Kevin Sanchez

Meet the Low-Wage 100 At the 100 largest low-wage corporations, CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared since 2019 while median worker pay has lagged behind U.S. inflation.

"The gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay at Starbucks hit 6,666 to 1 last year."

inequality.org/article/low-... via @inequality.org

Bankification Nation From tech giants to airlines to health care providers, every company is becoming a bank — and that’s bad news for the rest of us.

"Starbucks holds nearly $2 billion of customers’ money in its rewards program. That’s more than the total deposits managed by 85% of chartered banks".

www.levernews.com/bankificatio... via @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social @levernews.com

Opinion | Why Are My Fellow Baristas Being Used as Props in a Dangerous Culture War Stunt?

"Unions are a prime example of the kind of civic institutions that can save us from this pointless catharsis-seeking. They elevate workers from being powerless subjects of a boss to being participants in a democracy".

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o... via @hecubiandevil.bsky.social

#EffigyPolitics

Tyrants of the Algorithm: Big Tech’s Corrosive Rule and Its Consequences - American Affairs Journal Twenty years ago, allegations that a large corporation was facilitating sexual predation of children would have been widely disseminated and the perpetrators punished, or at least noticed. But today, ...

“America is a very cynical place for a reason.”

americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/tyra... via @matthewstoller.bsky.social

Bad Takes: San Antonio has a DWI problem. Let's tackle it in a smart way. - San Antonio Current The punitive approach favored by the law-and-order crowd can only take us so far in solving deep-rooted problems like this.

The punitive approach favored by the law-and-order crowd can only take us so far in solving deep-rooted problems like this.

Bad Takes: San Antonio has a DWI problem. Let's tackle it in a smart way. - San Antonio Current The punitive approach favored by the law-and-order crowd can only take us so far in solving deep-rooted problems like this.

www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak... via @sacurrent.bsky.social

Sources: @expressnews.com @sareport.bsky.social @jamanetworkopen.com @bmj.com @ucpress.bsky.social @texaspublicradio.bsky.social.

#BadTakesSATX

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out Their Charlie Kirk Disagreement

Over the past 5 years, Ezra Klein has generated about half the web search interest as Tim Pool, according to Google Trends. Ta-Nehisi Coates has about a third less than that. Hasan Piker has several times more.

youtu.be/UaeoDlLNnok via @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

ICE is terrorizing immigrant communities across America, which include tens of thousands of men and women who have served the nation in war but lack citizenship.

Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

FOIA records reveal EPA leaders frequent meetings with industry lobbyists Top regulatory officials met with agricultural and chemical industry representatives dozens of times in the first few months after President Donald Trump took office in January, government records sho...

"The September 'Make America Healthy Again' report took aim at synthetic dyes and junk food, but deleted references to glyphosate and atrazine and made no mention of pesticide exposure routes or risks."

www.thenewlede.org/2025/09/epa-... via @thenewlede.bsky.social

#DrainTheSwamp

“Our kids are playing in this, and no one is helping us clean this up.”
-- Councilwoman Wanda McCoy, former mayor of Roseland, Louisiana

capitalbnews.org/roseland-oil... via @adamlmahoney.bsky.social & @capitalb.bsky.social

#EnvironmentalRacism

The Dirty Truth: How U.S. Utilities are Lagging on the Clean Energy Transition YouTube video by SierraClub

www.youtube.com/live/chKrTkl... via @usrepkathycastor.bsky.social, @sachuconstantine.bsky.social & @sierraclub.org

Report: www.sierraclub.org/coal/dirty-t....

Why Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland—a Disappointment When It Was Published—is the Novel We Need Right Now 2025 is shaping up to be the year of the Pynch. After 12 years of silence since Bleeding Edge, the 87-year-old author will publish Shadow Ticket on October 7th, 2025. The new novel concerns Milwauk…

lithub.com/why-thomas-p... via @devintoshea.bsky.social & @literaryhub.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/live/AM5CRZ3... via @mattlech.bsky.social

#Vineland

Texas again ranks as one of the worst U.S. states for workers - San Antonio Current The Lone Star State offers few protections for workers and actively suppresses their right to organize, a new study shows.

The Lone Star State offers few protections for workers and actively suppresses their right to organize, a new study shows.

“For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.”
-- Alain Badiou, 'The Communist Hypothesis', 2009

We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract 404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.

"Graphite is capable of letting police remotely break into messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger, and Gmail... without any target interaction".

www.404media.co/were-suing-i... via @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social, @josephcox.bsky.social & @jasonkoebler.bsky.social via @404media.co

What's this then?

rosecityantifa.org

The Communist Control Act of 1954 is still on the books. Applies not only to CP members but "any other organization having for one of its purposes or objectives the... overthrow of the Government of the US... by the use of force or violence" (loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1954Com...).

So there's that.

the fascists are gonna make me defend jimmy fucking kimmel

A Memo To 2026 Democrats: Make Universal Healthcare The North Star Voters want healthcare not corporate gatekeepers.

#UniversalHealthcare

www.lonestarleft.com/p/a-memo-to-... via @lonestarleft.com

Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters

"The IRS crackdown was projected to raise more than $100 billion over 10 years."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b... via @jessedrucker.bsky.social & @nytimes.com

Fact Sheet on FTC’s Proposed Final Noncompete Rule

"The average worker’s earnings" *would've* "rise[n] an estimated extra $524 per year."

www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Trump Lets Bosses Grab $400 Billion in Worker Pay By refusing to defend a ban on noncompete agreements in court, the Federal Trade Commission enables employers to suppress wages.

prospect.org/labor/2025-0... via @ddayen.bsky.social & @prospect.org

Paying for Climate Chaos: U.S. Federal Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Production - Oil Change International Paying for Climate Chaos" reveals the staggering scope of federal government subsidies for fossil fuel production. While working families struggle with the rising cost of housing, groceries…

Report: oilchange.org/publications... via @oilchange.bsky.social.

Your Taxes Are Subsidizing The End Of The World American taxpayers are spending more than $30 billion a year for toxic “enhanced oil recovery” processes and other handouts to the fossil fuel industry.

"Last election cycle, the fossil fuel industry spent $219 million on political contributions while securing nearly $70 billion in federal subsidies over the next two years, an investment return of more than 30,000%."

www.levernews.com/your-taxes-a... via @levernews.com

It's not their existence, it's their power, that's the problem. And we have a say in giving them that power, both at the ballot box and through the jury system. If they violently deny us either of those, that's a different story, but Trump making license plates isn't a threat to anybody.

"It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expediency of capital punishment could be founded, in a society glorying in its civilization."

www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

Russian Dissidents Plead With Canada to Accept Anti-War Activists Facing Deportation From U.S. - The Moscow Times A group of prominent exiled Russian opposition figures is urging Canada to offer asylum to hundreds of anti-war activists who they say face the risk of deportation from the United States to Russia, wh...

www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/03/r... via @themoscowtimes.com

‘I told my family, I’ll probably die’: US immigration sends Russian asylum seekers back to Moscow Russian national who applied for asylum on political grounds describes inhumane treatment while in US custody

This is obscene.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... via @pjotrsauer.bsky.social & @theguardian.com

Rogers: The devastating effects of Texas’ campaign against local control Glenn Rogers: The Texas Legislture’s campaign against local control had disastrous consequences in the Central Texas floods.

"Local control does not fit the plan of the oligarchs who control Austin."

-- Glenn Rogers, former Republican member of the Texas House of Representative and Conservation Rancher of the Year 2017

www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm... via @dallasnews.com

#ConservativeOfTheMonth

“Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue, not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe."

www.idsociety.org/news--public...

#PublicHealth