Today in @thenation.com: Noor Alyacoubi spoke to people in Gaza about Trump's desire to expel them from their home. Their answer was very, very clear: "I will never, ever leave my land." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Gazans Have a Message for Trump: We're Not Going Anywhere

The president wants to clear the territory and take it for the US. But people here are adamant: "I will never, ever leave my land."

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My takeaway here on what this means for abortion care? Innovative little start ups were never the answer. Our movement is not in a place to innovate with compassion to both workers and patients without being beholden to the absurd whims of random donors. It’s all a savior complex.

my good bitch 💎@clozilla.bsky.social · last yr.

Oh cool, an article about my ex-employer who laid me off after stringing me along. Fascinating to see Julie STILL misleading people in her quotes here. I guess once you start, it’s hard to stop? rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/02/05/j...

A quick hit from me after the protests over the last week, despite all the claims that people were too exhausted to protest and were sitting Trump II out. It's true, much of the Trump "resistance" appeared to have gone home when Biden was elected. But plenty of people never left the fight:

The #Resistance Lives. It Just Looks Different This Time.

Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, led by protesters who never hung up their placards to begin with.

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They're just so clearly using this stuff to attempt to purge the federal government's unions and blatantly violate their CBA's, if you're not talking about that because you think certain academics and people who post a lot are annoying to you personally I don't think you're a serious labor advocate

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

perfect quote www.wired.com/story/edward...

Federal workers got another unsigned email at 1 a.m. from a newly created OPM email, urging them to do the deferred resignation before it supposedly ends today. Feels a bit sweaty and desperate!

This story is, among many many things, about how destructive rich people's obsession with funding "innovation" over everything else is. Mobile clinics along state borders never made any sense! The places along borders that do make sense (KC & St. Louis areas, El Paso area, etc) already have clinics!

Rewire News Group@rewirenewsgroup.com · last yr.

NEW: On January 17, Just the Pill laid off nearly all of its staff. Former employees allege union busting, mismanagement, nepotism, and that the organization condoned widespread misrepresentation of its use of mobile clinics. @garnethenderson.com reports: rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/02/05/j...

I think you all should really read @nicolefroio.bsky.social’s reporting for @prismreports.bsky.social about Just The Pill…

Laid-off workers accuse Just The Pill of toxic work environment

The reproductive health care organization Just The Pill laid off 14 workers in January, as staff raised multiple concerns about leadership

prismreports.org

oh wow a SECOND article lmao prismreports.org/2025/02/05/j...

Laid-off workers accuse Just The Pill of toxic work environment

The reproductive health care organization Just The Pill laid off 14 workers in January, as staff raised multiple concerns about leadership

prismreports.org

my good bitch 💎@clozilla.bsky.social · last yr.

Oh cool, an article about my ex-employer who laid me off after stringing me along. Fascinating to see Julie STILL misleading people in her quotes here. I guess once you start, it’s hard to stop? rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/02/05/j...

One thing Musk's power grab suggests is that IT systems are *the* central chokepoint in contemporary capitalism — and that tech workers have potentially huge disruptive leverage, in both the federal government and within corporate America

Hm...

personally would love to live in a normal world where everything isn’t cartoony and insane!

We are absolutely disgusted with All Above All management’s decision to lay off their entire staff, while keeping every single executive on the payroll, shortly after staff detailed anti-Blackness within the organization. Please donate to help support these workers www.gofundme.com/f/repro-work...

Repro Worker Aid Fund, organized by Repro Workers

We are union workers in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement--we work at clinics… Repro Workers needs your support for Repro Worker Aid Fund

gofundme.com

New offerings from the obviously AI-generated kids’ clothing website, many of which are allegedly also available in adult sizes????? And again I’m extremely tempted???

Helen Rosner@hels.bsky.social · 3y ago

I keep getting ads for these obviously AI-generated kids clothes which are clearly a scam but also … what if???

! "The complaints have cropped up around New York for weeks: strangers appear on a voter's doorstep to question his or her voting address and — in some cases — make alarming accusations." lohud.com/story/news/p...

I actually feel like they are all displaying different strains of a tantrum over the fact that they all were mostly let into polite society in the ways they cared about (fancy law schools, journalists, Scalia on stage at the opera with Ginsburg and such), and they feel like people changed the rules

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 3y ago

i find brett kavanaugh weirdly interesting for how much he very obviously has a desperate need for the approval of polite society in a way that just isn’t true of thomas and alito (or before them, scalia and rehnquist) www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/p...

Illegal rentals accounted for about one-third of active city listings on Airbnb. It will be an uphill battle for the agency charged enforcing the new regulations that come into effect Tuesday. www.thecity.nyc/housing/2023...

The indictment is egregious, treating mutual aid and solidarity as pre-crime activities. Guilt by association is the point. Egregiously, it casually refers to the 2020 police execution of Rayshard Brooks as “justified” — and the indictment is from the same Fulton County that indicted Brooks’ killers

The Appeal@theappeal.org · 3y ago

Georgia has filed RICO charges against 61 Stop Cop City activists, marking the state's latest escalation of an authoritarian crackdown on the movement. Organizers say the charges send the message that "any dissent to Cop City will be punished with the full power and violence of the government."

the cop city fight is one of the most important challenges to the supremacy of the security state in living memory, and the fact that they are going after it with this much repressive force shows that they know this

The Appeal@theappeal.org · 3y ago

Georgia has filed RICO charges against 61 Stop Cop City activists, marking the state's latest escalation of an authoritarian crackdown on the movement. Organizers say the charges send the message that "any dissent to Cop City will be punished with the full power and violence of the government."

it's true that Labor Day is in some sense a fake labor day for cops compared to the REAL labor day (May 1), but also we don't have enough holidays and we should just work towards having two labor-based holidays the same way we have two "salute da vets" holidays

This Labor Day, join us in supporting essential abortion workers who have been laid off or lost hours at work. Whether it’s abortion bans or union busting management coming for us, we’ve got us ✊ Donate to the Repro Worker Aid Fund! gofundme.com/f/repro-worker…

Happy Labor Day to all the medical providers, receptionists, counselors, hotline workers, admins, financial planners, cleaning staff, accountants, fundraisers, legal workers, comms and education specialists, and everyone else who makes abortions happen! Our movement runs on LABOR

The parent of a trans girl in MO described bizarre behavior by NYT reporter Azeen Ghorayshi in her reporting for a recent story. At one point Ghorayshi followed her and her husband to their car and stood in the door so it couldn't close.

"You Betrayed Us, Azeen" Parents of Trans Youth Reeling After Speaking to an NYT Reporter — Assign...

A story on the allegations of former St. Louis gender clinic staffer Jamie Reed left parents who spoke with NYT reporter Azeen Ghorayshi crushed.

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Happy Labor Day bbs we’re still raising money to help laid off abortion workers! It may have been over a year since Dobbs (and over 2 since SB8…) but we still have new bans taking effect in new states, and each of those means layoffs or at least cut hours www.gofundme.com/f/repro-work...

Repro Worker Aid Fund, organized by Repro Workers

We are union workers in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement--we work at clinics… Repro Workers needs your support for Repro Worker Aid Fund

gofundme.com