Elyse Endlich 🌹✡️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 (she/her)

This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.

The full quote from RFK, Jr. is truly disgusting and this is 100% him calling for institutionalization of autistic people. This is horrifying.

The second we begin debating guilt and innocence we have ceded to their terms. The systemic evil fades into the background, continues humming along nicely.

You know what you need for a general strike?

Rent funds. Bail funds. Healthcare funds. Childcare funds. Viable tenant and homeowner unions.

You know what you DON'T need?

Sign up sheets.

look at jesse watters. look at him and tell me he has anything but the softest palms imaginable and the most uncalloused hands. look at those manicured nails. that coiffed hair. this man could not do a whiskey shot without flinching. can you even picture him holding a hammer?

Notable buffoon and useful fool Jesse Watters gestures delicately and furrows his threaded eyebrows above a Fox News chyron that reads "TRUMP TARIFFS WILL MAKE YOU A MAN?"

"When you sit behind a screen all day, it makes you a woman... And if you're out working, like building robots like Harold, you are around other guys. You're not around HR ladies and lawyers that gives you estrogen."

this from a man, wearing makeup, sitting behind a screen all day

People don't miss manufacturing jobs. They miss the effects of having 30+ percent union density. And we can build worker power again, with good policies, for the jobs most working class people actually have today rather than hoping mumbo jumbo will make it 1955 again.

“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!”

-ashamed
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“A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.”

-powerful
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your favorite artist's favorite artist's favorite artist

Journalists at Wisconsin Watch ratify first contract Contact: wisconsinwatchunion@gmail.com MILWAUKEE – Wisconsin Watch journalists, represented by Wisconsin Watch Union and Milwaukee NewsGuild Local 34051, have secured their first union contract, which includes meaningful gains in wages, job security and workplace protections. Wisconsin Watch Union members last week voted unanimously to approve the contract. After more than a year of bargaining, Wisconsin Watch Union members — based in both Milwaukee and Madison — have a contract with several key wins: ● Increased wages: Minimum salary guarantees and annual cost-of-living increases. ● Expanded job security: “Just cause” protections, layoff restrictions and eight weeks of severance pay with extended benefits. ● Workplace protections: Remote work guarantee with protected flexible schedules. ● Leave assurances: Meaningful medical leave, parental leave, caregiver leave and bereavement leave, among others. Wisconsin Watch’s newsroom is part of a growing number of journalists at nonprofit newsrooms across the country choosing to unionize to win rights like these, such as ProPublica, Spotlight PA, Texas Tribune, The Marshall Project and more. "We did this together," said Phoebe Petrovic, investigative reporter at Wisconsin Watch and an initial Wisconsin Watch Union organizer. "We'll continue to do great journalism knowing our workplace is more structured, secure and protected." "This union has already provided me with tangible and obvious benefits, but one thing I didn't anticipate is how much closer I would feel to my coworkers," said Devin Blake, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service criminal justice reporter and a bargaining committee member. "I have such a clearer sense of what matters to their lives and work."

“I am proud of the contract Wisconsin Watch Union has won,” said Wisconsin Watch statehouse reporter Jack Kelly, who served on the union’s bargaining committee. “This deal will allow reporters in our newsrooms to continue to focus on serving their communities knowing they have greater security and stability.” The three-year agreement was signed Friday, March 28, 2025. ### ABOUT WISCONSIN WATCH UNION: Wisconsin Watch Union is a bargaining unit of the Milwaukee NewsGuild Local 34051 of The NewsGuild-CWA, which represents more than 27,000 journalists, media workers, interpreters, non-profit workers and staff at other labor unions. The Guild is the largest union of journalists in North America, operating in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. The Guild is a sector of the Communications Workers of America, which represents employees in telecommunications, the airline industry, broadcast and cable television, health care, public service and education, law enforcement, manufacturing and other fields.

NEWS: After 15 months, WE HAVE A CONTRACT!

Wisconsin Watch Union members last week voted unanimously to approve our first contract. It includes meaningful gains in wages, job security and workplace protections.

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Proud of journalists & outlets still standing up to power in the face of threats while Big Law, corporations, and other institutions capitulate:

Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, Techdirt, Marisa Kabas, the Unpoulist, ProPublica, MSNBC.

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They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

Coalition building is not the same as pandering to people's worst bigotries in the hopes they'll like you.

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮

We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

We've continued to update our Guild starter pack as more and more of our members have joined us on Bluesky!

Make sure you are up-to-date and following all of the amazing unions in The NewsGuild here:

go.bsky.app/CqTWZpU

BREAKING: U.S. and Canada video game worker are launching an industry-wide union with the Communications Workers of America.

The @cwaunion.bsky.social, the American Federation of Musicians, and workers everywhere are creating this major new organization to build power across the industry.

donald trump is a fascist who is going to take over our government and ruin the entire country forever and end democracy and not let us vote ever again which is why we have to give him everything he wants

Any Senate Democrat who votes for cloture should have to spend time at schools across D.C. answering questions about why they care so little about the lives of D.C. residents.

A table comparing what DOGE claims it has saved ($105B) what its itemized savings add up to ($29.9B) and what it really has saved ($8.6B). It includes an entry of how much it overstates savings ($96.4B) and has itemizations below that.

@juddlegum.bsky.social's MuskWatch rolls out the DOGE tracker, showing that $96B of DOGE's claimed savings are bullshit.

doge.muskwatch.com

"To the contrary, voters are on average more likely to defect to the radical right when mainstream parties adopt anti-immigration positions, a pattern that has been particularly pronounced for established RRPs."

now it seems the gop has a CR they can pass on a party line vote in the house and there are signs senate dems are gonna cave and get them to cloture. once again the savvy take looks less savvy and more just credulously accepting dems non-resistance as secretly being the smartest resistance

Indeed, a White House official told The Free Press that the basis for targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students. Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official.

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.

The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.

No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

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All I'm saying is, if you ran a campaign on democracy being at stake and democracy lost, isn't it time to be massively freaking out instead of doing this

Apparently the reason the left "always loses" is because some of us are annoying and put people off. The far-right, of course, are a bunch of cool chill guys that are fun and normal 24/7.