Fired VSU faculty members demand answers, jobs back Six faculty members say they were abruptly fired with no explanation last year from Virginia State University. VSU isn’t commenting.

All faculty need collective bargaining! As VSU demonstrates so clearly, tenure and due process can be ignored by administrators who are unwillingly to uphold policies. With a union contract, this would not happen!
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french laundry exterior

I just found a 2024 charge for $1,348.03 to French Laundry - the 3 Michelin star restaurant in California - in Arizona ESA reimbursements.

Someone pointed it out and she apologized and I think deleted

Temu Chalabi

The EATers! I'd forgotten about them.

The idea of "natural police" like Lester as somehow innately good and struggling to redeem the whole thing is tragic copaganda, but still copaganda

YouTube video by Macadam Cowboy Hill Street Blues Intro

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Yeah, not a great sign that they're just going to be experimenting on trans inmates like this and it's not a big story.

Maybe part of ongoing effort to build pretext for election interference. Which I think whenever they do anything

George Mason University is rallying today in the city of Fairfax to make sure they are included in our collective bargaining bill! I worked in my Campus Dining Hall and I'm going to make sure our student workers, professors and everyone who works at our universities have representation!

After Melissa Hortman was killed and Mike Lee was doing nonsense I thought about how he's normalized & looked up his contributors. I found John Arnold & now when Lee does something I find objectionable I ask Arnold here if it was worth it. We don't get out of this w/o engaging the enablers

See Tonkin, Gulf. See centrifuges, Iraqi or Powell, colin.

Charles Schulz introduced the flying ace during Vietnam & he was widely used by military folk. As Schulz's unhappiness w/ the war grew, he kind of pulled Snoopy from service, with him in a French cafe saying "curse this stupid war" That also got used by the troops aha.confex.com/aha/2014/web...

The civic utility of deceit is based in part on the probability that its serves a public purpose. TV shows like NYPD Blue are basically built on this stuff. When a big part of the public sees no public purpose & believes the deception is in service of immoral state action, it becomes a new problem

I don't know the absolute numbers, but state employees are typically ~4 percent of a state workforce. They're not poor, but they aren't the 1 percent. So a small part of payroll taxes. Which themselves are a subset, albeit a large one, of overall federal revenue - think tariffs and excise taxes

I can imagine a right wing state employee, backed by Freedom Foundation et al filing a first amendment suit, claiming the failure to pay their taxes is a kind of compelled political speech. If courts work like they should, it wouldn't go anywhere, but that's not a thing I'm certain of anymore

Generally, workers aren't currently held liable for an employer failure to withhold tax. They even currently may lack standing to compel the employer in courts. But I don't think its wise to assume the administration and its partners will accept that status quo

The proposals are generally limited to withholding of state workers, or about 4 percent of the workforce. I don't like it because I think it will split your workforce, its underpowered and will invite response that will be even more harmful

I agree. I'm saying its a bad idea because it splits your work force. I also worry its blithe to call for an action to check a lawless administration and then expect that it will otherwise comport to the status quo in response. Finally, I may just have ptsd, but I'm reminded of Janus.

I get that traditionally the failure to withhold isn't held against the employee. I do think a lot of workers, including MN state employees, would still think that the money being withheld is "theirs." And they would argue that this is compelled speech.

The regularization of cruelty is still hard to process.

The decision to withhold taxes should be made by individuals, in the tradition of Thoreau, not imposed on them by their employer.

Predatory federalism

not suing to challenge the constitutionality of the national labor relations act.......

trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.

Love you guys, but this reads like you're in a fight with Will Stancil. You of all folks should be able to marshal data to support your position

Steve Scalise putting his jersey over his mouth like Prestianni

I'm calling for a RICO investigation into the work of ACME corporation

John, every day I'm assigning you to attend Paul Wellstone's memorial until you get it right

15 States Sue H.H.S. Over Revisions to Vaccine Schedule

Breaking: Aiming to reverse recent changes to federal vaccine recommendations, 15 states led by Democrats announced on Tuesday that they were suing the Trump administration.

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