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NorCal Earth Creature

@jadecichy.bsky.social

Sonoran Desert, Northern California, science, climate, music. Sometimes hockey. And birds. 🎹 🎸 ⭕️ 🌵 💙⚡️❤️

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Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 6d ago

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 3w ago

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Lupe" is harvesting grapes in Bakersfield CA on a day that reached 100°. "It's very difficult for us to work in these conditions, especially since we only earn minimum wage without any benefits. We deserve better." #WeFeedYou

Worker harvesting grapes
NorCal Earth Creature@jadecichy.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hey out in radioland! My brother’s show is tonigh! Every Wed. night 8pm Hawaii time, 11pm Pacific. #radio #KKCR #Kauai Indie rock, punk/postpunk, jambands, songwriters across generations. Maybe an unexpected gem from your corner of the music universe. Tune in as we say f*** you to the algorithms.

DJ Bret at work in KKCR radio studio behind the soundboard. Wearing black shirt that says DAMN in red letters, representing the Kendrick Lamar album.
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 5d ago

🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday that ICE agents could enter polling places to make arrests this November, raising fresh concerns about the Trump administration contemplating actions that federal law has long prohibited. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

DHS chief says ICE could make arrests at polling places — ignoring federal ban on armed agents at voting sites

Under federal law, an official who orders, brings or keeps “troops or armed men” at a location where a general or special election is taking place can face up to five years in prison and disqualificat...

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Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · 2w ago

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting. What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it. Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. No Contract? No Coffee.