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Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 6d ago

Making the editorial decision of excluding all trans people from an exclusive interview of a WNBA player known for her anti-trans views and relegating their responses and humanity to another article that will surely not get the same ballpark of views is the textbook definition of burying the lede

Meghan L. Hall@itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social · 6d ago

I have seen every comment/quote here, even the ones questioning my journalistic integrity. I hear you. I see you. I understand the frustration. Know that my work is not complete on this. I have more work coming that will cover how trans people and fans of the W are impacted. Stay tuned.

Marshall Project Guild@marshallprojectguild.org · 2w ago

Just Cause is the single most important issue to the majority of our unit — it's what protects us from retaliation and arbitrary termination, and empowers us to advocate for a better workplace. Here's why fair Just Cause matters so much to us, and what we're doing to fight for it 👇

Marshall Project Guild@marshallprojectguild.org · 4w ago

We put down our counterproposal for fair Just Cause this week with the majority of our unit at the table to support it — but not our CEO, who declined to attend bargaining. Read our full bargaining update for more, including the shocking healthcare increases we're being asked to shoulder:

We returned to bargaining on Monday to present the fair Just Cause counterproposal the workers of TMP deserve – many of those same workers came to the table in support. This proposal is foundational to our contract and absolutely critical to our members. It’s disappointing that while many of us (almost 70% of our unit!) made the effort to attend, our CEO did not. We are deeply invested in the future of TMP, and the Just Cause language we codify in our final contract has serious implications for that future. We invited Katrice to this session both in our previous shop paper and in follow up communications in the hopes that she, as the leader of the company’s long-term strategy and vision, would be a part of the conversation around Just Cause and listen directly to our concerns and demands. Management’s counsel, Eddie, declined on her behalf. Throughout the bargaining session, Eddie cited hypothetical scenarios, rather than directly addressing the working conditions at TMP. It would have been both productive and effective to instead speak with Katrice to address these scenarios with real context and specifics. Eddie repeatedly clarified that he, as the lead spokesperson of management’s bargaining committee, discusses and evaluates all proposals directly with senior leadership including our CEO. Management argues that our unique unwritten editorial guidelines make us an exception to industry-standard fair Just Cause. In reality, this argument protects their ability to invent and arbitrarily enforce those guidelines to then discipline and discharge workers as they see fit. What management fails to acknowledge is that the tenets of Just Cause embody the mission of our organization, the legacy of Thurgood Marshall, and the stories we tell. Fair Just Cause is the standard of fairness that we deserve in return. Following our Just Cause counter, we asked questions about the tumultuous state of healthcare and pressed management on the status of our Quotas and Metrics pr…✊ Just Cause / “Discipline and Discharge” Our initial Just Cause proposal – which relied on the industry-standard language “there shall be no discipline or dismissal without just and sufficient cause,” used by newsrooms including The New York Times, Reuters, and the Chicago Tribune – was countered by management with an alarming response in March. Their counter included loopholes allowing them to combine or even skip disciplinary steps and placed an incredibly high burden of proof on employees in the arbitration process, effectively making workers guilty until proven innocent. This is a regressive process, one that we rejected with our new counterproposal on Monday. Our counter enumerates the acceptable steps of progressive discipline and clarifies communication expectations. At its core, the counter relies on the seven tests of Just Cause. These tests already give supervisors the clear ability to discipline and terminate workers, as long as they follow due process. Management’s attempt to codify loopholes and undefined guidelines on top of these long-established legal tests is an unacceptable attempt to retain enormous subjective power to discipline and discharge workers. We remain committed to fair Just Cause and call on management to do the same. 🚑 Healthcare As you’re all aware, the cost of our United Health Care insurance plans provided by TriNet have increased for the second year in a row and the burden is being shouldered by employees. While we understand that the landscape of healthcare in America is complex, it’s insulting to sit across from management’s counsel and hear him insist that our care is not being downgraded. Many of our workers are now weighing major medical decisions – like how to continue to care for their families, if they can still afford to proceed with scheduled surgeries – against what would amount to a substantial pay cut. Any employee above the Basic EPO plan will have to cover 100% of the premium increase out of their own pocket, leading in some cases to out-of-pocket healthcare costs skyrocketing to more than $15,000 annually for members on the Standard Family plan. Management’s decision to shift extra costs onto employees punishes those with the most need, like people with families or chronic conditions, by allowing their premiums to increase by the greatest factor. And as workers making less money than managers, these costs are often even harder for us to absorb. Management insists that these changes are not a violation of status quo, because they have continued to contribute the same maximum dollar amount toward employee healthcare plans as they did before we began bargaining. It is the position of the workers of TMP that this constitutes a violation of status quo because our plan design, scope of coverage, and employee cost have all changed. The employer-covered healthcare the vast majority of us were promised in hiring has lost almost all of its value. Employees who paid nothing out of pocket in Fall 2024 for the UHC Standard plan are now offered the lesser UHC Basic plan for Fall 2026 unless they cover the difference out of pocket. This is a significant downgrade in standard of care for those who elect to remain on the employer-covered plan and a sharp cut in compensation…📈 Quotas & Metrics Management wholesale rejected our three previous proposals on Quotas and Metrics. When pressed again at the table on Monday about why, Eddie cited an earlier written rejection. He said if they did choose to respond, they would do so in the context of our Just Cause counterproposal. This is concerning as we believe any quotas, metrics or “expectations” for output may affect numerous aspects of our working conditions: workload, assignments, hours, etc., not just discipline. Eddie said that bargaining does not mean that they are required to offer us a counterproposal, only that they have to speak to their reasoning for rejecting proposals. Work Authorization We put down a counter on Work Authorization, which was formerly the Visas and Immigration proposal. We renamed the counter to better reflect the scope of the proposal, which isn’t limited to visas. In our newly proposed language, we responded to several of management’s concerns and refined the proposal to clarify required communication. We’ll wait to see how management responds. That’s all for updates today. Thanks to every worker who showed up in support of fair Just Cause, and to those who were sending support in our own channels. We’ll be back at the bargaining table next week on Thursday, August 6, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET.
Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · last mo.

