshields.bsky.social is right. ALL workers deserve the workplace safety and health protections that come with a union contract.

Sometimes it feels like we are living through a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to “at-will” hires www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Risk/risk comparison is often used to dismiss public concern, and the arguments usually ignore how risks are cumulative. Latest example: data centers. They add unnecessarily to existing environmental health risks. We don't have to take on all such hazards to be "right" in opposing this one.

Scott Pelley won tonight. I have no idea how much time he had left on his contract, but now he has zero impediment to working anywhere outside of Bari Weiss's CBS.

BREAKING: The New Main Street Singers have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration.

Sickened workers called into the May 21 hearing from job sites, hospitals and their homes to describe the physical pain and emotional toll silicosis has inflicted on them and their families. capitalandmain.com/california-m...

Today on Volts: It has rapidly become conventional wisdom that Biden's industrial policy was weighed down by labor-quality standards. Betony Jones developed those standards for DOE & has since surveyed companies who received federal money about whether they slowed things down. Turns out they didn't!

I feel for the families. OSHA penalties are a pittance. Dad slams 'no real fine' for son's death in Allen Park postal facility www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

CREW (@citizensforethics.org) drew a cool docket number for a suit challenging an unconstitutional $1.776B slush fund: 26-cv-1789. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Trump administration is about to allow swine and poultry processing plants to vastly speed up their lines. That will make the companies more money while leading to far more worker injuries and food illness outbreaks. newrepublic.com/article/2102...

When Hernandez and his coworkers transform slabs of engineered stone into the puzzle pieces of counters and shower walls, countless nanosized silica particles are released — so small they can penetrate respirators and pass directly into the lungs. Now these workers are suing manufacturers.

The SCORE Act is a union-busting bill that would diminish the voices and job protections of college athletes. College athletes are workers, too. They put in unmatched effort so schools can rake in millions. Congress must reject the SCORE Act and protect athletes’ NIL rights.

How many other small agencies are suffering these death-by-a-thousand-cuts scenarios? How many other lifesaving regulations have been put on ice or buried entirely? How many more workers’ lives are at risk because a Trump drone picked an agency name off a list? inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

Unbelievable! Detention centers are exploiting immigrant workers with $1 per day pay. It could take a detainee more than 2 days of work to buy a bar of soap, and more than 3 days to get a can of tuna. Meanwhile, detention center contractors are profiting from this exploitation.

neoliberalism is d-

I filed for unemployment for the first time when I was fired last year, and never got past MD's broken identity-verification system. I was the most famous fired person in America at the time, and a 20-year career bureaucrat, but I found another job before I ever successfully filed a UI claim.

"your and I's time"

"A hiring startup [MERCOR] that supplies workers to train artificial intelligence models for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta has misclassified more than 30,000 workers as independent contractors to avoid paying payroll taxes and benefits" www.law360.com/employment-a...?

"Recent results from large meta-analyses... suggest that the effects of nudges and other individualistic interventions are disappointingly small." That the Obama administration pissed away ~4 years on this is part of the reason we're here. theconversation.com/nudge-theory...

"Natural hierarchy": it's rare I see it so clearly spelled out in the "college isn't for everyone" discourse. From the hellsite:

Just sayin . . www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

Another multimillion dollar award to an artificial stone worker who developed silicosis. This case is paticularly tragic - he worked in a fabrication shop owned by his parents When will Cambria and other manufacturers stop selling this deadly product?

Is it just me, or is Maine's labor department actively encouraging independent contractor misclassification of kids as a way to skirt #childlabor rules? www.penbaypilot.com/article/guid...

Hop off this trend, people. There's nothing remotely "jammy" about soft-boiled eggs. www.jezebel.com/eggs-get-a-h...

Occupational exposures to pesticides are already linked with cognitive impairment. A new study suggest that ag exposures may play a role in Alzheimer’s for both men & women, with the highest risks associated with pesticide use in certain livestock and crop activities. www.sjweh.fi/article/4284

Recall: Then-Senator Obama felt bad voting against John Roberts--that it was a close call. His attribution of positive traits to Roberts was clearly wrong then and looks even worse in retrospect. So many of the Obama faults as president rest in similar misjudgment. www.wsj.com/articles/SB1...

Republicans have spent decades arguing that presidents must have total control to direct the work of executive agencies Congrats, now legal motions filed by the government sound like Trump wrote them on the toilet ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

According to the AFL-CIO's latest report, roughly 380 workers die every day in America due to unsafe working conditions. This Workers Memorial Day, we honor and remember those who have lost their lives on the job, and recommit to preventing these tragedies.

New report on extreme cuts to worker safety agency- lowest number of OSHA inspectors ever. It would take 191 years for OSHA to inspect every workplace just once. Many states it would be over 200 years. Mine safety cut. Worker safety rights in jeopardy. This is disgraceful.

Our 2026 Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect report is here. 380 U.S. workers die EACH DAY from hazardous working conditions. That’s unacceptable. A safe workplace is a right, and we’ll keep fighting to make that a reality. aflcio.org/dotj

Based on their social feed, the Washington Post appears to have become one big Hints from Heloise.

What about the fucking service staff? You're going to force them to keep working after that. Just so these assholes can dryhumping their egos? That's beyond cruel.