Matt Rubin

Most American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes

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All of this is true. Every word. I’ve unionized two workplaces and am an active member with my union, including going to conferences to further my political education.

AND YOU CAN TOO!

hello, reminder that the best way to help make mass general strikes possible where you live is to unionize your workplace and then organize to make it a fighting union developing the politics of its members through struggle, rank-and-file democracy, and intentional political education.

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization Section 1.  Antifa as a Terrorist Threat.  Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States

There's no legal authority to do this at all.

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zoom homepage hamburger menu

why does it feel like i have to solve a riddle to get to the interface i & basically everyone else needs to get

like click the dots for detailed menu? oh great yeah take me to the scheduler! nope that takes you to a product pitch page explaining scheduling

zoom top menu bar from logged in home page

why is there no button on this menu on the zoom homepage or this more detail menu that takes you to the place where i actually need to go where everyone actually does 99% of what they use zoom for

this isn't even like straightforward money-driven enshittification it's just terrible decisions. i'm logged in! and not an admin on the company account! so why! are you! pitching me! enterprise products!

every time i go to the zoom website to schedule a meeting etc they've made it harder to find the actual product people use bc they're trying so hard to pitch enterprise subscriptions to ppl who aren't yet customers that they show logged in users those pitches instead of the tools i became a user for

once again, respectfully tapping the "support local, worker-owned, billionaire-free independent media" sign

i wonder why the eradicate hate summit includes nothing whatsoever about the active ongoing genocide funded by the host country's tax dollars

but josh shapiro will be there, maybe he'll talk about how he eradicated hate by violently suppressing student protests against genocide of Palestinians

oh, left out words, *because I don't feel like torturing myself

though I'm sure based on the plethora of FBI, DHS, CIA, military contractors, and war criminal former heads of state in past years, someone there def knows a thing or two about torturing people

Monday, September 15 Working Group Convenings Setting the Stage: Welcome Programming for First-Time Guests 11:20 am - 3:00 pm | Level 2 Concourse ⧉ Welcoming Remarks 11:20 am - 11:35 am | Level 2 Concourse Speakers Laura Ellsworth Eradicate Hate Global Summit; Jones Day MARK NORDENBERG Eradicate Hate Global Summit; University of Pittsburgh Brett Steele Eradicate Hate; Prevention Practitioners Network

Pittsburgh, annual reminder: the Eradicate Hate Global Summit" in town this week is not about eradicating hate.

I'm not going to dig through the whole speakers list because I but I wonder why a conference on eradicating hate has a partner at Jones Day, notorious union busting firm in their keynote

AI companies warn their tech will wipe out huge numbers of jobs. But what are workers finding?

This week @bcmerchant.bsky.social is back to chat with @parismarx.com about whether the AI bubble is bursting and how bosses are using AI hype against workers.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/292_...

Can Zohran make New York a union town again?

Only 1 in 5 NYC workers today is in a union — but a Mamdani administration would have powerful tools to turn this around 🧵

where can i get a copy of the rest of this IDF endorsement questionnaire

also why is this on a questionnaire at all

like is the role of local elected officials to police things individuals say on national podcasts that as far as i can tell have nothing to do with Pittsburgh?

big news: the rite aide that closed on banksville - the one right in front of the staples that closed that's getting turned in to an Aldi - is getting turned into a sheetz

Rats (Don’t) Matter Too in yellow chalk on pavement. A grey jeep sits in the background.

“Stan Lies Journalism Dies” in chalk on pavement.

“Run out of Philly” and “Is the lawn sign in the room with you?” in chalk on pavement.

Tomorrow, the striking workers sit down with @post-gazette.com management in court ordered mediation to attempt to resolve our issues and settle the strike. PG executive editor Stan Wischnowski has the power to end the strike and choose to hide instead.

Today we’re telling him again how we feel.

Tell Post-Gazette management to settle the strike! The Post-Gazette and Block Communications, Inc. decision-makers have the power to end the longest running strike in the United States. They are actively deciding to waste money and harm workers in …

If you think Stan has acted like a coward, tell him! Go to pghguild.com/mgmt/ and see how you can call Stan and tell him to use his power as a PG VP to settle our strike!

this is among the worst advice I have ever read

Management has no right to exist

Taylor Lorenz spending all day calling schools having no phone policies fascist followed by people realizing she's shilling one of those terrible third party phone companies was a real treat. lol.

Public Assemblies Strengthen Community Resistance to Rising Authoritarianism “This process invites people to be active participants in shaping the collective outcome of our people’s futures.”

Need a new tactic for organizing against fascism? I talked with Denzel Caldwell about the power and potential of organizing public assemblies. “The People’s Movement Assembly process provides a unique opportunity for people to build a democracy that has yet to be born,” Denzel explains.

Any successful union started with two co-workers talking.

You can get the pay, benefits, and respect at work that you deserve by having those conversations and organizing with your co-workers to put pressure on your boss.

United we bargain, divided we beg.

Prisons, Prose & Protest - #29 Rants, Musings and More

In this July issue of Prisons, Prose & Protest, I give a short history of the US government’s use of immigration and passport control to punish well-known Black activists for their political speech. I recommend two excellent new abolitionist podcasts, several good recent articles, and more…

if there's a thing about Mamdani I find most exciting it's the additional momentum it adds to the developing version of left politics in the US that is not only open to winning but plans on it

Least surprising thing of 2025 is Yiggy eugenicist posting