Random Q: If I could do a study of union density based on 40 years of public sector data, but it would cost me $1800 to pull said data, would you(anyone?) chip in?
Jonah Paul
@jonahpaul.bsky.social
CA State Worker | Comms | SEIU Local 1000 Member Leader
My union is in negotiations with the State of CaliforniaI and the state has rejected our economic proposal once again, so I made a tool to explore our wage history. No surprise, California has systematically unpaid state worker for 50 years. realwage.site A few takeaways below 👇
RealWage · CA State Worker Pay
Look up California state employee job classifications, salary ranges, bargaining units, and alternate range criteria from CalHR pay scale data.
realwage.site
Should I make the rate of exploitation and surplus value* calculator next? Y/N *Hot take: state workers can create surplus value
Jonah Paul@jonahpaul.bsky.social · 4w agoMy union is in negotiations with the State of CaliforniaI and the state has rejected our economic proposal once again, so I made a tool to explore our wage history. No surprise, California has systematically unpaid state worker for 50 years. realwage.site A few takeaways below 👇
My union is in negotiations with the State of CaliforniaI and the state has rejected our economic proposal once again, so I made a tool to explore our wage history. No surprise, California has systematically unpaid state worker for 50 years. realwage.site A few takeaways below 👇
RealWage · CA State Worker Pay
Look up California state employee job classifications, salary ranges, bargaining units, and alternate range criteria from CalHR pay scale data.
realwage.site
Don’t mind me, I’m just vibe banking a $30 trillion economy
John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 10mo agoWild story. The US Federal Reserve has long used additional data from payroll-processing company ADP to buttress official jobs numbers. During the shutdown this third party data is extra important for filling the gap. And ADP has stopped sharing the data. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
Xi read ‘Business Secrets of the Bolsheviks’ by Mark Corrigan
Interesting. I just described myself as a "historian of fascism" without thinking about it. Am I? I guess it turns out I am.
“This is the age of hubris — a time in which we are going to watch stupid, powerful and rich men fuck up their legacies by finding a technology so vulgar in its costs and mythical outcomes that it drives the avaricious insane and makes fools of them.” LFG! www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...
The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises
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TIL that the rise in precious metals is a vote of no confidence in the American bond market
Barchart@barchart.com · 10mo agoJUST IN 🚨: Silver hits highest price in more than 14 years 📈📈
Would you like to sit down to my PR trap and help yourselves to a glass of humiliation and self-embarrassment?
Hegseth, a rapist whose own mother disowned him for it, stood before the US top military brass to announce that survivors of sexual assault have no more recourse to the already meager means of military accountability. And you better believe sexual assault is rampant in the military. Sickening.
What’s up with these Cthulhu ass ads all over Trump’s feed? He’s been messing with that elder god tech
The Trump admin said “Deploy Van Halen”
Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 10mo agoTrump is sending troops into Portland, the only place in the U.S. where more than a few dozen folks actually ID themselves as "Antifa," and steel themselves for violent confrontation. Two sides playing into each others' narratives, and it will be very bad.
Each tiny mistake from Trump’s team is one butterfly wing’s flap away from a world war
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social · 11mo agoFox News host Jesse Watters suggested bombing and gassing the United Nations over escalator and teleprompter issues
Forget Klein’s obsequious “politics the right way”. Listen to Daniel Martinez HoSang’s thoughtful analysis on how an open racists are winning over racial minorities.
Dissent Magazine@dissentmag.bsky.social · 12mo agoOn the Know Your Enemy podcast, Matt and Sam talk with Daniel Martinez HoSang about the gains the GOP and Trump are making with racial minorities. www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
Thinking about when one of my favorite directors (Ridley Scott) and actors (Joaquin Phoenix) made a film on one of history’s most interesting figures (Napoleon)—failing in basically every respect. An art crime.
Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.
If Trump deported the liberal justices, I think SCOTUS would rule in his favor
Slightly diminish a book Triassic Median
Dave Kamper@dskamper.bsky.social · 11mo agoSlightly diminish a book The Maltese Woodpecker
On this day 50 years ago in Sacramento, Squeaky Fromme did not assassinate President Ford.
