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Michiganders for Perry Johnson@vegetationstation.bsky.social · yesterday

What’s important is that they won’t, and the UAW in particular will continue to play an outsized role in determining future US policy on this matter :)

UAW Power! UAW members have knocked 15k doors and made 135k phone calls. We’ve turned out 112,877 UAW voters as of Sunday, 9.3% of all early votes cast in Michigan.

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

“UC Doctors United is looking to unionize nearly 10,000 attending physicians across UC campuses.” ✊ www.dailycal.org/news/uc/uc-a...

UC attending doctors announce largest unionization effort in nation

UC doctors said they are bargaining for better staffing, a commitment to medical education and safer work environments, all of which will help reduce burnout and improve working conditions.

dailycal.org

How's everybody's day going and what are everyone's plans to build the labor movement so we can unfuck the planet?

Today I heard Shawn Fain tell a room full of 1000 higher ed workers that Gretchen Whitmer is a sell out piece of shit who carried water for the Ford company during their last contract campaign

That's my president ☸️🇺🇸🦅🫡

when u nut but she keep singing

We all win with Medicare for All! The UAW supports Medicare for All because everyone deserves quality healthcare. M4A would also strengthen our hand at the bargaining table to fight for better wages, time off, and retirement security for every UAW member!

What does "pre-contract unionism" mean? It means we become a union by acting like a union. Many of us don't have collective bargaining rights, but that doesn't stop us from coming together as colleagues and using our collective power to fight for ourselves and our students. @aft.org @aaup.org

We have $ for a dozen ICE agents to hang around for hours trying to arrest 2 roofers working in MN. Meanwhile, the agency that investigates and prosecutes violations of Americans' right to organize is shedding staff again. Now down to like 1 agency staff per 145,000 workers.

Sam Bagenstos@sbagen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This is a great piece on Trump's near-destruction of the National Labor Relations Board. (And I'm betting they don't let the Acting GC go on-the-record about anything after his performance here. Kudos to @msainato.bsky.social for a very effective interview.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just sat down at a wine bar and one of the bartenders just said "all of the wines we have right now are fucking disgusting" to the other bartender

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

Man dies during immigration encounter in Florida, the third ICE-involved death in a week

Third ICE-involved death in a week confirmed after fatal St. Augustine crash during joint agency operation. National outrage grows over enforcement and deaths

miamiherald.com

An account with this avatar was just blocked.

Looking forward to building enough power with my union, DSA, and other orgs to oust your ass

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 3w ago

What I’ll remember most about Senator Graham was his sense of humor and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward. Though we did not often agree, Senator Graham was never disagreeable.

The federal government is proposing changes that would end support for real science in the US. Comments on the proposal must be made by Monday. Comments matter. Comment: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... Helpful summary from Ars: arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Editorial: It's time to step up and have your say for science

Your comments on a dangerous rule putting politicals in charge of science can matter.

arstechnica.com

"NSF employees are now concerned that the $1 billion of withheld funds will not be released. If they are not, the combination of withheld funds and clawbacks would result in funding cuts of more than 30% for most directorates compared with their planned spending for 2025"

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4w ago

New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Dawg

‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns

A 2021 state law allows campus police to own military equipment for civilian safety – students fear it may be used to quash dissent

theguardian.com

Text scams are getting crazy

/rolling my eyes and stomping around like Paul Rudd in Wet Hot American Summer "Sorry I said the lying sexual assault troop shithead was 'the final and long overdue reckoning for Smoothgroin Liberalism' on X dot com."

fellow UC alums!

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 4w ago

PLEASE SIGN to support Prof Tiffany Willoughby-Herard! 2 yrs ago Prof W-H stood up to protect students, rightly declaring “we cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy” while being violently arrested. Tell UCI to DROP all disciplinary charges against her! sites.google.com/view/withdra...

"Adventurism" is a specific term that means exactly what you're saying. Naomi Klein isn't being glib about imperialism

yaoi gagarin@mel.bzky.team · 4w ago

this pattern will keep repeating until people stop framing "shooting brown foreigners for money" as "an adventure"

Tfw Isaac chotiner gets you to reveal to the world that you are really bad at your job

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4w ago

Isaac Chotiner talks to Elie Honig, a CNN analyst who believes that only four of the Supreme Court’s Justices “have shown any ability to dispassionately assess the law” separate from their politics. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/5Q2YBg

In non-union work news, I'm co-author on a paper in Blood and one of our images made it onto the cover 🩸

Ryan Grim come get your girl

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 4w ago

MTG is doing Platner rape denialism via paid partnership post with Polymarket

People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

Labor organizing on campus is vitally needed in academia. It’s also a necessary step in connecting academics to the other workers facing the same struggles. trib.al/MlHJL0K

How Unions Can Save Higher Education—and Democracy

Labor organizing on campus is vitally needed in academia. It’s also a necessary step in connecting academics to the other workers facing the same struggles.

trib.al

Hashtag now listening #women #publicstrain happy heart of the empire, I actually do love americans today day