April 2024, a Pomona College student after her school had her arrested for protesting for Gaza and BDS: “We stand unwavering in our demands, and we know that the things that have historically toppled apartheid states is pressure from institutions.” www.teenvogue.com/story/studen...

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: A majority of Democrats in the House have just voted to cut the $3.3 billion/year in U.S. military aid to Israel. Rep. Thomas Massie – the leader of the amendment – was the only Republican in support.

rachel@danascullyirl.bsky.social · last mo.

apropos of nothing, read this earlier this year and would really recommend — on the increasing threat of wildfires and the fire suppression efforts that respond to them bookshop.org/a/21722/9780...

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD GOLD MEDAL WINNER FINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND KIRKUS “Exceptional. . . . W...

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gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · last mo.

ive talked about this a little but it's been kind of crazy-making to watch testosterone and hormone therapy blow up and become a big body-hacking craze at the exact same time that it's being rolled back for trans people

StreetsblogMASS@mass.streetsblog.org · last mo.

SCOOP: In 2023-24, @mayorwu.boston.gov's streets cabinet IDed hazards and prepared safety improvement plans for the intersection where a driver killed Louisa Gag last week. But under her new second-term administration, those plans never got built. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/14/w...

Wu Administration Shelved Safety Plans For Mission Hill Streets Where Driver Killed Louisa Gag - Streetsblog Massachusetts

"We knew there were dangers. We had a plan to make it safer. It is blatantly irresponsible for the city to make a deliberate decision to not follow through."

mass.streetsblog.org

Jason Hickel@jasonhickel.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm proud to join over 100 economists in calling on the US to lift sanctions on Venezuela and unfreeze its assets following the June 24 earthquakes. Venezuela must be allowed to recover and rebuild. english.elpais.com/economy-and-...

Over 100 economists ask US to lift sanctions on Venezuela to ease the impact of the earthquakes

Academics call for a moratorium on Venezuelan debt, and urge the IMF to restore Caracas’ access to the Fund: ‘The emergency is human before it is political’

english.elpais.com

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"To lose her on a morning commute at an intersection the city has explicitly documented as dangerous for years is just an unmitigated tragedy, a systemic failure." Deaths like Louisa's occur because our leaders prioritize the convenience of drivers over the safety of pedestrians and cyclists.

‘Systemic failure’: Crash that killed Boston transit planner sparks furor over road safety efforts - The Boston Globe

Residents and public officials alike have been concerned about pedestrian and cyclist safety on the stretch of Tremont Street in Mission Hill near Parker Street for years.

bostonglobe.com

liz pelly@lizpelly.bsky.social · 2mo ago

a couple weeks late here but I really recommend this piece by @see-saw.fun on the Kings Road Merch Union in Minneapolis & major label union-busting (TLDR a merch warehouse was sold by Epitath to Sony, long-time workers/musicians unionized, now Sony plans to shut it down) see-saw.fun/minneapolis-...

minneapolis punks voted to unionize a merch warehouse. sony music plans to shut it down.

Kings Road employs punk artists and produces merch for some of the world’s biggest punk bands. The morning of the union’s first day of bargaining, owners Sony Music revealed plans to shutter the workp...

see-saw.fun

Gary R. Bunt@garyrbunt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm re-re-posting this significant article: "The open-source archive now contains more than 500,000 digitized photographs, identification papers, diaries, maps, films, and letters, many of which were collected directly from Palestinian families and might otherwise have been lost forever."

How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can’t Be Erased

Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.

wired.com

Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I’ve never met James Dolan... But, like, there does seem to be a bit of a pattern here,” @evangreer.bsky.social tells me, citing WIRED’s reporting on MSG’s minute-by-minute surveillance of a trans woman. “They just seem overly interested in queer and trans people in their venue.”

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 2mo ago

More blockbuster reporting on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance apparatus from @wired.com An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, including labeling those identified as “LGBTQIA.” …! By @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/madiso...

rachel@danascullyirl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

here's the GFM: gofund.me/519ac22fc

Donate to Support KCK Family's Relief Efforts in Venezuela, organized by Mark Garcia

Hi, my name is Mark and I am from the KC metro. I do a lot of work with t… Mark Garcia needs your support for Support KCK Family's Relief Efforts in Venezuela

gofund.me

utopia deferred@utopia-defer.red · 2mo ago

for those enjoying the Colombia game today please consider donating to a local Venezuelan family that is trying to raise funds quickly in order to transfer them over to in-laws in Colombia who are then going to transport it in-person to survivors in Caracas. Link in replies of original thread.

rachel@danascullyirl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

humiliating problem to have but there is a bird outside my apartment whose call sounds extremely similar to the "earning money" sound effect in stardew valley and it's making me insane. like a very stupid telltale heart reboot

Megan Greenwell@greenwell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her

The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”

politico.com

Marshall Project Guild@marshallprojectguild.org · 2mo ago

An update from the bargaining table: on 7/1 we put down two new proposals and two counters, and received one counter from management. Stay tuned for our next bargaining session on 7/27; we're inviting our CEO Katrice Hardy to the table to hear why our contract must include Just Cause protections.

Welcome back from the long weekend! Last Wednesday, we met management at the bargaining table to put down two new proposals on Intellectual Property and the Prevention of Discrimination and Harassment, as well as two counters. We received one counter from management. At our next bargaining session, we’ll return to the issue our workers have told us again and again matters most: Securing industry-standard Just Cause, with fair and transparent due process. We’d like to take this occasion to invite our CEO Katrice Hardy to join us at that bargaining session on July 27 at 11 a.m. Eastern to hear about why our contract must include fair Just Cause protections. We always welcome TMP leadership at the bargaining table, and would love to see more of that team beyond Eli, our CFO; Belal, the HR representative; and a rotating editor representative attend regularly, similar to how we broadly invite our own members. In this instance, we’d especially appreciate Katrice’s presence as we bargain over Just Cause, an issue at the heart of the employment practices of the organization and the policies that govern it as a business. 🚫 Prevention of Discrimination and Harassment We put down a new Prevention of Discrimination and Harassment proposal, which largely aims to codify our existing handbook policy. Additional language details the Guild’s role in the complaint process. We’ll wait for management’s response to this proposal. 🪧 No Strike / No Lockout We presented a counter No Strike / No Lockout proposal, which meets management on several key compromises but maintains our right to picket as well as our right to strike over an unfair labor practice (ULP), which is a strike specifically in response to an employer violation of the National Labor Relations Act. These are critical protections for our workers, which safeguard our fundamental First Amendment rights and our ability to meaningfully address ULPs for the duration of our contract. We’ll wait for management’s response to our counter.Bild📁 Personnel Files We put down a Personnel Files counter, which maintains that management must tell workers when discipline is added to their files and establishes a larger window to rebut discipline. Management accepted our proposal and we have reached a tentative agreement. 🪪 Visas and Immigration Previously, we put down a proposal on Visas and Immigration which called for management to proactively discuss visa and sponsorship options with non-citizen employees who need a work authorization. In the counter that management returned to us today, they struck several parts of this proposal with the reasoning that they aren’t willing to commit to speaking with employees about their immigration options without dedicated legal counsel, which they may or may not hire at their discretion. We’ll review this counter closely, and plan a response.
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 2mo ago

the minnesota 15, indicted by the federal government for their work against ICE, leave the federal courthouse in downtown minneapolis after their first appearances and are joined by supporters waiting outside

Marisa Ingemi@mingemi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is getting re-upped a lot today, so will re-share the amazing weekend I spent with AB Hernandez and witnessed trans joy in sports.

Marisa Ingemi@mingemi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“That’s what will stick with me,” Hernandez said. “Laying on the field, cheering for other girls, everyone being sweet.” I spent with weekend with AB Hernandez and her family and watching how the queer community uplifted her | @latimes.com www.latimes.com/sports/highs...