Starbucks workers kick off 65-store US strike on company's busy Red Cup Day More than 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers are on strike Thursday at 65 U.S. stores. The strike has closed some stores on Starbucks’ Red Cup Day, which is typically one of the company’s busiest days ...

Starbucks is “disappointed” 😪

Everyone deserves care. Everyone deserves to feel appreciated at work. Unions help make that possible.

A lot of people work jobs they don’t love just for healthcare. If companies, workplaces etc. make healthcare premiums cost prohibitive, people will leave those jobs.

For your consideration:

You should not have to pay to park at work. You should not have to pay to park at school.

Ring founder 'backs the blue,' says AI is helping Amazon-owned doorbell unit fight crime Ring founder Jamie Siminoff returned to the company he founded in April to lead the business, which is part of Amazon's devices division.

Please get rid of your Ring cam.

Sports | Now that Pete Hegseth has defined the warrior ethos and lethality, a cage fights to the death will decide who holds the office of Secretary of Defense.

Demand Congress restore the union rights of VA nurses and demand a vote on the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.medicare4all.org/letter/union...

Don’t do it.

FDA and CDC as far as I'm aware has never determined any death was caused by the mRNA Covid vaccines. (There were some causally linked to JNJ & swift action was taken). Am I missing something? Otherwise seems irresponsible statement for FDA leader to now have made twice in last week or so on TV.

I’m begging you to get rid of your Ring Cam/ Alexa.

Fuck Burning Man, catch me here.

The Atlantic Festival 2025

www.theatlantic.com/theatlanticf...

It’s cool to take things seriously and be thoughtful.

Largest nurses union condemns immigration raids and joins labor in demanding release of SEIU California President David Huerta National Nurses United, the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in the United States, today condemned the chaos and fear spread by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nnu-co...

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'Make America Healthy Again' report cites nonexistent studies: authors At least four of the studies cited in a flagship White House report on children's health do not exist, authors listed in the document told AFP Thursday, casting doubt on the paper outlining Health Sec...

www.yahoo.com/news/america...

She ate him for breakfast.

Esp the part about not knowing if you were a mark….fuck that’s…you always kinda wonder.

I feel this very viscerally.

It’s a good time to donate to Greenpeace.

NBC Producers Deny Using AI In New Series ‘Detective Fireman Lawyer Chicago Los Angeles Show’ NEW YORK—Issuing a categorical denial of the accusations, NBC producers announced Thursday there was absolutely no usage of artificial intelligence in the new series Detective Fireman Lawyer Chicago Los Angeles Show. “At NBC, we are passionate about storytelling, and the truth is that machine learning isn’t capable of bringing to life vibrant characters like Jim Jack […]

NBC Producers Deny Using AI In New Series ‘Detective Fireman Lawyer Chicago Los Angeles Show’
theonion.com/nbc-pro...

The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I only have 6 hooks.

None of the water Trump ordered released is anywhere near Los Angeles. It was actually water being reserved for Central Valley farmers, whose fields are now at risk of flooding. This cohort overwhelmingly voted for Trump.

WARNING to NIH employees:

The new intranet site set up with transition info can track you accessing it.

There have been a lot of leaks of emails recently, which may be harder to use to identify leakers. Please be very careful leaking info from that intranet site. 1/

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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Every week, I check the CDC's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report. This week for the first time in its 60 years it was not published on schedule. American healthcare workers all over the country are less informed about health crises that affect their patients. CDC led reports matter a 🧵

The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government.
Put that in a headline.

www.expressnews.com/news/article...