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IBEW member in San Diego. Vegan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capital
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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 23 hours ago • 158 comments

The police misconduct database has been eliminated by the Department of Justice on Trump‘s order. America just became a much more dangerous place, particularly for people of color. As we know that they are disproportionately affected by police brutality. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 92 comments

I missed this one: CNN filed a FOIA request for some information about DOGE accessing records at the office of personnel management, and someone from OPM wrote back saying "Good luck with that, they just fired the whole privacy team." newrepublic.com/post/191663/...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Not that everyone isn’t out there doing everything they can think of to try to change this from happening, but the window to shift public opinion enough to do so is rapidly closing. Dude’s got his AG, FBI director, and they’re removing anyone who won’t follow orders from the military.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Pretty sure that nobody seeing this needs to be told what’s happening but in terms of time frame.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

submitted 4 days ago • 170 comments

Here are the links to freeze your credit, for reasons: TransUnion— www.transunion.com/credit-freez...

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

It is important to celebrate the wins when we get them.🥳 President Donald Trump’s administration halted defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after Democracy Forward, on behalf of the city of Baltimore and a nonprofit, filed a lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 7 days ago • 227 comments

social housing polling *incredibly* well in seattle right now 3/4 of voters want to fund social housing. nearly 2/3 just voted in ~$50M a year w/ a progressive revenue tax to fund permanently affordable, mixed income, family friendly, and climate adaptive housing. cc @aoc.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

‘Europe must engage meaningfully in the negotiations for a @un.org #TaxConvention’ @josephestiglitz.bsky.social at the Oxfam conference in Rome, also joined by @jayatighosh.bsky.social & @martinguzman.bsky.social. ‘It's probably a good thing that 🇺🇸 left the negotiating table,' he added. #TaxThePower

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Unrelated to everything else going on: kind of love this actually.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Damon Hininger, CEO of private prison giant Core Civic, just told investors: " I've worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career ... we're anticipating .. the most significant growth in our company's history." theintercept.com/2025/02/11/c...

submitted 9 days ago • 168 comments

The Acting Solicitor General has notified Congress of DOJ's intent to ask #SCOTUS to overrule Humphrey's Executor—a major 1935 ruling upholding the independence of agencies like the FCC, FTC, NLRB, etc. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc... Because *less* independence is what we need...

submitted 9 days ago • 379 comments

I’m not an authoritative source to talk about this, but… tariffs to encourage either domestic investment in equipment or training and subsequent domestic job creation is one thing.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t know about y’all, but I’m starting to think the only thing that kept the planes from crashing before was diversity.

submitted 11 days ago • 268 comments

I can't think of a better time to share our story about organizing a union at Twitter during Musk’s takeover—and the lessons we learned from witnessing his playbook up close. (new post with Clarissa Redwine) highvalueadded.substack.com/p/control-ov...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

As an informational note, one of AOC’s former chiefs of staff is running against Nancy Pelosi in the midterm. For anyone who doesn’t think we may be having midterms though, this seems like a good strategic way to focus time and resources.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Let’s be real though: I love that the Super Bowl creates an arbitrary opportunity for the whole country to sit down collectively and do something together, but for anyone who cares about the game, you have to be rooting for Philadelphia, right?

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment