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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

Anthropology at its best: Lays crisp flavours from around the world. laysaroundtheworld.com

It’s amazing how smart people like Ezra Klein fail to see the significance of the Eric Adams case. In an operational democracy, it would indeed be a disaster for the president; in our current autocratic logic, it could very well make Trump stronger.

A warning from the English author and poet Michael Rosen, written in 2014.

A handwritten letter on my illustration work desk to my local MP, Mel Stride, asking him to help UK children's book illustrators keep our copyright during the current AI policy consultation ✍️ @mrsteveantony.bsky.social @alcs-uk.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social (Typed out in the alt text)

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed.

Hey J.D., Yale called and wants its law degree back! Cartoon by @knecessary.bsky.social

Grease up those lampposts, Philadelphia.

Another Friday bomb dropped on us by Trump/Musk. It’s a change in NIH funding rules that sounds boring and administrative, but is actually a big deal. When a professor gets a grant for a research project, the university charges “indirect costs” to the funding agency.

Expect to see this repeated here in the US in advance of the 2026 midterms, but with little pushback from the Trump Administration and social media platforms. It will be up to NGOs and media to at least sound the alarms. www.politico.eu/article/germ...

M. Sasek was a god-tier illustrator from the mid 20th century, whose work is still cherished in the illustration and animation communities.

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

If @mayorwu.boston.gov must go testify to the House Oversight Ctte next month (an obvious trap) she should counter their optics by bringing her new baby along and testifying with him on her lap - pointedly asking them what kind of tyrannical government separates children from their mothers.

❤️ this hulking oddly lovable lummox of a structure ❤️

The use of "stampede" to describe crowd crush incidents, implying culpability (usually wrongly) and/or backwardness on the part of those involved, is a terrible frame and should be retired from reporting.