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“We’ve seen a massive increase in new membership,” Lauren Lieb, NTEU Chapter 340 president and chief steward, told Labor Notes Organizer Joe DeManuelle-Hall. “Including former holdouts who are finally coming on board and getting really engaged.” labornotes.org/2025/02/fede...

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It’s time to take back our country. Not only from this authoritarian nightmare, but also from the collaborators too insipid and weak and chickenshit — too skinless and boneless — to stand up for us. the.ink/p/essay-home...

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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 10 days ago • 310 comments

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

submitted 12 days ago • 935 comments

Imagine if university presidents instead of cowering, called up their faculty too speak in a round-the-clock marathon across the nation about how their research serves every American who has ever faced illness and disease.

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

It’s time to start wrapping our heads around the real possibility that collective action and even a general strike are required. Musk is working fast to solidify control, do as much damage as possible, and party “opposition” is not up to the fight. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/collective...

submitted 15 days ago • 78 comments

Very happy that a city I both like and am completely terrified of won

submitted 13 days ago • 124 comments

Super Bowl blowouts usually suck but this one is a work of art, just a complete middle finger to everything that’s happening

submitted 13 days ago • 307 comments

I bring good tidings... uk.news.yahoo.com/asteroid-hit...

submitted 15 days ago • 1647 comments

Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic. This is devastating

submitted 15 days ago • 43 comments

This is precisely what Trump wanted: the appeals court for labor law is inert, but companies still have the option to appeal. Therefore, companies can just appeal to block election results and have them held up indefinitely. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/06/w...

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Please tell me the hill that you will die on, so that I can transport you there immediately

submitted 18 days ago • 68 comments

NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination. “We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”

submitted 18 days ago • 532 comments

“I’d like to think that no matter how much an A.I. version of Moe or Snake or Chief Wiggum will sound like my voice, something will still be missing: the humanness,” writes Hank Azaria.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

It’s time to stop making excuses for Democrats. Or overlooking the gazillionaire insider traders, the ones who won’t retire, the encrusted committee chairs, the party committee that isn’t an actual organization, the donor bottle service legislators, and everyone who won’t fight and doesn’t know how.

submitted 24 days ago • 21 comments

Genuine question Democratic lawmakers should answer: Do you personally believe you are an extraordinary leader able to meet this moment? If not, would you be willing to make way for someone less compromised, less afraid, and less mediocre to rise?

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

Workers at a Philly Whole Foods have just released the results of their union election—AND THEY WON!!!! 130-100, baby! 🦅 Philadelphia is now home to the first unionized Whole Foods Market in the U.S. One down, 500 more to go!

submitted 26 days ago • 82 comments

Solidarity with the Whole Foods workers who made history today with their union election! Workers deserve a Whole Paycheck!

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

The greasing of the poles has begun, go Birds baby!!!!!

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

1st career TD in an NFC Championship Game. You'll always remember this one, willshipley2021! 💚

submitted 27 days ago • 24 comments

EAGLES TO THE SUPERBOWL!!! #FlyEaglesFly

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Bye bye “Commanders.” lol #FlyEaglesFly

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

There they are again. Saturn slowly sliding past Venus. Venus pretending not to notice. 🧪

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

life in Philly is just better when the Birds are winning

submitted 41 days ago • 12 comments

This is really unsettling.

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

It's notable that there's been far more liberal/Democratic Party reprisals, hate & anger directed at Bernie Sanders & people who worked for/supported him than there's been liberal/Democratic Party reprisals, hate & anger directed at people who got rich losing two winnable elections to Donald Trump.

submitted 43 days ago • 12 comments

Shocked that “a one-time employee of a major corporation” could be a bad person

submitted 51 days ago • 12 comments

“There hasn’t been a year that I’ve worked at Amazon where we haven’t broken a record in the number of packages we’ve handled,” Ken Coates, an Amazon worker who packs orders at the JFK8 facility in Staten Island, told Labor Notes Organizer @nataschaelena.bsky.social: labornotes.org/2024/12/amaz...

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Was honored to have the chance to write about the legacy of Jimmy Carter’s presidency for @jacobinmag.bsky.social. Though his life was an admirable one, his presidency is part of a sadder story. May he rest in peace. jacobin.com/2024/12/jimm...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

The new generation of young, diverse, fired-up worker-organizers around the country are embracing one of the oldest tactics in the pro-union handbook: salting. My latest for @teenvogue.bsky.social: www.teenvogue.com/story/what-i...

submitted 54 days ago • 42 comments

Rest in peace, Jimmy Carter. Thank you for being one of the remarkable people who demonstrated that what's often thought of as time for retirement is when some among us reach their prime. Thank you for your feminism, your advocacy for Palestinians, your hands-on Habitat for Humanity work....

submitted 55 days ago • 12 comments

Trump frightens me but I don't want to criticize him because that could hurt my net worth. I have never felt more politically homeless.

submitted 70 days ago • 50 comments

In all the talk about UnitedHealth, there's been one missing discussion: its primary partner in Medicare and Medicare Advantage, which leverages its massive audience to steer to the insurer, is AARP. This never gets enough attention. Bob Kuttner shines the light: prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

submitted 73 days ago • 37 comments

"If the Left and progressive groups largely view Democrats as allies — rather than as political opponents," asks @keeanga.bsky.social in this new piece, "then how do they imagine they might leverage their political influence to make Democrats meet their demands?" inthesetimes.com/article/prog...

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

Where McKinsey may once have been the go-to destination for clients looking for consulting advice, it’s since become something else entirely: a consigliere for despots looking to entrench their regimes, enrich themselves, and endanger the rest of us in the process. newrepublic.com/article/1889...

submitted 73 days ago • 8 comments

There is a deep American tendency to think violence can either be deplored or explained. But we don’t have the luxury of either-or. We’re going to have to do both in the age of system pessimism and go-it-alone violence that is upon us. open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...

submitted 73 days ago • 8 comments

How completely interpellated into neoliberal logic/proactively invested in ideologizing on its behalf do you have to be to read the response to this event as a “grim twist”?

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

nobody saw nothin

submitted 77 days ago • 70 comments

"time's up capitalism" ?

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

The Democratic Party is trying to serve two masters—the people and the corporate donors. And until it picks the people over its corporate masters, the Democratic Party will keep losing. My latest in @Newsweek www.newsweek.com/democrats-wi...

submitted 78 days ago • 32 comments

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submitted 79 days ago • 17 comments

one of the leading causes of preventable death in America is murder by corporate spreadsheet

submitted 79 days ago • 8 comments

A reminder: the official term for the percentage of premiums that health insurers pay out for care is called the “medical loss ratio.” Our care, their loss.

submitted 79 days ago • 7 comments

The last day or so has reinforced my belief that there is a sleeping giant in this country: anti-corporate populism that goes hard and hard welcomes the hatred of oligarchs. And it’s waiting for real representation.

submitted 79 days ago • 12 comments