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slittlehale.bsky.social
Build Housing, Protect All Workers, Organize. California construction labor union research analyst and campaigner since 2003. Research finds that union membership, collective bargaining, and quality jobs are good for people and society, actually.
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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 1007 comments

Here is a fact that may surprise #HousingSky: Construction worker compensation hasn't been driving increasing costs of construction, at least not according to data from the gold standard gov't data source, the Economic Census Leaving this pic of one subsector to comment on later, after a dog walk.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

DOGE claims to have cut $55 billion in federal spending. An analysis by the Journal projects the actual savings could be closer to $2.6 billion, 2% of which would have gone to DEI-related projects. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 1 day ago • 254 comments

Scenes from the American egg-pocalypse

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Meant to tag @edzarenski.bsky.social, not the other Ed Z on here. (Again, sorry about that!)

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Construction Inflation 2025 Data updated to Q4'24. All index tables and plots revised to BASE 2024 = 100 (all previous tables were base 2019) Latest PPI data included, Inputs and Final Demand Residential, Nonres Bldgs and Non-bldg Infrastructure Indices edzarenski.com/2025/02/21/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

District 2 is the big blue thing

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The idea that the führer embodies the constitution is fascism fair and square.

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Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

LET’S GOOOOOO GEORGIA 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 Rich McCormick (R) town hall in Roswell. People are LIVID over #doge and #CDC cuts *sorry, had to cut off 4 secs to make video fit. Source: @bluestein.bsky.social twitter

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

submitted 2 days ago • 197 comments

Nice housing industry you've got here ... it'd be a shame if something were to happen to it.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Again I am begging people in the media to note the legality of these actions in their headlines or blurbs. A post office is literally written into the constitution.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

it happens here

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

@nytimes.com , your headline and summary writers/editors seem to be on a mission to tempt me continuously to unsubscribe. Change. Like now.

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🧵 👋 I'm a political scientist who wrote a book about the recent collapse of two democracies (Egypt & Tunisia). Given the anxieties of today, let me present a 🧵 with thoughts & resources for: WHAT TO DO IF YOUR DEMOCRACY COLLAPSES:

submitted 34 days ago • 222 comments

New 🧵: A Brief History of Coups What do we mean when we talk about a coup? Is what Trump doing a coup? Has the coup already occurred? In this thread I'll provide some insight from research in comparative politics. (1/9)

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This is what happens when you set a bunch of gullible zealots loose on a database. No attention to detail, zero care to understand the data, no validation, not even sanity checks. This is not just a small oversight, it’s symptomatic of a larger problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I proudly join with 857 other researchers & organizations in signing this urgent letter from @amstatnews.bsky.social to the US Administration Slashing support for our national statistics system will "undermine major economic and policy decisions" Letter—> www.amstat.org/docs/default...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Let's see how the intrepid Elon inspired team at DOGE - the folks who are currently examining your tax records - are doing! Today they put up their their idea of "open data" which they call a "Wall of Receipts". And look here - two cancelled DEIA contracts for $9,999,999. Wow, they saved $20M! 1/

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 5 days ago • 846 comments

Another shameful exhibit in the case against "political" journalism. Reduce budget lines for "political" editors and reporteds, redirect to investigations (Lipton, Craig, et al.) and people with sources inside bureaucracies that do the real work of government.

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Feeling safer. "The [FAA] employees were fired 'without cause nor based on performance or conduct,' Spero said, and the emails were 'from an ‘exec order’ Microsoft email address' — not a government email address." www.kqed.org/news/12027453

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent point not often talked about enough! (Speaking ss a person raised as part of the bourgeois classes who has worked over 1/3 of my life with an organization by and for members of the working class)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 6 days ago • 317 comments

Our federal institutions are, on balance, tilted against workers and their rights.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments