GretchenD
@gbdonart.bsky.social
She/her.Workers' rights and child care campaigner. Big Purp retiree. Idaho→DEN→CHI→NYC→ SEA→DC→OAK (East Bay).
"Staff at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, petitioned for a union election on Monday, seeking to organize 36 workers with the UAW." 📰 https://www.urgentmatter.press/eric-carle-museum-workers-file-for-a-union-election/
Eric Carle Museum staff file for UAW union election
Thirty-six full- and part-time staff at the Amherst museum are organizing with UAW Local 2110.
urgentmatter.press
Calle me sentimental but we sholde not be throwinge burninge trasshe at the moone.
It's sad the way Seattle voters have lost touch with the Seattle Times editorial board.
So far, voters overwhelmingly approve Seattle library levy
A property tax levy to fund the city's public library system over the next seven years is solidly ahead after the first release of vote totals Tuesday evening.
seattletimes.com
From the picket line to the halls of the U.S. Senate, we know that Abdul El-Sayed has our back. We're going to fight like hell to make sure in November we're celebrating another victory on election night.
I thought this group might be interested in some of the politics behind the scenes faced by wildland firefighters. The texts are from an individual working on the Tartar Fire outside of Weiser, ID. This is nothing new and causes some serious friction when public lands meet private lands. #IdahoFire
Shades of John Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness: I think @brennancenter.org found the deep state: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res... The error rates/dangerous false positives on these technologies must be through the roof).
DHS’s Domestic Surveillance, Data Collection, and Analytics Tools
Fueled by a budget boom, the Department of Homeland Security is expanding its technological arsenal, with little oversight or transparency around how these tools are used.
brennancenter.org
"Pastors in Name Only" "Wicked Witch of Woke" “I've never seen anyone commit so much blasphemy against the word of God." As pastors become Democratic nominees — at least 5 so far, and likely one more tonight — their Republican opponents are attacking their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...
'They're not real pastors': As clergy run as Democrats, Republicans question their faith
(RNS) — 'It's a sign that they are really scared they're gonna lose this seat,' the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor running for Congress in Iowa, said. She is part of a wave of religious ...
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Capybaras keep their chill while crashing Brazilian legislature apnews.com/article/braz...
Capybaras keep their chill while crashing Brazilian legislature
Capybaras have been making surprise visits to a Brazilian state legislature. These chill rodents strolled into the legislative building in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, last week, catching lawmakers off guard.
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Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.
Politico@politico.com · 2d agoMichigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.
I was on the scene that day and watched people flag police down to talk to someone walking away from the fire. My law enforcement sources confirmed to me this evening my description of the person I saw was consistent with the suspect. Here’s the story so far: www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
Sheriff: Man, 37, arrested on suspicion of setting Old Trails fire
A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree arson for allegedly setting the Old Trails fire, Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels announced Monday night.
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Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: Investigators have arrested 37-year-old Aaron Farinacci, a former Arizona resident with a manslaughter conviction, in connection to the start of the Old Trails Fire in Spokane.
We just got back from Delaney Hall and we can confirm that Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo died on Saturday while in ICE’s custody. More on what we heard today at Delaney:
After a hugely supported five day strike, Mount Nittany hospital lowered their wage offer to @seiuhcpa.org and withdrew classification-specific wage increases, because apparently these idiots think that doubling down with regressive bargaining is a smart play.
"Nicole Russell is a columnist at USA TODAY and a mother of four who lives in Texas."
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
The Wikimedia Foundation hasn’t just refused to recognize their workers’ unions; they’ve also hired one of the most notorious union-busting firms out there. medium.com/regarding-wi... #1u #unions #TechUnions
The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About
A federal docket shows the Foundation retained Littler Mendelson, the firm Starbucks used against its baristas, to face its employees’…
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I love it that Bluesky shows up the grenades my friends lob at each other
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 2d agoI think your dedication to only 1 sweet tea is worse.
It's hard to overstate how ISOLATING and scary it was with a child under 5 waiting for that under 5 vaccine. The world was kind of moving on and you not only couldn't, you had to be scared for your child every day
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d agoAlso the Republicans were screaming that Fauci helped authorize vaccines for children, which is something every goddamn parent I know was praying for every day for more than a year and have been thankful for ever since. These people are all self-centered idiotic sociopaths, nothing more.
I just realized that is why my child care teacher son and his colleague drove all the way to Marysville WA to get early access.
I will never forget waking up at 3am every morning as they turned the floodlights on outside to place more bodies into the mobile morgue outside my window. Everyone’s beloved dead, stacked nightly like so much excess, while the waking city was a claustrophobic nightmare. Never.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d agoRunning out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
My wife and I cried tears of relief after we got our first COVID shots. It was a scientific miracle and I’ll never forgive the people who’ve done everything they could to undermine it.
It's like Hands Across America except with healthcare.
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 3d agoDYING at Mike Roger's calling DSA "The Democrat Socialists Across America"
Fuck Harry Potter. Go read The Phantom Tollbooth.
Spainimation / Sophiecabra@spainimation.bsky.social · last yr.Fuck Harry Potter. Go read Earthsea.
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
OMG, a vermillion flycatcher feeding bugs to his babies!
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · last yr.HOW IS THIS REAL AND HOW DID I GET THIS WITH SOMEWHAT CONSUMER GEAR!? #birds 🐣
I swear to fuck if this administration tries to make my dad work another fucking day in his life, I will identify as their biggest motherfucking problem, so help me God, dog, Jesus, Allah, Flying Spaghetti Monster, and Hugh fucking Jackman. After everything I saw with him earlier today…
Absolutely Absofuckinglutely
Alt: Absofuckinglutely
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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 4d agoAppalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
The prison is about a mile away from an evacuation zone. This is an important question.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
