You were born on the wrong continent. Yes, the United States has a greater GDP per capita than Western Europe. But that GDP has not translated into broader prosperity in time and well-being for ordinary workers.

No, Americans Aren’t Better Off Than Western Europeans

You were born on the wrong continent. Yes, the United States has a greater GDP per capita than Western Europe. But that GDP has not translated into broader prosperity in time and well-being for ordinary workers.

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“The company that makes Pringles spent at least $4 million on an AI-powered “digital twin” that tracks its dough in real time, all in pursuit of the perfect chip.” —Tech Brew

Breaking: The Department of Justice has dismissed charges against David Huerta, the president of Service Employees International Union United Service Workers West. www.seiu-usww.org/press_releas...

This is a great piece of reporting. Because it’s the NYT, you have to read it against the grain, but there’s a lot here that’s plainly stated without ideological spin. I’m old enough to remember left-liberals scolding me for using terms like colonialism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

How Marco Rubio Is Running Venezuela From Afar

The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in th...

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Have you ever been so stumped by an organizing challenge that you've wished you could just beam out a help signal to others who’ve dealt with the same thing? (episode link in thread)

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC. This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers. This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

Independent footage shows again that the 🧊 story in this case does not hold up. newrepublic.com/post/212915/...

New Footage of Fatal ICE Shooting in Texas Sparks Fresh Outrage

ICE agents are claiming Lorenzo Salgado Araujo attacked them. That’s not what the latest video footage shows.

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They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport

There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.

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“Both abusive treatment of detainees and the public sharing of humiliating or degrading images of them can constitute war crimes,” said Oneg Ben Dror from the prisoner and detainees department at Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Photo of bound Palestinian detainee corroborates Israeli torture reports, say rights groups

Image of man in underwear, blindfold and bound to iron rod has been widely shared on social media

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Asian Chipmaking countries are Winners of US AI boom: "The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global #semiconductor sales were $120.6 billion during the month of May 2026...more than double the May 2025 total of $59.1 billion" www.semiconductors.org/global-semic...

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Under the agreement, 78,000 semiconductor workers will be given 10.5 per cent of the company’s operating profits. This would amount to a bonus pool of more than Won34tn ($22.6bn) based on a forecast by brokerage KB Securities of operating profits this year..." www.reuters.com/business/wor...

New transit payment systems in NYC & around the country, run by a company with ex-military contractor executives & a partnership with Palantir, collect data on movements of riders and haven't explained what they do with it, including whether they give it to ICE. prospect.org/2026/07/06/t...

Tech Industry Transit Systems Endanger Immigrants, Advocates Fear - The American Prospect

Transit systems across the country are collecting information about the movement of riders via a company doing business with ICE contractor Palantir.

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In a time when there’s real cause for fear and despair—and when the Trump administration is pushing hard to divide us—the Labor Notes Conference June 12-14 in Chicago was an oasis of inspiration and solidarity (story linked in thread) 1/10

That’s why it’s difficult to celebrate important victories to inspire and boost the morale of fighters in our movement for justice and freedom when the larger reality is one of tremendous loss and defeat.

The crisis of democracy is one of profound social inequality. What’s happening today with the capitalist capture of the political and economic realms of society surpasses the wettest dreams of Gilded Age-era tycoons.

This week, New Yorkers won a rent freeze. @psc-cuny.org members testified after seeing students face eviction and housing insecurity. “This is a city’s crisis, and it’s not just the CUNY students who are suffering.”

Why Some Unions Are Joining the Call to “Freeze the Rent”

“Affordable rent should be an essential demand of the labor movement as a whole,” says New York Taxi Workers Alliance President Bhairavi Desai.

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We're up to 20 immigrant detainees (by the official count) dead this year in ICE custody, and 58 since the beginning of 2025. A new report from Human Rights Watch finds a 138% increase in the annualized mortality rate under Trump, suggesting human rights violations. Here's our story.

