Jen Cypher

This skeet is perfection.

Notable Sandwiches #138: Reuben Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...

in which i discuss the reuben, a glorious sandwich and the pride of omaha

and the patriarch reuben, disowned by his father for being a slut

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UNITE HERE Local 1 seeks an Organizing Apprentice to be based in Madison, WI. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @unitehere.org

Sex workers at Pahrump brothel are unionizing, alleging unfair contracts and conditions - The Nevada Independent In the last week, the brothel has fired three workers who challenged a new contract that they say is unfair. Lawyers have filed an injunction with the federal labor board.

🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social

Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...

Teachers strike grips San Francisco

Educators in San Francisco are fighting for better health benefits, better wages, improved special education and more. Their fight to get SFUSD to invest in classrooms, educators and students’ futures is all of our fight.

Solidarity with United Educators of San Francisco on strike!

"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

Solidarity with those challenging Herzog's visit to Australia. #HerzogOut

YouTube video by CBC News Quebec Protests across Quebec push back against abolition of immigration program

Quebecers in several cities gathered Saturday to protest the end of an immigration program known as the PEQ. While the province has replaced it with a new skilled worker selection program many are left in limbo and others warn the move will hurt Quebec’s economy

#qcpoli

youtube.com/watch?v=we7h...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

“Where are you supposed to be right now?”

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

can’t not hear and see:

This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly. The old and rich will live on awhile, As always, Eating blood and gold, Letting kids die. Kids will die in the swamps of Mississippi Organizing sharecroppers. Kids will die in the streets of Chicago Organizing workers. Kids will die in the orange groves of California Telling others to get together. Whites and Filipinos, Negroes and Mexicans, All kinds of kids will die Who don't believe in lies, and bribes, and contentment And a lousy peace. Of course, the wise and the learned Who pen editorials in the papers, And the gentlemen with Dr. in front of their names. White and black, Who make surveys and write books. Will live on weaving words to smother the kids who die, And the sleazy courts, And the bribe-reaching police, And the blood-loving generals, And the money-loving preachers Will all raise their hands against the kids who die, Beating them with laws and clubs and bayonets and bullets To frighten the people— For the kids who die are like iron in the blood of the people— And the old and rich don't want the people To taste the iron of the kids who die, Don't want the people to get wise to their own power, To believe an Angelo Herndon, or even get together.

Listen, kids who die— Maybe, now, there will be no monument for you Except in our hearts Maybe your bodies'll be lost in a swamp. Or a prison grave, or the potter's field, Or the rivers where you're drowned like Leibknecht. But the day will come— You are sure yourselves that it is coming— When the marching feet of the masses Will raise for you a living monument of love, And joy, and laughter, And black hands and white hands clasped as one, And a song that reaches the sky— The song of the life triumphant Through the kids who die.

“Kids Who Die”
Langston Hughes, 1938

GET INVOLVED This group is for communities in the Greater Cincinnati & Northern KY area to protect neighbors targeted by ICE and over-policing—especially Hispanic, Black, immigrant, undocumented, trans, queer, and...

For those in southwest Ohio worried about a possible ICE surge next week, you can sign up to connect with community here:

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I ❤️ Minneapolis

This ride was incredible, especially our interactions with folks at the memorials and with neighbors cheering on from their windows/porches.

ICE out, now.

Hundreds in Vancouver protest Hootsuite's contract with U.S. Department of Homeland Security | CBC News Around 250 people turned out in the pouring rain on Friday evening at the headquarters of Vancouver tech company Hootsuite, protesting a recently-publicized contract with the U.S. Department of Homela...

🇨🇦 Hundreds in Vancouver protest Hootsuite's contract with U.S. Homeland Security(ICE-Gestapo)
Two U.S. citizens were 𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 by ICE -the protest comes as Canadian companies that do business with ICE are facing increasing blowback for supporting Fascism.
#CanadaSky🇨🇦

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hell yes! Unions for all the things, for everyone!

🚨 HAPPENING NOW: BALTIMORE JOINS NATIONAL STRIKE AGAINST ICE TERROR & TRUMP AUTHORITARIANISM

I'm on the ground for @therealnews.com. More coverage coming...

Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

A graphic that says: Fuck Trump Fuck ICE Solidarité de Québec à Minneapolis

I have been vocally frustrated about a lack of solidarity with US folks from points north, but credit where it's due:

We've had investigative pieces (multiplying!), a few protests planned, some teaching-focused events, and now *gestures at the Bonhomme Carnival*.

www.instagram.com/p/DUEckDLkqF...

New one for us: most viewed story on the entire @us.theguardian.com site.

This is the democratic opposition party in Italy protesting against ICE involvement in the Winter Olympics in Milan

More than 31,000 nurses, health care workers strike at Kaiser Permanente, arguing for safe staffing levels, fair wages Tens of thousands of nurses and health care workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities across California and Hawaii went on strike on Monday morning.

Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers in California & Hawaii go on strike. “More than 31,000 workers across at least two dozen hospitals and hundreds of clinics run by the non-profit health care system walked off the job at 7 a.m. PT..." abcnews.go.com/Health/31000...

Oh no. The highest of the high.

Doug Ford said it had to close because the roof was unstable.
Massive snow dump, roof just fine.
Doug Ford lies.

So the grocery barons still get paid…

I don’t want acknowledgment. I want change.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Orange Sweater | Elmer Bischoff

Minnesota Labor Leaders Talk Organizing Lessons as Strike Movement Goes National “Flexibility is important. I also think having initiative and decentralizing the campaign, letting different people put their own sort of stamp on it, is just a normal way movements exist,” says Knuts...

Excellent model. Take note, all! We should roll these around the country. Or roll by trade.

This is how people who deal with extreme cold on a regular basis operate. I’m never happier than when I’m properly dressed in cold sunny weather.