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let me be blunt: is there a labor crisis in america today?
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The two people being assigned are Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh, who recently gutted the National Endowment for the Humanities among other small, independent agencies

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where my fellow ERISA-head at

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one thing i saw someone point out recently is that alongside a provision to appoint a prosecutor, judges are also empowered to essentially deputize their own marshals

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

Big news for fired federal workers: Groups like the AFL-CIO, We The Action and Democracy Forward have launched Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network to connect you with lawyers to help you understand your rights and get legal support. WorkersLegalDefense.org/

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

congratulations to harvard for doing the bare minimum it needs to do to survive as an institution in a way calculated to provide minimal aid to anyone else

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

if you disagree with these two, even politely, they will either try to get you fired from your job (in the case of Helen Lewis) or accuse you of bullying them into self-harm (Emma Burnell). I've seen the latter and personally been an attempted victim of the former

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“Then they came for the trade unionists“

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having a great time reading One Billion Americans: The Case For All My Sock Puppets by @mattyglesias.bsky.social

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what's the over/under on how long it'll be until one of these guys doing an immigration kidnapping gets shot by another cop

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Trump is agreeing with a foreign leader that a building trades member who was illegally removed from the United States is a terrorist. The Supreme Court agreed with the members union that he should be returned to the United States.

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decent chance trump does a truss, there's a blue wave, dems double down on doing austerity just like starmer, and we just keep shifting right

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fun fact: bringing up his association with epstein is an immediate block from pinker on twitter

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and melville was right to say it

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an incredibly minor dispiriting thing is the way the official coast guard account now regularly regime-posts on linkedin

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dunking on trumps physical exam just doesn’t hit the same after dems hid biden’s cognitive decline well into the general election

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you can safely ignore 9/10 of social media accounts with attorney in bio without losing anything of value

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

logging into bluesky in 2025 so i can do 2016 discourse but worse and dumber

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