Bob Shull
@bobhasathought.bsky.social
Workers' rights, social justice, all that jazz. If I've blocked you despite not knowing you, it's probably because you were aggressively stupid somewhere.
Research from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health released this week has confirmed what many in the Appalachian coalfields knew to be true: black lung rates are higher than they have been in 50 years. www.npr.org/2026/08/05/n...
Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick
Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.
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New study: Veteran coal miners in central Appalachia are suffering from black lung at the highest rates in nearly 50 years. ONE IN THREE tested in the last 5 years showed black lung. publichealthwatch.org/2026/08/05/b...
New Study: Black Lung Disease Rate in Appalachia Is the Worst in 50 Years as Coal Miner Protections Stall - Public Health Watch
It's now as bad as it was in the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying.
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Severe Covid leads to persistent viral reactivation, with >10 different viruses noted in the first 40 days after hospital admission. Long Covid was specifically associated with reactivation of latent Anelloviridae virus @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 - Nature
Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prog...
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The "What's New on @netflix.com" list that just updated is a giant wall of crapola and content recycled from YouTube.
Trump Administration Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c...
Trump Administration Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections
The Biden administration took steps to shield workers from extreme temperatures. The Trump administration is taking a gentler approach with employers.
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Agentic AI is introducing enormous productivity gains into the process of losing money
Good thread on how the government’s H2A program turned migrant farmworkers into little more than trafficked slaves, the 2024 reforms that mitigated the abuse, and last year’s Trump directive(see below) that stripped away those reforms. cdmigrante.org/trump-dol-ro...
Trump administration strips worker protections for farmworkers recruited to work in the U.S. on H-2A visas
Last Friday, the Department of Labor (DOL) quietly suspended enforcement of its 2024 rule which strengthened protections for farmworkers recruited to work in the United States through the H-2A agricul...
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Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d agoYeah I did food safety audits for a farm down there (southern GA) that DID NOT hire local H2A contract crews. They jumped through all the hoops to hire their own crew, direct from the consulate in Mexico, & charter a bus from the consulate drive the crew up themselves. For protection, basically.
Just read the goddamn cases. For fuck’s sake, do your job. www.abajournal.com/web/article/...
How to use AI but steer clear of hallucinated cases
The ABA Journal is the flagship publication of the American Bar Association. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.
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The district has now decided to pause after I asked them to comment on the union's position asking for a pause and asked the state education dept for comment
Michael Sainato@msainato.bsky.social · 2w agoThe teachers' union at the New York high school set to have a humanoid robot this fall speaks out for the first time here I also talked to locals and @nysut.bsky.social president Melinda Pearson www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
How many Abundance types want to say YIMBY to nuclear waste dumps? www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Leaked document reveals White House nuclear waste plan
The Trump administration is seeking to move past Yucca Mountain as the nation’s sole repository and store waste in willing states.
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🚨Have you felt sick after handling Starbucks’ silica-based blending powder? If you're a barista, reach out to us. If you're a Starbucks customer, we urge you to STOP BUYING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes union contracts with the protections and improvements we need.
What are Republicans thinking as they try to kill a federal OSHA heat protection standard that would protect workers from excessive heat? Nothing good and nothing honest. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
Republicans Try to Smother OSHA Heat Standard Under General Duty Clause - Confined Space
Republicans try to kill an OSHA heat standard in favor of misguided reliance on the General Duty Clause.
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This federal pre-emption move is giving off early Uber Kalanick vibes.
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2w agoInteresting: DoorDash is supporting the GOP bill in Congress to limit D.C.'s ability to increase or decrease taxes and fees, largely in response to the D.C. Council's recent vote in impose a new 20-cent delivery fee to help fund food-access programs. www.notus.org/metro/uberea...
Most American employers use some kind of non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Once limited to protecting trade secrets, they have grown broader over time – but at what cost to others? In a recent paper, @aaronsojourner.org, Jason Sockin, and @evanpstarr.bsky.social investigate. https://bit.ly/4f5f3UK
How broad non-disclosure agreements leave job seekers in the dark
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NEW: The number of Amazon workers on food stamps or Medicaid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025. The number of Uber, DoorDash, Lyft and other gig workers on these benefits also exploded. Read @rachellerman.bsky.social and me. washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Amazon, gig companies see spike in workers on SNAP and Medicaid, study shows
Amazon workers on federal aid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025, while ride-hailing and food delivery drivers shot up on lists compiled by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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A list of best travel movies without PALM BEACH STORY, SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS, or THE LADY EVE? Nope, nope, nope. viewfromthewing.com/the-13-best-...
The 13 Best Travel Movies Ever Made — And Die Hard 2 Absolutely Belongs On The List
I was debating the best travel movies and here is my own list. It's going to weigh heavily towards planes and airports but I've also given some thought to being in an unfamiliar place and growing as a...
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every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act
I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."
Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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Employees often know quality problems before the market does. Using 4.3 million Glassdoor reviews to build a new measure of firm quality that predicts recalls, brand value, and profitability, from Wei Cai, Dennis Campbell, Yaxuan Chen, Yufei Chen, and Andrea Prat www.nber.org/papers/w35348
it was literature pub quiz night and our team name "flowers for algae gone" didn't get a single laugh, this isn't the country i grew up in
The question mark at the end is the correct punctuation.
I thought we had to weaken our public safety and environmental laws because we lacked an abundance of housing. No? You don't say.
NPR@npr.org · 2mo agoAbout 40% of rentals on Zillow offer move-in deals, like a month of free rent, thanks to a construction boom that created an apartment surplus in some parts of the United States.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Keep Natalie Wood. Swap Dyan Carroll with Miss Piggy. Replace Robert Culp and Elliott Gould with Statler and Waldorf.
Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.
Never before have I been so riveted by scaffolding going up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm...
LIVE: See Donald Trump's name come off the Kennedy Center as it happens
YouTube video by MS NOW
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