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Workplace organising basics Learn about the workplace, talk to colleagues, and form an organising team to build workers’ power. This is a first in a mini-series of articles where we try to demystify workplace organising by pr…

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The politics of eternity: weaponising moments that never were Donald Trump is the global face of a growing political movement that deceives voters by distorting history

The ‘politics of eternity’, says Timothy Snyder, is nostalgia for a mythical past. Putin blames the West, Trump blames migrants, Reform UK blames both. Truth doesn’t matter, only enemies. A thought-provoking read by Marc Ainge ⤵️

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Recklessly firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner because you don’t like the new jobs numbers won’t do a thing to change the clear and simple fact: President Trump’s policy choices are costing hardworking Americans their jobs.

#OtD 1 Aug 1907 Angelo Pellegrino Sbardellotto, a coal miner and anarchist later executed for attempting to assassinate Mussolini, was born. This is a short biography: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8046...

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

Ring cameras are the devil. Amazon now "partnering with Axon to build a new tool that would allow police to request Ring footage directly from users, and also allow users to consent to letting police livestream directly from their device"

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— DCA ✈️ OKC with Marcy & #TeamFlash

#UNION flight via SWAPA & Transport Workers Union/TWU Local 556

Thank you to all the working people who make it all possible. We see you and we appreciate you!

#SolidarityInTheSkies #LaborConquersAll
#SWAPA #TWU #TWU556

Eight hours for sleep —
Eight hours for work —
Eight hours for WHAT WE WILL!

We fought for time off, fought to be with our families instead of at the beck & call of the boss; we won back some small measure of our time — and rn I feel satisfied in enjoying every bit of the fruits of our labor.

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No More Kings
By Schoolhouse Rock

#NoKings

Check out the homies at @thelostogle.bsky.social for more details. They’ve already done all the work on this one (and they’re local guys worth boosting!) #TheLostOgle

@samsacks.bsky.social, this is my nomination for the @means.tv #MeansMorningNews #RichDick segment.

Guys like this mostly steal from workers (this guy overcharges tired mall parents for flavorless kid bribes) — but this particular guy (who’s been arrested for DUI, domestic assault, & sued for revenge porn blackmail) got tired of being cooped up at home & did… this. #RichDick #OKC #COOPBrewery

Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.

NEW: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). www.wired.com/story/airlin...

Labor Pope! Labor Pope!

Congrats to our shows Better Offline and Weird Little Guys on their #WEBBY AWARDS! 🏆🏆 Big thanks to our listeners and everyone who voted @edzitron.com @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

Congrats to our shows Better Offline and Weird Little Guys on their #WEBBY AWARDS! 🏆🏆 Big thanks to our listeners and everyone who voted @edzitron.com @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

Congrats to our shows Better Offline and Weird Little Guys on their #WEBBY AWARDS! 🏆🏆 Big thanks to our listeners and everyone who voted

@edzitron.com @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

“Building a future of freedom requires love of the common good and cooperation in a spirit of subsidiarity and solidarity.”

Encyclical on Capitalism and Inequality In his most radical encyclical to date, Pope Francis takes aim at the heart of the world’s problems: capitalism. Impassioned and wide-ranging, and citing the overwhelming evidence for the human suffer...

In 2015, we republished Pope Francis's second encyclical, in which he takes aim at the heart of the world’s problems: capitalism.

It has been, and will remain, free to download.

Pope Francis was a global voice for dignity, justice, and solidarity. His unwavering support for workers' rights and justice for the poor and dispossessed are seeds of a better tomorrow. We may yet see a more bountiful harvest, amongst all the muck. #PopeFrancis #Solidarity #CatholicWorker

This is INTOLERABLE CRUELTY.

BREAKING: We're urging the Supreme Court to block the nation’s first religious public charter school in Oklahoma.

The Constitution is clear: Public schools are not for religious instruction.

Elon Musk Killed Our Ability to Crowdfund - Help Labor Reporting Stay Alive Support our mission Donate Yearly $36.00 USD - Yearly $60.00 USD - Yearly $180.00 USD - Yearly $420.00 USD - Yearly $1,200.00 USD - Yearly Donate Monthly ...

After 9 years, Payday Report may have to close.

Elon Musk destroyed our ability to crowdfund on Twitter & I’m struggling just to buy groceries!

Donate to support labor reporting

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A worker has died at an Amazon warehouse.

The tragic death took place at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, home of the first Amazon union in the country.

Amazon Labor and the whole Teamsters union are mourning and demanding Amazon take steps to protect workers on the job.

ALA is back in court to protect library funding. Show up for our libraries. ALA American Library Association.

NEW: Today ALA & our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social filed a preliminary injunction in federal court.

This continues our ongoing legal action to save federal library funding.

Our goal is to immediately halt the dismantling of the Institute of Museum & Library Services. 1/3

We asked Congress to vote NO on the budget bill and stop this assault on working families struggling to afford the basics—all to fund tax breaks for millionaires. But Republicans ignored Americans calling for lower costs and stability.

#NationalLibraryWeek

👉 PRO TIP: Your local library not carrying the specific rad book you're looking for? Ask! Most have a "suggest a title" process on their website.👈
"The Library Is a Commons" artwork is part of "The People and the Library" series by Erik Ruin available at @justseeds.bsky.social

I love libraries of every shape and size—public libraries, zine libraries, seed libraries, tool libraries, school libraries and libraries run out of community spaces. If it weren't for the work of librarians, researchers, activists & archivists, so much important movement history would be lost. 📚🖤

As a third generation trade unionist, I know how transformational a collective bargaining agreement can be for families and communities. As step-bio-foster-adoptive dad of seven kids who grew up on S Street, and as a member of @teamsters.bsky.social #Local886, I know y’all deserve it! #solidarity

USC Follows Amazon and Musk’s SpaceX in Calling Labor Board Unconstitutional To block a union that would represent 2,500 faculty members, the private university echoed a corporate argument.

NEW: The University of Southern California is attempting to block faculty from forming a union and it is doing it by using an argument pushed by SpaceX and Amazon: that the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional.

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CALL: Reverse Gutting of Core Worker Safety Agency, NIOSH Due to Elon Musk and his unaccountable DOGE, we are facing one of the largest mass firings of federal workers in history, including highly technical federal workers who keep us safe on the job. More...

The Trump admin is gutting NIOSH, the only federal agency dedicated to worker safety research. Thousands of workers are already out of a job. Lives are at risk. Call Congress and demand they reverse the cuts and reinstate these essential workers.
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