Days since tim apple screwed me personally by changing a text after I hit send: 0
Zachary Barber
@barberza.bsky.social
Organizer, Unionist, Writer, Accordionist Present: OPEIU Past: PennEnvironment Pittsburgh https://barberza.medium.com/
Tempetatures over 100 F? Not enough to stop Austin devs from showing up today! #SaveOurDevs
emilio g@emiliog.bsky.social · 5d agowe marched in the heat, we marched in the rain. we'll march in wind, we'll march in ice. we'll always be ready to remind Xbox and Microsoft leadership that we make the games and the money, while all they seem to make is mistakes. they can't reinvent a business they don't understand. #SaveOurDevs
Workers fought for generations to win the right to organize, bargain collectively, and speak up at work. Now, the NLRB may roll back precedents protecting those rights. We cannot let corporate interests turn back the clock on working people.
US Labor Board Gains Republican Majority for Legal Shifts (1)
The National Labor Relations Board’s Republican majority will soon unlock the ability to move labor law precedents in an employer-friendly direction now that the Senate confirmed a third GOP board mem...
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S&P 500 CEOs received $340.1 million on average in 2025, about a 1,700% increase over the previous year. Who else got a 1,700% raise last year? Raise your hand! aflcio.org/paywatch
Executive Paywatch - 2026 | AFL-CIO
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James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.
🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others
Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00
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If only there were some way to see this coming... federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...
After returning to the office, federal employees report low productivity, morale | Federal News Network
In a Federal News Network online survey, over three-quarters of respondents said they are less productive now than they were prior to returning to the office.
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are young people today aware that there was an active effort 20-25 years ago to stop depicting smoking as cool and glamorous because people got tired of watching their loved ones die of cancer and heart disease from something preventable? seems like classic history repeating itself stuff
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · last mo.I genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here.
Remember this next time someone tries to sell you on huge consolidation efforts. www.techtimes.com/articles/319...
Xbox Fires Thousands, Shuts Five Studios in Largest Gaming Layoff in Years
Xbox layoffs 2026 hit Microsoft’s gaming division on July 6 as five studios face closure after Game Pass accounting denied them retail revenue despite player milestones. Microsoft spent $20 billion on...
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I invite everyone to join me in celebrating 250 years of the United States by watching one of the best reflections on america and what it means to be american, @noahgervais.bsky.social's Lincoln Highway travelogue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmFQ...
The Lincoln Highway: Across America on the First Transcontinental Motor Route
YouTube video by Noah Caldwell-Gervais
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Millions forced off healthcare, while the rest of us face higher costs and worse options. Anyone who voted for the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" helped worsen the affordability crisis. Remember this when they promise to "tackle" it in a few months.
AFL-CIO@aflcio.org · 2mo agoMore than 3 MILLION people have been forced off their health insurance because of the big, ugly bill. ACA health insurance costs have spiked by 58%. The Trump admin and their allies in Congress made health insurance completely unaffordable.
Days since microsoft thing randomly stopped working for no discernible reason: 0
Literally every other constitutional democracy in the world places term or age limits on their justices. We are a phenomenally stupid exception. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
Life Tenure for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Is a Global Oddity with Clear Costs
Compared to other democracies, the United States is an outlier in granting life tenure to justices, producing diminishing returns and mounting costs.
brennancenter.org
Sam Hulick@samhulick.com · 2mo agoLifetime appointments are utter nonsense. It was enacted at a time when the life expectancy was around 40-50 yrs old, so judges didn't really serve long. Plus, they could be removed if they weren't on "good behavior," whatever that means. By that standard, half of today's court would be pulled.
The Supreme Court upheld that every child born in the United States is a citizen of the United States, rejecting the Trump admin's attempt to divide working people and attack immigrant families who are part of our communities, workplaces and unions. https://bit.ly/4v9S9S2
The fight against segregation did not end with Plessy v Ferguson. The fight against transphobia (which in this case is bullying kids for not fitting in) will not stop at today's ruling.
BREAKING: In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that "geofence warrants," which allow law enforcement to collect sweeping smartphone location data over a broad area, constitute an "unreasonable search" and violate the Fourth Amendment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
Law enforcement’s use of warrants sweeping smartphone location data requires privacy protections, court rules
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We applaud SCOTUS' decision in Chatrie v. United States. The Court reaffirmed that you have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and that even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment. (1/3)
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The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda seeks to pit working people against each other—but the labor movement rejects that politics of fear. Congress must protect TPS holders and create a swift pathway to citizenship for the people whose work helps our country prosper.
197-5 is an eye-widening vote for a substantive bill in the PA House... sign of the popularity of "data centers"
Stephen Caruso@stephenjcaruso.bsky.social · 2mo agoNews: A bill to end a multi-billion sales tax exemption for the data center industry in Pennsylvania has passed the state House 197-5, capping a week in which the chamber approved a raft of bills restricting an industry facing wide grassroots blowback.
Through a new proposed rule at the USPS, Trump is trying to limit who can vote by mail at a time when historic levels of people depend on it to express their voices / I joined @apwu.bsky.social in submitting a comment that makes it clear workers will not be silenced through this anti-democratic move
The American Postal Workers Union@apwu.bsky.social · 3mo agoTake action to support vote-by-mail here: usmailnotforsale.org/support/
At our 30th AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention, delegates adopted a bold mandate for the years ahead. 2 million new union members. 16 million union voters mobilized in 2026. A labor movement ready to take on corporate greed and build an economy that works for working people.
Following Constitutional Convention, AFL-CIO Releases Labor Movement’s Agenda to Build Worker Power, Fight Corporate Greed and Strengthen Democracy | AFL-CIO
The Package of Resolutions Includes Programmatic and Policy Priorities Unanimously Adopted by the Federation’s 65 Affiliated Unions
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Committing to a day 1 commutation for these people has to be the floor for any presidential candidates in 2028, in my opinion.
Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is horrifying. People getting sentenced to decades in prison for distributing zines, organizing mutual aid efforts, public protest.
It's wild how much of the PA media + political landscape uncritically use industry's advertising language to describe gambling machines as "skill games." Industry LOST that argument before the state's highest court, so we do not have to make that argument for them. Hit em with the old "so called"!
Springdale man released from ICE detention center 4 months after traffic stop arrest. buff.ly/lEv1bSM
Springdale man released from ICE detention center 4 months after traffic stop arrest
Four months after a traffic stop arrest, Randy Cordova Flores was released from ICE custody.
publicsource.org
Demonschool DLC!!! Coming this year! It's focused on "puzzle battles," which present you with specific setups that must be solved within one turn. This is surrounded by a new sidequest story and capped with a new boss. Also coming in 2026: Switch 2!! With full mouse control and improved framerate!