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“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 8 days ago • 289 comments

Every union should be echoing this statement.

submitted 9 days ago • 89 comments

BREAKING: DOJ refuses to provide Judge Chutkan with any numbers regarding last Friday's firings. DOJ also refuses to make any commitment regarding what "personnel actions" the seven agencies at issue — OPM, Education, Labor, HHS, Energy, Transportation, Commerce — might take in the next two weeks.

submitted 9 days ago • 78 comments

For people that work in tech only. An important clarification on what federal employees mean when they say "probationary period." In tech, we're very reluctant to promote an engineer from say, level 5 to level 6, until we have enough time to know that the level 6 performance is sustainable.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

To be clear, no career staffers means no guardrails, no data security and, ultimately, no Social Security.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

The devastating fires in Patagonia, Argentina have engulfed 90k acres (California fires 59k) and likewise have displaced whole communities. Please consider supporting and widely sharing this gofundme . 🙏 www.gofundme.com/f/internatio...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 15 days ago • 421 comments

Guy Christensen restores my hope that my own generation tends to remove. I hate having to link to IG but until I figure out another solution for longer videos, it'll have to do. "Why Trump Saved Tiktok: His Secret Deal With Jeff Yass, a TikTok Billionaire" www.instagram.com/p/DF60fVVNt7T/

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 18 days ago • 131 comments

i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them

submitted 30 days ago • 1475 comments

“a rich old man [Hermann Weil] dies; disturbed at the poverty in the world, in his will he leaves a large sum to set up an institute which will do research on the source of this poverty, which is, of course, himself.” Brecht on the funder of The Frankfurt School.

submitted 49 days ago • 7 comments

NYTimes was the most credulous, calling 2012 “the year of the MOOC” Soon the major companies (edX, Coursera) were bankrupt, bought out, and/or never made money. In subsequent realignments, arts + humanities paid the price for universities’ bad investments. The end. www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/e...

submitted 44 days ago • 21 comments

My bet is the incoming administration goes for one big bill a la Milei in Argentina. All eyes on social security, medicare, labor,and climate. Everything else, e.g Greenland, Gulf of America, etc. is norm -breaking distraction and spectacle as per uze, while the oligarchs rob the people blind.

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How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic kffhealthnews.org/MTk1OTA5OQ

submitted 56 days ago • 25 comments

Rest in Peace, Rickey. Before Shohei came along this was the best all around player of my lifetime. Childhood hero stuff too. So sad he’s gone

submitted 67 days ago • 11 comments

he was so entertaining and such a goofster that we tend not to think of him this way, but rickey henderson was flat out one of the very greatest american athletes who's ever lived

submitted 67 days ago • 62 comments

Still sitting with the loss of a childhood sports hero. Getting deeper into the accomplishments/stats of Rickey Henderson, I don’t think we have fully recognized what a singular, amazing athletic phenomenon he was. RIP Legend.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

At the scene of the Amazon strike: The NYPD has now erected barricades to allow Amazon contractors to enter and leave the distribution center, helping Amazon break the picket line.

submitted 69 days ago • 262 comments

On the scene of the Amazon strike in Maspeth, the NYPD is trying to break the picket, engaging in arrests of union members and engaging in physical confrontations with workers and their supporters.

submitted 69 days ago • 311 comments

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

submitted 69 days ago • 1007 comments

"We think it odd that a man should devote his life to writing poems but natural that he should devote it to inducing children to breakfast on Crunchies instead of Krispies..." - Dwight MacDonald, being surly and lovely, as usual

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submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I once had a professor ask “Why is there a Business section in the newspaper but not a Labor section?” My classmates and I probably rolled our eyes, but damned if I haven’t remembered that question every few days for 30 years now.

submitted 82 days ago • 62 comments

I convinced my friends asking unanswerable questions was the only way to live. Then when I get sentenced to death as a moral pervert, they arrange a prison break. But I end up talking all night about why it just shows they didn’t learn a damn thing and off myself right there in front of them. AITA?

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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

submitted 341 days ago • 997 comments

"My thesis supervisor Jürgen Habermas has told me recently he would not have succeeded in today's academia. He has never applied for a grant in his life and he writes long books" - Patrizia Nanz, President of the European University Institute, in a speech today

submitted 104 days ago • 10 comments

It's bittersweet that this skeet got so many likes. Many value what we're doing at CUNY, but we've been defunded for years leading to understaffing in every office including my polisci dept, fin aid, academic advisement. We're all doing the jobs of 2-3 peeps while we flame out. 1/

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

In grad school I had the good fortune of teaching regularly at Hunter and La Guardia (under the amazing John Chaffee). I absolutely loved teaching there: the students, the ethos, the commitment. I still have the shirt a first-gen Greek grandmother gave me at the end of a class. Fund it to the skies

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

I am the daughter of a NYC firefighter and registered nurse. Attending CUNY Hunter allowed my family to send me to college without debt. We must protect public higher ed.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Alisdair MacIntyre’s opening paragraph to “Is a science of comparative politics possible?” remains undefeated:

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Post an onion headline that lives in your head rent-free theonion.com/wikipedia-ce...

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Transactional Nature by @brendanjh.bsky.social www.academia.edu/125576017/Tr...

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This audio of the end of WWI from the Imperial War Museum always stuns me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwis...

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

we’ve had a whole lot of twitter exoduses before but this one sure feels sustainable in a way others have not, it doesn’t seem to be slowing down and I’m seeing a whole lot of communities on here I’ve never seen before I hope everyone stays

submitted 108 days ago • 436 comments