“Opening the door to things like ‘preemptive war’ to head off some form of ‘real or concocted) threat has the same effect as saying it is ok to shoot someone if they make you feel nervous. It causes a lot of people to get shot unnecessarily.”
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This guy just saying any tough quotes he can remember. “Remember the Alamo.” You have to try to match the quote to reality so it doesn’t sound stupid man
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"We are wrong because we started the war" should be the anchor point for all coverage of what's happening and it's remarkable how quickly that tends to get obscured.
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27.02.2026 00:07 — 👍 185 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 0
Sheri’s Ranch responded to the petition for union recognition by firing workers Jupiter Jetson, Molly Wylder, Paloma Karr, Adalind Gray, Genevieve Dahl, and Gwen Bunny.
The union will be fighting their unlawful terminations, but for now, they need our support: www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...
The Teamsters’ support of Trump is paying off for more and more truck drivers every day.
26.02.2026 15:01 — 👍 214 🔁 40 💬 5 📌 0"We are a nation commanded by the sort of people who would have stolen something off of a coworker’s desk before evacuating their World Trade Center office on 9/11."
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Shoddy people.
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Florida Republicans are moving forward with legislation that could wipe out many remaining public sector unions in Florida and make it harder for most public employees (not just teachers) to form a union in the first place. It could also be unconstitutional www.orlandoweekly.com/news/labor/f...
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new from me at @curbed.com: everyone ICE did business with in New York City last year www.curbed.com/article/ice-...
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All of the political power that billionaires have in America is only a small fraction of what they could have if they really start spending money.
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If you thought Jake Paul vs 59 year old Mike Tyson was good then wait til you see ANY TWO CURRENT PROFESSIONAL BOXERS it’ll blow your mind
24.02.2026 02:00 — 👍 55 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 1Mayweather-Pac was a disappointing fight ten years ago and fighters do not get better in their 40s!
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I gotta say it is fucking bizarre to me that the fights that the huge streaming platform shows to the world are almost all either old guys or influencers who aren’t real boxers. Hey you all should try showing an actually good boxing match
24.02.2026 01:52 — 👍 116 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 4
"Rich people and corporations have not even begun to spend what they are capable of spending in order to buy political influence. If you think that we have too much money in politics now, well, it can get much, much worse."
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Elon Musk's entire political spending in 2024, nearly $300 million, was the equivalent of an American with the median net worth spending $77. Billionaire political influence can go much, much higher.
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We all know that money in politics is bad but a bit of basic math tells us that the rich and corporations have not even scratched the surface of what they could spend.
Imagine... one hundred times worse.
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This is just wrong analytically, but also if this WaPo idiot is wondering where the private sector union members went, hundreds of them just got laid off at his own paper!
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Leave the military.
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A normal boss doing this would make the employees want a union but in this case I guess it will just create thousands of cynical, embittered soldiers. So no worries
21.02.2026 02:54 — 👍 221 🔁 34 💬 7 📌 0
"Grovel to attract out of state money by decimating state public services and slashing taxes" is a well known formula that has reliably produced... the poorest states in America.
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Kind of interesting to think about whether all the out of state rich people and companies moving to TX and FL will ultimately get embarrassed at the yokel politicians destroying the state universities, or whether they'll just decide to never hire any graduates from the states they live in.
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Labor Movement, Attack! Another year of decline. Here's how to fix it. Hamilton Nolan Feb 18 READ IN APP Let’s get it. (Photo: Getty) Union density—the percentage of American workers who are union members—is the single most important measurement of labor’s power in its omnipresent war against capital. Every year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases an annual measurement of union density. It is a hard, numerical gut check of where the labor movement stands. This year’s report, out today, shows union density at 10%. That is a combination of a full one-third of public sector workers being unionized, and a paltry 5.9 percent of private sector workers. These numbers are relatively unchanged from last year, although there is some evidence that data collection failures by the current government may have affected the numbers by a small amount. The relevant takeaway from these numbers is: Once again, union density did not go up. How Things Work is funded by readers like you. If you like it, become a paid subscriber. Subscribed Declining union density is not new. It has been declining, with only brief and small interruptions, since the mid-1950s, when more than one in three workers was a union member. Nor are declines merely the result of Republican administrations persecuting unions harder than their Democratic counterparts. Joe Biden was the most pro-union president of my lifetime. He appointed unusually pro-labor officials to regulatory agencies—and union density still declined during his presidency. Turning around this decades-long decline of union density is the labor movement’s most important task. If we do not do it, we will quite literally shrink down into utter irrelevance. We will fail at our central job: building power for working people. Giving workers unions—the tool that they can use to wield power on their own, without asking permission from anyone else—is the first job of all of us who consider …
"There is no doubt that America’s awful labor laws, crafted to make it hard to organize unions, hard to sustain unions, and hard for unions to exercise their power, are the most responsible factor in union power’s decline. But. But!" — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/labor-move...
18.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 32 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1There are some good ideas in there about measuring the strength of existing unions, but I don't think any single measurement is more important than union density. 90% of workers do not have unions at all meaning the other measurements have little relevance for them.
18.02.2026 21:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Five great, action-oriented questions by Hamilton Nolan. The entire piece is excellent, highly recommended—especially when read in conjunction with the two most recent pieces in Jacobin by @chactivist.bsky.social (linked below).
18.02.2026 17:48 — 👍 36 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Union density declined under Trump... but it also declined under Biden. Politicians are not going to save us.
There are several straightforward things that big unions and the AFL-CIO can do right now to increase union organizing.
How many of those have they done? None.
Union density, the most important measure of worker power in America, was stagnant for another year. We can start turning this around whenever the labor movement is ready to put on its ass-kicking shoes.
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