20th Immigrant Dies in Trump’s Detention Camps - The American Prospect

The increase in deaths can’t be attributed to population increase, according to a new Human Rights Watch analysis.

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JFC. Chad Jones, economist who'll be joining Anthropic: "In other words, with log utility it is optimal to take a 1 in 3 chance of ending human existence in exchange for a 2/3 chance of dramatically raising living standards by a factor of 55." www.ft.com/content/bb04...

Darializa only came out of nowhere if you didnt know her as one of Zohran's primary Washington Heights field leads. AOC only came out of nowhere if you didnt know her as one of Bernie's primary Bronx field leads. Will journalists start respecting field leads? Probably not!

New York City freezes rents for one million apartments in Mayor Mamdani victory reut.rs/3SkmDTT

New York City freezes rents for one million apartments in Mayor Mamdani victory

A New York City housing board voted on ​Thursday to freeze the rents for about one million regulated apartments for up to two years, fulfilling a central campaign ‌promise of Mayor Zohran Mamdani only months into his term.

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US Postal Service tells Congress it needs help, running out of cash reut.rs/3SG9dBy

US Postal Service tells Congress it needs help, running out of cash

U.S. Postmaster General David Steiner told Congress on Wednesday that the financially struggling agency has a broken ​business model and needs help from lawmakers to turn around ‌its operations.

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If AI isn't as valuable to end-users as they thought, then data centers aren't as valuable to construct. And if they're not valuable to construct, the financing underlying them is overvalued. Meaning some of it will go bust. And that will cascade through the financial system...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last mo.

New: the tokenpocalypse is here, companies scrambling to stop spending so much on AI. I got leaked audio from consulting giant Accenture showing AI token spend/'chewing' is not from supercharged engineers. It's non-technical workers converting PDFs to presentations! www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

I curated a (mostly) exhaustive list of Juneteenth celebrations across the country. Chances are there’s one near you!

Here’s a (mostly) exhaustive list of Juneteenth celebrations across the U.S.

Juneteenth marks the day when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation. I curated a list of events and one may be near you!

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The federal government arrested and indicted 15 people on conspiracy charges over the protests and massive strike against ICE in Minnesota last winter. The Minneapolis 15 include union carpenters, electricians, teachers, university staff, and nursing home workers. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

This month, in multiple settings, including the AFL-CIO convention, Minnesota's labor movement has been honored and given awards for standing up to ICE. Now trade unionists are among those being targeted by the federal govt, which is citing participation in worker assemblies as proof of conspiracy.

Minnesota Trade Unionists Among Those Targeted in Federal Indictments of ICE Observers - Workday Magazine

Minnesota trade unionists active in worker assemblies are among the 15 people indicted by the federal government today, as part of a sweeping crackdown on organizing in opposition to the ICE and Borde...

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- The largest international coalition of Amazon workers in history united to share frontline organizing stories and develop strategies for taking on the global logistics behemoth. 2/5

- A sea of Knicks fans at an evening watch party erupted into cheers after the team clinched the championship! 5/5

Here is what a fact-finding team established at the scene: there was no emergency exit. There was no exhaust vent – not a single opening through which smoke could escape. There was nothing. thewire.in/rights/amazo...

Amazon Workers are Dying for Lack of a Fire Exit. It is Time to Bargain.

We are not asking for the impossible. We are asking for fire exits. We are asking for ventilation. We are asking for the right to refuse work in conditions that are medically dangerous.

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Delaney Hall is a 1,000-bed private detention center in Newark where immigrants are jailed without due process. @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports that 300 detained workers are refusing food and labor to demand medical care, release for vulnerable people and freedom for all.

"We Demand Freedom": Immigrants on Strike in New Jersey Prison

“We are also doing this to demand freedom," said one of the workers. "We’re not treated like people. We’re treated like animals.”

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"The standard narrative: Beijing picked winners, poured in subsidies, and created EV champions. We show that this is largely a misperception--Central policy actually BLOCKED most cities and private firms from the auto industry for decades." Superb article! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...